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Video Surfaces of 2nd Man Apparently Choked by NYPD
An internal investigation is being launched within the New York City Police Department after a second video reportedly surfaced of another officer using an alleged choke hold on a man during an arrest. Choke holds are banned by the NYPD as a tactic for restraining a suspect. According to the Associated Press, on July 14,…
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Renisha McBride Shooting Trial Begins in Detroit
As the highly controversial Renisha McBride shooting trial began in Detroit Wednesday, jurors heard two different versions of what happened that night from the lawyers on opposing sides in their opening statements, the Detroit Free Press reports. Lawyers for Theodore Wafer—the 55-year-old Dearborn Heights, Mich., resident charged in the shooting death of the young, unarmed…
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Study: Black Women Make Only 64 Cents for Every Dollar White Men Earn
It’s been 50 years to the month since Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced, making employment discrimination on the basis of “race, color, religion, sex and national origin” illegal and paving the way for equal-employment opportunity for everyone, right? Wrong. For women of color, especially black women, inequality in pay,…
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Heroic Ebola Doctor Contracts Lethal Virus
He was hailed as a national hero in his home country of Sierra Leone for his work treating patients of the deadly Ebola virus. However, now, the New York Post reports, virologist Sheik Umar Khan has become a victim of the very disease he was trying to battle, the latest casualty in the epidemic that…
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Mother Who Lost Her 11-Year-Old to Stray Bullet at 1st Sleepover Speaks
A teary Shaneetha Goodloe sat down with ABC 7 on Monday to talk about the shooting death of her daughter. “Every morning I wake up and I cry for at least three hours. I just can’t believe it,” Goodloe told ABC on Monday. Goodloe worked hard to keep her 11-year-old daughter, Shamiya Adams, from the realities…
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Leaders Like Ken Noble Remind Us of the Value of Affirmative Action
This week the New York Times ran an obituary of one of its own—Kenneth B. Noble. Noble closed his professional career as a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley. He had started that career with 17 years as a reporter for the Times, including a five-year stint…
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All the Times Eric Holder Kept It Completely 100
It was nothing for Attorney General Eric Holder to tell ABC News that Sarah Palin “wasn’t a particularly good vice presidential candidate” and for him to suggest, in his own way, that she ought to read the Constitution before proposing that President Barack Obama be impeached—seeing as how there would be no legal basis for…
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Marissa Alexander Is Denied New Hearing; Still Faces 60 Years in Prison
A judge has ruled against providing Marissa Alexander, 33, with a new “Stand your ground” hearing, reports Salon. Alexander was originally convicted and sentenced in 2012 to 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot during a confrontation with her abusive husband, Rico Gray. The conviction was overturned on appeal. The “Stand your ground”…
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Singing Obstetrician Welcomes Newborn Babies to the World
Forget the traditional newborn cries that come out of the maternity ward; when a baby is born at Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh, you’re more likely to hear the soothing tones of someone singing. This is how Dr. Carey Andrew-Jaja welcomes his littlest patients into the world, singing from a repertoire that ranges from their very…
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LA Clippers Player Matt Barnes Turns to Social Media to Catch Aunt’s Killer
On Tuesday night, Los Angeles Clippers player Matt Barnes took his fight to find his aunt’s killer to social media. Barnes posted a photo of his aunt’s husband to his Instagram account with this caption: “This dude stabbed my auntie in the neck last week & left her for dead on the sidewalk, she ended…