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  • Racist Manspreading Douchebag on Subway Caught After Attacking Black Woman: Report

    A 38-year-old man who allegedly sat on a woman’s thigh—then accused her of going on a “Kanye West” rant before assaulting her after she had the gall to ask him to move—was arrested by New York City police officers this past weekend. According to the New York Daily News, the man was apprehended thanks to…

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  • Employers May Soon Help With Student Loan Debt—but Will Black Grads Be Left Behind?

    Many of us are all too familiar with the student loans, but thanks to a new program unveiled by Fidelity Investments, repayment aid from your employer may soon be an option. The problem? It probably won’t do much to address the deep racial disparities of the student debt crisis. According to BuzzFeed News, Fidelity announced…

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  • NYPD Releases 1st Bodycam-Recorded Video Showing Officers Shooting Mentally Ill Bronx Man

    The New York City Police Department has just made public its first-ever recorded video of a police shooting. The footage shows officers opening fire on a mentally ill Bronx, N.Y., man holding a knife after police repeatedly warn him to drop his weapon. According to the New York Daily News, NYPD officers were called to…

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  • Kwame Kilpatrick Files Appeal, Says He Doesn’t Owe City of Detroit a Damn Thing

    Kwame Kilpatrick, the disgraced former mayor of Detroit, is asking a federal judge to wipe his $1.5 million debt clean. The embattled politician, who is currently serving a 28-year sentence in Oklahoma for corruption, claims that he cost the city of Detroit no financial losses during his tenure, reports the Detroit Free Press. Kilpatrick was…

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  • Berkeley Squares Up for Key Test Ahead of Free Speech (Read: White Supremacist) Week

    The University of California, Berkeley, faces a key test Thursday night as it hosts Ben Shapiro, a prominent conservative commentator, who’s slated to give a speech at the campus. In preparation, the university and the city of Berkeley are deploying a number of strategies, from counseling to pepper spray, to keep the event from spiraling…

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  • New Poll Finds Majority Oppose White Supremacists—Even While Sharing White Supremacist Views

    A new Reuters/Ipsos poll done in collaboration with the University of Virginia Center for Politics has found that while respondents by and large reject white supremacists and neo-Nazis, many share the same racial beliefs to which these vilified groups subscribe. The poll was conducted in late August and early September, less than two weeks after…

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  • University Finds Harassment Campaign Against DACA Student to Be ‘Free Speech’

    Updated Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, 5:06 p.m. EDT: The student who launched an online campaign urging people to report DACA student Paola Garcia is no longer enrolled at Transylvania University. According to BuzzFeed, university officials said Wednesday in an email that Taylor Ragg was no longer enrolled, and declined to give additional information. Earlier: Transylvania…

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  • America Unites Momentarily to Hate This Stupid-Ass ‘Bodega’ Startup

    It may not seem like it, but we’ve had a few shining moments of national unity this year. The solar eclipse drew people together to collectively stare at the sky; pretty much everyone (except ESPN) recognizes that Donald Trump is a white supremacist; and you can rely on the Cajun Navy to show up when…

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  • A Minn. Prosecutor—Not a Grand Jury—to Consider Charges in Death of Justine Damond

    With an official state probe into the death of Justine Damond at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer completed, Minnesota prosecutors will now determine whether to bring charges against the officer who shot and killed the 40-year-old woman this past summer. CBS News reports that it’s the third high-profile police shooting case in which…

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  • A Couple of Thoughts for the White Man From Detroit Who Hates Black People Protesting the National Anthem

    A metro-Detroit business owner is catching some serious heat for a racist Facebook post in which he used the n-word to call out a black couple protesting the national anthem at a Detroit Lions game. In the post, David Doptis—who, according to WXYZ Detroit, owns a business called Restaurant Liquidation Auctions in Pontiac, Mich.—attached a…

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