Activism

After police killings, Georgia teens create cop accountability app

Three teenagers from Decatur, Georgia have created an app designed to foster a culture of accountability and accessibility for citizens dealing with local law enforcement and to reduce instances of police brutality.

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Mall cop ignores racist harassing Seattle protesters and pepper sprays black bystander instead

An African-American Seattle man who happened to be walking by a pro-Palestinian protest said that he is still confused as to why a security guard would have pepper sprayed him instead of a white man who was harassing demonstrators and yelling racial slurs.

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Activists swarm SB1070 'racial' citizenship check in Tucson, crawl under Border Patrol SUV

A group of activists swarmed a traffic stop in Tucson on Sunday, and attempted to prevent the Border Patrol from taking away an undocumented immigrant who was pulled over for allegedly making an improper right turn.

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Ohio strippers take topless protest to church that harassed them as 'whores, tramps' for nine years

A group of topless dancers in Ohio on Sunday turned the tables on a fundamentalist church that has picketed their club for almost nine years.

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Winning Arab-American candidate unloads on GOP loser: 'I ran to stop people like you'

Tea Party-backed Republican Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) won his primary on Tuesday, and took the opportunity to say what he really thought about his Republican challenger's "smear campaign."

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Oops: MSNBC reports that Obama backs Africa summit because he's 'from Kenya'

NBC White House Correspondent Chris Jansing incorrectly reported Tuesday that President Barack Obama wanted to have a successful U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit because he was "from Kenya."

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Religious scholar Reza Aslan destroys ‘charlatan’ Joel Osteen: Jesus hated wealth

Religious scholar Reza Aslan blasted proponents of the so-called "prosperity gospel" last month, claiming the materialistic Christian movement ran directly counter to the teachings of Jesus.

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Protesters plan 'gay stoning' at Beverly Hills Hotel to shame owner for homophobic laws

Protesters on Thursday hope to show customers at the Beverly Hills Hotel that they are supporting the establishment's homophobic owner by broadcasting video of a person being stoned to death in front of the building.

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WATCH: GOP candidate sings 'Dixie' as his 'national anthem' at Alabama secessionist event

Video has surfaced of a Maryland Republican nominee for Anne Arundel County Council singing "Dixie" as the national anthem at a secession conference in Alabama.

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Ted Nugent lashes out at 'unclean vermin' after Idaho Native American tribe cancels his concert

Conservative rocker Ted Nugent on Tuesday responded to the news that an Idaho Native American tribe had canceled one of his upcoming concerts by lashing out at the "unclean vermin" who made it happen.

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Warden's offer of Christian rehab suggests Black Panther's 35 years in solitary was political

The warden of America's largest prison said that he was considering letting a Louisiana inmate out of solitary confinement for the first time in decades so that he could participate in religion-based rehabilitation programs.

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NY grandma jailed for violating protection order used to 'quell dissent' outside drone base

A New York grandmother was sentenced to a year in jail for violating a protection order filed by an Air National Guard commander against anti-war protesters.

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Tucker Carlson on model who killed gazelle: 'Where do people think food comes from?'

Tucker Carlson and the other host of Fox & Friends asserted over the weekend that L'Oreal should hire a model who bragged about killing a gazelle because it was "totally appealing."

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