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A Black Whaling Captain Escaped Prejudice at Sea
Editor’s note: For Black History Month, The Root is spotlighting less famous figures from the African American National Biography, whose stories cast a light on hidden or barely remembered episodes from the African-American past. William T. Shorey, a whaling captain known as the Black Ahab, after Moby Dick’s protagonist, was born in Barbados in 1859,…
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Watch: N.Y. Cop Draws Gun on Black Youths to Halt Snowball Fight
A New York community is up in arms after video footage surfaced of a New Rochelle, N.Y., police officer holding several teens at gunpoint after responding to a 911 call about a disturbance that turned out to be a snowball fight, according to Raw Story, citing a report at Talk of the Sound. In the…
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NYC Father Kills 3 and Self in Shooting Rampage, Cops Say
In a story ripped straight from a nightmare, police say a New York City father went on a murderous rampage early Saturday, killing his 7-year-old daughter, along with his girlfriend and her 62-year-old mother, before turning a gun on himself, according to the New York Post. His 12-year-old daughter clings to life with a gunshot…
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Norwood, Ohio, Mayor Promises Not to Abandon Police to ‘Race-Baiting Black Leaders’
Norwood, Ohio, Mayor Thomas Williams penned a letter to his local Police Department, voicing his support for the boys in blue, who he feels are “under attack by race-baiting black leaders and cowardly elected officials,” Talking Points Memo reports. The letter was officially written on Dec. 22, days after New York City police officers Wenjian…
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Watch: Father Takes to YouTube to Stop Bullying of Adopted African-American Daughter
The father of two children who allegedly bullied another child has lost his job after the bullied child’s father posted an emotional YouTube video noting how both the children and their father reportedly called him and his daughter “n—ger.” Confused? Follow me. Brad Knudson and his wife adopted an African-American girl 11 years ago. On…
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Police Release Video of NJ Man’s Fatal Officer-Involved Shooting
Video and audio of Jerame Reid’s fatal Dec. 30, 2014, encounter with police in Bridgeton, N.J., was released by the Bridgeton Police Department. It shows the 36-year-old’s last minutes alive before officers shot him, NJ.com reports. In the video, police can be seen pulling over a blue Jaguar being driven by Leroy Tutt, 46. Reid…
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Larry Wilmore on Bill Cosby: ‘That *Bleep* Did It’
Larry Wilmore’s newly launched talk show, The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore, is already making headlines, and it’s only been a week. Wilmore, who never bites his tongue, took on the controversial topic of Bill Cosby and the looming allegations of sexual assault and drugging. “We’ll ask the question, did he do it?” Wilmore said from…
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SC Cop Suspended After Video Showing Suspect Being Punched
A Columbia, S.C., cop has been suspended without pay after the leak of a video that appears to show him punching a suspect multiple times, USA Today reports. Officer Tyrone Pugh is facing an internal investigation, as well as a separate investigation by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, regarding an incident that happened while,…
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Civil Rights Worker: Selma Is ‘a Fine Film,’ but Eyes on the Prize Is More Accurate
Filmgoers Should Have a Chance to See the Documentary Judy Richardson was a worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia from 1963 to 1966, the time depicted in the movie “Selma.” She began a career in filmmaking as associate producer of “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1985,”…
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#ReclaimMLK Seeks to Combat the Sanitizing of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy
Martin Luther King Jr. had more than “a dream,” but you might not notice that on Monday during observances for his birthday. Somewhere between his assassination and today began an MLK-neutering campaign meant to turn the famed agitator’s holiday into a national Day of Service, a generic mishmash of good feelings that contorts King’s social-justice legacy…