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Black Lives Matter slammed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee after a memo leaked late Wednesday seemed to show the group carefully coaching candidates on how to avoid angering the "radical" activists. The November 2015 memo included tips like: Do not offer “support for concrete policy positions;” be sure to "lead from behind;" stick to "small" meetings; and avoid mentioning terms like "black-on-black crime." On its Facebook page, BLM said officials should "stop pacifying" them. “We are disappointed at the DCCC’s placating response to our demand to value all Black life. Black communities deserve to be heard, not handled. People are dying,” the organization said, in respo...

Hillary Clinton is set to launch a full-fledged attack Thursday on a newly evolving group that's embracing the Trump candidacy: the so-called "alt right." Her campaign describes the alt right as "embracing extremism and presenting a divisive and dystopian view of America which should conce all Americans, regardless of party." What is the alt right? In the words of National Review's Washington Editor Eliana Johnson, like so many other creations of the digital age, its, "an amorphous inteet movement." Its members are indistinguishable from other Trump supporters - mostly white, male, blue collar, rural or red state, and enthused about Trump’s immigration reformand his promise to bring ...

An Italian restaurant in New Mexico is under fire after making merchandise with a slogan that mimics the Black Lives Matters Movement. KOAT-TV reported Monday that Paisano’s in Albuquerque is selling “black olives matter” shirts and hats after making national headlines for putting the phrase on a sign outside the restaurant. [embedded content] Paisano’s owner Rick Camuglia said he emblazoned the phrase on the restaurant's main sign to sell a new recipe: a tuna dish with black olive tapenade. Camuglia posted pictures of the dish and the sign on Facebook, drawing complaints he was being insensitive and trivializing a movement aimed at trying to stop police shootings of black residents. Wi...

Is this sign offensive? The owner of an Italian restaurant in New Mexico doesn't think so.(Paisano's Facebook) An Italian restaurant in New Mexico is under fire after making merchandise with a slogan that mimics the Black Lives Matters Movement. KOAT-TV reported Monday that Paisano’s in Albuquerque is selling “black olives matter” shirts and hats after making national headlines for putting the phrase on a sign outside the restaurant. [embedded content] Paisano’s owner Rick Camuglia said he emblazoned the phrase on the restaurant's main sign to sell a new recipe: a tuna dish with black olive tapenade. Camuglia posted pictures of the dish and the sign on Facebook, drawing complaints he was ...

July 26, 2016: Sybrina Fulton, Geneva Reed-Veal, Lucy McBath, Gwen Carr, Cleopatra Pendleton, Maria Hamilton, Lezley McSpadden and Wanda Johnson from Mothers of the Movement speak during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Eight mothers associated with the Black Lives Matter movement, all of whom lost children in violent incidents, addressed the Democratic National Convention in support of Hillary Clinton Tuesday night. The eight women, known as "Mothers of the Movement", were greeted by chants of "Black Lives Matter" as they took the stage at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center. Among their number was Lezley McSpadden, the mo...

July 26, 2016: Sybrina Fulton, Geneva Reed-Veal, Lucy McBath, Gwen Carr, Cleopatra Pendleton, Maria Hamilton, Lezley McSpadden and Wanda Johnson from Mothers of the Movement speak during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Eight mothers associated with the Black Lives Matter movement, all of whom lost children in violent incidents, addressed the Democratic National Convention in support of Hillary Clinton Tuesday night. The eight women, known as "Mothers of the Movement", were greeted by chants of "Black Lives Matter" as they took the stage at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center. Among their number was Lezley McSpadden, the mo...

Califoia's Antelope Valley freeway passes near folded layers of sediment above the San Andreas Fault near Palmdale, Califoia June 22, 2006. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) Large sections of land on either side of the San Andreas fault are moving up or down every year by a few millimeters, a major form of motion that researchers report in a new study that sheds light on the mechanics of the famous fault line. Compared to the more predictable horizontal movement of the fault in between earthquakes, the vertical motion of the land on either side of the fault has been more mysterious, according to the study. The patte the researchers found was hard to detect in the messy data, which came from an arr...

Califoia's Antelope Valley freeway passes near folded layers of sediment above the San Andreas Fault near Palmdale, Califoia June 22, 2006. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) Large sections of land on either side of the San Andreas fault are moving up or down every year by a few millimeters, a major form of motion that researchers report in a new study that sheds light on the mechanics of the famous fault line. Compared to the more predictable horizontal movement of the fault in between earthquakes, the vertical motion of the land on either side of the fault has been more mysterious, according to the study. The patte the researchers found was hard to detect in the messy data, which came from an arr...

Califoia's Antelope Valley freeway passes near folded layers of sediment above the San Andreas Fault near Palmdale, Califoia June 22, 2006. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) Large sections of land on either side of the San Andreas fault are moving up or down every year by a few millimeters, a major form of motion that researchers report in a new study that sheds light on the mechanics of the famous fault line. Compared to the more predictable horizontal movement of the fault in between earthquakes, the vertical motion of the land on either side of the fault has been more mysterious, according to the study. The patte the researchers found was hard to detect in the messy data, which came from an arr...