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Teens Who Vandalized Historic Va. African-American Schoolhouse Sentenced to Read Books
One Virginia judge is hoping that a group of teen vandals will be able to read themselves into some common sense after they were found guilty of vandalizing a historic African-American schoolhouse with racist, anti-Semitic and obscene graffiti, The Guardian reports. According to the report, the judge sentenced the teens to read some 35 books,…
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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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OneUnited Bank, Black Lives Matter Team Up to Organize Black America’s Spending Power
Elected officials, businesses and society in general can sometimes find it easy to overlook voices of protest that call for equality and justice. One thing that is seldom overlooked, however, is money, and black America has a lot of spending power to throw around—about $1.2 trillion. Now OneUnited Bank, the largest black-owned bank in America,…
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Texas Man Whose Life Sentence on Drug Charges Was Commuted by Obama Caught With More Than 2 Pounds of Cocaine
A Texas man who was given a second chance after his life sentence on drug charges was commuted by then-President Barack Obama may once again be spending years behind bars after being caught with more than 2 pounds of cocaine following a high-speed chase, the New York Post reports. Robert Gill, 68, had been in…
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Masked, Armed White Man Walks Into Mich. Police Department, Somehow Doesn’t Get Shot
What happens to you when you roll into a police station, fully armed, with body armor and wearing a mask over your face? Apparently not what you would expect, because a white Michigan man somehow escaped unscathed (and is even out on bail) after doing exactly that over in Dearborn … all because of an…
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Calif. Girl Disciplined After Wearing KKK-Style Hood to High School
A California schoolgirl was disciplined after sparking controversy at Kern High School in the city of Bakersfield for wearing a Ku Klux Klan-style hood at school last week. Other students who saw the girl took to Snapchat to take pictures of the girl in the offending hood during lunch Thursday, KERO reports. (Really, who is…
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NYC Restaurant Prints ‘Immigrants Make America Great’ on Receipts in Response to Trump’s Travel Ban
Sometimes it’s the little things that cause the biggest ripples, and one Brooklyn, N.Y., restaurant’s message of solidarity with immigrants is creating quite a stir online after an image of a receipt that read, “Immigrants make America great” started circulating online. According to DNAinfo New York, the tweet showing the receipt from Kiwiana Restaurant in…
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Police Arrest Man in Fatal Accidental Shooting of 5-Year-Old Fla. Girl
Police have arrested 34-year-old Maurice Antonio Mobley in connection with the fatal accidental shooting of a 5-year-old girl over the weekend, Action News Jax reports. Mobley is facing charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, the Jacksonville, Fla., Sheriff’s Office confirmed. He is the boyfriend of the mother of 5-year-old Serenity Allen,…
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Chicago Woman Convicted in Mom’s 2014 Bali Murder May Face Tougher Sentence for YouTube Comments
Prosecutors in Indonesia are looking into online videos apparently posted by a Chicago woman who was sentenced to 10 years in the 2014 murder of her mother in Bali to determine whether to impose a tougher sentence, Reuters reports. As the newswire notes, Heather Mack was convicted along with then-boyfriend Tommy Schaefer in the murder…
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Obama Commuted Evans Ray’s Life Sentence; Now Ray Wants to Help Others Like Himself
Evans Ray knew he’d made a horrible mistake when he was caught distributing some 60 grams of crack cocaine. He also didn’t believe that the punishment should have been life in prison. But two prior low-level drug convictions ensured that in 2004, Ray would get the max with no possibility of parole. Even the judge…
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