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  • Prince Compares Music Industry to Slavery, Tells New Artists: ‘Don’t Sign’

    The music industry is modern-day “slavery.” Record labels are running a “shell game.” Music streaming is sucking artists dry. And rights-management groups are nothing more than “collection agencies” that fail to pass along any real money to artists. At least, that’s how Prince sees it. In a private sit-down with 10 black journalists deep inside…

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  • Ga. Gov. Erases Racist Confederate Holidays From Calendar

    In a move filled with more symbolism than actual substance, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has announced that Confederate Memorial Day and Gen. Robert E. Lee’s birthday have been erased from the state’s official 2016 holiday calendar, according to the American Journal-Constitution. Both days were replaced with the more neutral term “state holiday,” according to emails…

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  • Michael Brown Remembered With March, Moment of Silence on 1-Year Anniversary

    One year after unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., family and activists gathered Sunday to commemorate the shooting that touched off a movement against police violence. Scores gathered Sunday to participate in 4.5 minutes of silence and a silent march to Greater St. Mark’s church,…

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  • FBI Asked to Probe Christian Taylor Shooting as New Audio and Video Emerge

    Arlington, Texas, Police Chief Will Johnson said Saturday that he spoke with the FBI’s Dallas office after a white officer shot and killed Christian Taylor, an unarmed black 19-year-old, at a car dealership, according to the New York Daily News. Johnson said he asked federal investigators to help determine any possible criminal case or policy…

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  • Black Lives Matter Protesters Shut Down Bernie Sanders’ Seattle Rally

    On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, whose shooting helped catapult a movement against police violence onto the global stage, protesters overtook a presidential rally to continue to make their voices heard. Activists associated with Black Lives Matter took over the stage at a rally for Vermont Sen. Bernie…

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  • Report: Texas Cop Who Fatally Shot Unarmed College Student Christian Taylor Was Still in Training

    A 49-year-old Texas officer with just 11 months on the job shot and killed unarmed college student Christian Taylor, 19, who police claim broke into a car dealership early Friday morning, according to the Dallas Morning News. Arlington Police Officer Brad Miller, 49, started in the department in September, the report says. Until now his…

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  • Watch: Dash-Cam Video Adds Details to Jonathan Ferrell’s Shooting by Police

    Police dash-cam video footage released this week sheds new light on events leading up to the slaying of unarmed Jonathan Ferrell, who was shot and killed by an officer in September 2013 while seeking help after a car accident, according to NBC News. Randall Kerrick, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., police officer who shot and killed Ferrell,…

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  • Police Facebook Group Mocks Death of Michael Brown

    A police Facebook group reportedly posted a mocking memorial tribute to Michael Brown, the unarmed teen whose death last year in Ferguson, Mo., sparked a movement against police violence against blacks, according to Raw Story. Ahead of the first anniversary of Brown’s Aug. 9 death at the hands of then-Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson, the Facebook…

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  • Nick Gordon Accused of Giving Bobbi Kristina Brown a ‘Toxic Cocktail’

    Just a week after 22-year-old Bobbi Kristina Brown was laid to rest amid extreme family drama comes this: an allegation that she was killed. Her court-appointed conservator, Bedelia Hargrove, on Friday amended a lawsuit to add a wrongful death claim alleging that Brown’s longtime boyfriend, Nick Gordon, gave her a “toxic cocktail” after an argument…

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  • Issa Rae: Hollywood Wanted to Lighten Awkward Black Girl—I Said No

    Make no mistake about it: Issa Rae is still on her content-creating grind after the success of her online fictional Web series Awkward Black Girl. Except now she’s in Hollywood trying to work with production companies and television networks to get her stuff on television and in front of a bigger audience.  To say that…

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