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Report: Off-Duty NYPD Cop Kills Unarmed Man in Road Rage Incident
A road rage incident involving an off-duty New York City police officer and a 37-year-old man turned deadly after the officer opened fire during a heated confrontation, authorities say. According to the New York Daily News, Delrawn Small, his girlfriend, their 4-month-old and her two daughters were driving down a street in the East New…
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Former Tuskegee Airman Roscoe C. Brown Jr. Dies at 94
Roscoe C. Brown Jr., one of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen who flew in World War II, died Saturday at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, N.Y. He was 94. According to NBC 4 New York, Brown, who held a doctorate in education, became critically ill toward the end of 2015. In May he had a pacemaker…
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Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby Is Receiving Death Threats
Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who charged six police officers in connection with Freddie Gray’s death, has had to increase her security detail after she reportedly received hate mail and threats at her office. “Our office has received, and she has personally received, a number of offensive and extremely disturbing, racist, sexist hate mail…
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Judge Prohibits NYC Macy’s Store From Detaining Alleged Shoplifters in Its Basement Jail
Last summer, Samya Moftah walked into Macy’s flagship store at Herald Square in New York City to exchange a few items. The process should have taken less than a half hour. Instead, she says, Moftah found herself locked in a jail cell in the basement of the store. Moftah was accused of stealing the items…
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Youngest Victim in Pulse Nightclub Shooting Pleaded to 911 Dispatcher, 'I Don't Want to Die'
Akyra Murray, 18, had just graduated from West Catholic Preparatory High School in Philadelphia. She was set to play college basketball at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pa. On June 12, she had traveled with her family to Orlando, Fla., and gone out to Pulse nightclub to celebrate the closing of one chapter in her life…
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Oldest US Park Ranger Beaten and Robbed in Her Home; Presidential Coin Stolen
The nation’s oldest full-time park ranger was brutally attacked in her San Francisco Bay Area home after a robber broke in and stole a coin she received from President Barack Obama. According to Fox News, 94-year-old Betty Reid Soskin, who works as an interpretive ranger at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front…
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Pentagon Lifts Ban on Transgender Service Members in the Military
The Pentagon has ended the ban on transgender people in the military, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter announced at a press conference Thursday, the Washington Post reports. According to the Post, the decision to lift the ban comes after a yearlong struggle with senior officials on how exactly the change would be made. The Post…
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Stacey Dash Calls Jesse Williams a ‘Hollywood Plantation Slave’
In what I’m sure will turn into a pretty-people food fight, Stacey “Republican” Dash has come for Jesse Williams. On her blog (which no one has heard of or reads), Stacey “Clueless” Dash decided to attack the next president of black America in response to the moving speech on race and police brutality he gave…
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Poll: Donald Trump Has 1 Percent of Black-Voter Support
Surprise! Donald Trump isn’t faring well with African-American voters. A new Quinnipiac University poll shows that Hillary Clinton is doing extraordinarily well with African-American voters and has a commanding 91 percent-to-1 percent lead over the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But despite Clinton’s enormous lead with African-American voters, the poll also shows that the race to the…
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Watch: Woman Hurls Racist Rant at Reporter: 'Get the F–k Out of Here, You Stupid F–king N–ger'
On Tuesday, reporter Emmy Victor of news station KCCI was reporting on an officer-involved shooting in Boone, Iowa, when a woman began hurling hateful racial epithets at her during her broadcast. In video footage, Victor—who is black—can be seen backing up as a white woman shouts, “Get the [f—k] out of here, you stupid [f—king…
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