Politics
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4 Young Men in Ala. Charged in Attack of High School Student Supporting ‘Blue Lives Matter’
Four young men in Alabama were arrested Tuesday following a Sept. 30 attack against Brian Ogle, a 17-year-old high school student who supported police and “Blue Lives Matter” on social media, the New York Daily News reports. Brian was reportedly attacked after a Sylacauga High School football game, according to AL.com. Brian, who suffered serious…
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Detroit Woman Displays Real-Life Horrors for Halloween
A Detroit woman is getting a lot of attention for her controversial, conversation-inducing Halloween decorations, WJBK reports. The decorations depict the victims of police shootings, neighborhood violence and even the Flint, Mich., water crisis. According to the news station, it isn’t the first time the homeowners have shied away from the Halloween tradition of showing…
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Colin Kaepernick to Make 1st Start This Sunday
It’s time for Colin Kaepernick to rise up: Chip Kelly, the coach of the San Francisco 49ers, announced Tuesday that he’s making the switch from the highly ineffective Blaine Gabbert to Kaepernick, NFL.com reports. Much of the Kaepernick news has been less about his football ability and more about his protests against overpolicing of black…
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Colin Kaepernick's Protest: It's Dumb and Disrespectful
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says that she thinks Colin Kapernick and other NFL players’ protest of unjust policing of minority communities during the national anthem is “dumb” and “disrespectful.” During an interview with Katie Couric on Yahoo!, Ginsburg blasted the protest, which includes players kneeling or raising a fist during the national anthem…
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University of Va. Lecturer Takes Leave After Comparing Black Lives Matter to KKK
A University of Virginia adjunct professor is facing backlash after comparing Black Lives Matter to the horrific racism and terror of the Ku Klux Klan, the Washington Post reports. Douglas Muir, who lectures at the university’s engineering and business schools, wrote a Facebook comment that Black Lives Matter is the “biggest” racist organization since the…
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Yusef Salaam of the Central Park Five: Trump ‘Unfit to Be President’
Yusef Salaam has been living in the dark shadow of Donald Trump since he was a teenager accused, and convicted, of raping a woman in New York City’s Central Park more than 27 years ago. It was a crime of which he was innocent. “I still have to defend myself,” says Salaam. “I still have…
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Va. Officer Found Not Guilty in Shooting Death of Mentally Ill Man
A Norfolk, Va., police officer has been found not guilty of manslaughter in the June 2014 shooting of a mentally ill black man, even though other officers testified that the man was not a threat at the time he was fatally shot, the Virginia-Pilot reports. According to the Daily Mail, 35-year-old David Latham suffered from…
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Jerry Rice Is Sorry, Y’all; He Didn’t Realize That All Lives Matter Wasn’t Our Fight
Hall of Fame wide receiver Jerry Rice admits that he dropped the ball. As it turns out, Rice wasn’t well-versed in social happenings surrounding police killings of unarmed African-American men, women and children when he spouted off, “All Lives Matter” in a recent tweet. But after being dragged on Twitter for his ill-timed tweet, the…
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Police in NC Release Full, Graphic Video of Keith Lamont Scott Shooting
Police in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., have released the full, graphic body-cam and dashcam footage of the shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte last month, Reuters reports. According to the report, a lawyer for Scott’s family said that the videos do not support police claims that Scott was holding a gun at the time of his…