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Black Babies Were Used as Alligator Bait in the American South?

Written by:
David Emery
May 11, 2024 Tales of infants being used as alligator bait were popularized in 19th-century newspapers, on po ...
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Deion Sanders Suspends 2 Players for Kneeling During Anthem, Tells Team 'Stand For The Flag'?

Written by:
Jordan Liles
Oct. 2, 2023 "The anthem, for many, represents this unity. I want my players to understand the gravity of tha ...
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Margaret Sanger Did Not Advocate 'Exterminating the Negro Population'

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Sept. 13, 2023 A sentence the Planned Parenthood founder once wrote has been widely misunderstood and misrepres ...
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Is This a Real Pic of Elon Musk and His Mom Seated With a Black Domestic Worker?

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Aug. 4, 2023 And was the worker not allowed to ask questions or sit on the furniture?
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Did Clarence Thomas Say 'God Only Knows Where I Would Be' Without Affirmative Action?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
July 5, 2023 A quote from a January 1983 speech by the then-chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Comm ...
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A Meme About Mount Rushmore's Racist Past Went Viral. Here's What We Know.

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
July 29, 2020 The meme, which even claimed KKK ties to the beloved monument, took off amid anti-racism protest ...
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Did Publisher Propose Removing Rosa Parks' Race from Florida Textbook?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
March 20, 2023 "She was told to move to a different seat," the lesson said, without an explanation of segregation.
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Does Florida Bill HB 999 Ban Black Greek Life, Courses, Programs from State Universities?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
March 15, 2023 The controversial bill gives power to the educational board of governors to ban funding for dive ...
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Caption: Biden with Grand wizard Of KKK. So who again is playing you, lying to you, using you for the votes, Creators of the KKK, opposed civil right of blacks. Yup thats the Democratic party

Does This Photo Show Joe Biden with the 'Grand Wizard of the KKK'?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
June 28, 2019 In the aftermath of the first round of Democratic primary debates, social media users shared a l ...
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Is San Francisco Considering Plan To Give $5M to Each Eligible Black Person for Reparations?

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Jan. 17, 2023 Racial inequality and injustice have long been a part of the city’s history.
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Is a 'Large-Scale Killing' of White Farmers Underway in South Africa?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Aug. 24, 2018 A tweet by former U.S. President Donald Trump in 2018 invoked the "white genocide" conspiracy th ...
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Flag, Symbol, Audience

Did Joe Biden's Great-Great-Great Grandfather Own a Slave?

Written by:
Dan Evon
Aug. 24, 2020 An 1850 slave schedule shows that Thomas H. Randle owned a 14-year-old slave.
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Text, Paper, Letter

Dallas Justice Now: How an Apparent Hoax (Briefly) Inflamed America's Racial Culture War

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Aug. 5, 2021 Right-wing commentators seized upon a "college pledge" sent to white residents of a wealthy Dall ...
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The claim is that a letter from the LSU president to his counterpart at the University of Texas describes efforts to keep Black students segregated.

Is This 1961 Pro-Segregation Letter from LSU's President Real?

Written by:
David Mikkelson
July 14, 2021 The legacy of former Louisiana State University President Troy Middleton is clouded with accusat ...
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Comparisons to a recent attack on a woman in New York were made to the infamous Kitty Genovese case.

Was an Asian American Woman Attacked on NYC Street but No One Helped Her?

Written by:
Jessica Lee
April 5, 2021 The Internet likened a March 2021 assault near Times Square to the notorious death of Kitty Geno ...
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Is SF Changing the Name of a School Because Lincoln Didn't Show 'Black Lives Matter'?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Dec. 16, 2020 A story that rocketed around the internet for its clickbait value employed misleading framing of ...
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Does This Flyer Accurately Represent Derek Chauvin's Police Actions?

Written by:
Jessica Lee
May 31, 2020 The trial of the former police officer charged in George Floyd's death was scheduled to begin in ...
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Was CBS 'Caught' Passing Off 'Latinos for Trump' as Biden Supporters?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Sept. 17, 2020 Beware of still images taken from television news reports.
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How Accurate Are Memes Comparing Tamir Rice and Kyle Rittenhouse?

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Aug. 31, 2020 Social media compared the 2014 fatal police shooting of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Black boy, wit ...
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Did an Armed Black Militia March Through a Georgia State Park?

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
July 9, 2020 A Confederate monument became the site of another protest on the Fourth of July 2020.
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