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  • Fox News Affiliate Airs Photo of President Obama as Rape Suspect

    A Fox News affiliate reportedly aired a photo of President Barack Obama as a rape suspect during a news segment Friday. According to the Times of San Diego, which initially caught the flub that aired on California news station KSWB around 10 p.m., a photo of President Obama was shown with the words “No Charges”…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    February 16, 2015
  • Miss. Judge Who Reportedly Hit Mentally Disabled Man and Yelled ‘Run, N–ger, Run’ Indicted After 9 Months   

    Nine months ago a now-former Mississippi judge is alleged to have smacked a mentally disabled man before yelling, “Run, n—ger, run.” In response to that incident, a grand jury has “served an indictment for simple assault on a vulnerable adult,” the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports. There was no word on why the process to indict former…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    February 16, 2015
  • The Day Len Bias Died Changed My Life

    Editor’s note: During Black History Month, the focus is usually on historical figures who loomed larger than life, paving the way for the progress we experience today. But black history isn’t just about telling stories of our past. History is being made every day and has been made throughout our lives; it’s not just in…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    February 16, 2015
  • NC Mother of 4, Who Had to Quit Working to Care for Children, Hits Powerball

    “Everything is all for them,” Marie Holmes, a 26-year-old Shallotte, N.C., mother of four, told WPXI, regarding her becoming an instant millionaire as one of three winners with all the numbers in Wednesday’s $564 million Powerball drawing. “All the struggle that I ever went through, it was all for them,” said Holmes, whose winnings, before taxes,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    February 13, 2015
  • Police Shoot Unarmed Los Angeles Teen Standing Next to Friend Holding Toy Gun

    On Tuesday 15-year-old Jamar Nicholson, of Los Angeles, was standing in an alley with a group of friends, one of whom was holding a toy gun. A plainclothes police officer, who believed that the gun was real, opened fire on the young men, hitting Jamar, who was unarmed, in the back. “What the officer thought…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    February 13, 2015
  • Workers Awarded $15,000,000 After Bosses Called Them ‘N–gers’ and Separated Them by Race

    Seven Denver warehouse workers were awarded some $15 million after a federal judge found that bosses separated the blacks from other workers because of their race and called them n—gers and “lazy, stupid Africans.” The judge also found that managers at Matheson Trucking and Matheson Flight Extenders Inc. discriminated against the workers “in all phases…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    February 13, 2015
  • Former NBA Player Anthony Mason Suffers Massive Heart Attack: Report

    Former NBA player Anthony Mason, who had stints with the New York Knicks, Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat, is in critical condition after suffering a massive heart attack, according to sources close to Mason who spoke with the New York Post. The newspaper reports that Mason, 48, who played for the Knicks for five seasons…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    February 12, 2015
  • Watch: 2 Women Brawl After Wal-Mart Customer Head-Butts Worker 

    Jessica Albitz didn’t like the way Alice Keener, who works at the Jackson Hewitt stall inside a La Porte, Texas, Wal-Mart, had spoken to her and her husband, who had come to get their taxes prepared. So Albitz returned to the store, and it didn’t take long for things to go south. According to Click…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    February 12, 2015
  • Phoenix Man Accused of Following Woman Home and Raping Her

    Tilfert Vaughn, 54, of Phoenix, has been charged with following a woman he had seen at a bar home and raping her at knifepoint while a male friend lay next to her “frozen in fear.” According to court documents seen by AZ Central, on Nov. 5, the 27-year-old woman awoke to find a bathroom light…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    February 12, 2015
  • Jackie Robinson West Team Stripped of Little League Title

    The Jackie Robinson West Little League baseball team, the first all-African-American team to win the U.S. championship, have been stripped of their title after they violated a rule that does not allow teams to use players who don’t live in the area the team represents, ESPN.com notes. According to the sports site, the Chicago-based team must also…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    February 11, 2015
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