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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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White ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protesters Walk Free After Shutting Down London Airport
Nine Black Lives Matter protesters in the United Kingdom will not serve any jail time or pay any fines after shutting down London City Airport on Sept. 6 to raise awareness about environmental racism—specifically air pollution emitted from the airport and its detrimental effects on black people in the surrounding neighborhood of Newham, the Daily Mail…
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Trump: ‘Clinton’s Bodyguards Should Disarm; Let’s See What Happens to Her’
During a campaign stop in Miami on Friday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested once again that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton could be assassinated if the Second Amendment—the right to keep and bear arms—weren’t in place to protect her, The Guardian reports: She goes around with bodyguards … I think that her bodyguards should drop…
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#QOTD: Forget Tousle-Gate, What Did the Roots Play for Donald Trump’s Tonight Show Walk-On?
The world has been all abuzz about how Jimmy Fallon tousled Donald Trump’s hair Thursday night on The Tonight Show. I wasn’t impressed for several reasons; see below for a few of them: I thought about trying to muster the outrage, then I realized that if I can live through Hillary Clinton’s “dab” and listen to her talk about having…
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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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