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Devon Still’s Daughter Experiences Setback in Her Battle Against Cancer
Devon Still is urging all of us to keep his 5-year-old daughter in our thoughts. On Friday he tweeted, “I need some prayers sent up for Leah tonight! We hit a pretty serious complication from the stem cell … ” Just two months after announcing that she’s in remission from cancer, the Cincinnati Bengals defensive…
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Study: Black Teachers are Just as Likely as White Teachers to Disproportionately Punish Black Students
Implicit bias makes teachers of all races more likely to punish black students than white students for the same misbehavior, according to a new Stanford University study, the Huffington Post reports. In an experiment, teachers of all races exhibited unconscious bias against students with “black-sounding names.” Researchers showed teachers the school records of misbehaving students.…
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Groups Across Southern States Burn and Symbolically Bury the Confederate Flag
At a Memorial Day gathering outside Atlanta, poets expressed their feelings about the Confederate flag before symbolically burying it. “A lot of lives have been lost around this Confederate flag,” the event’s organizer, Terone Allen, told WTVM. People in 13 Southern states “buried” or burned the Stars and Bars in their own unique way. The…
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Once-Youngest Death Row Inmate Dies From Apparent Suicide
Paula Cooper, once the nation’s youngest person on death row, was found dead in Indianapolis Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. Authorities said that the 45-year-old, who had been released from prison in 2013 after the Indiana Supreme Court set aside her death sentence, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. “It’s an unusual ending to a…
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Black Soldier Killed in Iraq Gets Justice
A British court sentenced a London cabdriver to life in prison Friday for the murder of a U.S. soldier in Iraq in a roadside bombing in 2007. As NBC News reports, for the family of Sgt. Randy Johnson, this case was a rare opportunity to see a person involved in a service member’s death face…
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White Supremacist Confronts Speakers During ‘Black Lives Matter’ Press Conference
Video cameras captured a heated exchange at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati between a group of angry whites and black activists at a press conference Wednesday. A group of ministers in Cincinnati organized the event, using the upcoming Major League Baseball All-Star Game in their city to call on MLB to join the fight…
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NY Rep. Blasts Black Conservative Sheriff Who Blames ‘Underclass’ Behavior for Police Violence
During a heated House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) responded sharply to a black conservative sheriff who blamed an African-American “underclass subculture” for police violence. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who has become a darling of the right, called police bashing “low-hanging fruit,” Raw Story reports. He said it’s easy to exploit…
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Pregnant Chicago Woman Accuses Angry Cop of Punching Her Belly
A pregnant Chicago woman says that a plainclothes police officer punched her in the belly and then unleashed a racist tirade after she and a few friends laughed at him. Nicola Robinson, who is eight months pregnant, told WFLD-TV that she and others were standing near her apartment building on Friday when they saw police…
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New Details Emerge About Ben Affleck’s Slave-Owner Ancestor
Ben Affleck admitted his embarrassment over learning that an ancestor owned slaves. He tried to hide that past in the PBS genealogy show Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. After his efforts came to light, the actor and director identified that relative as Benjamin Cole. Well, the Associated Press decided to conduct an…
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