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NAACP Dismisses President as Organization Reimagines Itself to Address 21st-Century Challenges
After three years in the position, NAACP President Cornell William Brooks was voted out by the organization’s national board Friday as the organization pledges a “systemwide refresh” and “strategic reenvisioning” to best position the historic civil rights organization to “confront the realities of today’s volatile political, media and social climates.” In a press release Friday,…
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‘Sessions Must Go’ Projected on Justice Department Headquarters, FBI Building
In a righteous act of artistic resistance and rebellion, an image of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions wearing a Ku Klux Klan costume, along with various hashtags, was projected on Department of Justice headquarters as well as the FBI building in Washington, D.C., on Thursday night. USA Today reports that Robin Bell took credit for…
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No Indictment: Ohio Grand Jury Finds Police Shooting of 13-Year-Old Tyre King ‘Justified’
Columbus, Ohio, Police Officer Bryan Mason, 31, will not be held accountable for shooting 13-year-old Tyre King to death on Sept. 14, 2016, a Franklin County grand jury has decided. Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said “the grand jury found the shooting to be justified,” 10tv.com reports. Mason, a nine-year veteran on the force, was…
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Former FBI Director James Comey Will Testify in Open Hearing Before Senate Intelligence Committee
Former FBI Director James Comey has agreed to testify in an open hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss his role in the investigation probing Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election. NPR reports that the hearing will be scheduled for after Memorial Day. “The committee looks forward to receiving testimony from the former…
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Report: White House Lawyers Researching Impeachment
White House lawyers have begun researching impeachment in the unlikely event that Donald Trump is forced to go through proceedings aimed at removing him from office, according to CNN. From CNN: White House counsel’s office have consulted experts in impeachment during the past week and have begun collecting information on how such proceedings would work,…
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Colo. Governor Pardons Man Who Won Release From Prison and Was Picked Up by ICE the Same Day
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper heeded the call of lawyers and activists who asked him to intervene in the case of Rene Lima-Marin, the man who was awarded his freedom Tuesday, only to be picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials Wednesday and detained for deportation. Hickenlooper pardoned Lima-Marin on Friday but said he does…
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Federal Judge Dismisses ‘Clock Boy’ Ahmed Mohamed’s Lawsuit Against Irving, Texas, School District
It seems that Ahmed Mohamed—the young Muslim teen who was arrested at his school over a homemade clock mistaken for a bomb—will not be getting any justice in his case. A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit that was filed against the Irving, Texas, Independent School District and the city of Irving. As the…
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Betty Shelby, the Tulsa, Okla., Cop Who Killed Terence Crutcher, Allowed to Return to Active Duty
The Tulsa, Okla., police officer who shot and killed Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black motorist, but was later acquitted of manslaughter in the controversial case will be allowed to return to the police force for active duty, Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan announced Friday. If your brain cannot process what is happening, welcome to the…
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Watch: Complex Premieres Documentary Before the Hashtag: Sean Bell
He was only 23 years old, and on the day of his wedding in 2006, Sean Bell was shot and killed by five undercover officers. The shooting took place shortly after a bachelor party in Queens, N.Y. According to the New York City police commissioner at the time, Raymond Kelly, a fight broke out outside…
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Judge Rules That Prince’s Siblings Will Inherit $200,000,000 Estate
No one will ever know what Prince wanted done with his estate after he passed away because he didn’t leave a will. But on Friday, a judge ruled that his siblings will inherit his $200 million estate. Minnesota’s County Carver County District Judge Kevin Eide said that the rightful heirs to the estate were Tyka…