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Sierra Leone Ebola ‘Lockdown’ Raises Concerns
A proposal by Sierra Leone officials to “lock down” its borders in an effort to contain the spread of Ebola may have the opposite effect as cases are concealed, health experts said Saturday, according to Reuters. The government plans to order citizens not to leave the areas around their homes for three days starting Sept.…
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Another Witness Says Michael Brown’s Hands Were Up
A witness, who spoke to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the condition of anonymity, says he was working on a building in the neighborhood when he saw Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson chasing Michael Brown and shooting him while the teen’s hands were up. So far the key witness to the shooting has been…
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The Root TV: Whose Race Legacy Will Reign Supreme: Obama’s or Holder’s?
Going into the final stretch of President Barack Obama’s presidency, as Americans—and particularly African Americans—begin to form opinions about his legacy on issues of race (that is, what he’s done for black people), they’ll look back to a couple of great rhetorical moments and key policy successes, but they’ll also remember that he was perhaps…
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Judge Signs $41,000,000 Central Park Five Settlement
A federal court judge has signed off on New York City’s $41 million wrongful-conviction settlement with the so-called Central Park Five, court records show, the New York Daily News reports. Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis signed the deal Friday to give $7.125 million each to Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam and Kevin Richardson for their…
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Louisiana Cop Quits After Racist Texts Released
An officer with the Baton Rouge Police Department in Louisiana resigned under fire this week after a string of bigoted text messages he wrote about blacks were released to authorities, WBRZ-TV reports. “They are nothing but a bunch of monkeys,” one text read, according to the report. “The only reason they have this job is…
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Black Women Hit Hard by Unemployment
While unemployment rates have fallen for nearly every group of Americans after the most recent recession, there appears to be no reprieve for black women. An estimated 10.6 percent of black women age 20 or older are unemployed, a figure unchanged from a year ago, International Business Times reports, citing Friday’s jobs report from the…
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DC Could Not Have Prevented Disappearance of Relisha Rudd, City Report Says
Mayor Vincent Gray’s administration did its best to offer suitable services to missing 8-year-old Relisha Rudd and her family, according to a report (pdf) released this week by two deputy mayors of Washington, D.C. But lapses in communication among several key agencies, including schools and social services, may have led to mistakes in Relisha’s case, with…
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A Video Survey of Police Interactions: Inequality in Black and White
“There is a difference this time; this time there’s a video,” the Rev. Al Sharpton told the crowd at Eric Garner’s funeral in July. “Go to the tape. The tape tells what you did and what you didn’t do.” He was referring to the footage of the last living moments of the unarmed black New York…
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I’m a Young, Black Woman Running for Office. And I’m a Proud Democrat
In politics, getting even 60 percent of the vote is considered a landslide. But in the 2012 presidential election, 93 percent of black voters cast their ballots for President Barack Obama—politics doesn’t even have a word for that kind of margin. So it probably doesn’t come as a surprise that a young, African-American woman like…
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New Reality Show Chronicling Ja Rule’s Family Life Is Coming to MTV
MTV seems to have learned a thing or two from VH1 and rapper T.I. about having a hip-hop superstar-turned-family man spearhead a reality show. According to Variety, MTV has signed off on a half-hour reality show that will chronicle Ja Rule’s home life with his wife, mother-in-law and three kids. The press statement that Ja…
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