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Rosa Parks’ Writings Available to Public, Revealing a ‘Lonely’ Woman ‘Cut Off From Life’
Rosa Parks’ volumes of letters, writings, photographs and personal notes will be released to the Library of Congress on Wednesday, giving researchers and the public access to the revered civil rights figure’s life and innermost thoughts, the Associated Press reports. Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery, Ala.,…
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SC High School Students Redecorate Rock Vandalized With Racist Message
Students at South Pointe High School in South Carolina wasted no time in turning around the ugly message that had been spray-painted across a spirit rock outside the school over the weekend, turning it into a message of equality, the Herald Online reports. The first, racist message, which read “Happy N—ger Month” and was signed…
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NYPD Cop Charged With Assault for Allegedly Stomping on Subdued Suspect’s Head
New York City Police Officer Joel Edouard has been charged with assault after he allegedly kicked a subdued suspect’s head in an incident captured on video, the New York Post reports. Edouard, 37, is set to be arraigned on Tuesday, the site notes. The controversial arrest in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of the borough of Brooklyn occurred…
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Detroit Man Who Walks 21 Miles to Work Is Rewarded by Strangers
Detroit native James Robertson’s 1998 Honda Accord quit on him some 10 years ago, but he didn’t quit on life. For 10 years since losing his wheels, Robertson has walked some 21 miles a day, to and from his house in Detroit to his factory job in Rochester Hills, Mich., and in more than 10…
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DC Middle School Students Protest the Firing of Teachers 'Who Taught Black History'
Students at Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science walked out of class Monday to protest the alleged firing of three social studies teachers that were reportedly let go for teaching African-American history, WJLA reports. The public charter school’s principal, Angelicque Blackmon, is a black woman, but a parent said that Principal Blackmon canned…
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Obama Budget Proposal Taxes the Rich, Cigarettes, Corporations
President Barack Obama sent a budget to Congress Monday with ambitious strategies to strengthen America’s middle class. Chief among his proposals are plans to raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations and to use that money to spend a record $4 trillion on “domestic and military programs” to do things like rebuild roads and bridges, the…
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Warren Sapp Arrested in Hotel on Charges of Soliciting a Prostitute
Former NFL player and current NFL analyst Warren Sapp was arrested Monday morning on charges he solicited a prostitute, according to TMZ Sports. The news site notes that Sapp, who does commentary for the NFL Network, was in Phoenix for the Super Bowl. The 42-year-old Hall of Famer was booked and no word was given on whether…
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SC High School Vandalized: Happy N–ger Month
A South Carolina high school was the target of racist graffiti Sunday when a large rock, which sits in front of the school, was spray-painted with the slur “Happy N—ger Month,” Raw Story reports. The rock, in front of South Pointe High School in Rock Hill, was signed “KKK,” the news site notes. “It was…
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Man Tries to Save Sister From Burning Brooklyn Home
A Brooklyn, N.Y., man, Raphael Henry, in a desperate attempt to save his sister, ran back into his burning home on Sunday but was rendered unconscious by the smoke, the New York Post reports. “He came outside and found everyone had gotten out except his sister,” Raphael Henry’s son Raymond Henry told the news site. “He…
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Obama: Let’s Set Aside $50 Million to Restore Historic Civil Rights Sites
In a new budget plan, President Obama has earmarked approximately $50 million to be used to restore the national park sites affiliated with the civil rights movement. The move is a way to commemorate this year’s 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, The Hill reports. Obama hopes to invest in sites such as the Selma…