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2nd NYPD Death Ruled Homicide
The death of a 45-year-old man who struggled with police while being taken into custody in July in New York City has been ruled a homicide by the medical examiner’s office, according to CNN. The man, Ronald Singleton, died in police custody on July 13, just four days before Eric Garner died after an officer…
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11 Shot in Chicago as Labor Day Weekend Kicks Off
As the long holiday weekend kicked off, at least one person was killed and 10 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago, according to NBC Chicago. In shootings scattered across the city, one man was killed late Friday in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. And just after 5 a.m. Saturday, a 28-year-old man was…
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11 Shot in Chicago as Labor Day Weekend Kicks Off
As the long holiday weekend kicked off, at least one person was killed and 10 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago, according to NBC Chicago. In shootings scattered across the city, one man was killed late Friday in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. And just after 5 a.m. Saturday, a 28-year-old man was…
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Whites Should Learn Our History to Understand Our Pain
When I was a very young boy, I decided that it would be fun to draw swastika images on various objects that I owned. My parents were outraged and made me remove every one. Realizing that I had no idea what I had done wrong, my dad sat me down and explained that Adolf Hitler…
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Michael Sam: What's Next?
Now that Michael Sam has been cut by the St. Louis Rams, questions abound about what’s next for the defensive end who earlier this year became the NFL’s first openly gay player. And Twitter reaction to the Rams’ decision was decidedly mixed. https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/505845737406865408https://twitter.com/TheMadMrMartin/status/505845549908889601https://twitter.com/pcwhitegirl/status/505845188322140160 NFL analysts and insiders tell the Washington Post that after a productive…
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Michael Sam Cut By St. Louis Rams
“It was a football decision.” With those words St. Louis Rams coach Mike Fisher announced that defensive end Michael Sam, the first openly gay player drafted in the NFL, fell short of making the 53-man roster for the team. Fisher praised Sam’s pre-season performance in which he had 11 tackles and three sacks. According to…
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St. Louis County Officer in Bigoted Video Rant Retires
A St. Louis County police officer, who pushed a television journalist on live television in Ferguson, Mo., and was recently suspended after a bigoted videotaped rant, has retired, the Huffington Post reports. The officer, Don Page, served his last day with the force on Aug. 25, MSNBC reported Friday. A representative of the St. Louis…
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Watch: Fatal Shooting by Off-Duty Chicago Cop Sparks Calls for Justice
Marlon Horton was unarmed when he was shot and killed during a confrontation with an off-duty Chicago police officer last year. And a recently released video recording of the incident has reignited the family’s call for justice, according to Fox Chicago News television. The recording was released in the aftermath of two other high-profile deaths…
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Swaziland’s Royal Family Slammed for Opulent Lifestyle
Swaziland’s royal family has found itself ensnared in the firm grip of social media users who are determined to expose the lavish lifestyle of “Africa’s last absolute monarch,” while most of the country’s people barely subsist on $1 a day per person, Agence France-Presse reports. SwaziLeaks began writing critical posts about the problem almost a…
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$40,000,000 Civil Rights Suit Filed Against Ferguson
It was bound to happen. A group of demonstrators have filed a $40 million lawsuit against Ferguson, Mo., and its police department in the aftermath of days of angry protests that swept through the city this month. The lawsuit, filed by six plaintiffs, accuses police of using “wanton and excessive force” when demonstrators took to…
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