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Childhood Friends Slam NYC Police for Wrongly Identifying Them as Shooting Suspects and Arresting Them
Two childhood friends have filed Internal Affairs Bureau and Civilian Complaint Review Board complaints against the New York City Police Department after they were wrongly identified as shooting suspects in Harlem and then arrested. According to the New York Daily News, Anthony Ross, 30, and Saquan Eadie, 29, ran into each other last month at…
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South Fulton, Ga.’s Entire Criminal-Justice System Is Run by Black Women
“Let black woman lead” is the mantra, and it looks as if one city in Georgia has taken it to heart. Only a year after its creation, South Fulton, the fifth-largest city in Georgia, has every aspect of its criminal-justice system run by African-American women, and unsurprisingly, its approach to criminal justice is among the…
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#HouseHuntingWhileBlack: Ex-NFL Player Arrested in California After ‘Overreactive’ Neighbor Calls Police
An ex-NFL player who was looking to help his mother-in-law find a new home was not only stopped but also arrested by police in Southern California. Kellen Winslow Jr., 34, who was chosen in the first round of the NFL draft in 2004 and played for several pro teams, was arrested Thursday afternoon in the…
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Restaurants Boycott Brooklyn, NY, Army Base After Guard Called ICE on Deliveryman
After Pablo Villavicencio, a 35-year-old immigrant from Ecuador, was detained and then turned over to immigration agents after delivering pizza to a Brooklyn, N.Y., military base last week, many restaurants and delivery services in the area began a boycott of the Army garrison. This act serves not only as a form of protection for those…
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15 Syracuse University Frat Boys Suspended Over ‘Extremely Racist’ Video Skit
Racist, sexist and all-around offensive humor still seems to be a favorite pastime for college kids who love to use the n-word and smear on blackface for fun. On Tuesday, Syracuse University suspended 15 members of a professional fraternity and banned the frat from the school for life after they appeared in two videos that…
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‘Jena 6’ Defendant Gives University of Washington Law School Commencement Address
One of the six young men jailed for allegedly participating in a racially induced fight in Louisiana some years ago has graduated from law school and gave the commencement address Sunday. Theodore Roosevelt Shaw was 17 in 2006, one of the so-called Jena Six, who made international headlines after the charges brought against him and…
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Black Charlottesville, Va., Flame Thrower Found Guilty of Disorderly Conduct, Sentenced to 20 Days in Jail
The commonwealth of Virginia, not known to be the friendliest place for black defendants, has given the young man who used a spray-paint can and lighter to defend himself against gun-wielding racists 360 days for disorderly conduct (all but 20 were suspended). Corey Alexander Long, who was a counterprotester at last August’s Unite the Right…
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Dancing Dermatologist Has License Yanked by Georgia Medical Board
There is no saving face for dermatologist Windell Davis-Boutte. The dancing doctor, who hit medical infamy after videos surfaced of her rapping and dancing to “Cut It” by O.T. Genasis—and crooning “Gut don’t live here anymore” to Rose Royce’s “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore”—over unconscious patients, had her medical license suspended by Georgia’s Composite Medical…
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Alabama’s Republican Nominee for Chief Justice Might Be the Only Judge More Racist Than Roy Moore
The man who could replace Roy Moore as the next chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court is a lot like Moore—only more racist and homophobic. Let’s be clear. Roy Moore is a racist. Moore insinuated that the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, should be repealed. He said that the last time America was great was…
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Philadelphia Police Department Changes Trespassing Policy After Starbucks Incident
The Philadelphia Police Department announced that it will change the way officers handle trespassing calls after a debacle in which two men were arrested in a Center City Starbucks café for possession of blackness with intent to exist. In April, Starbucks employee Holly Hilton alerted police officers to the presence of Rashon Nelson and Donte…