Politics
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Princeton Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Cancels Public Appearances Amid Fox News-Fueled Death Threats
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, assistant professor of African-American studies at Princeton and a 2016 The Root 100 honoree, has been forced to cancel all public appearances as death threats continue to roll in in response to her May 20 commencement address at Hampshire College, a private liberal arts college in Amherst,…
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Philly Cops’ Habit of Fondling Black Men Sparks Greatest Protest of All Time
In what may be the greatest protest ever, two Philadelphia police precincts received pairs of underwear from a local activist group Tuesday morning. However, the gifts were not meant to inspire thoughts of romance or affection. Instead, the packages were an ingenious protest designed to highlight a disturbing, but little-known, fact about law-enforcement officers in…
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Journal Publishes ‘Black Lives Matter’ Issue Without Any Black Writers
The Journal of Political Philosophy has come under fire for its June issue, which dedicates more than 60 pages to a three-author “symposium” on the Black Lives Matter movement and does not include any actual black voices. The journal has since apologized for not including the work of black philosophers, but as Inside Higher Ed…
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Cleveland Police Department Fires Timothy Loehmann, Officer Who Shot and Killed 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice
Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann, who fatally shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, was fired Tuesday, two-and-a-half years after the November 2014 incident, the city announced at a news conference. The New York Times reports that Officer Frank Garmback—who was driving the patrol car that pulled up near Tamir seconds before Loehmann fired the fatal shots—will…