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Obama Seeks $3.7 Billion From Congress to Contain Border
President Barack Obama is hoping to get Congress to grant $3.7 billion in emergency funding to go toward securing the border, a request brought on by the sudden increase in the number of unaccompanied minors trying to enter the country, the New York Daily News reports. The move marks almost double the administration’s original asking…
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MLK Jr. Bridge in Indiana Vandalized
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge in Fort Wayne, Ind., has been vandalized for the second time in two weeks, the Journal Gazette reports. According to the news site, the scribbles defacing two benches along the bridge, discovered Sunday, decried interracial relationships, specifically involving black men and white women. “White women do not…
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83-Year-Old Texas Woman Wards Off Thief With Stick and Boiling Water
Lillie McClendon is no pushover, and she made sure to demonstrate that Sunday to a would-be burglar who broke into her home and demanded money, ABC News reports. The 83-year-old Houston native had just stepped out of the shower and put some clothes in the laundry when she noticed an open window and that her…
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Nebraska 4th of July Float Shows Outhouse ‘Obama Presidential Library’
One particular float at an Independence Day celebration in Norfolk, Neb., has created quite the controversy with its depiction of the “Obama Presidential Library” as an outhouse, the Omaha World-Herald reports. According to the report, the float was part of the city’s annual Independence Day parade, but there were no markers identifying who sponsored the…
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Feed a Child Ad Showing Black Boy Being Fed Like a Dog Sparks Outrage
The Feed a Child ad was meant to depict how much better the average dog has it than most children in South Africa … however, some online users were not amused by the doglike posture in which the young black boy was placed, IOL News reports. According to the South African news site, the video,…
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More Than 60 Women and Girls Escape Boko Haram
More than 60 women and girls in Nigeria have returned to safety after having escaped their abductors, suspected to be Boko Haram militants, Agence France-Presse reports. Their escape was confirmed Sunday, according to the report, with local vigilante Abbas Gava telling the news agency that he had “received an alert … that about 63 abducted…
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Battle for Black Voters’ Rights Rages on in North Carolina
Midterm elections are right around the corner, and for the North Carolina NAACP and the Advancement Project, this month represents a do-or-die moment in what will be the last time to put an end to the sweeping voter-suppression law enacted in June 2013 before voting starts this year. At an injunction hearing scheduled for Monday,…
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‘What Would Jesus Do?’ Well … Tyler Perry Owns That
Tyler Perry just won the rights to use the popular phrase “What Would Jesus Do,” the Hollywood Reporter reports. The actor, director and screenwriter insisted that he wasn’t looking for exclusive ownership of or rights to the word “Jesus” beyond that ’90s quip, the entertainment site notes. The phrase was caught up in a trademark…
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Young-Adult Author Walter Dean Myers Dies at 76
Renowned author of young-adult fiction Walter Dean Myers, who made a mark for himself by writing books about young African Americans, has passed way at 76, the Los Angeles Times reports. “Walter’s many award-winning books do not shy away from the sometimes gritty truth of growing up. … He wrote with heart and he spoke…
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NJ Cheerleader Shot ‘Execution Style’ 2 Weeks After Graduating
A Newark high school cheerleader was shot and killed two weeks after her graduation, and New Jersey police are searching for any witnesses, CBS New York reports. “They told her to get on her knees and they shot her in the head execution style,” Michael Bond, the uncle of 17-year-old Cheyanne Bond, told the news…
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