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  • Ralph Yarl Breaks His Silence Months after Being Shot For Knocking on the Wrong Door

    Ralph Yarl, the teen who was shot after mistaking a man’s house for the location of his siblings, spoke publicly for the first time since the incident.

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    Kalyn Womack






    Published

    June 27, 2023
  • Rhode Island Walmart Fundraiser Makes a Fool of Black Employee

    A Walmart in Rhode Island is under scrutiny after hosting a fundraiser displaying a Black employee in a cage asking for “bail money.”

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    Kalyn Womack






    Published

    June 27, 2023
  • Ajike Owens’ Shooter No Longer Faces Murder Charges But She’s Not Home Free

    Susan Lorincz, the woman who fatally shot Ajike Owens, will be prosecuted for manslaughter instead of second-degree murder.

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    Kalyn Womack






    Published

    June 26, 2023
  • Video May Trigger: Was The Mom Wrong for Telling Her Son to Shoot Attacker? The Law Has Decided

    A Chicago mother and her 14-year-old have been arrested after she allegedly instructed the teen to shoot a man who punched her.

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    Kalyn Womack






    Published

    June 26, 2023
  • 14-Year-Old Who Trekked 6 Miles to His Graduation Was Given an Award of a Lifetime

    Xavier Jones was determined to attend his eighth-grade graduation and was rewarded with a full-ride scholarship to college.

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    Kalyn Womack






    Published

    June 26, 2023
  • Small Town Horror Story: The Woman Who Came Back From The Dead

    30-year-old Essie Dunbar had fallen from an epileptic seizure and pronounced dead… except she wasn’t.

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    Kalyn Womack






    Published

    June 24, 2023
  • Attorney’s Racist Posts Were a Black Man’s Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card

    A Massachusetts court vacated the sex trafficking convictions against a Black Muslim man after finding his attorney’s anti-Muslim social media posts.

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    Kalyn Womack






    Published

    June 19, 2023
  • Black Boy’s Heartwarming Police Department Tour Goes Viral

    A 7-year-old from Virginia had his wish granted when the local police gave him a ride to the station for a tour.

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    Kalyn Womack






    Published

    June 18, 2023
  • Small Town Horror Story: The Tuskegee Medical Experimentation On Black Men

    In 1932, 600 Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama were enrolled into a study by the doctors who were looking for a cure for syphilis.

    By





    Kalyn Womack






    Published

    June 17, 2023
  • 18 Places You Might Find a Karen Causing a Ruckus this Summer

    Black people raise your cellphones in the air, it’s Karen season. Not even your own home is safe from a Karen tantrum.

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    Kalyn Womack






    Published

    June 17, 2023
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