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MAGA Substitute Allegedly Singles Out 10-Year-Old for ‘Prison Attire,’ Tells Students MLK Committed Suicide
A North Carolina school is not really under any kind of fire after a Trump-supporting, uber-Christian prophetess predicted an African-American elementary school student’s clothes would eventually land him in prison and took the time to inform the clueless class that Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was all a big hoax. According to WTVD, when Billy…
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Tracing Your Roots: Did Racism Force My Ancestors to Hide Their Love?
Family lore about a great-grandparent’s interracial relationship lines up with clues in census records. Dear Professor Gates: My paternal grandmother, Caroline “Carrie” Fogg Farrar, was from Raleigh, N.C. She was a product of a relationship between her mother, Mary Elizabeth Fogg (who we had been told was 100 percent Cherokee), and a white landowner named…
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Black Doll Found Hanging by a Noose Outside Wakefield High School in NC
It’s the Tuesday after a long weekend, and some idiots apparently decided to use their time to hang a black doll by a noose from a building at Wakefield High School in Raleigh, N.C., next to a sign that read “Make Wakefield TRIPP again #smartlunch.” According to ABC 11, the school’s principal confirmed that someone…
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NC Grand Jury Declines to Charge Cop Seen Slamming 15-Year-Old Girl to Ground
A Wake County, N.C., grand jury has declined to charge a Rolesville (N.C.) High School resource officer who was seen on video slamming a 15-year-old student to the ground. According to WTVD, Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman said that her office sent presentments to the Wake County grand jury for willful failure to discharge…
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White NC Man Arrested Alive After Pointing Gun, Firing Shot at Sheriff's Deputy
In the past two days, we’ve seen two black men—Alton Sterling and Philando Castile—fatally gunned down by police officers in two different states while legally carrying, but not holding or pointing, a firearm. And then there’s William Bruce Ray of Raleigh, N.C., who was safely apprehended after pointing a pistol at a Wake County sheriff’s…