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Students Expelled From Abilene Christian University for Posting Snapchat Video in Blackface
It seems as if some white college students still haven’t learned that blackface isn’t OK. This time around, a video of an unidentified female student from Abilene Christian University in Texas wearing full blackface was posted to Snapchat, according to the New York Daily News. All of the students involved were summoned to university President Phil…
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Report: Texas Man Who Opened Fire on Police Taken Into Custody Unharmed
A 51-year-old Fort Worth, Texas, man was taken into custody over the weekend after he allegedly choked a female relative and opened fire on responding officers, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. Larry Trees is facing charges of assault on a family member and two counts of attempted capital murder in the incident, which took place…
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Students Walk Out of Lecture After Professor Says Everyone Descends From Africa
Some students from Texas State University in San Marcos got up and left their lecture hall after their professor, Jon McGee, said that all people originated from Africa, The Tab reports. Apparently the day’s lesson was supposed to be on race. He began talking about the Black Lives Matter movement and how it had come about…
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Ex-Boyfriend of Missing Texas Woman Charged With Kidnapping
Chris Revill was arrested Wednesday on a kidnapping charge after his 25-year-old ex-girlfriend went missing, Fox News reports. Typhenie Johnson was last seen at an apartment complex in Fort Worth, Texas. Revill was the last person to see her before she disappeared, authorities said. Johnson’s twin brother, Asher, said that the former couple were outside talking…
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Snook, Texas, Independent School District Behavior Specialist Fired After Pushing Pre-K Student
A Snook, Texas, Independent School District behavior specialist was fired after video footage showing him pushing a young black student went viral, KVUE reports. According to the report, the Burleson County Sheriff’s Office has also launched an investigation into the incident. The employee, identified as Troy Vann, can be seen in the video pushing the…
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CEO of Backpage Arrested on Sex-Trafficking Charges
Carl Ferrer, CEO of Backpage.com, was arrested after he arrived in Houston from Amsterdam on Thursday. “Backpage.com seems to have knowingly and willingly allowed women and children to be exploited for its own financial gain,” said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, CBSDFW reports. A money-laundering search warrant was executed Thursday afternoon at the company’s headquarters in…
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Racial Bias Got Duane Buck the Death Sentence; the Supreme Court Can Fix It
The perceived criminality and dangerousness of black men in the United States has a long and storied history. Black men are killed, become hashtags, and their names become etched into an American lexicon of atrocities against blackness. Terence Crutcher. Philando Castile. John Crawford III. Duane Buck could be next. “Nobody in this room is unaware…
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Texas Sonic Drive-In Customers Upset at 'Racist' Receipts
A Fort Worth, Texas, man is demanding answers after he and his friend noticed that the receipts for their Friday lunch included racial slurs, Fox4DC reports. Tyrone Moseley and a co-worker stopped at a local Sonic drive-in for their meal and ordered on the patio, where, according to Moseley, the servers usually take his name.…