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Opa Locka Hialeah Flea Market Carnival is going on in Miami-Dade County this month. Things got a little heated on Saturday night when a black mom got angry at a Ferris wheel operator and the two got into a physical altercation. A group of black moms and other people then jumped in, including people in a Charlie Conway “Mighty Ducks” jersey and a Penny Hardaway jersey. The video below shows Opa Locka Hialeah Flea Market Carnival Ferris wheel operator getting pushed by the angry mom and him shoving a kid, shortly after he fights with his coworker and a group...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A leading Democratic state lawmaker says she is working on plans for 2020. State Senator Joyce Elliott (D-Little Rock) has served multiple terms in the Arkansas Senate and Arkansas House. She previously ran as the Democratic nominee in the 2010 election in Arkansas's 2nd Congressional District, losing to Republican Tim Griffin. Some Democrats have mentioned the possibility of Elliott running in the 2020 U.S. Senate race against incumbent Republican Tom Cotton. On Capitol View, airing Sunday, February 10th, host Jessi Turnure asked Elliott if she had any plans for 2020. "My plan for 2020 is to...

Several Ole Miss basketball players knelt during the national anthem Saturday afternoon, before a game against the University of Georgia that was played about a mile away from a Mississippi pro-confederacy rally. Hundreds of Confederate 901 and Hiwaymen protestors marched through Oxford, Mississippi at the same time the game began, according to Clarion-Ledger reporter Nick Suss, who was live-tweeting the event. Counter protestors joined the march through the University of Mississippi campus, according to Suss.

RALEIGH, N.C. – A North Carolina substitute teacher has resigned after a student told his father that the teacher told his class that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was not assassinated but instead killed himself. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports Billy Byrd also says his son told him the unidentified substitute music teacher told the class of minority students they were headed to prison because of their clothing. He said the teacher told the students they weren't real Christians if they didn't support President Donald Trump.

In a recent interview with BBC News, Oprah Winfrey said that President Obama is disrespected because he is an African-American. "There’s a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he’s African-American," Winfrey said. "There’s no question about that, and it’s the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody’s thinking it." Speaking with the BBC's Will Gompertz in the UK to promote "The Butler," Winfrey also spoke to the global issue of racism. "It's gotten better. Are there still places where people are terrorized because of the...