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Jordan Russell Davis' Shooter Pleads 'Not Guilty'
Michael David Dunn has pleaded “not guilty” to murder in the shooting death of Jordan Russell Davis, a 17-year-old African-American high school student, during an incident at a Florida gas station last year. The shooting is gaining nationwide attention because of its similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting. NBC News reports: A Florida gun collector has pleaded…
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Obama and Holder: Feds Will Fight to Protect Voting Rights
During a meeting on Monday with civil rights leaders, President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder said that the Justice Department has an open-door policy regarding reports of voting-rights violations. The meeting was an apparent attempt to assuage any concerns that civil rights groups might have had after last month’s Supreme Court voting-rights ruling in Shelby…
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Pro-Trayvon Group to Convene the 'People's Session'
The Dream Defenders, a group of young activists and professionals in Florida, will convene a “People’s Session” in front of Gov. Rick Scott’s office on Tuesday, July 30, in support of “Trayvon’s Law” — proposed legislation that confronts a trifecta of issues that are believed to have led to the death of Trayvon Martin and…
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Child Experts: What to Say About Verdict
(The Root) — Moments after the jury acquitted George Zimmerman, a friend of a colleague described how his 10-year-old African-American son looked at him and said, “Daddy, I’m scared.” These three words gave him chills, he said, and illustrate a collective fear among young black boys about the value of their lives. It also brings into…
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Poll: Boycott Florida Businesses and Products?
If it grows in Florida, was made in Florida or makes money in Florida, then it is eligible to be included in a list of products and businesses that some Trayvon Martin supporters will boycott as a way to protest the not-guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman second-degree-murder trial. More specifically, creators of the “Boycott…
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Good Economy? Thank Fast-Food Workers
Fast-food workers feel overworked and underpaid, according to a piece at the New York Times, but the news is that several of these low-wage workers in the New York metropolitan area are not afraid to speak up about their experiences in an effort to push for change. Last week a City Council fact-finding panel listened…
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Obama: Africa Needs Energy
It’s a resource that can easily be taken for granted because of its ubiquity, but the minute the lights go out, the necessity of electricity becomes instantly apparent to all. It’s a realization that Africans know all too well, according to a report in the New York Times, which sheds light on a few local…
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Keri Hilson: 'YOLO, So Know Your Status'
(The Root) — Keri Hilson gets tested for HIV/AIDS every six months, and she’s lending her name to a product that will allow you to do the same. “I make healthy decisions when it comes to my sex life, and I make really good decisions to lower my risk of HIV,” Hilson told The Root during a…
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First-Generation Blacks: My Parents Are African, So Some Parts of Coming to America Was Straight Up Annoying
(The Root) — When Coming to America premiered 25 years ago, on June 29, 1988, it was an instant classic — and the third-highest-grossing film of the year. The Eddie Murphy comedy, about a prince from a fictional African country who comes to the U.S. to find his future queen, tops plenty of fans’ funniest-movie-of-all-time…
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Communism Didn't End Racism in Cuba
Afro-Cuban activists Calvo Cárdenas and Manuel Cuesta Morúa created the Citizens Committee for Racial Integration (CIR) to advocate for Cuba’s underrepresented Afro-Cuban population. CIR champions policies to fight discrimination that Afro-Cubans experience in the workforce. The group’s work gives Cuba’s Communist Party pause because it refutes the idea that 50 years of communism has eliminated…
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