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2 Months After Tenn. Police Officer Shot and Killed Jocques Clemmons, Investigation Into Death Continues
Jocques Clemmons, 31, was shot and killed by Nashville, Tenn., Police Officer Joshua Lippert on Feb. 10, and two months after his death, the investigation into the shooting continues, leading to the Nashville NAACP’s call for more police accountability as well as a citizens review board. Tennessee NAACP President Gloria Sweet-Love told News Channel 5,…
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Just Removed Some Huge Consumer Protections for Student Loan Borrowers
While we were all distracted by other things Tuesday, Betsy DeVos used her powers as education secretary to roll back some key policy memos issued by the Obama administration that strengthened consumer protections for student loan borrowers. The Washington Post reports that the U.S. Department of Education is in the process of issuing new contracts…
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Body of 1st-Ever Female Muslim Judge in US Found Washed Up Along Hudson River
The first Muslim woman in U.S. history to become a judge was found dead Wednesday afternoon when her body washed up on the Manhattan side of the Hudson River in New York City. Sheila Abdus-Salaam, 65, was the first African-American woman to be appointed to the state’s Court of Appeals, where she served as an…
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State of NY Raises the Age of People Charged and Sentenced as Adults
Lawmakers in the state of New York voted on Sunday to raise the age of criminal responsibility as part of a $153 billion budget deal that was worked out nine days after the fiscal year began. AM New York reports that the budget was approved after debates between lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo over key…
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Sandra Bland’s Mother Returns to Texas to Support Bill Urging Sweeping Police Reforms
Sandra Bland’s mother returned to Texas on Tuesday to show support for a sweeping police-reform bill named after her daughter, who died in a jail near Houston after a confrontational traffic stop in 2015. According to the Associated Press, it was the first time Bland’s family had testified before the Texas Legislature, which meets only…
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NYU Graduate Pays It Forward by Creating a Scholarship to Help Students of the Black Diaspora
Attending college can be cost-prohibitive for U.S. students who don’t want to incur thousands of dollars in debt. For students from immigrant families, the prospect can be even more daunting or, in some cases, impossible, but one woman is seeking to change that for students of the black Diaspora with a special scholarship fund. Genet…
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ICE Temporarily Suspends Its Weekly List Meant to Shame Cities That Won’t Detain Immigrants
Remember how the Trump administration figured it would try to shame sanctuary cities into cooperating with its detainer requests by publishing the “Declined Detainer Outcome Report” on a weekly basis? Remember how the first one came out and we were all like, “Shut up, Homeland Security”? Well, apparently the administration has realized what a horrible…
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These Are the 8 Men the State of Ark. Is Rushing to Kill
The state of Arkansas is on a mission to complete eight executions over a period of 10 days during the month of April in order to beat the clock on the expiration date for one of the three drugs involved in its lethal-injection protocol. The rushed executions have been decried for a number of reasons,…
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Black Lives Matter Activists at 2 Colleges Disrupt Speech by BLM Critic Heather Mac Donald
Black Lives Matter activists on two Southern California college campuses shut down scheduled appearances by anti-BLM critic, pro-police advocate and author of the book The War on Cops Heather Mac Donald. Mac Donald, a Manhattan Institute scholar, was scheduled to give a “Blue Lives Matter” talk at UCLA on Wednesday to discuss her 2016 book…
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Has Phaedra Parks Been Fired From The Real Housewives of Atlanta?
Phaedra Parks is by far one of my favorite “housewives” of the entire franchise. Her subtle shade, faux Christianity, expert clapbacks and the gift of the phrase “Fix it, Jesus” have made her one of few things that make me tune in to the show again and again. Unfortunately, if current reports are to be…
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