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KKK’s Pathetic March in Charlottesville, Va., Met With Throngs of Protesters
Scores of protesters shouted down homegrown terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan as the reviled racists marched in Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of Confederate statues from the city. USA Today reports that more than 1,000 multiracial demonstrators flooded this city’s downtown area Saturday to shout down about 50 Klan members, some of whom…
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Va. Student Becomes 1st African-American Boy to Earn Valedictorian in School’s History
Jahlil Nickens, 18, who earned the honor of becoming his class valedictorian this spring, also made history as the first African-American boy to earn that honor in Lancaster High School’s history “From the time that Jahlil was little, we could tell that he was special. He has always excelled in his studies,” his mother, Tekecia…
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DC Memorial for Slain Va. Teen Nabra Hassanen Set on Fire: Report
A Washington, D.C., memorial constructed for a Muslim teen who was killed near her mosque in Virginia was set on fire in Dupont Circle Wednesday, fire officials confirmed. DC Fire told Fox5DC that they responded to the scene around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday to find a memorial erected for 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen on fire. The flames…
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2 White Men Assaulted Black Teen Near His Home in Campaign to Run Interracial Family Out of Va. Neighborhood: Lawsuit
A black teenager was called racial slurs and attacked by two white men near his home in Virginia as part of an effort to run his interracial family out of town, a federal lawsuit claims. Yes, this is in 2017. Well, to be precise, the attack occurred in 2015. The men involved in the attack…
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Protesters Gathered Outside White Nationalist Richard Spencer’s Va. Offices After Racist Flyers Were Found in Alexandria
White nationalist—and overall devil’s spawn—Richard Spencer became the target of protests over the weekend after racist signs were found in Alexandria, Va. According to NBC 4, a number of protesters gathered outside Spencer’s Virginia offices Sunday just one day after flyers with messages such as “Stop the blacks” and “You’re losing your country, white man”…
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African Couple Welcomes Sextuplets After Trying for 17 Years!
Good things do come to those who wait. Proof positive: A Nigerian couple was blessed many times over when they brought six children into the world May 11. Ajibola Taiwo, a native of western Nigeria, gave birth to three boys and three girls by cesarean section at the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth…
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White Nationalist Richard Spencer’s Gym Membership Terminated After Georgetown Professor Confronts Him, Calls Him a Neo-Nazi
Looks like white nationalist Richard Spencer will be hunting for a new gym after his regular Alexandria, Va., establishment pulled his membership after he was confronted by a Georgetown University professor who called him a neo-Nazi. According to the Washington Post, C. Christine Fair, an associate professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, was…
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The Root Presents On the Run: 2017 Campaign Edition
Tired of punching at the sky, yelling at the television and unfriending folks from high school because of politics? Of course you are! The current administration’s steady commitment to incompetence, corruption and white nationalists has gotten the American people, especially African Americans, riled up in ways not seen since Chaka Khan performed at the Republican…
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Recent College Graduate, Mother of 2 Killed in Fatal Shooting on I-95 in Va.
Two people were shot and killed as they were driving along on Interstate 95 in downtown Richmond, Va., early Sunday morning after another car pulled up and opened fire. According to WTVR, Tanna Gardner, 23, was driving the car, which contained six other passengers, when the shooting happened. Gardner and a passenger, 26-year-old Sharayne Holland,…
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Richard Spencer, Confederate Apologists March in Charlottesville, Va., With Torches Reminiscent of KKK
Annoyingly, there’s more from whites up in arms that the many Confederate monuments to slavery defenders are being removed all over the country, a small but significant attempt at atonement aimed at the millions of African Americans who were enslaved here. On Saturday, more than a few “protesters,” including punched-in-the-face-twice-moron Richard Spencer, gathered in Lee…