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Watch: Baltimore Police Reportedly Curse at and Taser Woman for Recording Video
A Baltimore woman has successfully retrieved intense footage that she says she captured of Baltimore City police making an arrest, which led to her being cursed at and tasered, WJZ reports. The video below includes NSFW language. In March, Mwamba said she stopped while driving home when she saw police officers arresting a man who…
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FBI Investigating Death of Black NC Teen Who Was Hanged in a Trailer Park
The FBI is stepping in to investigate the peculiar death of a black North Carolina teen, who was found hanging from a swing set by a dog leash and a belt in a trailer park in August, the Associated Press reports. Lennon Lacy’s family has questioned the state medical examiner’s ruling that the 17-year-old’s death…
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Tamir Rice’s Death Ruled a Homicide by Ohio Medical Examiner
Tamir Rice’s death has been ruled a homicide by a Cuyahoga County, Ohio, medical examiner in a recently released autopsy, BuzzFeed reports. The autopsy concludes that Tamir died from a “gunshot wound of the torso with injuries of major vessel, intestines and pelvis,” also noting in capital letters, “HOMICIDE.” Rice, 12, was shot and killed…
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Does the Movement Need Another March on Washington?
The Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network’s National March on Police Brutality is scheduled for Saturday in Washington, D.C. While attendance estimates are sketchy because of the rushed nature of the event, the march is seemingly being positioned by organizers as the culmination of months of protests that have swept the nation since the Aug.…
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photojournalist Michel du Cille Dies at 58
Celebrated Washington Post photojournalist Michel du Cille died Thursday in Liberia while on assignment at the age of 58, the Washington Post reports. Du Cille, who won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his photographic chronicles of human life, struggle and triumph, was most recently photographing Ebola patients, the Post notes. According to the Post,…
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Cuba Gooding Jr. Will Play O.J. Simpson in a New TV Series About the Murder Trial
American audiences will get to relive the O.J. Simpson murder trial through a new television series that is set to premiere on FX in 2015. Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. will play the NFL icon who fell from grace after being accused and tried in 1995 on charges that he murdered his ex-wife Nicole…
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Congressional Staffers Stage Walkout to Protest Police Killings
Activism is contagious. Just one day after medical-school students across the nation staged die-ins as a way to bring attention to institutional racism in health care, congressional staffers on Capitol Hill walked out of their offices Thursday afternoon to protest the lack of indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner killings by police officers.…
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If You’re Withholding Sex to Make Your Man Stay Faithful, You Need to Let Him Go
You’re never wrong for refusing to have sex with a man you don’t trust and who may be cheating on you. That’s not being selfish. It’s being smart. But it’s also not being celibate as much as it is a woman trying to make her man act right and stop creeping. If he did as…
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Exodus: Gods and Kings: Flooded With Race Problems (and White People)
Exodus: Gods and Kings, Ridley Scott’s epic story of Moses, hit theaters nationwide Friday, and while some people are gearing up for what’s expected to be a biblical blockbuster, others are thinking “not again,” as once more, white actors snag the key roles—even though the story takes place in ancient Egypt—while actors of color stay…