More than 8,000 stores will participate.
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We Snuck into Seattle’s Super Secret White Nationalist Convention
These guys mostly work in tech.
Posted inSports
Seahawks Lose Football Game On Weekend Where Football’s Importance Exists Outside The Realm Of Game Itself
A truly catastrophic third quarter.
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How Portland Is Driving Away New Residents of Color
The City Wasn’t Giving Me What I Needed—Which Is Why I Left
Portland isn’t taking care of their people of color—so I left.
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A Nazi Will Greet Aliens When They Open the Spaceship Voyager
Maybe aliens will spot the probe, capture it, open it, and hear a white supremacist introduce the whole human race.
Posted inTech
Is Facebook Silencing Black Activists With Racist Bots?
Let’s take a tour through Facebook’s banning process!
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“Burn the Town Down”
The Striking Similarities Between Portland’s 1967 Race Riot and Our City’s Current Relationship with People of Color
The striking similarities between Portland’s 1967 race riot and our city’s current relationship with people of color.
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What We Know About the Lockdown and Unrest at Washington’s Evergreen State College
Editor’s note: This story is from our sister paper the Stranger in Seattle. Evergreen State College Administrators at Evergreen State College closed the Olympia school campus and cancelled classes on Thursday after local law enforcement officials received a call with a “direct threat to campus safety.” The campus will remain closed today, and administrators are […]
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Cleveland Police Officer Who Fatally Shot Tamir Rice Is Fired
A grand jury decided not to indict police officers involved in Rice’s death in 2015. Waves of protests followed the decision. A KATZ / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was holding a toy gun, at a city playground after responding to a 911 call two-and-a-half years ago. During […]
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The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black
I‘m sitting across from Rachel Dolezal, and she looks… white. Not a little white, not racially ambiguous. Dolezal looks really, really white. She looks like a white woman with a mild suntan, in box braids—like perhaps she’d just gotten back from a Caribbean vacation and decided to keep the hairstyle for a few days “for […]
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If You Give A Cop A Pepsi…
Ijeoma Oluo: “Basically a kid gives a mouse a cookie and it leads to all these unforeseen consequences.” Harper and Row Many people are outraged at Pepsi’s new ad (which was pulled as quickly as it was posted). In the midst of a vague, high-fashion protest for “a conversation” and “peace signs” Karma Jenner is […]
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Jeff Sessions Lied Under Oath
You know how every time you say, “They impeached Bill Clinton for a blowjob,” the nearest rightwinger insists that, no, they impeached Bill Clinton for lying under oath. Well, now the GOP has a chance to prove that it was the lying under oath and not the blowjob. VOX: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, under oath […]