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  • Police Identify Suspect in Attack Against 92-Year-Old Black Man

    Police have arrested a suspect in the unprovoked attack of a 92-year-old black man in Houston, according to local news. Authorities believe he has attacked other black citizens in the area. A witness told Click2Houston she saw Gallegos throw large rocks at the man. After identifying him as a suspect, police learned Gallegos had an…

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  • Montana Women Sue Border Protection Agents After Being Detained for Speaking Spanish While in Public

    Ana Suda and Martha Hernandez are suing US Customs and Border Protection officers for detaining them at a gas station last year. Their case could test the agency’s far-reaching power to patrol the border zone, including their ability to stop and question individuals suspected of illegal residence in the United States. Video of the incident…

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  • Police Open Fire on Sleeping Black Man in Locked Car

    Relatives of 20-year-old Willie McCoy, also known as rapper Willie Bo, are demanding answers after six Vallejo police officers shot and killed McCoy while he slept in his car in a Taco Bell parking lot. McCoy, who had been recording recently, was on tour with his group, FBG. The second youngest of five children, McCoy…

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  • Dealmaker-in-Chief Trump Intends to Sign Border Deal for Pennies on the Dollar

    Though Trump may look for a loophole, it seems there will be no wall after all. Despite his unhappiness with the tentative deal reached by Congress earlier this week, CNN reports that Trump will sign a border security deal to avoid another government shutdown, weeks after the longest on record. Congress has until Friday to…

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  • Court Upholds Ruling to Unseal Grand Jury Testimony in 1946 Moore's Ford Lynching

    More than 50 years after the death of two black couples who were mobbed, dragged, tied and shot 60 times by a group of white men nearly 60 miles from Atlanta, answers may finally be available. Monday, the 11th circuit of the United States Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling that ordered the…

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  • Second Justin Fairfax Accuser Alleges Assault by Corey Maggette During Sophomore Year at Duke University

    A woman who has alleged a sexual assault at the hands of Justin Fairfax, lieutenant governor of Virginia, has said former Duke University and Los Angeles Clippers basketball player Corey Maggette raped her during her time at the university. Meredith Watson, who alleges Fairfax raped her in 2000 while they attended Duke, calling his actions…

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  • The Trump Administration Might Actually Help Curb HIV Transmission (Or Not)

    If you were planning to play the lottery or bet on the Knicks, you might want to get to it. There’s a decent chance the Trump administration may on the verge of doing something entirely right. Days after Trump’s proclamation of a new initiative that would “eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within…

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  • Kurtis Blow Responds to Va. Attorney General's Apology for 80's Blackface Photo

    While the Commonwealth of Virginia awaits the resolution of a series of scandals involving its Governor and Lieutenant Governor, there remains the matter of Attorney General Mark R. Herring, who apologized for wearing blackface styled after rap legend Kurtis Blow at a costume party in 1980, while he was 19. While national Democrats push for…

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  • Trump Worries As House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff Hires Former White House Employees

    If Trump starts keeping his potential enemies any closer, we may learn of a California King bed in the West Wing. After House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff hired Abigail Grace, a former career official at the National Security Council, Trump is worried Schiff is assembling a team of White House employees to gain an edge…

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  • New Mexico Governor Orders National Guard Troops Back from Border

    The jig is hurtling toward the sun. Deriding the “charade of border fear-mongering by Donald Trump, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered the majority of National Guard troops deployed at the state’s southern border to withdraw. “I reject the federal contention that there exists an overwhelming national security crisis at the Southern border,” Lujan…

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