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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?

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Alex Kasprak
Jul 5, 2023 A quote from a January 1983 speech by the then-chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Comm ...
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Did Publisher Propose Removing Rosa Parks’ Race from Florida Textbook?

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Alex Kasprak
Mar 20, 2023 "She was told to move to a different seat," the lesson said, without an explanation of segregation.
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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'?

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Dan MacGuill
Jun 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?

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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?

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

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Dan Evon
Aug 24, 2020 An 1850 slave schedule shows that Thomas H. Randle owned a 14-year-old slave.
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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?

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David Mikkelson
Jul 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
Apr 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'?

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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?

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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?

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Dan MacGuill
Sep 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?

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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?

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Nur Ibrahim
Jul 9, 2020 A Confederate monument became the site of another protest on the Fourth of July 2020.
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Did Baltimore Sun Publish 'The Black Dilemma'?

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Dan Evon
Jun 10, 2015 The controversial essay has actually been circulating on the internet since at least September 2014.
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Did 5 Black Men Found Hanging Dead From Trees Die by Suicide?

Written by:
Dan Evon
Jun 16, 2020 A meme surfaced amid international protests following the death of a Black man in police custody ...
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Does a BLM Flyer Label White People the 'Enemy'?

Written by:
Dan Evon
Jun 15, 2020 A piece of racist propaganda was circulated in an attempt to smear the Black Lives Matter movement.
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No, Black Lives Matter Didn't Threaten To 'Assassinate White Families'

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Bethania Palma
Jun 3, 2020 Screenshots of an inflammatory Facebook post started circulating during the George Floyd protest ...
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Did a Georgia Lawmaker Claim a Chick-fil-A Employee Told Her to Go Back to Her Country?

Written by:
Dan Evon
Jul 24, 2019 Many readers were confused by an article that altered some details of a controversial news story.
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Did the National Association of Police Organizations Call for a Boycott of Nike?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Sep 14, 2018 The police union's president called Colin Kaepernick a "shallow dilettante" who disrespected the ...
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