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  • Chicago Man Accused of Killing Mom for Telling Him to ‘Find a Girlfriend’

    A 26-year-old Chicago man has been charged with fatally stabbing his 54-year-old mother after she reportedly put him down and told him to find a girlfriend, the Chicago Tribune reports. Andre Brown was charged with first-degree murder last Sunday in the death of his mother, Damita Collins, who was found dead by her husband, Brown’s…

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  • Top Cop Says NYPD Work ‘Slowdown’ Is Over

    New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has declared that a work “slowdown” by officers that arose amid a rift with Mayor Bill de Blasio is over, New York magazine reports. “The slowdown is over in the sense that the numbers are starting to go back up again,” Bratton said, according to the magazine. “I…

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  • A Close Alliance Between MLK and Nelson Rockefeller Revealed

    While much is being made about the new movie Selma’s depiction of the complicated relationship between the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and President Lyndon B. Johnson at the summit of the civil rights movement, it was actually King’s friendship with a larger-than-life Republican governor that speaks to our more complicated political past. Looking past it,…

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  • Why Majority Whip Steve Scalise Should Meet With Civil Rights Leaders

    Last week, Marc Morial of the National Urban League and I sent a letter to Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, asking him to meet with us to explain his 2002 speech to the white supremacist, anti-Semitic European-American Unity and Rights Organization and to discuss ways to work together for the good of all Americans, regardless…

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  • Watch: Anderson Cooper Corrects Colleague Who Called French Terrorist an African American

    CNN’s Anderson Cooper corrected colleague Chris Cuomo’s incorrect description of a suspect as African American in one of two hostage situations that unfolded Friday in France, Mediaite reports, exhibiting an awareness that is rarely seen on television or cable news. Both men, who are white, were reporting on events from Paris about noon Eastern time,…

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  • Feds Offer $10,000 Reward in Blast Near NAACP Offices in Colo.

    The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives late Friday announced a $10,000 reward for information about an explosion this week near the offices of the Colorado Springs, Colo., chapter of the NAACP, CBS News reports. Investigators also released a sketch of a person of interest in the Tuesday blast, which could…

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  • George Zimmerman Arrested in Domestic Violence Case

    George Zimmerman, the former volunteer neighborhood watchman who was acquitted in the shooting death of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin, was arrested Friday in a domestic violence case, CNN reports. He was arrested about 10 p.m. in Lake Mary, Fla., near Orlando and charged with aggravated assault and domestic violence with a weapon, according to…

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  • Watch: Fox Reporter Suggests Color Helps Identify Bad Guys

    In typical Fox News fashion, a correspondent essentially equated bad guys with, well, the color of their skin in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo this week. Washington, D.C.-based Fox News correspondent Shannon Bream, who covers the Supreme Court, made the comments Wednesday during an appearance on Outnumbered. She…

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  • Former FAMU Student Sentenced to 6 Years for Marching-Band Hazing Death

    Dante Martin—the former de facto student president of the hazing rituals conducted by Florida A&M University’s marching band—was sentenced to 77 months in prison (almost six-and-a-half years) for the 2011 hazing death of FAMU student and drum major Robert Champion, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Before Martin’s sentencing on manslaughter charges in Champion’s death, his family,…

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  • College Student Dies in Ga. Jail Cell; 2 Officials Placed on Administrative Leave

    Matthew Ajibade, a 22-year-old Nigerian native who was in the U.S. studying computer science at Savannah Technical College, died last week in a Georgia holding cell while he was in police custody. Two sheriff’s deputies have been placed on administrative leave without pay until the investigation into Ajibade’s death is concluded, CNN reports. Ajibade was…

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