united states
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End of Days: White House Issues Official Statement and Spells 'United States' Wrong
The treasonous White House is at it again. Normally when they issue an official statement regarding American interests, they have someone who reads over the document to sub out the word “Russia” and replaces it with “United States.” Well, it’s Friday, so that person must already be checked out because the White House just issued…
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Lowndes County, Ala.: The Place God Forgot
“It seems like everybody forgot about Lowndes County … even God.”
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Hollywood, Fla., to Move Forward With Plan to Change Streets Named After Confederate Generals
Earlier this week, the Hollywood City (Fla.) Commission voted to move forward with plans to change the names of streets named after Confederate generals that, coincidentally or not, lie in the heart of the city’s African-American neighborhood. According to the Miami Herald, the commission voted on two key measures. One measure will have the city…
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Gambian High School Robotics Team Denied US Visa for Global Contest
I guess the global robotics contest isn’t so “global” after all. The United States has reportedly denied five Gambian high school students visas, consequently prohibiting them from accompanying their invention to a prestigious international competition taking place in the U.S. According to Al-Jazeera, the Gambian students are the second team that was refused entry into…
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Everything I Know About Black History I Learned in the Middle Room
In 1952 my grandfather built a house for his wife and six children in a small South Carolina town. The house had four bedrooms, one bathroom, a dining room and a living room you could enter only if you were dressed in your Sunday best or entertaining company or if somebody had died. After my…
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Trump Picks SC Gov. Nikki Haley for US Ambassador to UN
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is reported to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. President-elect Donald Trump has picked Haley, the first woman and critic of Trump’s campaign to be chosen for a top-level position, sources told the Associated Press. If confirmed by the Senate, Haley, an Asian American, would be the…
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Jeff Sessions Couldn't Be Judge Because of Racial Comments; Now He's Trump's Pick for AG
President-elect Donald Trump has selected Sen. Jeff Sessions, a conservative from Alabama whose nomination for a federal judgeship was rejected because of racially charged comments, to be the next attorney general of the United States. According to the New York Times, Sessions, a former prosecutor, was also being considered for the position of secretary of…
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As the Race Tightens, Hillary Clinton Knows #BlackVotesMatter
The week after Labor Day is the official beginning of the campaign to be president of the United States of America. Commercials and news coverage will fool you into thinking that the campaign has been going on for the last two years, but effectively, most Americans don’t tune in until the last burger has been…
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Report: Race Relations in US Are Still Bad
Almost eight years after the election of the nation’s first black president, a new study finds that the racial divide between whites and blacks in America is still at Grand Canyon levels—which proves that a racially harmonious country remains an elusive dream that even the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would have had trouble envisioning.…