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UCLA hosts Black Lives Matter co-founder for commencement keynote after she called for ‘end’ to Israel
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Cullors called for an end to the Israeli state while participating in a 2015 panel at Harvard Law School. Her remarks resurfaced in recent days following intense clashes between the Israeli military and Hamas militan...
Black mother slams critical race theory at Florida school board meeting: ‘Not teaching the truth’
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"Just coming off of May 31, marking the 100 years [since] the Tulsa riots, it is sad that we are even contemplating something like critical race theory, where children will be separated by their skin color and deemed...
Rep. Byron Donalds: I want ‘conservative ideals’ being discussed at the Congressional Black Caucus table
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Donalds appeared on the liberal network to discuss the stonewalling from the CBC, which has yet to welcome the freshman GOP lawmaker into the group despite his vocal interest in joining. The CBC currently does not ha...
Louisiana supervisors reviewing video from a state police unit to investigate whether there’s a history of abuse in its interactions with Black people, sources say
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A group of Louisiana State Police supervisors is currently reviewing all body camera and dashcam videos involving one police unit to investigate any patterns of misconduct, and it is particularly looking to see whet...
GOP Rep. Byron Donalds says he’s been shut out of the Congressional Black Caucus
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Donalds' communications director Harrison Fields told Fox News that the Florida Republican has engaged with multiple members of the CBC, an influential and officially nonpartisan group, to tell them he’s interested i...
A Florida high school paused distribution of its yearbook over coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement
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Florida teacher David Fleischer says his students on the yearbook committee spent the past year carefully planning the topics and events they wanted to include in their high school's yearbook -- and they were proud ...
Teyana Taylor crowned Maxim’s ‘Sexiest Woman Alive’ becoming first Black woman to top Hot 100 list: ‘Pinch me’
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The "retired" R&B singer and overall fashion and lifestyle magnate, 30, shared the news that she was crowned as the honoree in a lengthy Instagram post explaining the magnitude of topping the 2021 Hot 100 list as...
America ‘best place in world’ to be female, Black, gay, trans: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Ali, who was the victim of the regional custom of genital mutilation and later became a women rights activist speaking out against such customs; after her father shepherded her family out of Somalia, said on Fox Nati...
A veteran’s microphone was cut during part of a Memorial Day speech that touched on Black people’s role in the holiday
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The American Legion of Ohio said Thursday it is investigating a Memorial Day incident in which a keynote speaker's microphone was turned off during part of his speech that touched on Black people's historical role i...
NFL judge: Lawyers for Black players can join mediation
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The lawyers have challenged the settlement’s use of "race-norming" in dementia testing since 2018. The practice assumes Black players start with lower cognitive skills and makes it harder for them to show injury and ...
‘Master of None’ offers a radical new take on Black love
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Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in ethics and political values and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas a...
Mike Gonzalez: Black Lives Matter leader resigns but this radical, Marxist agenda will continue
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The reasons for her resignation are unknown, and may never be known. The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the main organization known as Black Lives Matter, has all the transparency of the Kremlin during...
Rich Paul, who represents LeBron James, says White athletes don’t want a Black agent
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Paul, who represents and maintains a close relationship with Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James, participated in a recent interview with The New Yorker and talked about being a Black man in a field that is pre...
An anonymous donor is paying the college tuition of Black athletes who get straight As at a Georgia high school
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Black athletes at a high school in Georgia received the gift of a lifetime when an anonymous donor offered to pay their college tuition if they made straight As. The donor, a community member who didn't want his ide...
Teacher on leave after approving Black Lives Matter yearbook cover
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Kayla Mick, who teaches at Downing Middle School, approved the artwork, which was chosen by eighth-grade students and is featured on the back cover of the school’s yearbook, which was published last week. VIRGINIA TE...
Prominent Black voices hit NYT’s Mara Gay for playing ‘race card’ amid backlash over American flag comments
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The left-wing MSNBC contributor tweeted she was being "trolled" because of her comment, writing that "trolling a Black journalist with the American flag is not the own some people think it is." NYT, MSNBC'S MARA GA...