Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) defended his deeply racist comments about Haitian people even though House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) claimed the lawmaker had prayed about the post and regretted it. “It’s all true,” Higgins told CNN Wednesday, even though he ultimately deleted the widely condemned tweet. “I can put up another controversial post tomorrow if … Read more
“The barn… is long and narrow with sliding doors in the middle,” writes Wright Thompson in ‘The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi.’ “Nobody knows when it was built exactly but its cypress-board walls were already weathered in the summer of 1955.” What happened inside the barn on Aug. 28, 1955, changed … Read more
The Department of Justice announced Thursday it is opening a civil rights investigation into potentially racist policing practices within the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office in Mississippi. In April, five deputies from Rankin County were sentenced to prison for violating the civil rights of two Black men. Self-styled as the Goon Squad, the five white deputies … Read more
Last weekend, former President Donald Trump posted another anti-immigrant screed to Truth Social. It would have been unremarkable ― at least, graded on the Trumpian curve of extreme xenophobia ― except for one word. “[We will] return Kamala’s illegal migrants to their home countries (also known as remigration),” he wrote. “I will save our cities … Read more
The Department of Justice announced Thursday it is opening a civil rights investigation into potentially racist policing practices within the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office in Mississippi. In April, five deputies from Rankin County were sentenced to prison for violating the civil rights of two Black men. Self-styled as the Goon Squad, the five white deputies … Read more
The organization representing Canada’s doctors has issued a formal apology for the harms the medical profession has caused Indigenous Peoples. The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) made the apology Wednesday at a ceremony in Victoria, attended by representatives of First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples. CMA president Dr. Joss Reimer said the organization was “deeply ashamed” … Read more
A conservative journalist is denying that he almost used a racial slur to refer to Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, while being interviewed by Megyn Kelly. It happened Monday when Kelly was interviewing National Review editor Rich Lowry about the bomb threats and other threats of violence that have plagued the small city since former … Read more
While bomb threats forced elementary and middle schools in Springfield, Ohio, to evacuate Friday for a second day, the state’s attorney general was amplifying the conspiracy theory that likely prompted those bomb threats in the first place. Despite lacking any firm evidence, and in the face of clear denials from city officials, Ohio Attorney General … Read more
JOHANNESBURG — Thethiwe Mahlangu woke early on a chilly morning and walked through her busy South African township, where minibuses hooted to pick up commuters and smoke from sidewalk breakfast stalls hung in the air. Her eyes had been troubling her. But instead of going to her nearby health clinic, Mahlangu was headed to the … Read more
After Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance promoted a false news story alleging that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are supposedly abducting and eating pets, the Texas Republican decided to join in with his own anti-immigrant posts. Cruz posted a meme with kittens that was captioned, “Please vote for Trump so Haitian immigrants don’t eat … Read more
