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Watch the Reactions When Charges Were Announced in the Freddie Gray Case
When Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced Friday that charges would be brought against the six officers who were involved in the fatal detainment of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, some people in the crowd erupted in cheers. “Thank you, Jesus!” someone yelled. “Yeah!” exclaimed another. “To the people of Baltimore and the demonstrators across America,…
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Meet the Prosecutor Who Charged 6 Officers in Freddie Gray’s Death: ‘This Was a Homicide’
At age 35, State’s Attorney for Baltimore City Marilyn Mosby is the youngest chief prosecutor in a major city, and on Friday she moved the ball on a once-in-a-lifetime case that may go on to define her career in law enforcement: All six officers involved in the fatal detainment of 25-year-old Freddie Gray are being…
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How Black Women Can Rescue the Labor Movement
After spending more than 25 combined years promoting the trade union movement and protecting the right to organize in the United States and around the world, we see the report “And Still I Rise: Black Women Labor Leaders’ Voices, Power and Promise”—named for a poem of resilience by the late Maya Angelou—as a love letter…
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Am I Related to Slave-Revolt Leader Nat Turner?
My father, who will be 83 next month, has been doing family research for many years. On his maternal side, the rumor has been that we are related to the famous slave Nat Turner. Could you help us find out? My father’s memory is fading, and so time is running out to solve the mystery…
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Media’s Biased and Dehumanizing Coverage of Baltimore Fails to Tell the City’s Real Story
In what has become an all-too-familiar scene, America watched another of its cities erupt in protest this week, after yet another young black man died after interacting with police. This time the city was Baltimore and the victim was 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who suffered a severe spinal injury while in police custody on April 12.…
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AT&T Fires President Over Racist Memes
Knoyme King, a 50-year-old assistant at AT&T, says that she was asked to transfer data from her boss’s old phone to his new phone and found racist memes that were offensive to African Americans. That discovery, along with being denied promotions and getting meager salary raises, King said, led her to file a $100 million…
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Poll: Will You Be Watching the Fight of the Century?
Who’s got an extra hundred bucks lying around to put in the pockets of these multimillionaire fighters? That’s the price of pay-per-view to catch what is sure to be the most-talked-about fight in decades. Latest odds are on Floyd Mayweather to defeat Manny Pacquiao in the Saturday-night match at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand. If you’re…
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The Hypocrisy of Applauding the Baltimore Mom While Condemning the Protesters
Even before Toya Graham, the Baltimore mother of six who was captured on video “disciplining” her son, began making the news rounds, she was already being hailed as a hero. The video of her dragging her 16-year-old son, Michael, who was throwing rocks at police, from Baltimore’s melee and slapping him repeatedly in the face…
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Who Was Freddie Gray? A Closer Look at the Young Brother Behind the Movement
Freddie Gray—that was his “government” name; his friends knew him as Pepper—kept the ladies laughing and liked to get fresh with fashion accessories bought with money he received every month from a settlement. Gray had a twin sister who shed some light on the kind of person her twin brother was during statements she made…
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Ga. Teacher Allegedly Tells Students Their Parents Are Evil if They Voted for Obama; NAACP Wants Her Fired
A Georgia schoolteacher may soon find herself unemployed if the efforts of a local NAACP are successful, according to 13WMAZ. Nancy Perry, a teacher at Dublin Middle School, according to 41NBC, allegedly told her students last month that if their parents voted for President Barack Obama, “they’re evil,” and she doesn’t understand how they could…
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