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Skin Cancer Doesn’t Affect Only White People
With summer weather approaching, the usual warnings about skin cancer are not far off. African Americans typically think of melanoma as a white person’s disease and seldom heed warnings about overexposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays. Actor Damian Thompson thought that way until a mole on his thigh was diagnosed as skin cancer, according to…
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Texas Police Chief Dies in Tragic Highway Accident
Corpus Christi, Texas, is mourning the death of Police Chief Floyd Simpson, the city’s first black police chief. He died late Sunday in a tragic highway accident, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reports. Simpson, 51, was on his motorcycle, headed south on State Highway 361 in Port Aransas, Texas, according to the report. A Ford pickup…
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Black College Students Seize Rare Chance for Career Development Through Travel-Abroad Initiative
Few African Americans will ever get the chance to visit China—a country that’s modernizing at a dynamic pace and becoming a global center for technology and commerce. So Kamari Wright and Rachel John Kazungu jumped on an opportunity. They applied for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Emerging Leaders: U.S.-China Study Abroad Program and began their…
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Innocent Black Teen Who Survived Police Shooting Gets a $230,000 Settlement
Frenswa Raynor of Oakland, Calif., is one of the fortunate innocent, young black men to survive a police shooting. The Oakland City Council voted this week to settle lawsuits surrounding his near-fatal encounter for $275,000, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The shooting occurred in 2013, when Frenswa was 16 years old. The police responded to…
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Baltimore Police Union’s Boss Inflames Tension With ‘Lynch Mob’ Remark; ‘Rough Ride’ Alleged
Gene Ryan, head of Baltimore’s Fraternal Order of Police, took a step back following backlash over a remark he made regarding protesters in the Freddie Gray case. “Maybe I need to reword that,” he said at a news conference. But while Ryan acknowledged that his words were inappropriate, the Gray family’s lawyer is demanding an…
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Analysis: Obamacare Unexpectedly Triggers an Uptick in Food Stamp Enrollment
Obamacare’s impact reaches beyond health care. An Associated Press analysis found that the president’s health-care-reform law apparently triggered an increase in food stamp enrollment across several states. An expansion in Medicaid appears to be the link. Ten states that expanded their Medicaid programs under the health care law are experiencing an increase in food stamp…
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A Bounced Check Paves the Way for North Miami Mayor’s Re-Election
Smith Joseph, the mayor of North Miami, Fla., is now running unopposed for re-election. His only opponent, a former city councilman, was disqualified because of a bad check. North Miami’s city clerk told the Miami Herald that Jean Marcellus was disqualified because his $2,400 check for the qualifying fee was returned for insufficient funds on…
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FAMU Hazing-Death Trial of Last 3 Defendants Is Under Way
A Florida jury is hearing testimony in the trial of the last three former Florida A&M University band members charged in the hazing death of Robert Champion. The defendants—Benjamin McNamee, 24; Aaron Golson, 22; and Darryl Cearnel, 28—are being tried together, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Fifteen former members of the famed FAMU marching band were…
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Watch: Law-Enforcement Agent Destroys Phone of Bystander Recording Police Encounter
Recent videos of deadly police encounters with unarmed black men give credibility to what communities of color have complained about for years. The shocking reality on those videos is driving a nationwide movement. So it’s no wonder that many are alarmed by this video that surfaced Sunday on YouTube. It appears to show a law-enforcement…
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Obama’s Approval Rating Is Trending Up
More Americans are giving President Barack Obama a thumbs-up. In fact, the president’s approval rating climbed to 46.4 percent in the first three months of 2015—a 3-percentage-point increase from the previous quarter, USA Today reports. It was his best quarter since mid-2013, according to the Gallup poll. A separate CNN/ORC survey (pdf) found a similar…
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