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Justin Carr: Man Shot During Charlotte Protest Has Died
Updated Thursday, Sept. 22, 8:30 p.m. EDT: Justin Carr, 26, a man shot in Charlotte on Wednesday while protesting the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, has died, reports the Charlotte Observer. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police claim they found Carr after “responding to a call of an assault with a deadly weapon.” Before Carr was officially identified, his…
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Powerful 'Black Lives Matter' Protest at Eastern Mich. University to Protest Racist Graffiti, Toxic Campus Culture
Editor’s note: This article contains social media posts that some may find offensive. Eastern Michigan University students and protesters gathered to protest racist graffiti painted on the side of an EMU women’s center Tuesday morning. According to Eastern Echo staff writer Shayler Barnes Jr., the words “KKK,” in red, white and blue, and “Leave [N—gers]” were discovered at approximately…
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Hillary Clinton Speaks ‘Directly to White People’ in Wake of Police Shooting: ‘This Is Not Who We Are’
Calling in to The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton weighed in on the police shooting of Terence Crutcher, saying that “systemic racism” needs to be addressed, and a part of that is “speaking directly to white people.” “This horrible shooting—again. How many times do we have to see this in our country?” Clinton…
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Autopsy: Tyre King Was ‘More Likely Than Not’ Running Away When Police Gunned Him Down
Tyre King, the 13-year-old boy who was fatally shot by Columbus, Ohio, police last week, was “more likely than not” running away at the time he was killed. According to an autopsy performed by Dr. Francisco Diaz, an independent medical examiner retained by Tyre’s family, “Based on the location and the direction of the wound paths, it is…
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Keith Lamont Scott Identified as Disabled Black Man Shot Dead by NC Police While Reading in Car
Updated Sunday, Sept. 25, 11:32 a.m. EDT: According to eyewitness accounts and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department dashcam and body-cam footage, Keith Lamont Scott was not sitting in his vehicle at the time he was shot. Scott exited the vehicle and was backing away from it as commanded. Neither a book nor a gun (as CMPD claimed Scott was…
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Oh, Now Mainstream Media Should Draw Lines in the Sand? That's Interesting
In his latest New York Times op-ed, “When a Crackpot Runs for President,” Nicholas Kristof laments the state of journalism and wonders if media has done enough to show that, according to him, any comparisons between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump are false equivalencies. Kristof writes: I’m not sure that journalism bears…
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Gold Rush: Jay Z Takes an Unflinching Look at Racist, Violent War on Drugs in New Short Film [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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What's Really in Hillary Clinton's Health Report?
Speculation about Hillary Clinton’s health has once again sparked contentious debate across the political aisle since the Democratic presidential nominee collapsed after, aides say, overheating from dehydration during a memorial service to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Her doctor, Lisa Bardack, director of internal medicine at Mount Sinai Health System at CareMount Medical, released…
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Clinton Diagnosed With Pneumonia, ‘Recovering Nicely’ After Collapse at Sept. 11 Memorial
Updated Monday, Sept. 12, 1:30 a.m. EDT: Hillary Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia Friday, according to her doctor Lisa R. Bardack, and she has been advised to “modify her schedule” and rest. Bardack says that Clinton was placed on antibiotics and is “re-hydrated and recovering nicely.” Earlier: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton collapsed Sunday morning in…
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#Attica45: Muhammad Ali Recites His Powerful Poem About the Attica Prison Uprising
In 1972, one year after the Attica prison uprising, Muhammad Ali traveled to Ireland to fight Alvin Lewis. While there, he was interviewed by Cathal O’Shannon. Just as pretty as ever, “the Greatest” spoke on his boxing career, the importance of being Black (with a capital B), getting rid of our “slave” names, the Nation of Islam, racism,…
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