For Maxine Waters and her South Los Angeles constituents, Eula Love’s death was a tipping point.
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Spike Lee: ‘Black men are still viewed as predators’ – The Guardian
Twenty-five years after the LA riots, Spike Lee has made a film about Rodney King, whose beating by the police triggered the uprising. Does he think things have improved in the US? ‘Race is always going to be an issue in this country’
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Ted Nugent’s repeated calls for Obama’s death didn’t stop Trump from hosting him at the White House – Think Progress
On Wednesday evening, President Trump dined and posed for photos with rock star Ted Nugent, a man who became the target of a Secret Service investigation after he said in 2012 that if President Obama were reelected, Nugent would “either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”
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Hate in America – Slate
Since the election of President Donald Trump, news outlets and social media accounts have swelled with reports of swastikas at schools, racist taunts, and other hate-fueled attacks and acts of intimidation.
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BMW, Mercedes Benz, and Other Advertisers Are Pulling Their O’Reilly Factor Spots – Slate
Much has happened in the three days since the New York Times published revelations that Bill O’Reilly and Fox News had paid $13 million in settlements to five women who accused the network star of harassment.
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The Good, Racist People – The New York Times
Last month the actor Forest Whitaker was stopped in a Manhattan delicatessen by an employee.
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Rebranding White Nationalism: Inside the Alt-Right
“I’ve lived in this multicultural mess for years and I’m trying to get out of it.”
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On Osage Avenue, rebuilt homes to rise again from MOVE’s ashes
Philadelphia has yet another plan for Osage Avenue.
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Three California Mosques Receive Letters Praising Trump, Threatening Genocide
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling for police to increase protection of mosques after at least three in California received identical handwritten letters that vow President-elect Donald Trump will “do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the Jews.”
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Alt-right retaliates against Twitter ban by creating ‘fake black accounts’
Extreme right-wing users hit back with false accounts after being kicked off Twitter, as the social network tries to crack down on hate speech.
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