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And Then There Were None … Statue of Robert E. Lee, Granddaddy of All Confederates, Comes Down in New Orleans
A crane removed the final homage to white supremacy in New Orleans on Friday when the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed, the last of four Confederate monuments to go down. The statue of the general stood atop Lee Circle, a vaunted roundabout in the Crescent City. Since 1884, Lee had stood…
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Lawyer: Roger Ailes’ Death Boosts Accusers’ Case
Fox CEO’s Apprentice Program Also Promoted Diversity Dixie Statues Fight More Racial Than Ever: La. Black Legislators Walk Out After Backlash Trump Suggests Locking Up Reporters Trump, Turkish Autocrat in Cozy Meeting Mexican Journalists Demonstrate After Slaying 50 Percent at Gizmodo Group Are of Color Cosby Disputes Old Show-Biz Saying Sides to African Culture Lost…
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Trump Enabling Jailers of Journalists
President Meets Trifecta of Free-Press Violators Washington Post Russia Scoop Sets Record Staff Slips ‘Fake News’ Into Trump’s Media Diet ‘Malicious, Unprecedented’ Effort Against Haitians Coverage of Trayvon Martin Still at Issue Rachel Swarns Leaving N.Y. Times for NYU Salinas to Address Harvard Latinx Graduation Grangenois In, Steiner Out at Morgan State Radio Mexican Journalist…
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18-Year-Old Baton Rouge, La., Honor Student Dies of Gunshot Wounds 3 Days Before Graduation
Tragically, yet another young black man has fallen to gun violence. A senior at McKinley High School in Baton Rouge, La., and former starting quarterback died Saturday evening from a gunshot wound after a party celebrating the upcoming graduation, WAFB reports. Bryant Lee, 18, was shot in the head early Saturday morning in North Baton…
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Richard Spencer, Confederate Apologists March in Charlottesville, Va., With Torches Reminiscent of KKK
Annoyingly, there’s more from whites up in arms that the many Confederate monuments to slavery defenders are being removed all over the country, a small but significant attempt at atonement aimed at the millions of African Americans who were enslaved here. On Saturday, more than a few “protesters,” including punched-in-the-face-twice-moron Richard Spencer, gathered in Lee…
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Praise for Lester Holt, the ‘Rude Negro’
‘The Media-Political Complex Bowed Down’ Trump Suggests Ending Daily Briefings Trump Voting Panel to Push ‘Myth of Fraud’ Readers Imagine Successors to Confederates ‘Cultural Anxiety’ Drove Many to Trump Too Many U.S. Moms Dying in Childbirth NABJ Names Four More Award Winners Honoring Mom Amid ‘Incarceration Epidemic’ Short Takes “Lester Holt conquered the news on…
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NC High School Recalls Yearbooks After Some Genius Wrote ‘Build That Wall’ as Senior Quote
In the latest site of conflict around free—or what some might deem hate— speech, a high school in North Carolina recalled its yearbooks because a student used “Build That Wall” as her senior quote. The News & Observer reports that graduating students at Richmond Early College High School in Hamlet were allowed to share a…
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Disrespected MLB Player Adam Jones to Donate $20,000 to Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones recently announced plans to donate $20,000 to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo. According to the Bleacher Report, Jones is expected to tour the museum Saturday before the Orioles play the Kansas City Royals. Jones has been in the news of late since speaking out about…
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National Museum of African American History and Culture Reveals Plans for Rare Harriet Tubman Photo
Call her Moses or call her Minty. Just know when you call her, you headed for freedom. We are speaking, of course, of the great Harriet Tubman, fierce conductor of the Underground Railroad, Union spy and American hero, whose life story has had a resurgence in light of her replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20…
