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Russian Meddling Reveals Truths America Can’t Place at the Kremlin’s Feet

As special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Kremlin intensifies upon the one-year mark of Trump’s election victory, Americans are still reeling over the methods Moscow used to exploit their racial discord. Media have reported extensively on how Russian-based actors with alleged ties to the Kremlin used…

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Terrell Jermaine Starr

Published

November 7, 2017
Entertainment

‘Aloha Also Means Goodbye’: Hawaii Gives Trump the Trolling He Deserves

Because President Donald Trump built his political career on the racist “Birther” theory claiming that former U.S. President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, Hawaii had an answer for the 45th POTUS when he touched down in Obama’s home state Friday. Trump was greeted at the airport with signs reading “Welcome to…

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Angela Helm

Published

November 5, 2017
City of Miami May Be Sued for Releasing Photos of Firefighters Fired in Noose Incident

There are two things that incense me about this story. The first: that the city of Miami screwed up and now wants the media not to do its job. The second? That at least one of the alleged perpetrators of a horribly racist act looks black AF, and willingly participated in this anti-black fuckery. He…

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Angela Helm

Published

November 4, 2017
Politics

We Get It. It’s Harvey Weinstein’s News Cycle. But What About Our Black Girls?

I stopped watching broadcast news five years ago, after a sex crime was reported in close proximity to where I live. The local news was beginning to feel like trauma porn and was much too close to home. The purge had been a healthy choice—that is, until national news infiltrated my timeline, the Twitterverse and…

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Ida Harris

Published

November 3, 2017
FBI Leading Investigation After Car Near Kansas State University Vandalized With Racial Slurs

“Go Home Nigger Boy,” “Fuck You Die Dumb Nigger,” “Date Your Own Kind”: These are but some of the horrific slurs that were tagged on a car near Kansas State University Wednesday, and now students at the school say they are tired of the racism that occurs on and around campus. According to the Kansas…

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Breanna Edwards

Published

November 3, 2017
Mo. Father Demanding Answers After School Employee Accused of Yelling Racial Slurs at 4th-Graders During Recess

A St. Charles, Mo., father is looking for other options after he says that his son and other classmates were called racial slurs by a school employee during fourth-grade recess at their elementary school. Leon Howard told KPLR 11 that his son was playing football with his classmates during recess at Harvest Ridge Elementary when…

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Breanna Edwards

Published

November 3, 2017
‘I Hope You Die’: Racist Note Found in Black Student’s Locker at NJ Christian School

A black student attending a New Jersey Christian school has been the target of racial harassment, prompting an investigation by the school and sermons at school about how to treat one another. According to Philly.com, the black student found two notes in his locker at the Gloucester County Christian School, complete with racial slurs. Campus…

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Breanna Edwards

Published

November 1, 2017
Gun-Wielding Drunk Charged With Hate Crime After Chasing, Shooting at Black Man While Yelling Slurs

A drunken thug from Green Bay, Wis., is facing hate crime charges after chasing a black man over the weekend while yelling slurs before ultimately discharging a firearm at the fleeing victim. According to the Green Bay Press-Gazette, 24-year-old Taylor W. Hill was charged Monday with recklessly endangering safety using a dangerous weapon as a…

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Breanna Edwards

Published

October 31, 2017
What Pitbull Gets Wrong When He Says ‘Immigrants Built the United States of America’

It’s one thing to underscore the vast contributions immigrants have made to the United States of America. It’s another to completely erase the egregious history of slavery while benefiting from it. Rapper Pitbull demonstrated such a faux pas last week at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. It was there that Telemundo held its 2017…

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Ashlee Marie Preston

Published

October 31, 2017
Dear White Women: Interracial Relationships and Biracial Children Do Not Absolve You of Racism

There she was: a blond woman with big blue eyes, hair cornrowed tight, with her caramel-colored black child sitting in the back seat. The question, on a mutual friend’s Facebook post, asked if voters were happy with their decision to elect Donald Trump president. The white woman responded that she was satisfied with the job…

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Kyla Jenee Lacey

Published

October 31, 2017