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Local Leader Rashad Turner Leaving Black Lives Matter St. Paul
Black Lives Matter St. Paul, Minn., leader Rashad Turner announced over the weekend that he is leaving the organization, the Pioneer Press reports. Turner, who was with BLM St. Paul for about a year and a half, is credited with leading the organization as it attempted to bring attention to racial injustice in the area…
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Fla. Teen Targeting Ex-Boyfriend’s Car Sets Wrong Vehicle on Fire: Report
A 19-year-old Florida woman was arrested after she allegedly set fire to a car that she believed belonged to her ex, WTSP reports. According to the report, Clearwater police took Carmen Chamblee into custody after she started the fire. Chamblee reportedly told detectives that she thought the vehicle belonged to her ex-boyfriend. She is facing charges of…
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Serena Williams Wins 308th Career Match, Makes History
Serena Williams made history Monday afternoon at the U.S. Open after snatching her 308th career match win to become the winningest player in grand-slam history, USA Today reports. As the report notes, Williams first matched the records of Martina Navratilova, who has 306 career match wins, and of Roger Federer, who has 307, before making her…
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Poll: Support for Black Lives Matter Growing Among Young White Adults
An increasing number of white youths are expressing support for the Black Lives Matter movement, according to a recent poll, the Associated Press reports. Approximately 51 percent of young white adults between the ages of 18 and 30 say they strongly or somewhat support the movement, a 10-point increase since June, according to a GenForward poll.…
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Obama Cancels Meeting With Philippine President After Being Called 'Son of a Bitch'
President Barack Obama canceled a meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte after Duterte called him a “son of a bitch,” Reuters reports. According to CNN, the White House had said that Obama planned to ask Duterte about his country’s handling of drug dealers, which has included a wave of extrajudicial killings. Duterte slammed Obama on…
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How 1 Black-Owned Ga. School Is Revolutionizing Education for the Gifted
Claire Anderson’s son, Caleb, started reading at 8 months. By 18 months he was in the first grade. Realizing that Caleb was gifted, Anderson, who lives in Metro Atlanta, was determined to ensure that he would have the best resources available so that he would remain intellectually stimulated and challenged. And so she went on…
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‘The N–gers Are Coming’: White Motorist Shouts Slurs at Black Actor Filming Commercial
A black actor was heckled by a white man in a passing car as he was doing some filming for a commercial earlier this week in Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. “The n—gers are coming, the n—gers are coming!” The unnamed motorist could be heard shouting from his car as Jesse Lipscombe walked down a street.…
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Officer Who Fatally Shot Korryn Gaines Was Also Involved in 2007 Shooting Death
The Baltimore County police officer who fatally shot a 23-year-old mother after an hourslong standoff was involved in another fatal shooting in 2007, the Associated Press reports. According to the newswire, the Baltimore County Police Department released a statement Thursday identifying the officer by his last name, Ruby. Ruby is a 16-year veteran with the force.…
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Chicago Resident Pokes Fun at Couple Who Fled City After a Day Because of Crime
A young couple from Arizona haven’t been having an easy time since posting a video to YouTube about a “traumatic experience” that occurred a day after they moved into their Chicago apartment, prompting them to flee back to Arizona. In response, one self-proclaimed resident of Edgewater—the neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side where they briefly lived—Kevin Fergus,…
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Sex Offender Charged in 1991 Rape, Murder After 5 Men Were Wrongly Convicted
A 58-year-old convicted sex offender has been charged with the 1991 kidnapping and murder of a 14-year-old suburban Chicago girl, for which five wrongly convicted men spent at least a decade in prison, CBS News reports. As CBS notes, more than two years ago the five men, known as the Dixmoor Five, reached a $40…
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