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John Crawford’s Girlfriend Questioned for Over an Hour Before Cops Tell Her He Is Dead
John Crawford III walked into a Beavercreek, Ohio, Wal-Mart on Aug. 5. He was there with his girlfriend, Tasha Thomas, to get marshmallows, graham crackers and chocolate. The plan was to make s’mores for a family cookout. Once at the store, he picked up an unboxed BB gun from the shelf and began walking the…
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Ohio Police Union President: Browns’ Andrew Hawkins ‘Pathetic’ for ‘Justice for Tamir Rice, John Crawford’ Shirt
Cleveland police union President Jeff Follmer has blasted the Cleveland Browns’ wide receiver Andrew Hawkins for wearing a “Justice for Tamir Rice and John Crawford III” shirt, which Follmer referred to as “pathetic,” the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Hawkins has joined the growing list of athletes—professional and collegiate—wearing shirts during pregame warm-ups protesting various police…
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1st Deadline for Affordable Health Care Insurance Coverage Is Monday
If you or people you know need health care now, signing up for Affordable Care Act health coverage must be done by Dec. 15 in order to be covered by Jan. 1. If by chance you miss that date, all is not lost. The Miami Herald reports that first-time Obamacare consumers without insurance can still…
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Selma’s David Oyelowo Wants the Films He’s in to Make a Difference
It’s official. British actor David Oyelowo (pronounced oh-yellow-oh) is a bona fide star. He’s an actor whom viewers have been seeing over the last 15 years, but they may not have been able to put a name to his face, as we say in the United States. That’s about to change with Oyelowo’s portrayal of…
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The Least Celebrated, but Most Successful, Colleges for Graduating Low-Income Black Students
Analyses that evaluate the success of HBCUs by observing their six-year graduation rates often miss the mark. On the surface, graduation rates tell us little about a college’s or university’s ability to educate a racially and economically diverse student body. Few colleges and universities educate a majority low-income student body and also graduate the majority…
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3 Black Churches in Florida Vandalized With KKK Graffiti
The FBI is investigating hate crimes in a rural Florida county where three predominantly black churches were recently defaced with racist graffiti scrawl, according to the International Business Times, which cites a report at the Tallahassee Democrat. The latest case was discovered Wednesday when members of Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church in Crawfordville in Wakulla…
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Black Figures Hanged in Effigy at UC Berkeley
The Associated Press is reporting that three cardboard cutouts of black people were found hanging by nooses Saturday on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. University spokeswoman Amy Hamaoui said police are investigating the incident to determine who hanged the effigies, which were found at two prominent campus locations Saturday morning, the report…
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Cosby Breaks Silence, Only Expects Black Media to Remain ‘Neutral’
Amid a welter of decades-old allegations of sexual assault, embattled actor and comedian Bill Cosby broke his silence recently, placing the burden on black media outlets to remain neutral in the widening scandal, the Hollywood Reporter writes, citing a piece at the New York Post. “Let me say this,” Cosby told the New York Post Friday.…
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Prosecutor Quietly Releases New Ferguson Documents
As a nation marched against police violence in the black community, the Associated Press reports that the St. Louis prosecutor on Saturday quietly released additional documents from the investigation into the police shooting death of Michael Brown, including an interview transcript of a friend who reported seeing the teen get shot in the back. St.…
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The Root TV: I’m Black, Undocumented and Torn About Obama’s New Immigration Order
Jonathan Jayes-Green immigrated to the U.S. from Panama when he was 13, but it wasn’t until his senior year in high school, when he began to fill out college applications and financial-aid forms, that he realized how much of an impact his status as an undocumented immigrant would have on his ability to attend college…