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Black Lives Matter Chicago Files Lawsuit Demanding Federal Oversight of City’s Police Department
Lawyers for Black Lives Matter Chicago and other community groups filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday accusing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel of trying to cut “a back-room deal” with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and demanding federal oversight of the city’s Police Department. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that six individuals and seven community groups are…
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ACLU Lawsuit Alleges Ga. Board of Education Disenfranchised Black Voters in School Board Selection Process
A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in Georgia alleges that the Crisp County Board of Education and the county election supervisor violated Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act by denying black voters an equal opportunity to participate in the political process through its at-large method of electing Board of Education…
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Karrueche Tran Gets 5-Year Restraining Order Against Creepy Ex-Boyfriend Chris Brown
Let the relationship between Chris Brown and Karrueche Tran be an object lesson in what not to do when you break up with someone, because let’s be honest: Brown terrorized this girl all over social media, and it wasn’t cute or funny in the least. A judge has granted Tran a five-year restraining order against…
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ICE Picks Up Teen Hours Before His Senior Prom, Days Before His High School Graduation
Hours before his senior prom was set to begin, Diego Ismael Puma Macancela hid in a bedroom closet at his cousin’s home as immigration officers who had come looking for him stood outside the apartment banging on the door and threatening to break it down if Puma Macancela did not come out. Worried that agents…
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Writers Union to Ebony Magazine: Pay Like You Weigh #EbonyOwes
What happens when Ebony magazine promises over and over again that it’s going to pay its freelance writers “soon,” but reportedly throws an expensive Super Bowl party in Houston and hosts a lavish company event in Los Angeles with money that was initially earmarked to pay said freelancers? A union steps in and tells the…
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‘Lynching in America’ Site Launched by Google to Confront the ‘Legacy of Racial Terror’
Google and the Equal Justice Initiative launched a website Tuesday that explores the history and legacy of racial terror in the United States, specifically during the period between the Civil War and World War II, when more than 4,000 black Americans were lynched in this country. Lynching in America is an interactive website created with…
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2 Accomplices Plead Guilty in Shooting of BLM Activists at Jamar Clark Protest
Two men who were with convicted shooter Allen “Lance” Scarsella on Nov. 23, 2015, when he shot five Black Lives Matter activists at the Minneapolis 4th Precinct police station during a protest decrying the death of Jamar Clark pleaded guilty Monday, and prosecutors say they will seek jail time for both. Nathan Wayne Gustavsson, 23,…
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#Flint: Short-Term Extension of Water Service From Detroit Will Cost City More Money
The Flint, Mich., City Council is considering a new short-term contract to purchase water from the Great Lakes Water Authority out of Detroit, in an agreement that will come at a 4.7 percent price increase for the water used. The agreement is imperative in order for the city to continue to receive pretreated water for…
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Influenced by The New Jim Crow and 13th, Art Collector Sells Painting for $150,000,000 to Start Criminal-Justice-Reform Fund
Agnes Gund is an art collector who sold her prized 1962 Roy Lichtenstein Masterpiece for $150 million, one of the 15 highest-known prices ever paid for artwork, in order to start a fund that supports criminal-justice reform and seeks to reduce mass incarceration in the United States. Gund, who is president emerita of New York…
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Golden State Warriors Win 2017 NBA Finals, Beat Cleveland Cavaliers 129-120 in Game 5
All those jokes about the Golden State Warriors blowing a 3-1 series lead to lose the 2016 championship can come to an end now. In a most beautiful and poetic finish, the Warriors, who came into Monday night’s game leading the NBA Finals series 3-1, pulled off a flawless victory and won the game with…
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