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NAACP LDF Honors the 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board
It’s been 60 years since the iconic U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional. And yet as celebrations and commemorative pats on the back all cheer the successes, an audience gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., was being reminded that the overall war has not been won. Speaking…
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Aaron Hernandez Indicted Again—This Time for 2012 Double Murder
Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez has been slapped with two more homicide charges in the shooting deaths of two men in Boston in 2012, according to Yahoo Sports. A Suffolk County, Mass., grand jury returned the indictment against Hernandez, who is already in custody and awaiting trial on first-degree murder charges for the 2013…
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Rihanna Accidentally Smashes Police Chief’s Phone, Donates $25K to His Charity
Maybe there should be a Good Gal RiRi meme. The pop star shelled out $25,000 to a police chief’s charity after accidentally breaking his cellphone. According to Us Weekly, the Bajan songstress was sitting courtside at the Los Angeles Clippers’ playoff game May 9 when L.A. Police Commission President Steve Soboroff asked for a selfie…
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Georgia High School Seniors Declare, ‘N–ga We Made It!’
Neither South Forsyth High School officials nor many students were impressed or amused by a “senior prank” that involved hanging a sign declaring “N—ga We Made It!” from the side of the school building Tuesday night, Fox 5 reports. The phrase, linked to a lyric in a popular Drake song, was also drawn on some…
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Watch: Fla. Officer Kicks Handcuffed Teen Who Disobeyed Bus Driver
Someone on the school bus had sprayed perfume, irritating Kevens Jean Baptiste, who has asthma, so he opened the windows. The bus driver gave the order to keep the windows closed, and he refused. That led to Kevens being handcuffed and kicked by Florida police, as cellphone footage taken by a friend apparently shows, NBC…
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Ras Baraka Elected Mayor of Newark
On Tuesday night, Newark, N.J., elected its new mayor, Municipal Council member Ras Baraka—and chose a new direction for itself, the New York Times reports. Baraka, the son of activist and poet Amiri Baraka, won approximately 54 percent of the vote, with 96 percent of the precincts reporting. His opponent, Seton Hall School of Law…
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New Donald Sterling Rant Leaked: Claims V. Stiviano Is the Real Racist
The Donald Sterling tapes just won’t stop. Maybe he should stop speaking to anyone who isn’t his lawyer? At any rate, the Daily Mail received new recordings of the embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner allegedly speaking to his friend, black hip-hop artist Maserati, who leaked the conversation. According to the news site, the artist did…
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Magic Johnson Responds to Donald Sterling Backlash
It seems as if the entertainment site TMZ, which has been breaking news left and right, scooped Anderson Cooper’s Tuesday-night interview with NBA legend Magic Johnson regarding the continuing fallout from racist statements made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. In a telephone interview earlier Tuesday with the gossip conglomerate, Johnson slammed Sterling for…
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Fla. Prison Guard’s Sexual Assault by Inmates Went Unreported
The incident occurred in December, but it wasn’t reported to the police until March 15. A female prison officer from Miami claims that she was sexually assaulted by 17 inmates during a mass fight at Miami-Dade’s pretrial detention facility, but her supervisors took months to report the incident, NBC Miami reports. “You know, I don’t do anything…
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Former NBA Star Gilbert Arenas ‘Forgives’ Donald Sterling
Former NBA All-Star Gilbert “Agent Zero” Arenas publicly accepted Donald Sterling’s attempt at an apology on Instagram. Posting a picture of the embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner on his page, Arenas wrote, “I’ll be the first to accept ur apology. “As a man who’s made a mistake or two in life I know how hard…
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