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"This July 4th, we must remember that we stand on stolen land toiled by enslaved Africans and recommit ourselves to the fight for freedom, equality, & justice so that these ideals are accessible to everyone, not just a privileged few. We are not free until everyone is truly free."

A panelist on San Francisco's reparations committee said white men are a "danger to society." She made other statements deriding white men as well. Nikcole Cunningham, one of 15 members of the city's African American Reparations Advisory Committee, decried straight white men as abusive and actively dangerous to society in an"Straight white men are abusive; straight white men are serial killers,” Cunningham said. “They have the most — I watch these shows — the most serial killers," she continued. "Straight white men are the ones who are shooting up schools, right?" interview with the Telegraph. She continued to bash white...

Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Affirmative Action undoes the “effects of racist policies going back centuries” in response to the Supreme Court’s decision that determined racial preferences in college admissions violate the Constitution. “Regarding the Supreme Court banning affirmative action in higher ed — I know many Americans feel that purely race-based decisions are unfair,” Kennedy tweeted. “However, this feeling misses important context. The effects of racist policies going back centuries are now self-perpetuating.”

Black Catholics celebrate Juneteenth, reckon with church’s history of slavery“Dearest brothers and sisters in Jesus, the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” Cardinal Wilton Gregory said from the altar at Mount Calvary Catholic Church Sunday morning. “Surely that scriptural quotation must’ve captured the emotions of those formerly enslaved people in Texas as the words of the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War finally had reached them.”Sunday’s Mass in Forestville, celebrated by America’s first Black cardinal, is part of a nationwide commemoration of Juneteenth. President Biden first designated the day as a federal holiday in 2021, a year...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The American Medical Association is clarifying the role of a person's body mass index, also known as BMI. The group is urging doctors to de-emphasize its use when assessing health and obesity of patients and acknowledge that the measurement has been used for "racist exclusion" and has caused "historical harm." The main concerns the AMA said it's found with the BMI system is that it does not account for body composition, muscle mass, racial differences and genetics. The recommendation comes after an AMA report recognized issues of racist exclusion because BMI is based primarily on data...

A Jewish man who was beaten by a mob in a hate attack in Midtown told a courtroom Tuesday he couldn’t “fathom” why his attacker got a plea deal from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office — as the assailant was handed an 18-month prison term. Joseph Borgen, 31, delivered a fiery victim impact statement at the Manhattan Supreme Court sentencing of Waseem Awawdeh, 24, for attacking Borgen during a clash between Israel and Palestine supporters on May, 20, 2021. “Why is he getting a break? I really can’t fathom why he’s getting a deal. Me, personally, I wanted to go...

Ana Navarro-Cárdenas, a co-host of ABC’s The View, posted a racist comment on Twitter early Sunday, slamming “rich white ppl” who pay to join former President Donald Trump’s “tacky” Mar-a-Lago club. Navarro-Cárdenas tweeted a photo from Trump’s indictment, which prosecutors released Friday, and which shows boxes of documents in a bathroom that has a chandelier. She added race to a comment on décor:

Washington State's first equity director has been fired after an investigation found she made racist comments towards Hispanic colleagues and even fat-shamed one employee. Karen Johnson, the first director of the state's Office of Equity, was terminated from her position on May 17 after an independent investigation revealed several of her employees had complained about her 'biased and insensitive conduct.' One Mexican employee told investigators how Johnson once said she had a 'distrust of Mexican people,' while another said the director attacked her for her weight. Johnson has denied these allegations, and is said to be considering bringing a wrongful...

Three alleged gang members were arrested and charged Wednesday over the fatal shooting of a 66-year-old innocent bystander outside his son’s Upper Manhattan deli. Kelwin Sanchez, 19, Raheam Steed, 22 and 23-year-old Jonadel Lakard were all charged with murder in connection to the May 23 drive-by shooting that claimed the life of Reda Girgis, police said. The trio of suspects are alleged members of the notorious Trinitarios gang OED, according to sources.Girgis, who’s from Egypt, was visiting his son and pregnant daughter-in-law in the Big Apple when he was struck in the head by a bullet outside the ChopCheese Deli...

Former Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced his campaign for the 2024 presidential election on Tuesday, during which he knocked former President Donald Trump and strangely praised former President Woodrow Wilson at George Washington’s expense.Christie has been a fierce opponent and critic of Donald Trump, despite endorsing him wholeheartedly in 2016, since the Russia collusion investigation, a criticism that only accelerated following the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill. In his announcement on Tuesday, the former New Jersey governor repeated his dislike for the former president, charging that he helped make America smaller by playing off people’s divisions.“We have...

U.S. tennis player Sloane Stephens says the racism she’s faced has “only gotten worse” over the years. Speaking Monday at the French Open, Stephens told reporters of being on the receiving end of racist attacks, saying, “It’s obviously been a problem my entire career. It’s never stopped. It’s only gotten worse.” “Obviously when there’s FBI investigations going on with [what] people are saying to you online, it’s very serious,” Stephens, 30, said during a news conference following her first round win against Karolina Pliskova.

A US high school is facing criticism after it suspended a student for recording her teacher using a racial slur in class. Mary Walton, 15, filmed her teacher saying the n-word repeatedly on 9 May at Glendale High School in Springfield, Missouri. Her family has since retained a lawyer and asked the school to apologise. School officials said they believe the student was disciplined appropriately. The teacher who used the slur has quit. As well as an apology, the young student and her mother, Kate Welborn, have asked the school to strike the suspension off her academic record, her lawyer...

Fox News host Mark Levin examines President Biden's 2024 campaign strategy and his first-term agenda on 'Life Liberty & Levin.'

In this video I discuss the Denver city councilwoman Candi CdeBaca & her proposal to tax white owned businesses in order pay reparations to minority owned businesses.

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump raged on social media early Wednesday against both his accuser and the judge who ruled against him in a sexual abuse and defamation civil case, just hours after he was found liable for a 1996 incident. “The partisan Judge & Jury on the just concluded Witch Hunt Trial should be absolutely ashamed of themselves for allowing such a travesty of Justice to take place,” Trump, 76, posted to Truth Social at 1 a.m. Wednesday. The 45th president went on to claim that US District Judge Lewis Kaplan should have allowed more evidence to be...

Want to make a positive difference in the wage conditions of developing country factory workers churning out products for multinational firms? Paying them more seems an obvious first step. But research looking at the experience of clothing retailer H&M Group suggests a less direct approach—by intervening at the management practice level—can empower workers and significantly raise wages in sustainable ways, multiplying the impact of the company's investment many times over. In 2013, following activist pressure for reform, H&M went to its suppliers and asked them to voluntarily implement two programs designed to raise workers' pay. A workplace dialogue program promoted...

Fans on Twitter are criticizing the Georgia football “culture” after recruit Jamaal Jarrett uttered a racist remark during a live stream of the 2023 NFL Draft on Thursday. Jarrett, a four-star defensive tackle recruit who committed to play under Kirby Smart starting in 2023, derogatorily said “ching chong” while an Asian child announced the Falcons’ eighth pick in the draft – and now some are calling for consequences. “Suspend him and public apology needed,” one Twitter user wrote.

A scandal involving racist text messages sent between Antioch police officers led to mayhem during a Tuesday city council meeting. At one particularly intense moment, Mayor Lamar Thorpe stormed out of the council chamber following a heated interaction with a member of the community. Thorpe, who is Black, was the subject of at least one of several text messages revealed in a new report showing that officers in the city’s police department routinely used racist slurs when discussing Black people and other minorities. In one exchange referencing the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, an officer reportedly sent a text...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) once claimed he had only a "vague recollection" of and hadn't looked at the anti-Semitic speeches made by his uncle in the 1990s, but a 1992 editorial by the Democratic leader uncovered by CNN shows he defended his uncle, his comments, and notorious anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Jeffries’s uncle, Leonard Jeffries, faced backlash in the 1990s for his comments accusing "rich Jews" of being responsible for the slave trade and alleging the existence of "a conspiracy, planned and plotted" by Jewish executives in Hollywood to portray black people poorly. Farrakhan...

Tennessee Rep. Gloria Johnson (D) said Tuesday on “CNN This Morning” that she hears racist statements “all the time” in the Tennessee State House. Johnson said racism was the reason her two black colleagues, Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson were expelled, and she was spared. Co-host Don Lemon said, “You’ve been very in front after the vote last week that you felt race played a role in Jones and Pearson’s removal. But there are some of your Republican colleagues were saying in their estimation that it wasn’t race. That you argued, your attorney argued to the contrary that you...