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Man Arrested on Charges He Choked NYC Woman to Death
Authorities say that Rolanso Lexune, 32, was caught harassing Deneisha Smith, 27, on video footage inside the cellphone repair shop where she worked around 1 p.m. Saturday, the New York Daily News reports. Two months earlier, according to the News, Lexune had been court-ordered to stay away from Smith after he had assaulted her. Now,…
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NYC Cop Suing After Her Arrest on Charges of Stealing Home
New York City Police Officer Blanche O’Neal is suing the city for $50 million as a result of her arrest last year by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office on charges she stole a three-family row house in the city’s borough of Brooklyn, the New York Daily News reports. State Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun ultimately threw out…
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NYC Cops Search for Man Seen With Woman Hours Before She Was Killed
Jennifer Cohen, 35, was found beaten to death in a Brooklyn, N.Y., skate park around 9:10 a.m. Thursday, the New York Daily News reports. Cohen had multiple lacerations to her head. A man was seen on video walking with her a couple of hours before she was killed, authorities said. The two were seen walking…
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Black Va. Schoolhouse Built in 1892 Defaced With ‘White Power’ Signs
The Ashburn Colored School opened in 1892, a single-room schoolhouse that gave black children in Northern Virginia the opportunity to receive an education, 30 years after the Civil War ended in the capital of the Confederacy. The school was horribly vandalized this weekend. For the past two years, CNN reports, local students had tirelessly worked…
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Protests Mount After Teen Carnell Snell Jr. Shot and Killed by LAPD
An 18-year-old was shot fatally by the Los Angeles Police Department after a foot chase that relatives said ended tragically in front of his home. The dead teen has been identified as Carnell “C.J.” Snell Jr., a young man neighbors say was into skateboards and his family, according to the Los Angeles Times. LAPD officers…
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Trump DC Hotel Vandalized With Black Lives Matter Graffiti
The brand-spanking-new Trump hotel in Washington, D.C., just got a paint job courtesy of those who believe that black lives matter. The words “Black Lives Matter” and “No Justice No Peace” were spray-painted at one of the entrances of the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. Workers at the hotel covered up the messages with pieces…
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Pasadena, Calif., Man Dies in Police Custody After Being Tased
Pasadena, Calif., police quickly released grainy security video and audio from a 911 call from the family of a man who died in their custody after being restrained and tased early Friday morning. Although authorities have yet to release the name of the dead man, relatives have identified him as Reginald “Junior” Thomas, a father of eight.…
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2016 Triumph Awards Honor Spike Lee, Benjamin Crump and Sean 'Diddy' Combs
It’s become one of the most anticipated civil rights awards programs of the year. Even the Rev. Al Sharpton smiled for the cameras as he and his girlfriend, Aisha McShaw, made their way along the red carpet. They weren’t alone. A litany of stars gathered Sept. 18 at the Tabernacle Theater in Atlanta for the…
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Cedric the Entertainer Leads Protest March Through Hollywood
Cedric the Entertainer and actor Kendrick Sampson, who plays the cute but devious Caleb Hapstall on How to Get Away With Murder, led a march of hundreds of men, women and children down Sunset Boulevard on Wednesday to protest the shooting deaths of black people by police. “We must get involved,” said Cedric, who said…
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Flying While Black? RHOA’s Kandi Burruss Says She and Hubby Kicked Off Flight for No Reason
Editor’s note: This article contains a social media post that some may find offensive. Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss is urging folks not to fly Hawaiian Airlines after she claims she and her husband, Todd Tucker, were kicked off a flight for no legitimate reason. The singer-songwriter and reality-TV star took to Instagram yesterday to…
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