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  • #NoDAPL: Dakota Access Pipeline Has Already Had a Leak Before It’s Even Fully Operational

    The $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, which was the subject of international protests because of the threat it posed to both the environment and the indigenous people living along the Missouri River, has already had a leak more than a month before it’s scheduled to be fully operational. The April 6 leak spilled 84 gallons…

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  • Trump Was Planning to Visit FBI Headquarters, but the FBI Was Like, ‘Nah, Stay Home’

    President Donald Trump had planned to make a visit to the headquarters of the FBI, but those plans were changed after the White House was told he would not be greeted warmly if he showed up. You know how nervy your president is. Even after firing FBI Director James Comey Tuesday, Trump thought it would…

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  • LAPD Officers Will Not Be Charged in Fatal 2015 Shooting of Woman They Say Had a Knife

    The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that it will not be filing criminal charges against the two police officers who shot and killed a woman in 2015, once again going against a ruling of the Los Angeles Police Commission. Prosecutors reviewed evidence that included video footage captured by the officers’ body cameras before…

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  • Black Lives Matter Activists Bail Black Women Out of Jail for Mother’s Day

    The Black Lives Matter movement is working to have an impact on the lives of black women in dozens of jails across the country this week by providing them with their freedom, just in time for Mother’s Day. The women have not been convicted of crimes, but they remain in jail because they have been…

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  • Bethune-Cookman President Threatens to Withhold Students’ Degrees Amid Loud Boos for Betsy DeVos

    The NAACP Florida State Conference was right. As Bethune-Cookman University graduates loudly booed U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos during her remarks at the school’s commencement ceremony Wednesday morning, university President Edison Jackson threatened to withhold their degrees. “If this behavior continues,” Jackson said angrily as DeVos uncomfortably stood beside him with a smile frozen on…

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  • Black Lives Matter Activist Files $4,000,000 Lawsuit Against City of Los Angeles and LAPD

    Black Lives Matter activist Greg Akili filed a $4 million federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Police Department Tuesday, claiming that he was wrongfully arrested during a contentious meeting of the Los Angeles Police Commission last year. The suit is a result of incidents that happened at…

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  • 15-Year-Old Founder of Bow-and-Necktie Company Scores Huge NBA Partnership

    15-Year-Old Founder of Bow-and-Necktie Company Scores Huge NBA Partnership

    While a lot of teenagers are spending their time doing homework, talking on the phone, hanging with their friends at the mall or making their latest Snapchat video, one 15-year-old has just inked a lucrative licensing deal with the NBA that could very well lead to his earning seven figures or more. Moziah “Mo” Bridges…

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  • #WalterScott: ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Sign Put Up Near Where Killer Cop Gunned Down Unarmed Black Motorist

    Even with former North Charleston, S.C., Police Officer Michael Slager pleading guilty in his federal civil rights trial for Walter Scott’s death, the unarmed black motorist who was gunned down in cold blood still cannot rest peacefully, it would seem. The Post and Courier reports that police sympathizers have paid to have a “Blue Lives…

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  • FBI Director James Comey Has Been Fired

    FBI Director James Comey has been relieved of his duties and dismissed from his position by President Donald Trump, according to White House press secretary Sean Spicer. “The president has accepted the recommendation of the attorney general and the deputy attorney general regarding the dismissal of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Spicer…

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  • School Corporal Punishment Ban Fails in La. House

    Students in more than half of Louisiana’s public school districts will still be subject to paddling and spanking in school for misbehavior after the state House on Monday rejected a proposal to ban corporal punishment across the state. The Times-Picayune reports that only 34 lawmakers voted in favor of Shreveport Democrat Rep. Barbara Norton’s prohibition…

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