S.C. Sheriff’s Deputy Is Fired After Review Of High School Student’s Arrest : The Two-Way : NPR

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announces the firing of Ben Fields, a senior deputy who forcibly removed a female student who refused to leave her high school math class at Spring Valley High School on Monday.   Alex Sanz/AP hide caption itoggle caption Alex Sanz/AP   Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announces the firing of…

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BREAKING: African American Church In South Carolina, Previously Burned Down By The KKK, Is On Fire | ThinkProgress

Mount Zion A.M.E. Church in Greelyville, South Carolina, was ablaze on Tuesday evening. Photos were posted by local firefighters and journalists on social media: The prominent African American church was burned down by the KKK in 1995. The cause of this latest fire is unknown. There have been a string of fires at African American churches throughout…

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Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield’s tweetstorm vs. Wall Street Journal – Business Insider

kk / FlickrSlack CEO Stewart Butterfield. Stewart Butterfield, cofounder of Flickr and CEO of the office-communication software Slack, lashed out against a Wall Street Journal editorial in a tweetstorm Sunday night. The Journal editorial in question addressed the recent killings of nine people at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, saying the event was…

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Mapping the Confederate Streets of South Carolina

.entry-header After watching Jon Stewart’s on-point and poignant words regarding the tragic shooting at the AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, (watch it here before you continue reading!) I was curious about his statement that “the roads [in South Carolina] are named for Confederate generals.” I wanted to see the prevalence of  Confederate Generals’ names…

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Dylann Roof’s Terrifying Manifesto Has Been Discovered — Here Are the Shocking Excerpts

The manifesto of mass murderer Dylann Storm Roof, the 21-year-old South Carolina man who attacked Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church last week and killed nine African-American congregants, has been discovered online by Twitter users Emma Quangel and Henry Krinkle. The manifesto, found on a website titled “Last Rhodesian,” contained both a rambling text file describing Roof’s ideology…

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Dylann Roof Is a Racist and a Terrorist. That’s All You Need to Know About Him | Dame Magazine

Dylann Storm Roof is a domestic terrorist. He is a 21-year-old White supremacist. He has made it as clear as possible that he hates Black people. He went into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of our nation’s oldest Black churches, in Charleston, South Carolina, armed with a loaded gun and said to the congregants:…

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