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The task of historians in our time is to unbury the buried. For journalists, it is to see that the truth of events is never interred—or at least that enough of it is available for later historians to dig up the whole. The age is impoverished in both respects. Christian Appy, an accomplished historian of…
The New York Times “First Draft” and Politico Playbook picked up the “Meerkat Election” idea today, so get ready for the hype cycle to wash through the commentariat. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush “meerkatted” yesterday — which is to say, used an app integrated with Twitter on his smartphone to livestream an event online. If…
According to a new Wall Street Journal /NBC News Poll, the voters who will pick the next Republican presidential nominee will likely be overwhelmingly white. In the poll, 95 percent of the respondents who said they were GOP primary voters were white. Remarkably, this is even less racially diverse than the American population as a whole…
Source: en.wikipedia.org Added March 18, 2015 at 7:35 a.m. OUR SOURCES US sets new record for denying, censoring government files US sets new record for denying federal files under Freedom of Information Act Close We actually do have a lot to brag about. – Josh Earnest White House spokesman According to the AP, the government…
Story highlights Martese Johnson: “We are one community. We deserve to respect each other” He was injured during an arrest, and a photo of his bloodied face was distributed Virginia’s governor has ordered an investigation of the incident The university’s Black Student Alliance distributed a photograph, showing what it said was Martese Johnson, 20, during…
Johnson sustained head injury during arrest, governor calls for investigation into excessive use of force in arrest by Chloe Heskett | Mar 18 2015 | 23 hours ago This is a developing story, and will continue to be updated with the latest information available. Martese Johnson, a third-year student in the College and a member…
Another day, another SMH-worthy police brutality incident. A black student from the University of Virginia was brutally beaten by police after the student allegedly attempted to enter a bar with a fake I.D., according to ABC reports. After 20-year-old Martese Johnson was denied entry in a bar on St.Patrick’s Day after allegedly attempting to enter…
story functions js ISIS today claimed responsibility for the Wednesday massacre at the Bardo Museum in Tunisia that killed 22 people, many of them Western tourists, and the two attackers. In a 3 minute, 10 second audio message disseminated on twitter accounts associated with ISIS, the terror group said that the two dead gunmen, who…
UVA Problems / TwitterA black University of Virginia student was grabbed by cops outside a bar in Charlottesville late Wednesday night and thrown to the ground. He hit his head, suffering an injury that required 10 stitches, according to The Huffington Post. Cell phone pictures and videos of the incident show the student, Martese Johnson, pinned…
Last night 300 students at the University of Virginia rallied to protest the violent arrest of Martese Johnson, a fellow student who was reportedly bloodied by officers Tuesday night for trying to enter a local pub with an alleged fake ID. As students marched around campus and into town, chants of “black lives matter” filled…