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Protests Erupt After Wis. Officer Fatally Shoots Black Teen
Protests broke out late Friday after a 19-year-old Madison, Wis., man was shot and killed inside his home by a police officer after an alleged struggle, according to Madison Police Chief Mike Koval, the New York Daily News reports. Details were still sketchy early Saturday, but initial reports allege that the officer was assaulted after…
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Former NAACP President Ben Jealous May Run for Md.’s US Senate Seat
Benjamin T. Jealous, the former president of the NAACP, who is said to have taken the civil rights organization out of the red and restored its relevance at a time fraught with tensions between working-class communities and law enforcement, is reportedly thinking about tossing his hat into the ring for one of Maryland’s U.S. Senate…
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Watch: Little Girl’s Awesome Comeback After Boy Calls Her Ugly
This little girl for president of everything! A YouTube video published Thursday has been making the rounds as it shows the precocious 4-year-old recounting to an adult offscreen what she told a little boy at school who told her she looked ugly. “What did you say?” the woman prompted. “I said, ‘I didn’t come here…
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Poll: Half of Americans Say Criminal-Justice System Favors Whites Over Blacks
Four in 10 Americans believe that race relations have gotten worse since President Barack Obama was elected in 2008, a new CNN/ORC poll has found. The poll’s findings come at a special time in American history as Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” march in Selma, Ala., during which several hundred individuals attempted…
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Selma Autoworkers March to Montgomery for Better Work Conditions
It’s been 50 years since the original Selma-to-Montgomery marches in Alabama, but on Thursday a group of Selma autoworkers, local community leaders and representatives from national civil rights organizations re-created the iconic trek to Montgomery, this time marching to the Hyundai corporate offices there to demand better conditions in the company’s supply chain. The workers,…
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Philadelphia Police Officer Shot Dead Trying to Prevent a Robbery
Philadelphia Police Officer Robert Wilson III was shot dead Thursday in a GameStop by assailants who were about to rob the video game store, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Wilson, 30, was in the store carrying out his patrol duties when the attempted burglary began. Wilson engaged the robbers and gunfire was exchanged. “Officer Wilson was…
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Terrorist Plot? Underground Tunnel? Turns Out to Be Elaborate Man Cave
It wasn’t a secret underground drug-running cave or a subversive terrorist plot. Turns out that the 33-foot-long bunker, found under one of Toronto’s most popular tourist attractions, was literally just a man cave, according to the architect. Elton McDonald, a 22-year-old construction worker, told the Toronto Sun that had he not been caught, he had plans…
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British 15-Year-Old Arrested by Armed Officers for Afro Pick Mistaken as Gun
Rochae Davis had a black Afro pick tucked into her waistband. That’s reportedly what surveillance footage picked up as she was walking around Croydon in South London, and that is what the armed police who apprehended her supposedly identified as being a gun, the Croydon Advertiser reports. The 15-year-old girl spent nine hours in police…
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Ohio Substitute Teacher Sentenced to 90 Days for Showing ‘How to Die’ Film to Students
In an Ohio judge’s eyes, there were two offenses committed in a case involving a Columbus high school classroom. First, that a substitute teacher who couldn’t speak Spanish was brought in to be a long-term fill-in for a Spanish class. Second, that the teacher, Sheila Kearns, 48, showed the class an inappropriate film depicting 26…
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Miami Brothers Arrested on Charges of Kidnapping and Forcing Teenage Girl Into Prostitution
Brothers Bogacski Thomas and Tavarus Ballard, both 24, were arrested in South Miami Tuesday on charges they kidnapped a 16-year-old girl and forced her into prostitution. She was forced to have sex with approximately two dozen men every day, the New York Daily News reports. Thomas and Ballard are facing several charges, including human trafficking,…