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NYC Teenager Arrested for Bringing Loaded Gun to School
On the first day of school at the Brooklyn School for Career Development in New York City, a 15-year-old boy was arrested after getting caught with a loaded gun, according to the New York Daily News. The unidentified teen was discovered with a .22-caliber pistol in his backpack around 9:45 a.m. when it set off the…
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San Francisco School Board President Wants Schools Tied to Slavery to Be Renamed
Matt Haney, president of the San Francisco School Board, wants to change the names of schools in the city named after slave owners, such as Washington and Jefferson, the Los Angeles Times reports. He said that he got the idea while listening to a sermon of the Rev. Amos Brown at San Francisco’s Third Baptist…
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Tenn. Woman Accused of Trying to Remove Body From Funeral
Cynthia Ann Frierson, 36, is being accused of trying to remove a body from a casket after walking into a funeral Monday in Columbia, Tenn., CBS News reports. Frierson is also being charged with public intoxication, unlawful drug paraphernalia, and driving on a revoked and suspended license. According to CBS, before arriving at the funeral, Frierson hit…
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Watch: Meet the Designer Who Lets Your Smartphone Talk to Your Clothes
You may not have heard the name Christopher Bevans, but you have, no doubt, seen his work. From his tenure with Head Tennis and Nike to styling Jay Z and LeBron James, Bevans has his finger on the pulse of the fashion industry and its trendsetters. Today he is breaking new ground with his brand-new…
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Man Who Killed Wife's Would-Be Rapist Cleared of All Charges
On Wednesday, Mamadou Diallo, a Bronx, N.Y., man who killed his wife’s would-be rapist, became a free man, the New York Daily News reports. Diallo’s wife called him when she fought off Earl Nash in their apartment. Diallo, 61, arrived shortly after to save her, armed with a tire iron, the weapon that killed Nash. The medical…
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Video Footage Shows Questionable Arrest of Black Teenage Girls in Texas
Vanae Wright, 17, and her friend Leilani Green were eating at a Whataburger restaurant in San Antonio on Friday when sheriff’s deputies arrested them because of what the lawyer for one of the teens is calling racial profiling, according to the Huffington Post. Deputies were responding to reports of a fight in the Whataburger parking…
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Man Shoots Ex-Wife and Son, Confesses on Facebook Live
Earl Valentine is facing first-degree murder charges for the death of his 15-year-old son. He also shot and critically wounded his ex-wife, Keisha Valentine, in her home in Norlina, N.C., according to the New York Daily News. After shooting both his son and ex-wife, Valentine took to Facebook Live to confess early Tuesday. “What’s up,…
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Hidden Figures: Meet the Black Female Math Geniuses Who Helped Win the Space Race
Even before the publication of Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, the rights to the film version of the book—starring Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson and Janelle Monáe—had been sold. This comes as no surprise: The story of…
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NYC Man Tried to Hail Cab After Being Beaten but Was Rejected, Later Dies
Willy Montilla, 41, was knocked unconscious and later died after being punched three times in the chest by a man Monday morning in the Bronx, N.Y., the New York Daily News reports. At about 9:45 a.m. in the Parkchester section of the New York City borough, Montilla was attacked by a man who hit him…
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How Police Fail to 'Protect and Serve' LGBTQ Communities of Color
Police killings of unarmed black men and women—such as this summer’s shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile—have highlighted the need, long recognized by racial-justice advocates, for a more critical examination of the ways in which police fail to “protect and serve” some of our country’s most marginalized communities. These killings have forwarded a national…
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