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Fires have burned three historically black churches over the last 10 days in a single south Louisiana Parish, prompting authorities to call into question whether “suspicious” activity is behind the damage, the New York Times reports. “There is clearly something happening in this community,” State Fire Marshal H. Browning said in a statement. “That is why it […]
This week in our ongoing series Wow What a Fucking Terrible Idea, we have word of a bar backing out of originally announced plans to host a “MLKegs” event on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Indeed, the Des Moines Register reported Monday that Deringer’s Public Parlor in Cedar Falls, Iowa originally planned to throw the MLKegs event […]
A new biopic focused on Rosa Parks is on the way. According to Deadline, the first-ever scripted feature film that will hit U.S. theaters about the Civil Rights activist will start shooting in 2019. The movie industry website claims that Rosa will focus on the immediate aftermath of Parks’ arrest in 1955, after she refused to […]
