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08.09.2014: The day that changed #Ferguson forever
(Cross-posted from JGibsonBlog) One year ago, on August 9th, 2014, at 12:03PM CDT in Ferguson, Missouri at Canfield Green Apartments, the events of what happened that afternoon changed the fate of the...
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David Denson becomes the first active openly gay MLB-affiliated player
The news has broke overnight (or tonight on the West Coast) that Milwaukee Brewers minor league first baseman David Denson, who currently plays for the Brewers' Rookie League affiliate in Helena,...
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[Satire] Clem O'Connor's goal, with a serving of Mexiphobia: eject Taco Bell...
You know what Clem O'Connor's goal is? To run Taco Bell out of Hazard, Kentucky, with a serving of hateful xenophobia.James Schlarmann at The Political Garbage Chute:HAZARD, TENNESSEE — When Clem...
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Are you kidding me?! 11 women kicked off Napa Valley Wine Train for 'laughing...
This weekend, a normal innocent ride through the Napa Valley wine country turned into a story going national due to the actions of the management ejecting the 11 ladies (10 Black and one White) from...
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At its summer meeting, DNC passes #BlackLivesMatter resolution
Today at the 2015 DNC Summer meeting, the delegates at the meeting voted to pass a resolution supporting the #BlackLivesMatter movement, including criminal justice reform, demilitarization of the...
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Nathan Ener posts a hateful racist anti-#BlackLivesMatter and anti-Sandra...
A viral Facebook video (that has since been taken down there) is going around the white nationalist/conservative/police apologist circles by the name of Nathan Ener, spouting off a bunch of racist...
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Hillsboro, MO: Lila Perry's usage of women's facilities met with bigoted...
Hillsboro High School (part of Hillsboro R-3 School District) in Jefferson County, Missouri, is in the news, due to the fact that trans female Lila Perry (@transwitchcraft) has been...
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Ferguson Commission document: a wide-ranging and hard-hitting report
The hard-hitting 198-page Ferguson Commissiondocument came out overnight, and it recommends economic, social, and legal reforms to fix the racial disparities gap throughout the St. Louis Metropolitan...
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Cleveland Officer Loehmann was "justified" in killing Tamir Rice, per reports
A series of reports coming from the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office tonight confirms that Officer Timothy Loehmann was "justified" in shooting 12-year old Tamir Rice. Cory Shaffer at...
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Doral, FL: Racist Trump supporters violently drag and kick pro-immigration...
At last night's Donald Trump rally held in the Trump National Miami Doral Resort located in the Miami suburb of Doral, Florida, his supportersdid something despicable yet again by dragging and kicking...
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Arrogant Racist Chris Christie Misleadingly Says #BlackLivesMatter Endorses...
On CBS's Face The Nation today, 2016 GOP Presidential contender and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie falsely accuses the #BlackLivesMatter movementof encouragingthe murder of cops.NBC New York:The...
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Columbia, SC: Officer Ben Fields drags and assaults high school teenager
In yet another example of the ever-growing police brutality epidemic in America, Richland County Sheriff Deputy Officer Ben Fieldsflipped over a desk occupying a black female student (thus ejecting...
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Houston, TX: the fate of #HERO will be decided tomorrow
Tomorrow, all eyes will be on Houston, Texas, as voters will decide on whether to keep the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) intact or repeal it in the Bayou City. Zack Ford at Think Progress on...
View ArticleMizzou head coach Gary Pinkel stands in solidarity with #ConcernedStudent1950
Today, Mizzou Head Coach Gary Pinkel posted in a tweet that he bravely stood in solidarity with the Black football players striking over the inaction of School President Tim Wolfe on combatting racism...
View ArticleMizzou President Tim Wolfe resigns, Jonathan Butler's hunger strike is over
University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe has resigned in the wake of protests, racism on campus, and a players’ strike.Nicole Hensley and Jason Silverstein at New York Daily News:University of...
View ArticleSCOTUS takes up HB2 case called Whole Woman's Health v. Cole, Roe v. Wade may...
This afternoon at the Supreme Court, for the first time since 2007 in Gonzales v. Carhart, they have decided to take up an abortion-related case in Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole, a court case that will...
View ArticleNYT's Editorial Board wrote a scathing editorial slamming Donald Trump's...
Today’s scathing editorial by the New York Times’s Editorial Board nails 2016 GOP Presidential contender Donald Trump’s hateful racist xenophobic demagoguery really good. A portion of the New York...
View ArticleDonald Trump callously mocks NYT reporter Serge Kovaleski's arthrogryposis...
The 2016 GOP Presidential candidate and perennial arsehole Donald Trump acting like a lying petulant jerk as usual... this time, it’s him tastelessly mocking New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski,...
View ArticleSenate votes 52-47 to defund Planned Parenthood and repeal PPACA, bill heads...
Tonight on the Senate floor in Congress, the US Senate voted to pass a bill that defunds Planned Parenthood and repeals Obamacare 52-47-1. Some key notes about the Senate vote: All Dems + Dem-Caucusing...
View ArticleAG Loretta Lynch will take action against those who incite Islamophobic hate...
Speaking at the Muslim Advocates’ 10th annual dinner on Thursday, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch has announced that her Department of Justice will go after Islamophobic hate speech that incites...
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