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3rd Mistrial for White Okla. Cop Who Killed Daughter’s Black Boyfriend
Saturday marked the third mistrial in nine months for a former Tulsa, Okla., police officer who admittedly shot and killed his daughter’s black 19-year-old boyfriend. The Associated Press reports that the Tulsa prosecutor on the case expressed shock when District Judge Sharon Holmes again declared a mistrial in the case against Shannon Kepler (Holmes has overseen…
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Recent Black College Grad Beaten to Death in Greece
A recent African-American college grad from Austin, Texas, was beaten to death Friday by a group of 10 men while visiting the Greek island of Zakynthos. Bakari Henderson, 22, was at a bar with his friends when a man approached him and they began fighting. Security asked the men to leave, and the brawl spilled…
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KKK’s Pathetic March in Charlottesville, Va., Met With Throngs of Protesters
Scores of protesters shouted down homegrown terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan as the reviled racists marched in Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of Confederate statues from the city. USA Today reports that more than 1,000 multiracial demonstrators flooded this city’s downtown area Saturday to shout down about 50 Klan members, some of whom…
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Audio Interview Confirms DeJuan Guillory Was Unarmed, Lying on Ground When Cop Shot Him in the Back
Updated Saturday, July 8, 2017, 11:49 p.m. EDT: A new interview sheds light on the Mamou, La., death of DeJuan Guillory. The interview is with Joe Long, the attorney for DeQuince Brown, who witnessed an Evangeline Parish sheriff’s deputy shoot Guillory in the back on July 6, killing him. Pen Point News investigative reporter Daniel…
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Black Fox Business Host Suspended Over Sexual Harassment Claim
Is this equal opportunity misogyny? Fox Business Network—whose sister network Fox News has been accused of being a festering cesspool of sexual misconduct—has suspended one of its team over just that. Charles Payne, host of Making Money on Fox Business Network and one of a few African-American hosts there, has been suspended amid sexual harassment…
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Video Footage Exonerates Venus Williams in Fatal Car Crash
Video footage is turning out to be a real help for African Americans in this country, whose word is rarely taken as truth. And so it goes for tennis star Venus Williams, who, after enduring public shame and sadness over a car accident that ended a man’s life, appears not to have been at fault.…
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#Flint: US Health and Human Services Sends $15,000,000 in Aid to Help Families Impacted by Lead Contamination
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced last week that it was providing approximately $15 million in funding to help the Genesee County Healthy Start program provide health and social services to mothers and families who have or are at risk for lead exposure in Flint, Mich., and surrounding communities. The fund, announced…
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Black Lives Matter L.A. Demands NRA Remove ‘Dangerous Propaganda’ Videos
Last week the National Rifle Association reposted a controversial propaganda video disguised as a recruitment ad that takes aim at the Black Lives Matter movement and uses lies in order to whip its supporters into a frenzy and encourage them to take up arms to protect themselves from a supposed enemy. Friday, a Black Lives…
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The Real Housewives of Potomac’s Black Bill Gates Owes Millions in Taxes
Looks like the black Bill Gates is just an old-ass Wesley Snipes. Ray Huger, the husband of The Real Housewives of Potomac star Karen Huger, owes millions in taxes. That’s right, the slow-moving software exec, whom his wife has dubbed “the black Bill Gates” (feel free to vomit), reportedly “owes nearly $1.5 million in back-due…