racism
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Over $200,000 Raised to Repair Black Miss. Church Burned, Vandalized With 'Vote Trump'
A GoFundMe campaign set up to help repair the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Miss., which was set on fire earlier this week and marked with “Vote Trump” written in graffiti, has raised $201,823 as of Friday morning, exceeding its original $10,000 goal. Some 5,755 people contributed money toward the cause. About 80 percent…
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Ga. Governor Rants About ‘Colored People’ in Speech
On Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal gave a racist speech to educators in the state, Raw Story reports. The governor apparently was frustrated with groups who opposed his Opportunity School District amendment, which is intended to turn “struggling schools around.” Fox 5 reports that Deal believes if the amendment passes, the state can help poor minority children…
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Miseducation System: Why Black Teachers and Leaders Need to Be Heard
The nonprofit advocacy and research group Education Trust released the report “Through Our Eyes: Perspectives and Reflection From Black Teachers,” which chronicles and narrates the nuance of the black teaching experience in ways numbers can’t. This qualitative study addresses teacher-retention issues in a progressive fashion and positions black voices directly in the ears of white institutions for…
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'KKK' Marked Across Black Sheriff Candidate's Sign in Kan.
LeRoy McConico, who is running as a Democratic candidate for sheriff in Linn County, Kan., has had issues with people messing with his campaign signs. However, earlier this week, he discovered that one of his campaign signs had been vandalized with white lettering that said “KKK,” the first time he’d ever seen something this blatant, the Kansas…
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White Nationalists Plan to Suppress Black Voters With ‘40s and Weed’: Report
Donald Trump’s racist rants are coming home to roost. On Tuesday, The Crusader, a newspaper affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, endorsed Trump, who allegedly found the endorsement “repulsive.” Now a neo-Nazi leader has told Politico that he and his associates are planning to hand out marijuana and 40-ounce malt liquor in the “ghettos” of…
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Miss. Black Church Burned, Vandalized With Words ‘Vote Trump’
A Greenville, Miss., black church was burned and vandalized Tuesday night, Mississippi News Now reports. According to the report, authorities responded to a call about a church burning after 11 p.m. The Hopewell M.B. Church was found burned and also vandalized, with the words “Vote Trump” spray-painted in white on the outside of the building.…
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KKK's Official Newspaper Backs Trump; Trump Campaign Rejects Support
The Crusader, the official newspaper of the Ku Klux Klan, has announced its support for the candidacy of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump in its current issue, the Washington Post reports. The newspaper’s entire front page is used for a lengthy defense of Trump’s run for the White House under the banner, “Make America Great…
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4 Reasons Not #VotingWhileBlack Is Dangerous
Parental discretion is advised, but imagine this a few months from now: the pained looks of fake composure and shock as the first black president, along with his illustrious first lady, stomach an inaugural ceremony for a guy who erected his white nationalist political empire on the false claim that said black president was born…
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Autistic NY Black Teen Gets Lost Running 5K, Assaulted by Man Afraid of Getting Mugged
A 15-year-old autistic athlete running a 5K was assaulted by a man who apparently thought the teen was going to rob his wife, the Washington Post reports. Chase Coleman loved being part of his cross-country team, and his mother, Clarice, said that she fully supported his passion. She is thankful that the nearly nonverbal, autistic…
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Former Tuskegee Airman Audley Coulthurst Dies at Age 92
Another former member of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen has died. Audley Coulthurst passed away Thursday at a Veterans Affairs facility in Brooklyn, N.Y., after suffering cardiac arrest, his daughter, Audra Coulthurst, said, the Associated Press reports. He was 92. According to the report, Coulthurst enlisted in the Army in 1942, ultimately becoming one of the…