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‘Insatiable hate’: Advocates warn of deaths amid Trump’s ‘bigoted’ travel ban against Black and brown countries

Advocates and elected officials forcefully condemned President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting a dozen Black and brown nations. Citing national security concerns, Trump’s Wednesday proclamation fully restricts or limits entry into the United States for nationals from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.  U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., co-chairs of the House Haiti Caucus, slammed the administration’s “bigoted” travel ban as an “unambiguously xenophobic […]

todayJune 6, 2025 2

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Harris praised after calling out Trump’s racism, embrace of hate and white violence at debate

Gleeful Democrats are praising Vice President Kamala Harris after Tuesday’s presidential debate as they and voters polled shortly afterward overwhelmingly said she bested former President Donald Trump. The Democratic presidential nominee took Trump to task on his racist history, embrace of white violence and hate, and “weak” record as president. “Donald Trump was being embarrassed in ways that nobody has ever embarrassed him before,” said Mandela Barnes, senior fellow at People For the American Way.  Harris, who often looked directly […]

todaySeptember 12, 2024

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Nevada man accused of hate crime acknowledged in police interview that he referenced ‘hanging tree’

RENO, Nevada (AP) — A Nevada man charged with a hate crime acknowledged he referenced a “hanging tree” during a verbal altercation with a Black man who was gathering signatures for a proposed ballot measure southeast of Reno, according to a criminal complaint made public Thursday. Gary Miller, 74, his wife and their adult daughter were arrested Wednesday on various misdemeanors. They posted bail hours later and were released from the Storey County jail, court documents show. The encounter that […]

todayAugust 9, 2024

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Donor said lawmaker makes him ‘want to hate all Black women,’ but conservatives keeping the $12M gift

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative government said Wednesday that the party does not plan to give back 10 million pounds ($12.8 million) it received in the past year from a donor who made comments about a Black lawmaker that have been condemned as racist. The government is under pressure from some of its own lawmakers to return the donation from business executive Frank Hester. He reportedly said in a 2019 company meeting that Diane Abbott, Britain’s longest-serving Black legislator, made […]

todayMarch 14, 2024

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Hate crime bill stalled for almost a year in South Carolina Senate

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Supporters who want to make South Carolina the next-to-last U.S. state to pass a hate crimes law, increasing penalties for some crimes fueled by race, gender or sexual orientation, are running out of time to get what could be a decisive vote in the state Senate. They brought survivors of a racist massacre that killed nine Black worshipers in a Charleston church in 2015 to speak to senators. They have had more than 100 businesses tell lawmakers that South Carolina […]

todayMarch 2, 2024

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Clarence Thomas accused of ‘new low’ for hiring clerk accused of texting ‘I HATE BLACK PEOPLE’

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is being slammed for hiring a law clerk who allegedly sent a racist text to a colleague in 2017. George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School announced that Crystal Clanton, an alumna of the university, was selected to serve as Thomas’ judicial clerk for the 2024-2025 term. In 2017, The New Yorker published screenshots of text messages Clanton exchanged with a colleague while she worked at Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization that promotes […]

todayFebruary 28, 2024 1