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2 Ala. College Students Arrested for an Alleged Gang Rape During Spring Break
Police officials in Troy, Ala., were investigating an unrelated shooting when they stumbled across a video that appeared to show an alleged gang rape that took place in Panama City, Fla. Alabama officials turned the tape over to Florida law enforcement, and two college students from Alabama’s Troy University, Ryan Calhoun and Delonte Martistee, have…
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Obama Says Clinton Would Be an Excellent President; Says He Can’t Predict Joe Biden’s Next Move
President Barack Obama wasted no time showing his support for Hillary Clinton, who announced Sunday that she would be running for president in the 2016 election. “She was a formidable candidate in 2008, she was a great supporter of mine in the general election, she was an outstanding secretary of state, she is my friend,” Obama…
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Who Was the 1st Black Woman to Play Professional Baseball?
Who was the first black woman to play professional baseball? When Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field on April 15, 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ first baseman broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier. Integration of the all-white MLB was seen by many as a huge step forward not just for sport, but for the nascent civil…
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Black America: We Can’t Afford to Wait
In the critically acclaimed book Why We Can’t Wait, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said it best: “Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.” In the awe-inspiring treatise, ranked No. 78 on Modern Library’s 100 Best Nonfiction works, King writes: “Just as lightning makes…
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Watch: Hillary Clinton Announces 2016 Presidential Bid
Ending months of speculation, former Secretrary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday officially launched her campaign to seek the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. She broke the news via Twitter and a video announcement. I'm running for president. Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion. –H https://t.co/w8Hoe1pbtC — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton)…
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Philly Mom Accused of Ditching Disabled Son in Woods to Visit Boyfriend
A 41-year-old Philadelphia woman is accused of abandoning her disabled son for five days in a park with only a blanket and a Bible, according to the New York Daily News. Police on Saturday said that they’ve issued a warrant for the arrest of the victim’s mother, Nyia Parler, 41, according to the News. She…
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Rapper Nelly Busted After Cops Allegedly Find Drugs on His Tour Bus
Nelly, the rapper and reality-TV star, was arrested Saturday on felony drug charges after Tennessee Highway Patrol officers allegedly recovered drugs from his tour bus in Nashville, according to USA Today. Nelly, 40, was released from Putnam County Jail on a $10,000 bond, writes the news outlet. The rapper, whose real name is Cornell Haynes,…
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Walter Scott Is Laid to Rest in South Carolina
Mourners gathered Saturday at funeral in South Carolina to say goodbye to Walter Scott, a black 50-year-old father of four, who was senselessly gunned down by a white officer during a traffic stop last week. Hundreds assembled on a rainy afternoon at W.O.R.D. Ministries Christian Center in Summerville, S.C., to “celebrate his life and death…
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Will These Runaways Escape Through the Vast Swamp of Slavery?
This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive & Library at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. As if playing out a savage drama on a vast stage, a slave family makes a desperate dash for freedom.…
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Empire’s Cookie Lyon Hits Up Sesame Street in Funny SNL Sketch
Taraji P. Henson, who became the 10th black woman to host Saturday Night Live, brought fire to the set with her portrayal of Empire’s Cookie Lyon. In the best sketch of the night, Cookie, dressed to the nines and sporting her trademark purple fur stole, hit up Sesame Street, talking trash and stealing, well, cookies.…
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