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    Origin of Columbus Day: This is why Americans really started celebrating the holiday
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    Origin of Columbus Day: This is why Americans really started celebrating the holiday

    The sudden population shift angered some Americans who feared change and harbored bias. In contrast to previous waves of immigration from Northern and Western Europe, the customs, languages, and religions of Southern and Eastern Europeans were viewed as too foreign by many white, Protestant Americans. Some believed these new immigrants would not fit in with […]

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    New Mexico State assistant Tyler Wright faces charges of racist comments
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    New Mexico State assistant Tyler Wright faces charges of racist comments

    “College GameDay” host Rece Davis previews Alabama-Georgia. Rece Davis, host of “College GameDay” on ESPN, previews Alabama-Georgia. Let's be clear: Tyler Wright can say whatever he wants about the basic beauty of our perfectly imperfect country. Tyler Wright can also get fired for saying whatever he wants. New Mexico State offensive coordinator Wright was absent […]

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    Trump is not now or ever turning to politics
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    Trump is not now or ever turning to politics

    Looking at the latest debris from the 2024 campaign, it appears that a racist congressman from Louisiana has demanded that Donald Trump's mythical, dog- and cat-eating, “Vudu”-practicing Haitian immigrants from Springfield, Ohio, be nationally represented Level debate stage earlier this month: “It is better to clarify them before January 20 and leave our country.” Or […]

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    Lawyers ask the Supreme Court to intervene just hours before the scheduled execution of a Missouri inmate
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    Lawyers ask the Supreme Court to intervene just hours before the scheduled execution of a Missouri inmate

    JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri – Lawyers for a Missouri man scheduled to be executed Tuesday night have filed a new appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming racial bias and constitutional errors occurred during his trial. Marcellus Williams, 55, long maintained his innocence in the 1998 death of Lisha Gayle, a social worker and former newspaper […]

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    2 people fired from Pennsylvania College swim team after student allegedly carved racial slur into another student's body
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    2 people fired from Pennsylvania College swim team after student allegedly carved racial slur into another student's body

    At least two students at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania have been suspended from the swim team after it was revealed that a racial slur had been carved on a student's body, officials said. The school administration had “received an extremely disturbing report that a student had been carved with a plastic or ceramic tool with […]

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    ‘Self-proclaimed racist skinhead’ sentenced for death threats against Maine family
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    ‘Self-proclaimed racist skinhead’ sentenced for death threats against Maine family

    A Maine man who admitted to sending racist death threats to a black family living in his Lewiston apartment complex will spend 30 months behind bars. The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Charles Allen Barnes, 46, of Lewiston, was sentenced Wednesday. He pleaded guilty in March to sending threatening messages in interstate commerce. According […]

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