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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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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • #HistoricalContextMatters: 'Cracker,' ‘Redneck,’ 'White Trash' Are Not Racist Terms

    In her latest MTV Decoded video, Franchesca Ramsey, writer, actress and video blogger, gives a succinct and critical overview of the incestuous relationship between capitalism and racism, and how the inbred language birthed from that union makes some poor, white people confused about which institution is victimizing them. Ramsey opened the door to this necessary conversation, so let’s…

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    Kirsten West Savali

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  • White Lives Matter and the Lost Art of Shutting the F Up

    I consider myself a practitioner of a dying art form that is slowly disappearing from society. Long before it was an internet acronym or a text message abbreviation, this unique skill was passed down to me as a man who was raised by a single mother in a house with three other sisters. I honestly…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • How My Story on Black Students Surviving PWIs Led to Death Threats

    I was finishing an essay when I got the death threat. I usually ignore calls that are blocked or from unlisted numbers, but for some reason, I was feeling adventurous that day. “You’re trying to start a race war with your articles, Larry,” said the voice on the other end of the line. “You won’t…

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    Lawrence Ware

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  • The Alt-Right Debutante Ball: How a Racist Group Hijacked the GOP and RNC

    While black America giggled at the Melania Trump memes all over the internet, a far more troubling situation presented itself at this year’s Republican National Convention. An overlooked contingent has quietly infiltrated America’s two-party system and embedded itself into the mainstream of of the GOP. The 2016 RNC might look like the same old pomp…

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    Michael Harriot

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