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Black People Support Vouchers, Black Leaders Don’t. Who’s Right?
At times, black people, like any group battered and oppressed by the state, may celebrate any perception of forward motion. Folks scour social media pages to see who has what appointment, what political power is being amassed and what black person has been newly elected. Although I strongly believe in the need for more representation…
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Inglewood, Calif., Cops Who Killed Sleeping Couple in Parked Car Are Off the Force
A group of Inglewood, Calif., police officers who fatally shot a young couple while they sat in a parked car are no longer on the force. Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts made the announcement Tuesday but did not specify whether the officers were fired or allowed to resign without being held accountable for their actions,…
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#NotTheOnion: Trump Tells World Leaders to Call Him on His Cellphone
If this weren’t a matter of national and global security, the jokes would write themselves. President Donald Trump has been handing out his cellphone number to world leaders and telling them to call him “late night when you need my love” directly, raising security concerns for anyone with common sense. Trump has insisted that Canadian…
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White Calif. Man Charged With Hate Crime After Stabbing Black Man With Machete: Report
Anthony Hammond, 34, was arrested Saturday night in Clearlake, Calif., after yelling racist slurs at a black man while stabbing him with a machete, authorities say. According to Lake County News, Hammond was arrested on an array of charges, including aggravated mayhem, battery with serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, felony resisting executive…
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#DariusSmith: 15-Year-Old Boy Fatally Shot by Customs Agent; Family Demands Answers
The family of Darius Smith, a 15-year-old boy who was fatally shot by an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent Friday night in Arcadia, Calif., is disputing the official narrative and demanding justice. According to the agent, Darius and two 14-year-old boys tried to rob him at gunpoint after they all exited a train…
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Kingston Frazier Buried With Blue Power Ranger, Ninja Turtle: His Last Day Was ‘the Happiest Day of His Life’
On Wednesday, May 17, Kingston Frazier’s last full day on earth, he rode the bus home from North Jackson Elementary School in Mississippi. He was excited because he knew that he would be graduating from kindergarten to first grade the next day. It was “the happiest day of his life,” Ebony Archie, the 6-year-old boy’s…
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Ky. to Close Juvenile Detention Center Where 16-Year-Old Gynnya McMillen Was Found Dead
The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice announced on Wednesday that the Lincoln Village Juvenile Detention Center—where 16-year-old Gynnya McMillen was found dead in her cell on Jan. 11, 2016, after four staff members pinned her down with an Aikido martial arts restraint hold—will close in mid-June. CBS News reports that the department attributes the closure…
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Texas Police Chief Under Investigation for Arresting Black Pageant Winner and Allegedly Calling Her ‘Black Bitch’
Updated Friday, May 26, 2017, 4:41 p.m. EDT: The City of Commerce is doubling down on its suggestion that Commerce Police Chief Kerry Crews was not the man who referred to Carmen Ponder as a “black bitch,” though still not denying that Crews was present as one of his police officers physically assaulted her and…
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Nicholas Dean, New Orleans Charter School Principal Caught Wearing Nazi Rings and Appearing on ‘White Genocide’ Podcast, Removed From Campus
Updated Thursday, May 25, 2017, 2:45 p.m. EDT: Nicholas Dean has been fired from his position at Crescent Leadership Academy. “He will not return as the Principal or be associated with Crescent Leadership Academy,” the charter school’s parent group and board said in a statement Thursday. Crescent Leadership Academy Superintendent Tracy Bennett-Joseph confirmed Monday that…
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We Need More Than Self-Care; We Need Healing, Too
Black folks have always faced an existential dilemma in the U.S. The constant drum of violence on our bodies and our dignity leaves an impression on our collective psyche that we too seldom acknowledge. These unsparing conditions leave many black people with a sense of brokenness—about who they are, the direction of their lives or…
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