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  • 2 Fla. Men Dead in Shootout Following Online Dispute

    Two men were killed Saturday morning in a shootout following an argument outside a St. Augustine, Fla., convenience store. According to the Florida Times-Union, 25-year-old Canyon Charles Molitor suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the incident and died at the scene around 10 a.m. The other man, Elroi Ishmael Ashley, 20, was shot at least once…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Bareneise Dixon Becomes 1st Black Female Major in Mobile, Ala., Police Department 

    The Mobile, Ala., Police Department on Friday held its promotion ceremony, one that must have seemed like any other ceremony in the department’s history. However, one promotion did, in fact, make history, as Bareneise Dixon, a 28-year law-enforcement veteran, became the first African-American female major in the department. “I look forward to serving in my…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Harvard Confronts Its Ties to Slavery; Ta-Nehisi Coates Calls for Reparations

    Harvard University is the latest university to try to make amends with its slavery-tainted past. On Friday the storied university held a conference to explore the relationship between colleges and slavery, where university President Drew Faust said the school must confront its past to move forward. “Harvard was directly complicit in slavery from the college’s…

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    Angela Helm

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  • Gotta Be the Shoes: NFL Combine Star John Ross Misses Out on an Island Because of Wrong Kicks

    College wide receiver John Moss must be kicking himself for not wearing Adidas on Saturday after breaking Chris Johnson’s record at the 2017 NFL Scouting Combine. The German sneaker giant made a thrilling offer before the weeklong event, which pairs the top college football players performing physical and mental tests in front of NFL coaches,…

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    Angela Helm

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  • As Dirty as They Wanna Be: 7 Baltimore Cops Indicted for Acting Like ‘Gangsters’

    Seven Baltimore police officers have been charged by federal prosecutors with a bevy of serious crimes and falsifying reports to cover them up. These cops were so rogue that the Baltimore police commissioner said they acted like old-school thugs. “These officers are 1930s-style gangsters,” said Commissioner Kevin Davis, according to the BBC. “They betrayed the…

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    Angela Helm

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  • When All Else Fails, Blame the Black Guy—Trump Calls for a Congressional Inquiry Into Obama ‘Wiretap’

    Updated Sunday, March 5, 2017, 11 a.m. EST: It seems as if President Loco is going to his tired and false bag of toddler tricks again. As with the campaign, when he faced a crisis (his taxes, pussy-gate, etc.), Donald Trump threw a ridiculous allegation at someone else—Hillary Clinton then, Barack Obama now. When all…

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    Angela Helm

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  • Trump Administration Considering Separating Women and Children at Border

    In an effort by President Donald Trump to end what he calls “catch and release,” the Department of Homeland Security is considering separating women and children trying to come into the country at the Southern border illegally, ostensibly to stop “the exploitation of children.” “We are trying to find ways to deter the use of…

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    Angela Helm

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  • Philando Castile’s Girlfriend Arrested in Alleged Hammer Attack

    The girlfriend and witness to the death of Philando Castile last year was recently arrested in an attack on a woman in St. Paul, Minn. Prosecutors on Friday charged Diamond “Lavish” Reynolds with felony assault in an alleged attack with a hammer. Reynolds is the woman who live-streamed the horrific death of her boyfriend Philando…

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    Angela Helm

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  • More Americans Killed by Police in 2017, but Trump Dominates Headlines

    Police killings are actually increasing in the United States, according to new data, but because our current president is leading every news cycle, brutality is being pushed to the back burner, activists contend. The rate of police-involved deaths of American citizens is higher than in any month in 2016, and January and February each saw…

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    Angela Helm

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  • Ark. Rushes to Execute 8 Men in Almost as Many Days—Half of Them Black

    In what only can be described as a mad rush toward death, the state of Arkansas plans to execute eight inmates in April because of a looming expiration date for a drug the state uses in executions. The New York Times reports that all eight men—four black, four white—were convicted of murders that occurred between…

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    Angela Helm

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