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A Ku Klux Klan leader has been sentenced to at least six years in prison for driving his truck in a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters back in June. According to BuzzFeed News, 36-year-old Harry Rogers was convicted of six misdemeanors and is still facing three felony charges of attempted malicious wounding, which could […]
The Oakland A’s and bench coach Ryan Christenson have issued an apology after he used a Nazi salute twice during a game on Thursday. “I made a mistake and will not deny it,” Christenson said in the statement, while maintaining that the gesture was unintentional. He threw up the salute at the end of the game, […]
We aren’t quite at the point where we can be back at clubs and restaurants in a way that isn’t weird. But until we are, we have a lot of work to do. As we see more call-outs and calls for accountability every day, almost every industry is experiencing a reckoning. For DJs in Toronto, […]
A self-proclaimed white supremacist was arrested last week after he was filmed violently attacking a female bartender in Florida. According to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 36-year-old Nicholas Arnold Schock was taken into custody Friday at the Pop’s Sunset Grille near Sarasota. A cellphone footage taken by a patron shows a shirtless Schock at the restaurant, launching a racist […]
Ryan Reynolds says he and Blake Lively are deeply sorry for having their wedding at a former plantation, and even went so far as to call the decision “a giant fucking mistake.” The Deadpool actor addressed the controversy during a recent interview with Fast Company. Reynolds and Lively tied the knot in September 2012 and held a ceremony at Boone Hall […]
One of the country’s most notorious white supremacists is finally banned from Twitter. The company decided to permanently suspend former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke on Thursday, after he violated its hateful conduct policy multiple times. “The account you referenced has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules on hateful […]
This week a jump in reported COVID-19 related deaths, thanks to new data, revealed the severity of Texas’ crisis as one of the nation’s coronavirus hotspots. That data also illustrated the wide discrepancy in deaths by race, with Hispanic residents disproportionately representing 47 percent of the state’s fatalities. Hispanic Texans make up only 40 percent of the overall […]
A Nevada sheriff wasn’t pleased with a local library’s support for the Black Lives Matter movement. So, he issued a thinly-veiled threat. “Due to your support of Black Lives Matter and the obvious lack of support or trust with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, please do not feel the need to call 911 for help,” Douglas County […]
Back in May, Black Lives Matter protests received criticism from conservative politicians and the media for allegedly inciting violence that resulted in property damage. While there are arguments to be made about why people are more important than property, in response to the criticism many social media users began pointing out that those instigating the […]
Over the weekend protests across the country became violent as outside agitators and federal officers escalated violence against otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter protests. This included protests in Richmond, Virginia, where peaceful demonstrations on Saturday and Sunday night turned violent following infiltration of the protests by white supremacists, according to local officials. “There were white […]
