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Friday, May 14, 2021

Parents at New York School Upset After Students Receive Assignment That States George Floyd Didn’t Die From Knee on Neck

Is there some sort of teacher lottery going on that I don’t know about? I feel like every day a single teacher is chosen to do some unnecessarily racist shit. Like the Hunger Games, but the only thing the teacher has to kill is their whole career. In New York, a group of parents are outraged after their children were…

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Ohio City Agrees to $10 Million Settlement for the Family of André Hill

I’m somewhat surprised that we still haven’t reached the point where legislators are pushing police reform. Even if they’re unmoved by the loss of life, you would think they would grow tired of paying out millions over unnecessary deaths. Case in point: The city of Columbus, Ohio, has agreed to pay the family of AndrĂ©…

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Blake Griffin, Malcolm Gladwell Discuss Police Brutality, Social Justice on Season Premiere of The Pursuit of Healthiness

Most of us only know six-time NBA All-Star Blake Griffin because of his exploits on the court. But if you pay a little more attention, you’ll see that he’s a burgeoning stand-up comedian—who’s actually funny—who also dabbles in several other forms of self-expression, creativity, and entertainment.

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Deleted Video From 2019 Shows Crazy QAnon Congresswoman Harassing AOC Through Her Office Mail Slot

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a problem.

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McMichaels Attorneys Want to Exclude Jailhouse Phone Calls, Including One That Appears to Refer to Ahmaud Arbery Shooting as a 'Good Deed'

On Wednesday, attorneys for Greg and Travis McMichael, two of the three men involved in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, asked a pre-trial judge to allow Arbery’s past arrests into evidence because apparently the victim’s past is supposed to shed some kind of light on why he fought back against his attackers lynchers

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