racial discrimination
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High School Teacher Suspended After Bragging About Failing Students Who Refused to Stand for the Pledge of Allegiance
It’s never too late for your shitty ways to catch up with you, and a Uniondale (N.Y.) High School health teacher is learning that the hard way after being removed from the classroom after bragging on a Facebook post that he had failed two students more than a decade ago partially because they would not…
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Riding While Brown: A Man Named ‘Mohammad’ Was Ejected From a Greyhound Because of His Name
A man was kicked off a Greyhound bus en route to Kansas City, Mo., in the middle of the night because of his name‚ he says. Mohammad Reza, a doctoral-degree candidate who was traveling to a conference from Dallas, says that the bus driver woke him up in the middle of the night and asked…
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Philly Residents Plan March for Meek Mill
If you saw the hashtag #FreeMeek while browsing Black Twitter and thought someone was giving away Meek Mill’s albums, you are incorrect. Residents of Philadelphia will take to the streets Monday afternoon to protest the imprisonment of the rapper and notorious collector of L’s after the hip-hop star was imprisoned on parole violations. Born Robert…
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Black Employees of Steak House in Trump International Hotel File Civil Complaint Charging Racial Discrimination
Black employees at BLT Prime, a steakhouse in the luxury Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., filed a civil complaint Wednesday accusing the Trump Organization and the managing director of the hotel of racial discrimination. Irving Smith Jr., who still works at BLT, and Dominique Hill and JaNette Sturdivant, both former employees of the steak…
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Are We Returning to Jim Crow?
When Donald Trump campaigned on the slogan “Make America great again,” many of us saw it for what it was: coded language for taking the mask—or the hood, as it were—off of white supremacy. Since his inauguration, Trump, and those in his administration, have shown that they mean to make good on their promise to…
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Court Rules for Redistricting in NC to Address Racial Discrimination
On Monday, three federal judges in North Carolina ordered the state Legislature to draw up new legislative-district boundaries within a month. The current boundaries drawn by Republicans are considered unacceptable, The Hill reports. The ruling, which was unanimous, affects 28 of the state’s 170 General Assembly districts. The court has ruled that the current boundaries…
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3 Black Sergeants Sue St. Louis Police Department Over Alleged Discriminatory Promotion Practices
Three black sergeants and the Ethical Society of Police are suing the St. Louis Police Department, alleging discriminatory promotion practices. On Friday, Sgts. Reginald Davis, Ja-Mes Davis and Heather Taylor filed a suit against the department, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Taylor is the president of the Ethical Society of Police, which represents around 250,…
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Fla. School District Promises to ‘Take Appropriate Action’ After Elementary School Teacher Accused of Calling Black Students ‘Rats’
A Florida school district is promising to “take appropriate” action after an elementary school teacher was accused of calling black students “rats” and claiming that they could “infest the class,” adding that “that’s why their race is either dead or in jail.” Tell us how you really feel, why don’t you? According to WSBTV, the…