A lawsuit filed this week by Julian, a civil rights organization based in Mississippi, alleges that the city of Lexington, a predominantly Black rural town, and its police department have harassed and abused Black residents for years. The Department of Justice launched a “pattern-or-practice investigation” into Lexington in November, examining the city and its police … Read more
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LONDON — A neo-Nazi podcaster who called for the deaths of Prince Harry and his young son received a prison sentence Thursday along with his co-host Thursday. The sentencing judge in London called the duo “dedicated and unapologetic white supremacists” who encouraged terrorism. Christopher Gibbons and Tyrone Patten-Walsh espoused racist, antisemitic, Islamophobic, homophobic and misogynistic … Read more
A Montreal-area mother is expressing rage and horror about an alleged racially motivated attack against her 18-year-old daughter and three other young women. Lyndia Barthold says the four women were sitting in a parked car in Terrebonne, north of Montreal, when a man started swinging an axe at a closed window and screaming racial slurs. … Read more
A clip from a 1997 Spice Girls appearance on the Dutch TV show “Laat de Leeuw” has made its way onto TikTok, and many people are praising group member Mel B for the way she firmly shut down a racist situation. In the clip, which also received notice in 2017, host and comedian Paul de … Read more
