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Black College Student Arrested For Buying A Designer Belt
Barneys New York and the New York Police Department have been slapped with a lawsuit by Trayon Christian, a college student from Queens, who was arrested at the luxury department store in April. "His only crime was being a young black man,” Michael Palillo, Christian's attorney, told The New York Post.
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Why Is America Turning To Shit?
My hand stayed on the bathroom door handle, unwilling to twist the knob that would let me in. Behind me was the hum and chatter of an art opening—this was at a now sadly departed radical Chicago cultural center called Mess Hall. On a table nearby were offerings of hummus and home-made brownies.
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Red Lobster customer has handwriting expert study receipt
The customer at the center of a racial slur written on a Red Lobster receipt last month in Franklin is speaking out for the first time and says new evidence proves he didn't write it.
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Security officer at California university suspended for anti-Semitic and racist images on Instagram account
A security officer at the University of California, Irvine was placed on leave this week after CBS 2 in Los Angeles reported on his anti-Semitic and racist online persona.
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13 Toys from the Era of Casual Racism
Before Pez settled on its iconic flip top dispenser, they experimented with different ways to put candy in kids’ mouths, including designs shaped like pistols. Tykes in the 1950s would load a sheath of strawberry flavored bricks into the gun’s magazine like bullets, put the barrel in their mouth, and pull the trigger to enjoy a sugar rush while simulating suicide. Insane, right?
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Danai Gurira, Who Plays Michonne, Says ‘The Walking Dead’ Isn’t Racist
Danai Gurira, who plays the katana-wielding Michonne, says the idea that the show can only have one major black character at any given moment is ‘hilarious.’
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That Time Nazis Marched to "Keep Redskins White"
Currently, Washington, DC's pro football team, the [Redacted], has the distinction of being the only team in the NFL whose name is a racial slur. A little more than 50 years ago, it had another unfortunate distinction: It was the last remaining all-white team in the league.
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White Supremacist Confronted with DNA Results on TV: You Have a Little Black in You
The white supremacist leader attempting to turn a rural North Dakotan town into a neo-Nazi-controlled paradise recently underwent a DNA test for a syndicated talk show. As it turns out, he's got some Sub-Saharan African genetics in his blood.
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Michigan police suspend cop behind humiliating, 'racist' footage of black man
The officer allegedly filmed his mentally ill victim, Michael Scipio, in the suburbs of Detroit and passed the videos among friends and relatives. Grosse Pointe Park police are still investigating.
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How Did Racism Get to Be So Popular?
And what are all these white people doing in this new era of racially conscious films?
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The rise of the far right in Europe
Defying predictions, nationalist parties are tightening their networks and coalescing into dangerous alliances
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The secret double life of a gay neo-Nazi Nicky Crane
He was the British extreme right's most feared streetfighter. But almost right up to his death 20 years ago, Nicky Crane led a precarious dual existence - until it fell dramatically apart.
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How Colleges Fail Black Football Players
As the nation’s top college football teams prepare to take the field for the elite bowl games, three new reports out this week raise similarly troubling concerns about dismal graduation rates for many of the black players constituting the bulk of the starting lineups.
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Why Did BuzzFeed & Co. Target Justine Sacco for Online Assassination
Maybe BuzzFeed and its sorry band of elite media minions chose Sacco to send an intimidating message that says no one is safe from their speech rules, even nobodies with 174 Twitter followers. Randomly pulling people from their online homes as an example to the rest of us, is certainly going to have a chilling effect. But maybe it was a targeted hit based on a personal grudge or agenda we will never know about.
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Racially-Charged ‘Witch Doctor Obama’ T-Shirt Popular At South Carolina Tea Party Convention | Mediaite
A racially-charged t-shirt featuring President Obama as a witch doctor who has hijacked medicine through the Affordable Care act has become popular at a South Carolina tea party convention. The shirt depicts Obama as a medicine man in tribal clothes, with a bone through his nose. It reads that Obama is “your new doctor, coming soon to a clinic near you!”
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Ease Up On 'No Tolerance' Policies, U.S. Agencies Tell Schools
Saying that "zero tolerance" discipline policies at U.S. schools are unfairly applied "all too often," Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is urging officials to rethink that approach. The Obama administration issued voluntary guidelines today that call for more training for teachers and more clarity in defining security problems.
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Kanye West Threatens To Leave United States Due To Racism
Kanye West was in the headlines recently when an encounter with a racist threatening his fiancée Kim Kardashian, led to him punching a teenager in the face. While Kardashian was trying to enter a Beverly Hills, California medical building on January 13, a teenager used a racial slur towards her, calling her a “n” word-lover. Subsequent admonitions that he shouldn’t use this word led to the youth actually threatening to murder Kardashian.
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Your Racist Relatives May Just Be Feeling Left Out
What leads people to develop a hostile, suspicious attitude toward minorities? Social scientists have a variety of theories. But recent research from Germany reports a mindset of intolerance can be triggered by a surprising catalyst: The discomfort that arises when one feels ostracized or excluded.
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Too poor for pop culture
Where I live in East Baltimore, everything looks like "The Wire" and nobody cares what a "selfie" is
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New forms of 'racism' rise in science research
New forms of discrimination, known as neoracism, are taking hold in scientific research, spreading the belief that races exist and are different in terms of biology, behaviour and culture, according to anthropologists who spoke at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Chicago.
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