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Dylann Roof Sentenced to Death in Charleston, SC, Church Massacre
Updated Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, 5 p.m. EST: Dylann Roof, the convicted white supremacist who was responsible for the murders of nine black parishioners at a historically black church, was condemned to death by a federal jury Tuesday, the New York Times reports. The jury, consisting of nine whites and three blacks, returned a unanimous verdict…
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Texas Cop Who Violently Arrested Mom in Littering Dispute Suspended for 10 Days
A white Fort Worth, Texas, police officer who was caught on video violently arresting two black women following an argument about a child littering will be suspended without pay for 10 days, authorities announced Monday, Time reports. According to the report, the Fort Worth Police Department launched an internal investigation late last month after video…
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Massive Manhunt Underway for Suspect Who Fatally Shot Orlando, Fla., Police Officer
A massive manhunt is underway in Florida after a man fatally shot an Orlando police officer Monday morning, the Associated Press reports. According to the newswire, Orlando Police Master Sgt. Debra Clayton was gunned down near a Wal-Mart store in northwest Orlando earlier Monday. The suspect has been identified as 41-year-old Markeith Loyd, who was…
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Amazon.com, FreshDirect to Accept Food Stamps for Online Grocery Shopping
Soon it will be that much easier for busy families who use food stamps to get groceries. According to Mashable, online grocery-shopping sites such as Amazon.com and FreshDirect will now accept food stamps as part of a pilot program in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The report notes that the two-year program for…
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NJ High School Investigating Hanging Black Dummy Found by Girls Basketball Team
Officials at the Arthur L. Johnson High School in Clark, N.J., plan to investigate an incident in which a visiting girls basketball team found a black dummy hanging from its neck in a room they were assigned, the Courier News and Home Tribune reports. According to the report, when girls from the Plainfield High School…
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ACLU of Mass.: Plan to Use Inmates to Build Border Wall 'Modern-Day Slave Labor'
Last week, during his swearing-in ceremony, Bristol County, Mass., Sheriff Thomas Hodgson proposed offering inmates as free labor if President-elect Donald Trump decided to go forth with his plans to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. As it turns out, some civil rights advocates, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts included, aren’t very…
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NH Dad Fired for Attending Son’s Birth Gets Outpouring of Support, Job Leads
On Jan. 1, 2017, Lamar Austin and his wife, Lindsay, welcomed a baby boy into the world. Little Cainan made news as the first baby to be born in Concord, N.H. However, now the Austins’ story has drawn even more media attention after Lamar lost his job after missing work to be with his family…
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Jeanette Epps to Be 1st African-American International Space Station Crew Member
The timing is impeccable. Just as the highly anticipated movie Hidden Figures—the story of three African-American women who were crucial in the launch of the first American into orbit—hits theaters, more news of black female achievement in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields has hit the presses. NASA announced Wednesday that for the first…
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‘Die N–ger’: Fort Hood Soldier’s Car Vandalized
Officials at Fort Hood have launched an investigation after a soldier’s car was vandalized and defaced with a racial slur at the Killeen, Texas, military base just two days before Christmas. According to the Killeen Daily Herald, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jonathan Charlot was getting ready to leave Killeen for Houston, his hometown, for the…
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Murderer Dylann Roof Says 'Not Fair' He Must Hear Testimony From Victims' Loved Ones
Far from expressing remorse, convicted murderer Dylann Roof is instead complaining that it is “not fair” that prosecutors present such thorough testimony about the impact of his massacre at a historically black Charleston, S.C., church on the loved ones of the victims, the Washington Post reports. “If I don’t present any mitigation evidence, the victim-impact…
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