A Catholic school has apologized after a group of its students harassed an elderly Native American while he was singing. Videos of the widely condemned incident have gone viral on social media.
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‘We Need To Come Together With One Unified Voice’: Photos From 2019 Women’s March Events In NYC
For some who attended the Women’s Unity Rally in Manhattan’s Foley Square Saturday, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s speech was the highlight. “Justice is not a concept we read about in a book,” she said. “Justice is about the water we drink. Justice is about the air we breathe.” [ more › ]
Back at the Women’s March, Despite It All

WASHINGTON, DC — Shortly after 10 a.m. on Saturday, tens of thousands of people had already gathered for the Women’s March at Federal Plaza. As they waited in place for the march to begin, people milled around, checking out the creative signage that has come to define protest in the Trump era. Vendors had set up shop…
Boys in ‘Make America Great Again’ Hats Mob Native Elder at Indigenous Peoples March
Video appeared to show students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky surround the elder, Nathan Phillips, outside the Lincoln Memorial. The high school has condemned the students’ actions.
The MAGA Hat–Wearing Teens Who Taunted A Native American Elder Could Be Expelled
My rage is off the charts…………
This student is a little racist fk with no respect, no home training. Is this what is being taught at Covington Catholic School?
The Diocese of Covington and Covington Catholic High in Kentucky rebuked the students’ actions and said they could potentially be expelled as a result.
A Kentucky Catholic school may take disciplinary action against their students after a group of the MAGA hat–wearing teenage boys taunted a Native American elder at the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington, DC, on Friday.
Several viral videos show the young men, nearly all of whom are white and wearing pro-Trump gear, chanting at and mocking the man on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
One of the teens can be seen standing face-to-face with the elder, smirking and saying nothing, while the man sang and played a drum.
The indigenous protester was identified by Indian Country Today as Nathan Phillips, a member of the Omaha Nation and a Vietnam War veteran. He reportedly hosts a ceremony each year honoring Native American veterans at Arlington National Cemetery and is also the keeper of a sacred pipe.
Kaya Taitano, a 26-year-old student from Guam who told BuzzFeed News she filmed the videos of Phillips. “You can tell he has power in his being,” she said in a phone interview.
In an interview with Taitano following the incident that she uploaded to her Instagram, Phillips said he wished he could see those teens “put that energy into making this country really great, helping those that are hungry.”
“I heard them saying, ‘Build that wall, build that wall,’” said Phillips, who could not be immediately reached for comment. “You know, this is indigenous lands. We’re not supposed to have walls here — we never did for millennia, before anybody else came here.”
Trump proposes wall-for-DACA in bid to end shutdown
People trafficking for his wall – holding country and litteraly thousands of people hostage for his ego! U.S. President Donald Trump proposed an immigration deal on Saturday in a bid to end a 29-day partial government shutdown, after House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other leading Democrats had already said they rejected the plan.
Shutdown Prompts Centrist Freshman Democrats to Flex Their Muscles
While flashy liberal freshmen soak up the attention, more moderate Democrats who won G.O.P. districts in November are searching for compromise to end the shutdown.
Your Sweat Will See You Now
A new device — wearable, wireless and battery free — improves the ability to monitor and diagnose health problems by analyzing the sweat on your skin.
Time to Break the Silence on Palestine
Martin Luther King Jr. courageously spoke out about the Vietnam War. We must do the same when it comes to this grave injustice of our time.
Why it sticks in the craw to see billionaire Trump ‘slumming it’ | Barbara Ellen

For him, junk food signifies being down to earth; to others, it is all that they can afford
It comes to something when the perfect way to demonstrate wealth and status is by “slumming it” with junk food.
First up, President Donald Trump. Finding himself without catering staff (oh, you know, the shutdown unpleasantness) for a visit from the Clemson University football team, Trump piled tables with his beloved takeaway burgers (various brands). Or, as he initially tweeted, “hamberders”, stinking and steaming away in polystyrene cartons, presumably, after so many hours, giving off the kind of whiff you’d associate with an unregulated abattoir in a heatwave.
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