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#Flint: Mayor Says Switching City Water Source ‘Too Risky’ After Lead-Contamination Crisis
April 25 marks three years since the city of Flint, Mich., switched its water source from the city of Detroit to the Flint River, causing a massive lead-contamination crisis that has not been resolved, and on Tuesday, the city’s mayor said that switching water sources again as previously planned would be too risky and expensive.…
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Fresno, Calif., Shooting Rampage: Suspect in Custody, 3 People Killed
Police in Fresno, Calif., say a man went on a shooting rampage in the city Tuesday morning, randomly firing at four people, with authorities saying that he killed three of them before he was taken into custody. Police Chief Jerry Dyer said that 39-year-old Kori Ali Muhammad, who is also suspected in the fatal shooting…
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Black Woman Comes Forward to Say Bill O’Reilly Called Her ‘Hot Chocolate’ While She Worked at Fox
Bill O’Reilly continues to put the “dirty old man” in dirty old man, according to a new claim. A black woman has come forward and told attorney Lisa Bloom that when she was a clerical worker at Fox News, O’Reilly leered at her and called her “hot chocolate.” Bloom helped the woman report the harassment…
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Morgan Freeman to Produce Rodney King Docuseries With New Home Video Footage
April 29 marks the 25th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, also known as the Rodney King riots, and the man whose beating by police was captured on film and brought the topic of race to the forefront of the national conversation may soon be the subject of a new docuseries. Variety reports that…
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Snoop Dogg Will Help Raise Money for Water in Flint, Mich., by Appearing at Fundraising Celebrity Basketball Game
Long Beach, Calif., rapper and entertainer Snoop Dogg will be on hand with other celebrities to help raise money for the Flint, Mich., water crisis during the second annual Hoop 4 Water celebrity basketball game next month. According to MLive, the event is organized by the Morris Peterson Jr. Foundation and is scheduled to take…
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Federal Judge Blocks Ark. Executions
Updated Saturday, April 15, 2017, 9:12 a.m. EDT: A federal judge has blocked the executions of six men in Arkansas, throwing into doubt whether the state will be able to carry out the executions before the expiration date of a controversial drug used in lethal injections, according to the New York Times. The ruling by…
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Baltimore’s Consent Decree Calls for Improvements to Civilian Review Board, but There Isn’t One
When the city of Baltimore reached its agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice on the terms of a legally binding consent decree, one of the things the city promised to do was make improvements to its Civilian Review Board, an independent oversight committee made up of city residents. There’s just one problem: There is…
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Black Women in DC Bring to Life the Untold Stories of Overlooked Black Women in Civil War History
A group of black women in Washington, D.C., are part of an acting troupe that gives voice to the nameless, faceless black women of the Civil War in a different spin on re-enactment groups. Female Re-Enactors of Distinction, or FREED, was founded in 2005 in association with the African American Civil War Museum in D.C.,…
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#Flint: Queen Latifah, Jill Scott to Star in Lifetime Film on City’s Water Crisis
In news from the “Why weren’t we told this before?” section, Queen Latifah, Jill Scott, Betsy Brandt and Marin Ireland are all set to star in the upcoming Lifetime original movie Flint, based on the Michigan city’s lead-contaminated-water crisis. Deadline reports that Queen Latifah will also serve as executive producer on the project. It will…
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NY Attorney General Blasts Trump’s Signing of Legislation to Defund Planned Parenthood
Just a week after leading a coalition of 16 attorneys general from across the country in opposing an Ohio state law that would defund Planned Parenthood and other health-service providers, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman had strong words Thursday for Donald Trump, who signed legislation that would allow states to withhold federal funding…
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