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19-Year-Old Texas Mom Killed in Drive-by Shooting
A 19-year-old Houston mother was killed in a drive-by shooting Tuesday, the International Business Times reports. According to the report, a black Camaro drove through the parking lot of Kendra Childs’ apartment complex, with five shots fired from the car into a second-floor apartment. Childs was killed. Her boyfriend discovering her body the day of…
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Damon Young's Talk At The University Of Houston
As I wrote yesterday, the University of Houston’s Valenti School of Communication invited me to campus to speak about race and writing and shit. Video footage of the talk is below. A couple highlights: ***I was wearing a mic, but apparently it wasn’t working. I didn’t realize it wasn’t working, though, so I kept talking. Moments later,…
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Texas Death Row Inmate May Have Faked Mental Illness
Gerald Eldridge, 52, may have faked having an illness to avoid execution after fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend Cynthia Bogany and her daughter in Houston 23 years ago, the Associated Press reports. Eldridge was convicted in 1993, and in 2009, when he was less than two hours away from being executed by lethal injection, U.S. District…
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White Lives Matter and the Lost Art of Shutting the F Up
I consider myself a practitioner of a dying art form that is slowly disappearing from society. Long before it was an internet acronym or a text message abbreviation, this unique skill was passed down to me as a man who was raised by a single mother in a house with three other sisters. I honestly…
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‘White Lives Matter’ Group Protests Outside Houston NAACP
About 20 members of a “White Lives Matter” group protested outside the NAACP in Houston’s 3rd Ward Sunday, calling out what they said was the civil rights organization’s failure to speak out against pro-black organizations like Black Lives Matter, SFGate reports. “We came out here to protest against the NAACP and their failure in speaking…
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Video Shows Houston Officer Attack Woman at Traffic Stop Who Called 911 Because She Feared Him
In March a black woman by the name of Earledreka White was pulled over by a Houston police officer for crossing the double white line. Soon afterward she called 911 because she was afraid of the cop. She said to the dispatcher, “I would like another officer to come out here. My heart is racing.…
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Ex-NFL Player, Wife Killed by 16-Year-old Son
A 16-year-old has been charged with murder in the tragic death of his parents, who were shot early Friday morning in their Houston home. Former NFL player Antonio Armstrong was pronounced dead at a Houston hospital on Friday, while his wife, Dawn Armstrong, was reportedly killed in her bedroom earlier that night. Their teenage son is being…
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Video Appears to Show Alva Braziel With His Hands Up Prior to Being Shot by Police
Alva Braziel was shot and killed by police in Texas early Saturday morning. Houston police said Braziel was waving a gun when they approached him. Authorities said the officers gave multiple commands for him to drop the weapon, but Braziel, they said, pointed his gun at officers, prompting them to discharge their weapons, ultimately killing Braziel.…
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Ex-Marine Charged With Murder in Stabbing Death of 11-Year-Old in Houston
Authorities have apprehended an ex-Marine from Houston and charged him with murder in the stabbing death of 11-year-old Josue Flores, in an attack that shook the neighborhood, CBS News reports. Andre Timothy Jackson Jr. was arrested Friday afternoon at a Salvation Army in downtown Houston and charged later that day. The 27-year-old ex-Marine is being…