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101 relations: African Americans, Allan B. Polunsky Unit, Aryan race, Asphalt, Associated Press, Autopsy, Barack Obama, Beaumont, Texas, Capital punishment, Capital punishment in Texas, CBS News, Chantal Akerman, Christian Marclay, Confrontation Camp, Culvert, Da Good da Bad & da Ugly, Death metal, Death row, Decapitation, Dennis Rodman, Disability, District attorney, Don King (boxing promoter), Doo Wop (That Thing), Doug Tracht, Dragging death, Drive-By Truckers, E.S.G. (rapper), Falls Church, Virginia, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal government of the United States, Forgery, Gender, Gender identity, Genocide, George Beto Unit, George W. Bush, Geto Boys, Governor of Texas, Hate crime, Houston, HuffPost, Huntsville Unit, Jasper, Texas, Jasper, Texas (film), Jesse Jackson, John Whitmire, KHOU, King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Ku Klux Klan, ..., Larry Elder, Last meal, Lauryn Hill, Lethal injection, Life imprisonment, Lori McKenna, Lost and Found (Will Smith album), Lynching, Lynching in the United States, Matthew Mayfield, Matthew Shepard, Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, Murder, Murder of Ken Tillery, Mutilation, NAACP, Nazi salute, Nazism, Nickname, Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (Confrontation Camp album), PBS, Pickup truck, Pieces of Me (Lori McKenna album), POV (TV series), Prison gang, Prison rape, Racism, Ramsey Unit, Rapping, Rick Perry, Ryan Bingham, Sexual orientation, Shinin' n' Grindin', Showtime (TV network), Southern Rock Opera, Tattoo, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, The Architects of Guilt, The Famine, The New York Times, The Texas Observer, The Turner Diaries, The Washington Post, Theft, University of Alabama, University of Texas at Austin, Virginia, White supremacy, WIAD, Will Smith, William Faulkner. Expand index (51 more) »
African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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Allan B. Polunsky Unit
Allan B. Polunsky Unit (TL, formerly the Terrell Unit) is a prison in West Livingston, unincorporated Polk County, Texas, United States, located approximately southwest of Livingston along Farm to Market Road 350.
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Aryan race
The Aryan race was a racial grouping used in the period of the late 19th century and mid-20th century to describe people of European and Western Asian heritage.
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Asphalt
Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Autopsy
An autopsy (post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum) is a highly specialized surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause and manner of death or to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present for research or educational purposes.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.
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Beaumont, Texas
Beaumont is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Texas in the United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.
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Capital punishment in Texas
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Texas.
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CBS News
CBS News is the news division of American television and radio service CBS.
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Chantal Akerman
Chantal Anne Akerman (6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, artist and professor of film at the City College of New York.
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Christian Marclay
Christian Ernest Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer.
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Confrontation Camp
Confrontation Camp is an American rap rock group consisting of Kyle Jason and Public Enemy members Chuck D (under the name Mistachuck), Professor Griff and DJ Lord.
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Culvert
A culvert is a structure that allows water to flow under a road, railroad, trail, or similar obstruction from one side to the other side.
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Da Good da Bad & da Ugly
Da Good Da Bad & Da Ugly is the sixth studio album by the Houston hip hop group the Geto Boys, released in late 1998 on Rap-A-Lot/Virgin Records.
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Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.
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Death row
Death row is a special section of a prison that houses inmates who are awaiting execution after being sentenced to death for the conviction of capital crimes.
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Decapitation
Decapitation is the complete separation of the head from the body.
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Dennis Rodman
Dennis Keith Rodman (born May 13, 1961) is an American retired professional basketball player who played for the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, and Dallas Mavericks in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Disability
A disability is an impairment that may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or some combination of these.
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District attorney
In the United States, a district attorney (DA) is the chief prosecutor for a local government area, typically a county.
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Don King (boxing promoter)
Donald King (born August 20, 1931) is an American boxing promoter known for his involvement in historic boxing matchups.
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Doo Wop (That Thing)
"Doo Wop (That Thing)" is the debut solo single from American recording artist Lauryn Hill.
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Doug Tracht
Doug "The Greaseman" Tracht (born August 1, 1950) is an American radio, television, and movie personality.
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Dragging death
A dragging death is a death caused by someone being dragged behind or underneath a moving vehicle, whether accidental or as a deliberate act of murder.
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Drive-By Truckers
The Drive-By Truckers are an alternative country/Southern rock band based in Athens, Georgia, though two of five current members (Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley) are originally from The Shoals region of northern Alabama, and the band strongly identifies with Alabama.
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E.S.G. (rapper)
Cedric Dormaine Hill better known by his stage name E.S.G. (which stands for Everyday Street Gangsta or Everyday Serving God) is a southern hip hop recording artist from Houston, Texas.
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Falls Church, Virginia
Falls Church is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.
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Forgery
Forgery is the process of making, adapting, or imitating objects, statistics, or documents with the intent to deceive for the sake of altering the public perception, or to earn profit by selling the forged item.
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Gender
Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity.
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Gender identity
Gender identity is one's personal experience of one's own gender.
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Genocide
Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in whole or in part.
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George Beto Unit
The George Beto Unit (B) is a men's maximum security prison of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice located in unincorporated Anderson County, Texas.
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George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
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Geto Boys
Geto Boys (originally spelled Ghetto Boys) is an American rap group from Fifth Ward, Houston, Texas, consisting of Scarface, Bushwick Bill and Willie D. The Geto Boys have earned notoriety for their lyrics covering controversial topics such as misogyny, gore, psychotic experiences, and necrophilia.
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Governor of Texas
The Governor of Texas is the head of the executive branch of Texas's government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.
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Hate crime
A hate crime (also known as a bias-motivated crime or bias crime) is a prejudice-motivated crime which occurs when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her membership (or perceived membership) in a certain social group or race.
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Houston
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.
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HuffPost
HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.
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Huntsville Unit
Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or Huntsville Unit (HV), nicknamed "Walls Unit", is a Texas state prison located in Huntsville, Texas, United States.
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Jasper, Texas
Jasper is a city and the county seat of Jasper County, Texas, in the United States.
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Jasper, Texas (film)
Jasper, Texas is a 2003 American television film directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd.
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Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. (né Burns; born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician.
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John Whitmire
John Harris Whitmire (born August 13, 1949) is an American attorney and politician who is the longest-serving of current members of the Texas State Senate representing District 15, which includes much of northern Houston, since 1983.
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KHOU
KHOU, virtual and VHF digital channel 11, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Houston, Texas, United States.
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King Center for Nonviolent Social Change
The Martin Luther King Jr.
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Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States.
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Larry Elder
Laurence Allen "Larry" Elder (born April 27, 1952) is an American radio commentator.
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Last meal
A condemned prisoner's last meal is a customary ritual preceding execution.
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Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Noelle Hill (born May 26, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actress.
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Lethal injection
Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing immediate death.
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Life imprisonment
Life imprisonment (also known as imprisonment for life, life in prison, a life sentence, a life term, lifelong incarceration, life incarceration or simply life) is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted persons are to remain in prison either for the rest of their natural life or until paroled.
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Lori McKenna
Lori McKenna (née Giroux; born December 22, 1968) is an American folk singer-songwriter.
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Lost and Found (Will Smith album)
Lost and Found is the fourth studio album by American rapper Will Smith.
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Lynching
Lynching is a premeditated extrajudicial killing by a group.
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Lynching in the United States
Lynching is the practice of murder by a group by extrajudicial action.
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Matthew Mayfield
Matthew Mayfield is an American singer and songwriter from Birmingham, Alabama.
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Matthew Shepard
Matthew Wayne "Matt" Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on the night of October 6, 1998.
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Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.
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Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.
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Murder of Ken Tillery
Ken Tillery of Jasper, Texas, was murdered on January 19, 2002.
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Mutilation
Mutilation or maiming (from the Latin: mutilus) is cutting off or injury to a body part of a person so that the part of the body is permanently damaged, detached or disfigured.
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NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.
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Nazi salute
The Nazi salute, or Hitler salute (Hitler Greeting), is a gesture that was used as a greeting in Nazi Germany.
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Nazism
National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.
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Nickname
A nickname is a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place, or thing, for affection or ridicule.
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Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (Confrontation Camp album)
Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear is the debut album of Confrontation Camp, a rap rock group fronted by Kyle Jason and Public Enemy members Chuck D and Professor Griff.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.
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Pickup truck
A pickup truck is a light-duty truck having an enclosed cab and an open cargo area with low sides and tailgate.
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Pieces of Me (Lori McKenna album)
Pieces of Me is the second album by singer-songwriter Lori McKenna.
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POV (TV series)
POV (also written P.O.V.) is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television series which features independent nonfiction films.
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Prison gang
A prison gang is an inmate organization that operates within a prison system.
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Prison rape
Prison rape or jail rape is rape occurring in prison.
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Racism
Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.
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Ramsey Unit
The W. F. Ramsey Unit (previously Ramsey I Unit) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison farm located in unincorporated Brazoria County, Texas, with a Rosharon postal address; it is not inside the Rosharon census-designated place.
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Rapping
Rapping (or rhyming, spitting, emceeing, MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backbeat or musical accompaniment.
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Rick Perry
James Richard Perry (born March 4, 1950) is an American politician who is the 14th and current United States Secretary of Energy, serving in the Cabinet of Donald Trump.
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Ryan Bingham
George Ryan Bingham (born March 31, 1981) is an Americana singer-songwriter currently based in Los Angeles, California.
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Sexual orientation
Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender.
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Shinin' n' Grindin'
Shinin' N' Grindin is the fourth studio album by American rapper E.S.G. from Houston, Texas.
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Showtime (TV network)
Showtime is an American premium cable and satellite television network that serves as the flagship service of the Showtime Networks subsidiary of CBS Corporation, which also owns sister services The Movie Channel and Flix.
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Southern Rock Opera
Southern Rock Opera is the third studio album by the alt country band Drive-By Truckers, released in 2001.
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Tattoo
A tattoo is a form of body modification where a design is made by inserting ink, dyes and pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment.
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Texas Department of Criminal Justice
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a department of the government of the U.S. state of Texas.
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The Architects of Guilt
The Architects of Guilt is the second full-length album by the death metal band The Famine released the February 15, 2011 via Solid State Records.
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The Famine
The Famine was an American extreme metal band, formed in Arlington, Texas in 2007.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Texas Observer
The Texas Observer (also known as the Observer) is an American magazine.
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The Turner Diaries
The Turner Diaries is a 1978 novel by William Luther Pierce, published under the pseudonym "Andrew Macdonald".
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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Theft
In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.
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University of Alabama
The University of Alabama (Alabama or UA) is a public research university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, and the flagship of the University of Alabama System.
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University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.
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Virginia
Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
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White supremacy
White supremacy or white supremacism is a racist ideology based upon the belief that white people are superior in many ways to people of other races and that therefore white people should be dominant over other races.
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WIAD
WIAD (94.7 FM) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Bethesda, Maryland.
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Will Smith
Willard Carroll Smith Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, producer, rapper, comedian, and songwriter.
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William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi.
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References
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