It was hung in the kitchen of the Phi Kappa Tau chapter house on April 27.
Metro is investigating the incident.
Richard Spencer, described as “a suit-and-tie version of the white supremacists of old, a kind of professional racist in khakis,” was talking about his Pepe the Frog pin when he got sucker-punched.
The National Congress of American Indians agrees with Mayor Vince Gray: the ‘Skins have to change their team name if they ever want to return to D.C.
Add Mayor Vince Gray to the list of people that think that “Washington Redskins” is a horribly racist team name and should be dropped.
When posters appeared on the GW campus early last month bearing the message, “Hate Muslims? So Do We!”, some people laughed, others got offended, and the university got a ton of media coverage unrelated to its exorbitant tuition. Today the GW Hatchet reports that the students responsible for the posters have each received a $25 fine and probation. As you all may recall, the posters were part of a campaign to mock Islamo-Facism Awareness Week,…
Written by DCist Contributor Josh Kramer The Hatchet — George Washington University >>David Horowitz, organizer of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, spoke Thursday night at GWU. Horowitz criticized the university and for its reaction to the students who hung ironically critical posters on campus, but spent most of the talk explaining the history of the Ottoman empire and what he believes is the rise of “Islamo-fascism.” Horowitz also tried to claim that he is not a racist….
Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come back and manage the Bronx Bombers. At least the city’s attempt to give some direction to subway riders was interesting, pranksters went shirtless at the Fifth Avenue Abercrombie & Fitch and the I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendars came out. And just…
If you work on the Hill you might still have time to run over to the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rm. 342 for the hearing Equal Representation in Congress: Providing Voting Rights to the District of Columbia before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The hearing, scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., will include testimony split into two panels, the first with Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), Mayor…
With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing– what’s going on in the World of the -ist’s? Bostonist dug deep to uncover Barack Obama’s unpaid parking tickets, their Governor’s latest ethical lapse, and a plagarizing sports writer. Chicagoist had everything in twos: two views on having the Olympics, losing two members of their Super Bowl team, and two music festivals. DCist put their noses in legal books as they…
