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Man claimed he rammed St. Louis police car ‘for the black people’
A Bellefontaine Neighbors man was charged Sunday with ramming a St. Louis squad car and injuring two city officers on Friday night.
‘Fantastic Four’ Cast Handles Offensive Interview
Host Jason Bailey first asked what he claimed was an “obvious” question about how the two actors’ characters, Johnny and Sue Storm, could logically be brother and sister, as they have been in previous iterations of the story.
Bill O’Reilly Compares #BlackLivesMatter Movement To Gestapo
Bill O’Reilly compared the Black Lives Matter movement to the gestapo Wednesday night, shortly before proclaiming he is the reporter who has done the most to “shed light” on violence against young black men.
Thanks to the Supreme Court, Traffic Stops Can Become a Gamble Between Life and Death
Recent rulings and past decisions have given police officers the legal elbow room to stop, frisk and arrest whomever they want.
Black South Carolina Trooper Explains Why He Helped a White Supremacist
What the black state trooper saw was a civilian in distress. Yes, this was a white man, attending a white supremacist rally in front of the South Carolina State House. And yes, he was wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with a swastika.
[ABHM] Lecture series asks ‘Do Black Lives Matter?’
ABHM Head Griot Reggie Jackson is interviewed about the origins of the devaluation of black lives in America. His four-session series covers a 400-year history of the laws, court decisions, customs, pseudo-science, medicine, policing, and other practices that justify and support that attitude that black lives do not matter.
Ex-cop and blackface performer’s fundraiser for officers in Freddie Gray case canceled
A local venue on Wednesday abruptly canceled a planned fundraiser for the six Baltimore police officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray after the scheduled entertainment — a former Baltimore officer singing in blackface — drew sharp criticism.
Racial Satire ‘White Squad’ Is Painfully Hilarious But All Too Real
A new, brilliant satire by MTV’s “Look Different” anti-bias campaign that tackles racial inequality that privileges white people and disadvantages people of color in everyday situations.
Poll Finds Most in U.S. Hold Dim View of Race Relations
In a New York Times poll, nearly six in 10 Americans think race relations are generally bad; four in 10 think the situation is getting worse.
Cop Threatens to Use Taser on Sandra Bland in New Dash-Cam Video
New dashboard-camera footage has been released showing Sandra Bland’s ill-fated police stop July 10.
President Obama Meets With Emma Didlake, Oldest Living U.S. Veteran
President Barack Obama met in the Oval Office on Friday with Emma Didlake, a 110-year-old who is the oldest living veteran in the United States.
Eric Garner Is Remembered One Year After His Death
Held aloft in her mother’s arms, Legacy Garner, the 15-month-old daughter of Eric Garner, opened a wooden bird cage Friday morning and released a white rock dove.
‘This Is Our Selma’: NC’s Fight for Voting Rights
Monday marks the start of a pivotal voting-rights trial in North Carolina. On the line? Access to the ballot box for tens of thousands of African-American voters.
NAACP Ends 15-Year Boycott Of South Carolina
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announced Saturday the end to its 15-year economic boycott of the state of South Carolina.
Memphis, Tenn., Votes to Exhume Body of Confederate General, KKK Leader Buried in City Park
Memphis, Tenn., city leaders unanimously voted on Tuesday night to exhume the body of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader who is buried in the city’s Health Sciences Park, and move him to a private cemetery.
Texas officials: Schools should teach that slavery was ‘side issue’ to Civil War
Five million public school students in Texas will begin using new social studies textbooks this fall based on state academic standards that barely address racial segregation.
The American Revolution was not a whites-only war
The political freedom resulting from the war was earned on battlefields at Lexington and Concord, at the Battle of Bunker Hill and beyond, with the help of black soldiers, both free and enslaved, who fought with the Continental Army.
Cause of Fire at Mount Zion AME Church Ruled ‘Natural’
Investigators in South Carolina said Thursday that a fire at a historic black church this week was most likely sparked by natural causes and that no criminal intent was found.
Donald Trump says African-American youths ‘have no spirit’
On the same day that a New Hampshire poll put Donald Trump second in the race to be the Republican Party’s nominee for president in 2016, the New York mogul said that African-American youths had “no spirit” and blamed Barack Obama for dividing the country.
Woman Removes Confederate Flag In Front Of South Carolina Statehouse
A woman scaled a flagpole in front of the South Carolina Statehouse on Saturday morning and removed the Confederate battle flag.
White Supremacists More Dangerous To America Than Foreign Terrorists, Study Says
At least 48 people have been killed stateside by right-wing extremists in the 14 years since since the September 11 attacks — almost twice as many as were killed by self-identified jihadists in that time, according to a study released Wednesday by the New America Foundation.