racism
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W.Va. High School Taunts Inner-City Pittsburgh High School Football Team With ‘Trump Perry’ Sign
Perry Traditional Academy is a predominantly black high school, located on Pittsburgh’s North Side and a five- to seven-minute drive away from my house. My brother-in-law graduated from there last year. (He was also a first-team All-City basketball player. He can’t beat me yet, but he is pretty good.) On Friday, Perry traveled to Wellsburg,…
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Miss. Elementary School Teacher Fired Over Facebook Post Telling African Americans to ‘Move Back to Africa’
Updated Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, 12:15 p.m. EDT: Looks like the South Panola School District in Mississippi isn’t buying the ol’ “Oh my goodness, I’ve been hacked!” excuse after an elementary school teacher was caught making racist comments on Facebook. Cammie Rone, who taught at Batesville Intermediate School, has been officially fired after commenting that…
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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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Va. Church Named After Robert E. Lee Votes for Name Change
The Robert E. Lee Memorial Church in Lexington, Va., is the latest building/memorial/what-have-you to toss the infamous Confederate general back to the past where he belongs, voting to change its name after an intense two-year debate. According to The Hill, the final decision came down to a narrow 7-5 victory Monday for the name changers,…
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Westfield State U Investigating After Student Claims Racist Message Was Written on Her Door
Westfield State University in Massachusetts has launched an investigation into “discriminatory and highly offensive language” after a black student reported finding a racial slur written on her door. According to MassLive, the student, a senior at Westfield State, shared a photo on social media, claiming that someone wrote “niggers live here” on a name tag…
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Watch: Bullet Holes and Rosé: Exploiting Black Pain for Profit
Updated Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, 2:52 p.m. EDT: Becca Brennan, the owner of Summerhill, plastered over the holes in the wall that caused a storm of controversy when she referred to them as “bullet holes” in a press release, according to Gothamist. The repairs happened late Tuesday night. At a town hall in July, Brennan…
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NYC Butcher Who Gave Black Deliveryman a Noose Pleads Guilty
A well-known New York City butcher who handed a black deliveryman a noose and offered to help the man hang himself has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for the threatening act. According to the New York Post, Joe Ottomanelli, owner of Ottomanelli & Sons, got off with a mere slap on the wrist and will…
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5 Ways Trump’s UN Speech Proves He’s the World’s White-Supremacist-in-Chief
President Donald Trump delivered what essentially was a truncated version of his typical campaign stump speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Rife with themes of white supremacy, Trump’s words signaled to the world that the motivations of America’s foreign policy are the same as its domestic policy: white male hegemony. Throughout his…