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Ticket Holder Wearing 'I Can't Breathe' Shirt Arrested at Trump's Barely Attended Rally in Tulsa
You’d think Trump and his personal enforcers—aka, the police—would celebrate any legitimate ticket holder seeking to attend his woefully underwhelming rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma yesterday. Alas, that was not the case. Yesterday, MSNBC news cameras outside of the BOK center in Tulsa captured officers from the Tulsa Police Department handcuffing Sheila Buck, a kindergarten teacher…
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Crowd Pulls Down Confederate Statue in Washington, D.C. on Juneteenth
Protestors in the nation’s capital ended Juneteenth on an appropriate note yesterday by toppling the statue of a Confederate general. A statue of Albert Pike—a senior officer in the Confederate army—erected near Judiciary Square in Washington D.C. in 1901 was the only outdoor memorial to a treasonous loser that existed in the District, according to…
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U.S. Attorney for Manhattan Challenges His Late Night Forced Resignation by Trump Administration [Updated]
Updated: 6/20/2020 4:24 p.m. EDT: Attorney General William Barr said in a letter on Saturday that the President has terminated Geoffrey Berman’s post as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. “Because you have declared that you have no intention of resigning, I have asked the President to remove you as of today,…
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Family of Man Found Hanged in California Requests Independent Autopsy; 2nd Man Hanged 50 Miles Away
The family of Robert Fuller, a 24-year-old man who was found hanging from a tree across City Hall in Palmdale, California last week, is seeking an independent autopsy after local police initially said he died by suicide. Protestors gathered in the square near City Hall where Fuller’s body was discovered to call for further investigation…
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A Black Pastor in Virginia Got Beat Up By a Mob of White People and Then Local Sheriffs Arrested Him
Another day, another piece of evidence that policing in America is about maintaining this country’s foundation of white supremacy, rather than protecting and serving black citizens. A pastor from Virginia has gotten a belated apology from the Shenandoah County Sherriff’s office after he publicly revealed that when a mob of white people attacked him on…
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Thousands Flood the Streets of Brooklyn for Black Trans Lives Matter Demonstration
More than 15,000 people, all wearing white, came together in front of the Brooklyn Museum in New York City on Sunday to stand up for and celebrate black trans lives. According to CBS News, the massive gathering was planned by trans activists and groups including The Okra Project and the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, in…
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Stunt Queen Trump Schedules Rally in Tulsa on Juneteenth, Changes It After People Call Out The Obvious
Donald Trump is racist. Donald Trump thinks he is clever. Donald Trump probably thought scheduling a rally on Juneteenth—in Tulsa, where white rioters once massacred 300 black people for the temerity of being prosperous and self-sufficient, and during a time when people across the country are protesting in the streets against racism—was a clever way…
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Protestors in Atlanta Set Fire to Wendy's Where Rayshard Brooks Was Killed by Police
Fire and frustration erupted in Atlanta last night in response to the shooting death of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks at a Wendy’s restaurant by police on Friday. Protestors who were already on the streets for weeks demonstrating against the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others, set fire to the Wendy’s building on University Drive…
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Police Shoot and Kill Man at a Wendy's Drive-Thru in Atlanta, Driving New Protests and an Investigation
Another black man in America has been killed by police. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) says it is investigating an incident in Atlanta in which police officers shot and killed a man in the parking lot of a Wendy’s restaurant on Friday night. According to statement released by the GBI on Saturday, cops were…
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Black Skin Matters Now: Band-Aid Says It Will Start Selling Bandages in Darker Shades
A whole damn century from the time it was first introduced, Band-Aid brand has finally come to the realization that black people exist, have skin, get boo-boos, and need bandages. It only took a global uprising against the racist killing of black people for it to happen. Earlier this week, the company announced on Instagram…
