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Erika Escalante, 20, is apologizing after tweeting the above image and caption. Fox 10 Screenshot /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Black Twitter has claimed another victim: A 20-year-old intern has been fired for posting a photo of herself and a friend in a cotton field with the caption, “Our inner [n–ger] came out today.” Shortly after the…
Former secretary of education and new president of the University of North Carolina System Margaret Spellings, photographed in 2011.Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images When Republicans gained supermajorities in both houses of the North Carolina legislature in 2012, they stacked the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors with extremely partisan, conservative appointees. Those…
UCLA Civil Rights Project The reliance on student suspensions to maintain discipline in public schools varies dramatically across the 50 states, according to a new statistical analysis by UCLA researchers. Their report identified the individual districts with the highest suspension rates, while finding American children are losing almost 18 million days of instruction due to…
BuzzFeed plans to withdraw its participation from the South by Southwest Interactive festival after organizers decided to cancel two gaming and online harassment panels after receiving “numerous threats of on-site violence.” In a letter to the organizers of the Austin-based media festival sent Tuesday, President of BuzzFeed Motion Pictures Ze Frank, BuzzFeed Publisher Dao Nguyen,…
A Louisville police officer is facing assault and misconduct charges after his alleged use of force at a middle school. Screenshot from school surveillance footage Over the past year, video footage from around the country of law enforcement officers killing citizens, many of them black, has brought scrutiny on policing in the streets. Yet,…
You got it wrong right from the first three words, South by Southwest. On Monday, the 18 year-old annual Austin music, film and interactive media conference and festival issued a statement regarding why it decided to cancel two planned panels for its 2016 event. Director Hugh Forrest called the announcement “Strong community management.” Yeah, let…
Shortly after midnight on September 14, 2000, James Ghent slipped out of his Miami home, climbed into his car with a suit, a toothbrush, and a change of underwear, and drove nearly 500 miles to Tallahassee to ask Jeb Bush for his rights back. The journey, he hoped, would help him close the door…
Aziz Ansari doesn’t necessarily want to call his new Netflix series Master of None autobiographical, but the actor did pull elements from his real life into making the show, which focuses on an Indian-American actor named Dev. At the first-ever EW Fest on Saturday in New York, Ansari spoke at length about one particular episode…
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Rufus Scales, 26 and black, was driving his younger brother Devin to his hair-cutting class in this genteel, leafy city when they heard the siren’s whoop and saw the blue light in the rearview mirror of their black pickup. Two police officers pulled them over for minor infractions that included expired plates…
I. Two girls fall in love. One will be slightly prettier or more feminine than the other or she’ll be cooler in an untouchable way. She will inspire a certain type of awe in the first girl. For the first girl, this love — the first tentative kiss they both gave into right away, followed…