racism
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‘White Power,’ Swastikas Spray-Painted on Ariz. High School
And so we’re here again. Another day, another racist incident at some high school across the nation. This time, staff and students discovered racist graffiti painted on school grounds at the Pinnacle High School in Phoenix over the weekend, sparking a police investigation. The graffiti, which was mostly centered on the outside of the school’s…
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White Supremacist Charged With Murder as Terrorism in Fatal Stabbing of Timothy Caughman
James Harris Jackson, a white supremacist who told investigators that he came to New York to kill black people, is now facing terrorism-related murder charges in the fatal stabbing of Timothy Caughman, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. announced Monday. In total, Harris is now charged with murder as an act of terrorism in…
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White Supremacist Who Stabbed Black Man to Death Regrets Victim Wasn’t ‘Young Thug’ or ‘Successful Older Black Man’
The self-proclaimed white supremacist charged with fatally stabbing a New York City man to death last week voiced regret that the victim was not a young black man, or else a more successful older black man. The New York Daily News secured an exclusive Rikers Island jail interview with 28-year-old James Harris Jackson, who is accused of…
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SNL’s Michael Che Won’t Back Down From ‘Boston Being the Most Racist City’ Statement
Michael Che, the dry-witted co-host of Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update,” said what he said about Beantown, and he meant it. And he told the city to its face. At a recent standup show at Boston University last week, Che told the crowd that he stands by a comment he made on SNL the night…
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Will Driverless Vehicles Put Black People Out of Work?
Driving while black in America has always been fraught with peril. During the Jim Crow era, African Americans traveled the highways by night to avoid harassment by law enforcement and packed extra fuel and food because they could not stop at gas stations and restaurants that served only whites. Today, encounters with police that are…
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Muhammad Ali Jr. on His Detainment: ‘I Felt Like Somebody That Wasn’t a Citizen of the United States’
When Muhammad Ali Jr. was first detained by immigration officials at the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., airport as he traveled back from Jamaica with his mother, Khalilah Camacho-Ali, toward the end of February, initially, the son of the legendary boxer wasn’t so quick to blame President Donald Trump’s misguided Muslim travel ban. “I was coming from…
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Md. Man Accused of Murder Traveled to NYC to Target Black People: Police
A white man from Baltimore, who allegedly stabbed a 66-year-old black man to death in New York City, reportedly traveled all the way to New York to commit the crime in the “media capital of the world” and make the biggest statement he could, police said. The Associated Press reports that James Harris Jackson, 28,…
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Guy Who Shot Himself Blames Imaginary Black Guy in NYC
As a very smart colleague of mine notes, “Not even imaginary black people can catch a break.” When under suspicion or in trouble, just use a tactic as old as Methuselah: Blame a black guy. Racism makes the explanation plausible, and even chief executives do it. Anywho, the beat goes on. This time, in New…
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Black and Brown Elementary School Winners of Indianapolis Robotics Championship Told to ‘Go Back to Mexico’
Some bigoted parents in Indiana prove that the rotten apple doesn’t fall far from the diseased tree. They tried to ruin what should have been a very special moment for five black and Latinx 9- and 10-year-olds after they won a citywide robotics championship in Indianapolis. “Go back to Mexico!” two or three kids and…
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NYC Chiropractor Was Falsely Accused of Making Racist Threats Against Child, Cop; Has Charges Dropped
Updated: As it turns out, a Staten Island, N.Y., chiropractor was falsely accused of sending racist letters to a school crossing guard, having been apparently framed by her alleged victim. “My client was accused of some horrible, horrible acts,” Danielle Serini’s attorney Mark Fonte confirmed back in November. “She has now been vindicated.” Serini, who…