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13-Year-Old Texas Girl Kidnapped, Killed Over Stolen Drugs
The death of a 13-year-old Texas girl who was kidnapped and killed because of a drug theft involving one of her relatives has a community reeling. An Amber Alert was issued for Shavon Le’Feye Randle of Lancaster, Texas, on Wednesday. On Sunday, Shavon was found dead in an abandoned home along with 19-year-old Michael Titus,…
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Trump’s DOJ Civil Rights Pick Defended Corporations Against … Discrimination
Last week, President Donald Trump put forth his nominee to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, giving many social justice and LGBTQ activists major pause. Eric Dreiband, a Washington, D.C.-based labor attorney, served as general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under President George W. Bush. He has also made a career of…
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Justice for Jasmine: Black Miss. Teen Forced to Share Valedictorian Title Sues
A black mother brought a federal lawsuit against a Mississippi school district last week, claiming that it made her daughter “co-valedictorian” with a white student who had a lower grade-point average. Jasmine Shepard, the very first black valedictorian in 110 years in the Cleveland, Miss., school district, says that the day before graduation last year,…
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Pa. Man Arrested in ‘Road Rage’ Death of 18-Year-Old Bianca Roberson
After a two-day manhunt, a 28-year-old Pennsylvania man was arrested Sunday and charged with murder in the shooting death of 18-year-old Bianca Roberson. David Desper of Trainer, Pa., turned himself in at 2 a.m. and was arraigned on first-degree murder and other charges, according to WPVI-TV. In what is being described as a “road rage”…
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Mo. High School Students ‘Repair’ Vandalized Emmett Till Memorial
A group of high school students on a social justice jaunt across the country helped to restore dignity to a defaced Emmett Till memorial after they came across it in Money, Miss., last week. The Washington Post reports that the group of 24 students, part of the St. Louis-based Cultural Leadership program, traveled the country…
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Rapper Performing During Shootout Inside Ark. Club Arrested on Gun Charges
A Memphis, Tenn.-based rapper who was headlining the Little Rock, Ark., show where 28 people were injured was arrested Sunday in Alabama on unrelated gun charges. AL.com reports that 25-year-old Ricky Hampton, better known as Finese 2Tymes, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals, the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) and the FBI…
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Steph Curry Scores Richest Deal in NBA History With $200,000,000 Contract
He might not be Michael Jordan, or even LeBron James, but Steph Curry has just agreed to what amounts to the richest deal in NBA history. The five-year deal with the Golden State Warriors is worth $201 million with no options, as confirmed by Curry’s agent Jeff Austin of Octagon. USA Today reports that Curry…
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Vegas ’Bout to Be Lit—With the Sticky Icky. Nev. Legalizes Recreational Marijuana Today
Just when you thought Vegas couldn’t get any better, it just goes ahead and keeps the party at 1,000. For the state that already has legalized prostitution and gambling, the legalization of cannabis might just make it a debaucher’s dream. At midnight on Saturday, two marijuana dispensaries in Reno, Nev., became two of the first…
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The Doctor Who Shot Up the Hospital in NYC? Yeah, He Was Black. Damn
As my little bio in at the end of this post notes, I am not into “respectability politics”—that is, giving a fuck about what white folks think about my choices, whether speaking “black English” (loudly, of course), giving my children black-ass names or tamping myself down in any way to fit into some vague notion…
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Morehouse Names Harold Martin Jr. Interim President
Morehouse College’s board of trustees voted unanimously to appoint Harold Martin Jr. as its new interim president, the school announced in a Thursday press conference. Martin, a 2002 alumnus of Morehouse who later earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a law degree from Yale, is the school’s third president in as many months.…