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Disturbing Video Shows NYPD Cop Using Taser on Pregnant 17-Year-Old
New York City police are looking into an incident in which an officer deployed a stun gun on a pregnant 17-year-old in the Bronx during a chaotic scene that was caught on camera. WABC reports that officers were called to an apartment building in the Wakefield section of the Bronx on a separate issue when…
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Family of Henrietta Lacks Seeks Compensation for Unauthorized Use of Her Cells
The story of Henrietta Lacks and her “immortal” cells is not quite over. Her eldest son, Lawrence Lacks, has come forth requesting compensation from Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University and possibly other institutions for the unauthorized use of the famous cells that prompted decades of medical advances. The Washington Post reports that Lawrence Lacks, who says…
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Takiya Holmes, 11-Year-Old Shot in Chicago Over the Weekend, Has Died
Takiya Holmes, one of two young girls shot on the South Side of Chicago over the weekend, has died, family has confirmed. The 11-year-old was struck by a stray bullet around 8 p.m. Saturday while sitting in a parked car with family members. Doctors had told relatives that her prognosis was “not good.” “She was…
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4 Suspects Plead Not Guilty in Chicago Facebook Live Torture Case
The four people accused of torturing a white, mentally disabled man in an attack that was streamed to Facebook Live, drawing outrage across the nation, pleaded not guilty at their arraignment before a Cook County, Ill., judge, the Chicago Sun Times reports. Tanishia Covington, 24; Brittany Covington, 18; Jordan Hill, 18; and Tesfaye Cooper, 18,…
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Ga. Mom: Son Expelled After She Questioned ‘American History’ Display During Black History Month
It seems as if #PenceBlackHistory is catching on in the schools. On a serious note, a Georgia mother says that her son was kicked out of school after she questioned an “American history” display that featured white historical figures, along with black history icons, during Black History Month, WSBTV reports. Kendra Molden, of Lithia Springs,…
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Mich. University Under Scrutiny for Anti-Semitic Valentine’s Day Card Handed Out on Campus
It’s almost as if these racists think it’s impossible to be “funny” or “cute” or “original” without being … racist. And there was nothing funny, cute or original about an anti-Semitic Valentine’s Day card that was produced during a Republican-group meeting on the campus of Central Michigan University and then given to a pair of…
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Miss. Considers Firing Squad, Electrocution and Gas Chamber as Execution Methods
Mississippi lawmakers are pushing forth a proposal to add firing squad, electrocution and the gas chamber as methods of execution in case a court blocks the use of the drugs that are used in lethal injections, the Associated Press reports. The bill, Mississippi House Judiciary B Committee Chairman Andy Gipson said, is a response to…
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Emmett Till’s Family Calls for New Investigation Into 1955 Murder
Relatives of Emmett Till—the 14-year-old Chicago boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955, triggering the civil rights movement—are asking for the teen’s case to be reinvestigated after a key witness admitted to lying about the teen’s alleged words and actions before his brutal murder. Two of Emmett’s cousins, Wheeler Parker and Deborah Watts, said…
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Parents Plan to File Lawsuit Against School After Daughter Comes Home With ‘Loser’ Written on Forehead
An Iowa family is outraged and dissatisfied with the response from their 10-year-old daughter’s school after she came home last week with “loser” scrawled across her forehead and a mustache and other markings drawn on her face. The child, identified as Raeann Long, reportedly cried to her parents as she explained that one girl held…
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Tara Dowdell Launches Speakers Bureau Featuring Prominent Blacks in Media and Business
Entrepreneur Tara Dowdell, president of the marketing firm Tara Dowdell Group, which describes itself as being driven “by a passion for helping socially conscious businesses, brands and organizations grow,” is taking on a new venture. It recently launched a speakers bureau featuring several great minds, a majority of them black, and all of whom have…
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