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Chicago Cop Who Killed College Student and Innocent Bystander Will Face No Charges
A Chicago police officer who shot and killed a college student and his downstairs neighbor by mistake will face no charges in the two deaths. The Cook County District Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute the officer on Friday, saying that there was insufficient evidence that he was not acting in self-defense. On the day after…
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In ‘It’s About Damn Time’ News, the Army Approves Locks as a Hairstyle for Black Women
Black women serving in the United States Army will now, finally, be able to wear their hair in locks (also known as dreadlocks) and twists, after an exhausting and what many believe, unfair fight over many years. Couched in new regulations focused on grooming policy changes related to religious accommodations, the largest branch of the…
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Black Army General Loses 2 Stars Over Lies, Stripper Sex Scandal
An African-American three-star general was demoted in retirement for using a government credit card to patronize strip clubs and other “conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman on multiple occasions,” the Army announced Thursday. An Army spokesperson said that Maj. Gen. Ronald Lewis, then-senior military aide to former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, was bumped down to…
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Betsy DeVos Visits Howard U in 1st Act as Education Secretary; Many Skeptical
In her very first meeting in her new gig, embattled Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visited Howard University on Thursday to meet with university leaders. The meeting at the historically black university, founded in 1867, was one where she was welcomed—at least by the administration—unlike at the Washington, D.C., public school where she was denied entrance…
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Trump Surrogates and GOP Pols to Meet With HBCU Heads During Black History Month
Given President Donald Trump’s recent interest in historically black colleges and universities and the rumored executive order supporting them, a group of Republican leaders plans to meet with HBCU heads in the coming weeks. The Grio reports that the meeting will include GOP congressional members and Omarosa Manigault, who is supposed to be presenting the…
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Trump’s Justice Department Appeal Is Denied; His ‘Muslim Ban’ Will Not Stand
Updated Sunday, Feb. 4, 2017, 10:30 a.m. EST: Governmental policy now moves with the speed of a Williams-sisters tennis match. Today a federal appeals court denied the Justice Department’s request for an immediate reinstatement of President Donald Trump’s travel ban for certain travelers and refugees, which was instituted last week and halted by a federal…
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Trying to One-Up Obama, Trump Will Sign Executive Order Supporting HBCUs: Report
Perhaps after the now infamous Frederick Douglass debacle kicking off Black History Month, President Donald Trump wants to make it right with the blacks. According to a BuzzFeed report, the White House is working on an executive order supporting historically black colleges and universities—a way to crow, since some believe that President Barack Obama did…
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Facts: Trump’s Muslim Ban Doesn’t Include Countries He Has a Business Interest In
The seven countries that President Donald Trump issued a ban against are predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa. Christian refugees from those nations can expect to receive more favorable treatment than Muslims from those nations. The countries included in Friday’s executive order (stayed by a federal judge on Saturday) are Syria, Libya,…
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Mary, Mary, Why You Buggin’? Tina Campbell ’Splains Her Support of Donald Trump (Though No One Really Asked)
Tina Campbell, one half of contemporary gospel duo Mary Mary, is yet another black woman who has come out in support of President Dick L’Orange. Campbell took to her Facebook page this week with an open letter, giving our new president both her forgiveness and support. Awwwwww. She lists her reasons as biblically based. “I…
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#StayWoke: Trump Names ‘Alt-Right’ Racist Steve Bannon to National Security Council While the World Protests His Muslim Ban
In a flurry of executive orders* even the most ardent news hound finds hard to keep up with—including one banning Muslims from seven nations from coming to the U.S., sparking protests throughout the country Saturday night—President Donald Trump is remaking the world in his skewed, scary image. And while many are rightly incensed over the…
