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US Hospitals Deported Hundreds of Immigrant Patients to Cut Costs
Hundreds of immigrants have been deported not by the federal government but by hospitals looking to cut costs by getting rid of undocumented patients in need of long-term care. In a process known as...
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Racial Disparities in DC Pot Arrests Intensify Despite Gentrification
How racist is the “war on drugs”? Very. And if the nation’s capital is any indication, it’s actually getting worse. The Washington City Paper reports that from 2005 to 2011, 91 percent of DC marijuana...
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Bangladesh Building Collapse Shows that Poor Brown Workers are Expendable by...
The death toll from the collapse of an eight-story building housing five garment factories in Bangladesh has surpassed 300 with an estimated 40 people still trapped beneath the rubble. Am I the only...
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At Least 9 Toddlers Were Involved In Accidental Shootings In April
A 5-year-old boy in Kentucky accidentally shot his 2-year-old sister yesterday afternoon with a .22-caliber rifle he received as a gift last year. Their mother, who was home at the time, told police...
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Kiera Wilmot, 16, Arrested, Expelled And Charged With Felonies for Bad...
Updated Kiera Roslyn Wilmot, a 16-year-old Florida high school student, had everything going for her as a top-notch student at Bartow High School. But all that changed on Monday, April 23, when Wilmot...
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Prosecutor Behind Kiera Wilmot Arrest Filed No Charges For White Teen Who...
It turns out that Assistant State Attorney Tammy Glotfelty does not prosecute juveniles equally. On Monday, April 23, Glotfelty told the Barlow Police Department to charge 16-year-old high school...
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What Happens When Black College Students Throw A Party? 79 LAPD Riot Cops...
Over the weekend, 79 officers from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)—dressed in full riot police attire—broke up an off-campus University of Southern California (USC) party attended almost...
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Death Toll From Bangladesh Building Collapse Tops 800
Exactly two weeks have passed since the Dhaka garment factory complex collapsed in Bangladesh, yet bodies are still being pulled from underneath the rubble. As of this morning, the Bangladesh army has...
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Media Assumes Best of Police and Worst of Low-Income Neighbors in Cleveland...
The harrowing story of three Cleveland women—Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight—held captive by Ariel Castro for a decade seems to reach new levels of horror with each emerging detail. But...
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High School Senior Suspended For Dissing School Athletes On Twitter
Wesley Teague, senior class president at Heights High School in Wichita, Kansas, has been suspended for the rest of the school year and banned from nearly all graduation activities. His crime? He...
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Unarmed Father of 4 Pleaded for His Life as Police Beat Him to Death
David Sal Silva, a 33-year-old father of four small children between the ages of 2 and 10, was beaten to death by as many as nine police officers in Bakersville, California, early Wednesday morning....
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Florida Lawmakers Pass Bill To Speed Up Executions
For a state with 24 death row exonerations under its belt (the highest in the country), you would think Florida might want to slow down its execution process to avoid putting innocent people to death....
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First U.S. Drone Strike Since Obama’s Drone Speech Kills Easily Replaceable...
The United States isn’t officially at war with Pakistan. But that hasn’t stopped the U.S. government from bombing whoever they want whenever they see fit. Nor has it stopped the U.S. media from...
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Black Honors Students Shot 25 Times By St. Louis Police
“The way St. Louis streets work, we’re afraid out here. We’re afraid of the police. We’re afraid of other youth who may want to pull a gun and fire on you. So, sometimes people have guns just to...
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VIDEO: 26 Cops Violently Arrest Nonthreatening Black Man In Harlem Subway...
This video shows a remarkable scene of police overkill in a Harlem subway station on the afternoon of May 13. What begins as two cops from the NYPD trying to handcuff a seemingly unthreatening black...
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Philadelphia is Closing 23 Schools While Building A $400 Million Prison
The Philadelphia School District’s (PSD) state-run School Reform Commission voted in March to close 23 public schools, nearly 10 percent of the city’s total, in a move they say is necessary to plug a...
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Government Surveillance and Selective Outrage
Since the NSA spying story broke last week, I’ve been thinking a lot about this Martin Niemöller saying: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out– Because I was not a Socialist. Then...
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US Drone Strike Killed 10-Year-Old Boy In Yemen
A 10-year-old Yemeni boy named Abdulaziz was killed on June 10, reports McClatchy. And it was the U.S. government that killed him. Perhaps he should have known better than to be the younger brother of...
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Unarmed Black Man Shot By St. Louis Cop Is Charged With Resisting Arrest
On the afternoon of Sunday, July 21, 30-year-old Lamont Earl Dukes and his friend, both African American males, were stopped at a Walgreens pharmacy by a St. Louis police officer conducting a...
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Black Boy, 14, Clings To Life After Being Shot In The Head By A White Homeowner
Marshall Coulter, 14, is in critical condition after being shot in the head on Friday by Merritt Landry, 33, a white homeowner and buildings inspector for the Historic District Landmarks Commission who...
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