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  • Wisconsin High School Accused of Racist Chants During Basketball Game … Again

    Apparently seeking a state title in racism, a Wisconsin high school thrust itself into national headlines for the second month in a row after a visiting basketball team accused fans of the school of making racist comments and gestures during a recent game. In January, Franklin High School was scrambling to find the culprit of…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • Soccer Player Who Heard Racist Chants Tells Fans to Watch Black Panther

    One Belgian soccer player has some homework for the fans he says hurled racist taunts at him on the pitch. Go watch Black Panther. During a UEFA Europa League match Thursday between Borussia Dortmund and Atalanta, Dortmund forward Michy Batshuayi says he heard Atalanta fans make monkey noises at him. “2018 and still [racist] monkey…

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    Anne Branigin

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  • China Dismisses Criticism Over Blackface Sketch During Lunar New Year TV Gala

    China is turning a blind eye to criticism its media faced after an Asian actress appeared in blackface during a comedy routine on China’s biggest Lunar New Year TV show. Instead the country is flipping the situation around on critics, claiming that people are trying to undermine relations between China and Africa. According to Reuters,…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • #28DaysOfBlackCosplay: Seeing Yourself in the Positive

    I’m one of those people who visibly twitch at those supposedly clever online posts about how technology is killing our ability to socialize. You know, “We live in a society, dang nabbit, and you kids with your darn tootin’ Facebooks and Tweeters have forgotten how to hold proper conversations.” Let’s be real. It’s not as…

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    Briana Lawrence

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  • Maryland Gas Station Under Fire After Employee Called Customer Racial Slur 

    A Maryland woman is getting the support of an entire community after an employee at a local BP service station hurled racial slurs at her. According to WJLA-TV, last Thursday, Rachel Sherman went to the Largo, Md., service station to confront the individual who was doing state vehicle inspections about attempting to overcharge her younger…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Can We Stop Blaming Russian Bots for White People’s Racism, Please?!

    Special prosecutor Robert Mueller on Friday dropped a 37-page indictment charging 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities with election fraud. The entire indictment focused on how the charged parties used social media to organize pro-Donald Trump and anti-Hillary Clinton rallies and took on fake social media profiles, especially on Twitter and Facebook. Much of…

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    Terrell Jermaine Starr

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  • A List of Things That Are Definitely Racist

    1. Pittsburgh potholes (Related: On the way to see Black Panther Friday night, I hit a pothole and got a flat. Fortunately, I was a quarter mile away from a gas station, so I was able to drive there and park my car. From there I caught an Uber to the theater, watched the 2-hour-and-15-minute-long…

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    Damon Young

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  • Staff at Harlem Restaurant Falsely Accused Black Women of Dashing and Dining: Report

    A Harlem restaurant is coming under fire after multiple black women say they were racially profiled and falsely accused of dining and dashing by staff there, resulting in the suspension of at least one staff member. According to the New York Daily News, the incident started Feb. 10, when Tara Fitzgibbon stepped into the Angel…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Down for Some Biased Boning and Nationalistic Nookie? Try These Dating Apps for Trump Supporters

    Apparently, it’s hard out here for a “Make America great again” pimp. Since the election, there have been myriad stories about Donald Trump supporters having difficulties dating. And I can only imagine how it must feel to be ostracized and discriminated against because of your beliefs. That thing that has never happened to me or…

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    Damon Young

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  • We Need to Start Barking at White People Who Speak Out of Turn

    Editor’s note: This story contains spoilers for the film Black Panther. Black Panther’s Wakanda is a near-utopic vision of how a country could look; perhaps the best depiction of Afrofuturism ever captured on film. There were thriving and ideologically diverse cities surrounded by expansive and bucolic countrysides. There was modern technology perfectly weaved into cultural…

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    Damon Young

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