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Feb 8, 2012 at 1:34 pm

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Black High School Basketball Players Mocked With Banana Suits, Monkey Chants

Pittsburgh Brentwood High School officials are in hot water for allegedly allowing three students to run on to the court during half-time in full-bodied banana suits, mocking the other team who is mostly African American, according to Yahoo News.

Last Friday, Monessan High School basketball students were returning to their locker rooms, when monkey-clad students were surrounded

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Feb 7, 2012 at 10:31 am

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Black Teacher Calls Haitian Student “Little Chocolate Boy”

Leslie Ranier (pictured), a Black Broward County, Fla., high school teacher who was reportedly accused of pretending to throw holy water on an atheist colleague last May, now faces possible suspension for telling a Haitian student that he “looks little chocolate boy,” a “chocolate that nobody wanted.”

Ranier’s off-color remarks were captured on video at the Pompano Beach Blanche Ely High School. According

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Jan 18, 2012 at 10:25 am

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Arianna Huffington Implies Michelle Obama Isn’t Black Enough

I am not a fan of President Barack Obama, nor am I titillated by every second in the life of a little dog named Bo and two adorable girls named Sasha and Malia, even though they’re all extremely precious and make us all proud. To be honest, what I care more about is the wishy-washy, closet-conservative, imperialistic foreign politics of the father-in-chief. Still, every

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Jan 15, 2012 at 12:21 pm

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Romney And The Silent Republican Race War

In the last few months, the Republican Party has spoken to many ideas. Many of them very important to the GOP. They speak freely on the economy, foreign policy, education and government spending. What they do not talk about very often, is their plan on how to unify an America so much more diverse than what the founding fathers created. They steadily evade any deep discussions on race (unless it is

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Jan 12, 2012 at 2:42 pm

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Tribeswomen Forced To Dance For Food

The Jarawa tribe, 400 members strong, live in the reserve lush forests of South Andamans in the Indian Ocean. The Jarawa people lived successfully on their island without contact with outsiders for probably about 55,000 years until 1998. Since then, many have left their forest to settle in nearby towns and settlements. Now there are reports that Jarawan women and young girls are being forced to dance, some

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Jan 4, 2012 at 2:09 pm

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Are Republican Front Runners Racist? Here’s Your Guide…

The top GOP candidates who emerged from yesterday’s Iowa Caucus have a few things in common: They’re all white. They’re all men. And they’ve all been accused of racism. Some of these claims proved baseless, but others — we think — are legitimate.

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Jan 4, 2012 at 8:21 am

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INJUSTICE! Murderers Get Off Light For Black Teen’s Murder

LONDON — A British judge sentenced two men Wednesday to at least 14 years in prison for stabbing a black London teenager to death almost two decades ago.

The murder of 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence shocked the country and came to be seen as a festering racial injustice. It took 19 years before

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Jan 3, 2012 at 8:33 pm

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Who Is The American Muslim?

Over the last few weeks American Muslims have been in the news a lot. It started with controversy over the TV show All American Muslim. Then it continued after Muslims boycotted Lowe’s hardware stores for pulling ads during the show due to outside pressure. Not long after Muslim community leaders in New York boycotted Mayor Bloomberg’s dinner invitation. They said he was allowing the NYPD to harass and spy on Muslims who are good

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Jan 3, 2012 at 11:36 am

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Two White Men Found Guilty Of Killing Black Teen

LONDON — A jury has found two white men guilty of murdering a black teenager in a brutal racist stabbing that shocked Britain almost two decades ago.

Gary Dobson, 36, and David Norris, 35, were convicted Tuesday of killing Stephen Lawrence as he waited for a bus in 1993. The pair will be sentenced Wednesday.

The men

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Dec 29, 2011 at 2:38 pm

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Top 10 Racist Quotes Of 2011

This year has come and gone, but unfortunately, racism is here to stay. Our Black president has given racists a good target in the political realm, but we still see racism from teachers, police officers and even athletes. Here are the Top 10 racist quotes of 2011.

10. Ann Coulter Says, “Our Blacks Are Better Than Their’s”

When comparing Herman Cain to President Barack Obama, Coultier (pictured