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Teen Holding Broomstick Is Shot by Police in Salt Lake City, Sparks Protests
A teenager was reportedly shot by police in Salt Lake City on Saturday, sparking hostilities from bystanders and resulting in the deployment of about 100 police officers to the downtown area, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. Witnesses say that the incident occurred around 8 p.m. near a downtown homeless shelter, and there are some social…
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3 Stabbed at Calif. KKK March
A melee broke out near the site of a planned Ku Klux Klan rally as counterprotesters laid into Klan members, resulting in three stabbings, according to Reuters. The free-for-all went down between protesters and Klan members as members of the hate group exited their vehicle to set up for a Saturday march planned in Anaheim,…
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MSNBC and Melissa Harris-Perry to Officially Part Ways: Report
As one may have surmised by the email heard round the (black) world Friday, MSNBC will sever ties with Melissa Harris-Perry, effectively canceling her show, according to a Washington Post report and confirmed by Richard Prince’s Journal-isms this weekend. Harris-Perry sent out the scathing email to her staff last week, and it was made public by…
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As Activists Continue to Use Technology to Fight for Justice, Access Matters
Those advocating for a freer and more just America have always used the latest communications technology to further their aims. In 1841, abolitionist Frederick Douglass launched the North Star newspaper using the advanced communications technology of the 19th century, the printing press, to fight for the freedom of black people. Douglass and the suffragists of…
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Black Skiers and Snowboarders Hit the Slopes in Japan at the 2016 Japow! Powder Party
For the past three years, more than 200 black ski and snowboard enthusiasts have descended on the beautiful, powder-snow-covered mountains of Hokkaido, Japan, thanks to one snowboard-loving African-American professor who lives and works in Japan. The Japow! Powder Party is a great way to experience Japow! and a different culture. (“Japow” is a term used…
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Hillary Clinton Scores a Huge Win in South Carolina
It’s a big win in a big test for the black vote on the Democratic side. Multiple news outlets are reporting that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has handidly won the state of South Carolina over her rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. At the time of publication, Clinton had won South Carolina by an…
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Watch: The Black Lives Matter Activist Who Interrupted Hillary Clinton Explains Why
We have all seen the video of the young black woman who was escorted from a private $500-a-plate Hillary Clinton fundraiser in South Carolina Wednesday. Ashley Williams, who stood up and confronted the leading Democratic candidate with a sign containing the words from a 1996 speech supporting the now-debunked theory of “superpredators,” stood up and…
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Google Gives $1,000,000 to Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative
Tech giant Google announced Friday that its philanthropic arm would be donating $1 million to Bryan Stevenson’s Alabama-based nonprofit, Equal Justice Initiative. The Harvard-educated Stevenson is a lawyer who has for decades fought the good fight, winning major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent prisoners on death row, confronting abuse of the…
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Miss. Gov. Declares April ‘Confederacy Heritage Month’
As Confederate flags and memorials are being taken down or moved from places of prominence across the country, the governor of Mississippi has dug in his heels and proclaimed April to be “Confederate Heritage Month” in the state. Gov. Phil Bryant issued the proclamation in response to a request from the Sons of Confederate Veterans,…
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Kan. Shooter’s Ex-Girlfriend Charged With Providing Guns to Him: Report
An ex-girlfriend of the man accused of killing three and wounding 14 others in a Kansas shooting spree has been charged with providing the ex-convict with the weapons, reports ABC News. A criminal charge filed Friday alleges that Sarah Hopkins, 28, gave Cedric Larry Ford an Zastava Serbia, which is an AK-47-type semi-automatic rifle, and…
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