Red Lobster might really be in trouble this time. We just reported on how a waitress, Tori Christina Jenkins, received ‘None, N****r’ instead of a tip this past weekend from racist customers at the Franklin, TN Red Lobster where she… Read More ›
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Israel confirms plan to deport African migrants to Uganda
Interior minister says Israel will set a deadline by which ‘infiltrators’ will have to leave ‘of their own free will’ Israel plans to soon begin deporting migrants from Eritrea and Sudan, who number more than 50,000, back to Africa via Uganda, officials said. Israel… Read More ›
California Prison Hunger Strike Ends After 60 Days
Update (10:32am): The Pelican Bay Short Corridor Collective have issued a statement “suspending” the hunger strike. “To be clear, our Peaceful Protest of Resistance to our continuous subjection to decades of systemic state sanctioned torture via the system’s solitary confinement units is… Read More ›
Shellie Zimmerman Reveals She Had Left George The Night Before the Shooting
By: Sarah Jones In an interview with ABC, Shellie Zimmerman said that she had left her husband George the night before the shooting. If you don’t know anything about domestic violence statistics, this might not have set off any alarms…. Read More ›
Woman Says George Zimmerman Molested Her For More Than A Decade
A woman with close ties to George Zimmerman and his family told investigators that members of Zimmerman’s family were boastfully proud racists and that for more than a decade Zimmerman sexually molested her. “It started when I was six,” the… Read More ›
Israel’s Most Liberal City Introduces Racially Segregated Kindergartens
by Lisa Goldman When the children of south Tel Aviv head back to school on Tuesday, kindergarteners will attend facilities that are segregated by race. The children of asylum seekers from sub-Saharan Africa will go to their kindergartens and all the… Read More ›
Trafficking Native Children: The Seamy Underbelly of U.S. Adoption Industry
Jeremy Simmons was heartbroken, baffled and confused. He had been living with his girlfriend, Crystal Tarbox, in Mannford, Oklahoma, when she became pregnant in August, 2012. But in March of this year, he says she moved out when she was… Read More ›
“I Have a Dream, a Blurred Vision” by Michael Parenti
The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington—in which Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made his famed “I Have a Dream” speech—has recently won renewed attention from various print and electronic media in the United States. But the more attention… Read More ›
North Carolina agrees to compensate sterilization victims for 45-year eugenics program
After a ten-year deliberation process, North Carolina is set to be the first state to offer monetary compensation to victims of government-sponsored sterilization. Between 1929 and 1974, the state sterilized an estimated 7,600 people by choice, force or coercion under… Read More ›
Ron Paul To Keynote Anti-Semitic Conference
Former Texas congressman Ron Paul will reportedly deliver the keynote address at an anti-Semitic conference in September, in the latest example of the three-time presidential candidate’s close association with extremists. Paul will speak at the Fatima Center’s “Fatima: The Path to Peace”… Read More ›
Alcohol or Not Vote, as Nebraska Town, Population 10, Sells 13,000 Cans of Beer Daily to Oglala Sioux
Tribal leaders say 90 percent of the crime on Pine Ridge is related to drinking, as are most accidents, suicides and preventable diseases. Nebraska calls this a village: two blocks, one dusty road and six or so buildings, squat and… Read More ›
Dying Teen Is Being Denied A Heart Transplant Because He’s Had Trouble With The Law
CREDIT: WSBTV News Fifteen-year-old Anthony Stokes has less than six months to live unless he receives an emergency heart transplant. But his family has been told that Anthony doesn’t qualify for the transplant list because he has a “history of… Read More ›
The California Prisoners Hunger Strike: The Truth
Responding to Jeffrey Beard, head of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) By Joe Veale Four weeks ago, 30,000 people in prisons in California and surrounding states went on a hunger strike to protest their conditions, in particular in… Read More ›
Another trial involving a Florida man who fatally shot an unarmed black teen
By Eric W. Dolan CNN’s Ryan Smith on Monday highlighted an upcoming trial in Florida that is eerily similar to the Trayvon Martin case. In both cases, an unarmed 17-year-old black male was left dead. “I’m not an eye for… Read More ›
‘Crack baby’ study ends with unexpected but clear result
By Susan FitzGerald Jaimee Drakewood hurried in from the rain, eager to get to her final appointment at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Ever since her birth 23 years ago, a team of researchers has been tracking every aspect of her… Read More ›
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