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  • Ga. Doc Arrested After 12 Patients Overdose on Prescription Meds  

    A Georgia doctor has been arrested after 36 of his patients died, a third of them from confirmed prescription medication overdoses, reports WSB-TV Channel 2. Nearly 40 Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided the office of psychiatrist Narendra Nagareddy on Thursday in Jonesboro, Ga. Nagareddy is accused of violating Georgia’s Controlled Substance Act with his “pill…

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  • Almost 2 Dozen Confirmed Dead in Burkina Faso Terrorist Attack

    An al-Qaida-affiliated group is taking responsibility for the siege of a luxury hotel in Burkina Faso’s capital, reports CNN. The country’s security forces—with logistical help from U.S. and French troops—stormed the Splendid hotel in Ouagadougou early Saturday morning, trading gunfire with the militants and freeing 126 hostages, half of whom were hospitalized, according to CNN.…

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  • 23 Cops Called Before Laquan McDonald Federal Grand Jury

    Recently released records show that nearly two dozen officers were called to testify in the Laquan McDonald case, including the lead detective and officers on the scene whose initial reports conflicted with dash-cam video later released, according to the Chicago Tribune. The records—released after a Freedom of Information Act request—show that the officers began testifying…

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  • A Sweet Way to Take Your Cocktails to the Next Level

    When life gave Forrest Butler lemons, he made lemon syrup. Butler, a former designer and architect, lost his job in 2008, and so he returned to bartending. An avid mixologist, he noticed that all of the syrups necessary for his increasingly popular cocktails were laden with preservatives. So one day he began making his own. …

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  • Where Are the Democrats as the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. is Under Attack?

    As the Democratic presidential candidates debate this Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, everything King and the civil rights movement fought for is at risk. An angry, xenophobic, race-based backlash to the inclusion and empowerment of people of color is ripping through the fabric of American society, but the candidates fail to rise to the occasion.…

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  • Black Twitter Scolded Whole Foods for Telling People to Cook Collard Greens Like This

    There have been reports and rumors that collard greens would be the next item to be gentrified and Columbused by the mainstream—that is, folks would be told that it’s a green that people aren’t using as much and ought to start using, completely ignoring its legacy in African-American Southern soul food, and how it’s a…

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  • Mos Def Was Arrested in South Africa for Overstaying His Visitor’s Permit

    Brooklyn, N.Y., rapper and actor Yasiin Bey, commonly known as Mos Def, was arrested at the Cape Town International Airport in South Africa for producing an “unrecognized world passport” as he was trying to leave the country, ABC News reports. A South African official said that Bey came to South Africa in 2013 with a…

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  • Tichina Arnold Reportedly Sent a Mass Text to Friends and Family Blasting Her Husband for Cheating

    Actress Tichina Arnold reportedly sent a mass text message to friends and family announcing that her husband, Rico Hines, had been having unprotected sex with several women, TMZ reports. TMZ reports Arnold even sent along a sex tape to prove as much. “I can’t for the life of me understand why Rico would video himself…

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  • Black Lives Matter in Germany, but Not the Way You Might Think  

    Black lives matter in Germany. Last month, by request of the Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Commission), I keynoted the Network Inclusion Leaders, or NILE, conference, in Berlin, which focused on “building sustainable collaboration among young leaders of color who are committed to a just and inclusive society.” There, I learned…

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  • Were My Black Texan Ancestors Free and Half-Blackfeet?

    My family oral history is adamant about my great-great-great-grandfather Joe Wheaton (also spelled Weeden, Whedon, Wheedon and Wheadon) being one-half Blackfeet Indian and never enslaved. Joe Wheaton (born circa 1833) and his brothers, Monday, John and Henry, arrived in Midway, Madison County, Texas, in 1848, per the 1867 voter-registration list for Madison County. It may…

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