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Being Black at Google
It’s a challenge for African Americans working in California’s Silicon Valley to have a sense of community. Clennita Justice has worked for several technology companies there over the past 25 years. “At many of those companies, you could go for days without seeing another black person,” says the senior engineering program manager, who now works…
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Noted Black Activists Issue a Statement of Solidarity With the Palestinian Struggle
More than 1,000 black activists, artists, scholars and organizations released a statement that expresses “black solidarity” with the Palestinian struggle against Israel, Salon reports. Some of the high-profile signatories include Angela Davis, Cornel West, death row inmate and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, and hip-hop artist Talib Kweli. The statement draws a connection between the Palestinian struggle for…
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NJ Grand Jury Clears Cops in Fatal Shooting Captured on Video
The two New Jersey police officers who fatally shot Jerame Reid will not face criminal charges. A grand jury cleared them Wednesday in the December 2014 shooting, which was captured on their patrol car’s dashboard camera, AP reports. What began as a traffic stop for running through a stop sign escalated when Bridgeton Officer Braheme…
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Cancer Survivor 5-Year-Old Leah Still Gets Her Own Wheaties Box Cover
Leah Still is now among a celebrated list of sports champions like Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan who have appeared on their own Wheaties cereal box, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Her proud father, football player Devon Still, posted a photo of the cover on Instagram. The 5-year-old girl has faced ups and downs in her…
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Prosecutor: Terrance Kellom Shooting Justified
Prosecutors declined to file charges against the federal agent who fatally shot a black man in Detroit, the Associated Press reports. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot Terrance Kellom, 20, during a raid at his home in April. Agent Mitchell Quinn says Kellom attacked him with a hammer, but Kellom’s family says it…
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Ga. NAACP in Showdown Over High School’s Nickname
The Georgia NAACP says it’s time to end veneration of the Confederacy at a high school in southern Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The civil rights group is pressuring officials at Effingham County High School to change the school’s nickname, “Rebels,” because of its connection with the Confederacy during the Civil War. “It’s time for…
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Activist Shaun King Denies Allegations That He Has Lied About His Race
Shaun King, a prominent voice in the Black Lives Matter movement, denied accusations that he lied about being biracial and a victim of a brutal racial attack by a white mob, the New York Times reports. The Daily Caller, a right-wing conservative blog, has been circulating posts for weeks that question King’s honesty. One conservative…
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NYC Swim Team Breaking Records and Busting Myths
While lots of other kids are sleeping in and playing video games this summer, a group of dedicated swimmers are hard at work, preparing for the upcoming competitive season. The Bedford-Stuyvesant YMCA Piranhas team, in Brooklyn, N.Y., has won nearly a dozen trophies since forming in 1997. This year’s team has 45 swimmers, the majority…
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Controversial Pittsburgh Police Chief Gives Thumbs-Up to Officer’s Protest Art
Pittsburgh Police Chief Cameron McLay said he’s proud of an officer’s courage to “speak difficult truths” through his artwork, which protests police brutality against unarmed black men, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports. “The preservation of human life, all human lives, is the most foundational value in the policing profession. His statement against police misconduct is not…
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2 Black American Jews Detained 2 Days at Israeli Airport and Then Deported
Israeli officials detained two black American Jewish converts in a holding cell for nearly two days at Ben Gurion Airport before sending them back to the United States, the Jerusalem Post reports. Idit Malka, 40, and her 10-year-old son, Kahxin, of Cape Coral, Fla., said that they landed in Israel on June 12. Malka told…
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