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[Idaho] Officials React After Concerns Over Islamic Law Nix Proposal
Idaho is at risk of losing millions of dollars in federal child support funding after conservatives in the Legislature killed a measure that would have brought the state into compliance with federal rules.
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Racist Posts on NY Cop Blog Raise Ire at Time of Tension
A blog hosting posts from former and current New York City officers reinforces the worst kinds of stereotypes.
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Science Fiction’s White Boys’ Club Strikes Back
The conservative backlash isn't entirely about attempts to diversify science fiction; it's also motivated by a nostalgia for an imaginary past.
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What will Eureka do?
Eureka Springs [Arkansas] is an improbable place. Thirty-five miles from blood-red Rogers, on the way to Klansville in Harrison, up mountain roads straight out of Kubrick's "The Shining," the hairpins pitching out...
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The War Nerd: The Art of Turf War
There’s a war on now in South African cities, but no one’s calling it what it is. South Africans, mostly Zulu, are attacking shops run by foreigners, driving the aliens (mostly Zimbabwean, Somali, ...
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Game of Fear
The Story Behind GamerGate. By Zachary Jason .
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How Hollywood Keeps Out Women
"I just think that there's a deep, rotten core in society. To me, it is just straight-up misogyny." — Diablo Cody
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Plessy V. Ferguson
The Birth of Jim Crow. (April, 1964)
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I’m a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing
5 things I wish people understood about bias in American police departments.
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Families Face Jail For Cheering Mississippi High School Grads, Lucky Not To Be Tased
Four people were ejected from a high school commencement ceremony in Senatobia, Mississippi, after breaking the rules and cheering for their graduating teens, because the school superintendent had said quite clearly that everyone should hold their applause...
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The man who was caged in a zoo
In 1904, Ota Benga was kidnapped from Congo and taken to the US, where he was exhibited with monkeys. His appalling story reveals the roots of a racial prejudice that still haunts us. By Pamela Newkirk.
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Burma’s Stateless Muslims: The World’s Most Persecuted Minority
In Burma, thousands of members of the Rohingya Muslim minority are fleeing persecution from Buddhists. Abused by smugglers, they are being turned away from Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.
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The Curious Case of Mencius Moldbug
A software engineer’s odious political writing got him booted from a tech conference. It shouldn’t have. By David Auerbach.
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Get Real: Charleston Church Shooting Was Terrorism
Tragedy? Yes. Act of unspeakable evil? Check. But it’s important that we don’t flinch from calling it what it was—an act of terrorism.
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The Charleston Shooter: Racist, Violent, and Yes – Political
How could it not be political, when the Republican Party has weaponized its supporters and made violence a virtue?
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How an Infamous Movie Revived the Confederacy
In the immediate aftermath of last week’s appalling act of terror at Charleston’s Emanuel A.M.E. Church, Republican presidential candidates found themselves in a tight bind: how to acknowledge what everyone in the civilized world seems to understand—yes, the crime was racially motivated...
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An Interview With @AfAmHistFail
We sit down with @AfAmHistFail, an anonymous plantation docent who shares the teaching ups and racist downs of her job.
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Lost Myanmar Empire Is Stage for Modern Violence
Centuries ago the region around Mrauk U was a realm of remarkable ethnic harmony. Today it is roiled by sectarian violence.
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American History X-ed
How The Confederate Flag Was Divorced From Slavery & Segregation
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Why do people believe myths about the Confederacy? Because our textbooks and monuments are wrong
False history marginalizes African Americans and makes us all dumber.
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