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  • Ethiopia Moves to Ban All International Adoptions After High-Profile Abuse Cases

    Ethiopia’s Parliament voted Tuesday to ban all foreign adoptions of Ethiopian children, citing concern over abuse and neglect of the adoptees. The decision follows several months where all adoptions had been suspended, NPR reports. The new guidelines, as originally reported by the Associated Press, state that Ethiopian orphans should be raised in their home country,…

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  • Virginia Man Says Law Banning Use of Nooses to Intimidate People Violates His Rights

    A Virginia man hopes to convince the state’s Supreme Court that he should legally be allowed to hang a noose to intimidate black people—if it’s on his own private property. Jack Turner of Rocky Mount, Va., is in court this week hoping to overturn a conviction for breaking a Virginia state law that prohibits hanging…

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  • Black Student at High School Where Racist Video Went Viral Had Warned of Anti-Black Attacks for Months

    Late last month, Pleasant Grove High School in Elk Grove, Calif., made headlines in one of the worst ways a school can: One of its students, posting a racist rant, had gone viral. A teenage girl had recorded herself on Snapchat, heart-crown filters and all, grinning into her cellphone camera as she said, “Black people…

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  • Police Bust Religious Group Accused of Using Child Slave Labor to Run Fish Markets

    A traveling minister and his disciples in North Carolina have been accused of using child slavery to fund their “alternative religious group” and its operations for years, authorities say. Police in North Carolina have arrested four people—and have open warrants on six more—in a case of suspected child slavery. According to multiple outlets, an “alternative…

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  • Nigerian Man Posts on Facebook Photos of Girls Being Illegally Circumcised

    A Nigerian man has caught the attention of authorities after posting photos of girls being illegally circumcised on his Facebook account, CNN reports. The man, who goes by “Alhaji Adebayo” on Facebook, shared the photos with a caption that implied he would perform the operation for interested families. “Bonanza! Bonanza!! Bonanza!!” Adebayo wrote on his…

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  • New Studies Find That Positive Feelings About Blackness Improve Academic Performance for Black Girls

    Believing that “black is beautiful,” an important mantra of self-acceptance and self-love, could pay major dividends in school, a new study finds. An article in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education focuses on a new study from Sheretta Butler-Barnes, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, which finds that young black women with…

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  • NYC Woman Sues Former Boss for Forcing Her to Pick Up Dog Feces as Revenge Prank

    A New York City woman is alleging that she was the target of a vile prank by her former boss—a retaliative move, she says, for spurning a co-worker’s sexual advances days earlier. The prank, Shanae Johnson said, was intended to humiliate her and involved picking up dog feces from the sidewalk outside Easy Thrift Shop,…

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  • Black, Bookish and Beautiful: This All-Black, All-Female Publishing Team Is Ensuring That Authors of Color Get Their Shine

    Publishing is notoriously rough terrain for authors of color. Jack Jones Literary Arts—an all-black, all-female firm—is seeking to change that, committing to publishing and promoting books by writers who have traditionally been pushed to the margins of a historically white and male-dominated industry. Founded by Kima Jones in 2015, Jack Jones Literary Arts boasts an…

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  • Colorado Man Convicted of Hate Crime Against Mosque Kills Himself 

    A Colorado man who pleaded guilty to a hate crime against a mosque killed himself this past weekend, CBS News reports. Joseph Giaquinto, a 36-year-old former Army medic, was found dead on Saturday at a Motel 6, according to The Coloradoan. Giaquinto attacked the Islamic Center of Fort Collins in March, overturning outdoor furniture and…

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  • The Weeknd Cuts Ties With H&M After Ad Featuring Black Child Wearing ‘Coolest Monkey’ Hoodie

    Updated Monday, Jan. 8, 2017, 4:18 p.m. EST: The Weeknd, who has collaborated with H&M for previous collections, announced via Twitter that he has decided to sever ties with the clothing company. The Canadian singer posted on his Twitter account Monday afternoon that he was “shocked and embarrassed” by a photo from H&M’s U.K. website…

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