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New York City cab driver stabbed for being Muslim
The taxi workers alliance said Sharif, 43, a practicing Muslim originally from Bangladesh, was slashed across the neck, face, shoulder and hand in the attack.
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Black USDA worker to forced resign for not fully helping White farmer
Sherrod said Tuesday that it was “unfortunate that the NAACP would make a statement without even checking to see what happened. This was 24 years ago, and I’m telling a story to try to unite people.”
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No apartment vacancies… if you’re African American
In a probe by Attorney General Cuomo’s office, black and white testers visited the apartments and inquired about availability. Black testers were told there were no apartments available when there were some ready to be shown.
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23 year old pleads guilt to torching Black Church
A 23-year-old Springfield man pleaded guilty yesterday to torching a predominantly black church in November 2008, a crime that prosecutors said was motivated by racial hatred over Barack Obama’s election hours earlie
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Black student removed from class because of hair care product
An 8-year-old African-American girl was removed from her classroom had to do with a hair product and her teacher’s physical reaction to it.
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Possible hate crime: Black man shot and dragged by White friend
The South Carolina shooting death of an African American man whose body was then dragged behind a pickup truck for miles is being investigated as a possible hate crime, after a white man was arrested
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Supreme court backs Black Firefighters in Chicago
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that a group of African Americans may sue the city of Chicago on their claim that the city’s discriminatory use of an application test kept them from being hired as firefighters