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Fla. Man Convicted of Murder After Throwing 3-Month-Old Out of Moving Car
A 26-year-old Florida man was found guilty on Thursday of tossing an infant out the window of a moving car, the New York Post reports. Little Emanuel Wesley Murray died instantly. According to the report, Richard McTear attacked his ex-girlfriend Jasmine Bedwell in 2009 when she came home with her son. McTear grabbed the infant…
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Chicago Dad Killed Less Than a Week After Teen Son Was Fatally Shot
Samuel Walker Sr. barely had time to mourn the loss of his 13-year-old son, Samuel Walker Jr., before his own life was snatched from him. According to the Chicago Tribune, the elder Walker was shot on the 4100 block of West Crystal Street in Chicago a mere two days before “Lil Sam,” as his son…
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Journalists at NABJ Convention Discuss the State of Black Media
Black journalists have flocked to Boston for the 39th annual National Association of Black Journalists Convention & Career Fair, which is being held at Hynes Convention Center. It’s the first time NABJ has convened in the city once notorious for racial antagonism and tension. As the journalists filed in from media outlets throughout the country,…
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Ebola-Stricken US Aid Worker to Be Flown to US for Treatment
A patient infected with Ebola is expected to be flown into the United States to be treated in Atlanta at Emory University Hospital, Reuters reports. The patient, a U.S. aid worker who contracted the disease while working in West Africa, will be moved to a high-security ward and kept in a special isolation unit that…
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Sierra Leone in State of Public Health Emergency
The lethal Ebola virus ravaging West Africa has forced the hand of Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma, who issued a public health emergency declaration late Wednesday in an attempt to help stop the virus’ spread, the Associated Press reports. According to the news wire, Koroma promised that house-to-house searches would be conducted in order…
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Black Woman Alleges That Popular NY Club Is Racist
A former Stanford student-athlete has alleged that 1 OAK, a New York City nightclub that has played host to a slew of celebrities, refused her entry July 26 because she’s black, Radar Online reports. The woman, who spoke to Radar Online anonymously, said she visited the club because she knew the promoter. When she and…
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I’m Devastated by the News That My Son Isn’t Mine. What Do I Do?
Yesterday I appeared in court to have a DNA test result read. It turns out the boy I have been taking care of for the last four years isn’t mine. The mother—my girlfriend—has to back-pay me, yet that doesn’t make me feel any better. I know men aren’t supposed to cry, but everything is hurting,…
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Dancing Through the Pain and Joy of Comedy
Three days before choreographer Camille A. Brown presents her electrifying dance-theater work Mr. TOL E. RAncE at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival in New York City, she and seven members of her company, plus composer-pianist Scott Patterson, gather around a laptop computer in a studio at the City Center before a rehearsal. Amid hearty laughter,…
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Calif. Playhouse Struggles to Cast Black Male Roles for Ragtime
If you have stellar vocal ability, experience with period pieces, a passion for community theater, are willing to work for free—oh, and you are a black man—a Southern California playhouse may have a spot for you, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Costa Mesa Playhouse in Orange County, Calif., has hit a roadblock in its…
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Theodore Wafer’s Defense Team Calls Medical Examiner in Murder Trial
The controversial trial of Theodore Wafer, the Dearborn Heights, Mich., man charged with manslaughter and second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of unarmed black teen Renisha McBride, continued in Michigan Wednesday, with the defense taking the forefront on Day 5 of the trial as the prosecution rested its case, the Detroit Free Press reports. Calling…