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DC Teenager Killed Over $200 Sneakers
The killings over material goods in our community continue. A 19-year-old Washington, D.C., teenager who went out with friends Saturday night in a pair of $200 sneakers his mother had bought him was killed over them near a bus stop in a hail of gunfire. David Lee Robinson, 19, was found dead by police, who…
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Woman Unknowingly Takes Elevator to a Fiery Death
A Chicago woman returning to her North Side apartment Sunday took the elevator to her floor without knowing that a fire was raging. When the elevator door opened, Shantel McCoy, 32, was hit with a “superheated blast” and died. The marketing executive, who had moved to Chicago a year ago, was found in the elevator…
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Snoop Dogg Arrested on Marijuana Charge
Add this to the list of arrests you aren’t surprised to read about. It’s almost less surprising than if news broke of rapper T.I. going to jail again. Rapper Snoop Dogg was arrested yesterday in San Antonio for marijuana possession. Border-patrol agents found a small amount of marijuana on his tour bus. Bill Brooks, a…
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FAMU Scandal: Our Son Was Hazed Because He Was Gay
In a shocking new twist in the FAMU scandal, the parents of a student who was beaten to death in November have revealed that their son was gay. Robert Champion Jr.’s mother said that her son wasn’t defined by his sexual orientation. “He was just defined as being a child going to school, trying to…
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Limbaugh: Media Are Covering Up Obama Secrets
In the midst of the Republican race, we almost forgot about right-wing commentator Rush Limbaugh, but the Republican blowhard always manages to remind us he’s still around. On Monday he said that the media are deliberately covering up the Obama family’s secrets. A new book titled The Obamas by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor…
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Herman Cain on Santorum's 'Black People' Comment
Former Republican presidential contender Herman Cain appeared on The View on Monday to talk about various topics, including Rick Santorum’s controversial “black people” comment last week. Cain, who is on a media blitz promoting his “999 Revolution Solution,” defended Santorum’s mission to end America’s entitlement society, while at the same time criticizing him for “putting…
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Blacks in New Orleans Cry Racism Over Curfew
A new ordinance passed last Thursday in New Orleans places a curfew on the popular, tourist-attracting French Quarter section of the city. The law, which applies to youths 16 and under, creates an 8 p.m. curfew on Fridays and Saturdays, from its long-standing 11 p.m. curfew. It also applies to the nearby Faubourg Marigny neighborhood.…
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Slave Reference in Math Worksheet Upsets Parents
Parents and activists in Atlanta blasted Beaver Ridge Elementary School in Gwinnett County for giving students a math worksheet that used examples of slavery in word problems. The worksheet included questions such as, “Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?” and “If Frederick got…
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Lawsuit Filed to Remove Black Body From Jewish Cemetery
A Connecticut woman has filed a lawsuit demanding the removal of the body of a black woman from a Jewish cemetery. The lawsuit, filed by Maria Balaban, a 72-year-old white member of Congregation Ahavath Achim, alleges that the congregation broke its own rules when a 47-year-old Jamaican-born woman named Juliet Steer was allowed to be…
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