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Ex-Officer Who Killed 15-Year-Old Jordan Edwards Found Guilty of Murder
After two days of deliberations, jurors found Roy Oliver, the ex-Balch Springs, Texas cop who shot and killed Jordan Edwards, an unarmed 15-year-old boy, guilty of murder on Tuesday afternoon. The 38-year old Oliver was on trial for murder and two counts of aggravated assault by a public servant, reports DallasNews.com. He was found not…
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Betty Shelby, the Oklahoma Cop Who Killed Terence Crutcher, to Teach Class on 'Surviving the Aftermath' of Police Shootings
This Is How White Privilege Works 101: Betty Shelby, the white Tulsa, Okla., police officer who shot an unarmed Terence Crutcher as he stood by his SUV in 2016, will be teaching a class about “surviving the aftermath” of an officer-involved shooting. As Tulsa World reports, Shelby, who was acquitted of first-degree manslaughter in 2017,…
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At This Baltimore Summer Camp, All the Counselors Are Cops—But They Don't Tell Kids That Until the End
The “Love You to Live” camp, on its face, seems like many other summer overnight camps. Designed to help Baltimore students who are in difficult circumstances or have already been through the juvenile justice system, the focus of the camp is to help students develop, connect to peers and role models who can support them,…
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Mourners Can Pay Their R.E.S.P.E.C.T. to Aretha Franklin Today in Detroit
Tuesday morning marks the first day the public can pay tribute to legendary singer Aretha Franklin in Detroit, Michigan. Starting today at 9 a.m. and running through Wednesday at 9 p.m., Franklin’s body will lie in honor at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History in a gold casket. As the Detroit Free press…
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Bobby Brown Shares His Thoughts on Kanye Using Photo of Whitney's Bathroom: ‘Long as He Stays Clear From Me, He’ll Be Safe’
In a new interview with BuzzFeed News, Bobby Brown got real clear about how he felt about Kanye West using a photo of ex-wife Whitney Houston’s drug-strewn bathroom for an album cover. “Ignorant people are ignorant people, and they’re going to be that way until they find themselves,” Brown told Audie Cornish, who hosts the…
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Black Patients on Pain Medication Are More Likely to Be Tested for Illicit Drugs, New Study Finds
That racism and implicit bias have affected and infected the American medical community—and the way patients are treated—is not news. But thanks to a slew of recent studies, we know in greater detail how and where those impacts can be felt. A new study led by Yale researchers adds to this growing body of evidence;…
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Spike Lee Responds to Boots Riley's Critique of BlacKkKlansman: 'We Need Police'
More than a week after director and musician Boots Riley delivered a pointed and detailed critique of BlacKkKlansman and its portrayal of police officers, filmmaker Spike Lee has a response. Riley shared the three-page criticism on Twitter (warning: it does contain spoilers) on Aug. 17, citing Lee as a “huge influence” on his own filmmaking…
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Brother of Kalief Browder Endorses Cynthia Nixon for New York Governor
A little more than two weeks before the New York Democratic gubernatorial primary, candidate Cynthia Nixon has released a new video endorsement from Akeem Browder, the brother of Kalief Browder, a New York City teen who took his own life after being locked in jail for years without going to trial. While Browder first declared…
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If Beale Street Could Talk Gets a Harlem Homecoming for Its Premiere
Though James Baldwin left Harlem when he was in his teens, the historic black neighborhood was never far from his mind. Harlem showed up throughout Baldwin’s work, from his influential personal essays to his fiction. Now, as Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins gets ready to take his adaptation of Baldwin’s novel, If Beale Street Could Talk,…
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