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Chicago Cop Who Killed College Student and Innocent Bystander Will Face No Charges
A Chicago police officer who shot and killed a college student and his downstairs neighbor by mistake will face no charges in the two deaths. The Cook County District Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute the officer on Friday, saying that there was insufficient evidence that he was not acting in self-defense. On the day after…
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In ‘It’s About Damn Time’ News, the Army Approves Locks as a Hairstyle for Black Women
Black women serving in the United States Army will now, finally, be able to wear their hair in locks (also known as dreadlocks) and twists, after an exhausting and what many believe, unfair fight over many years. Couched in new regulations focused on grooming policy changes related to religious accommodations, the largest branch of the…
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Black Army General Loses 2 Stars Over Lies, Stripper Sex Scandal
An African-American three-star general was demoted in retirement for using a government credit card to patronize strip clubs and other “conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman on multiple occasions,” the Army announced Thursday. An Army spokesperson said that Maj. Gen. Ronald Lewis, then-senior military aide to former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, was bumped down to…
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Betsy DeVos Visits Howard U in 1st Act as Education Secretary; Many Skeptical
In her very first meeting in her new gig, embattled Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visited Howard University on Thursday to meet with university leaders. The meeting at the historically black university, founded in 1867, was one where she was welcomed—at least by the administration—unlike at the Washington, D.C., public school where she was denied entrance…
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Did Vogue Use a Brown-Paper-Bag Test for Its New Group Cover?
For those unfamiliar, the “paper-bag test” was a tactic used by certain African-American social organizations, fraternities and even churches to keep dark-skinned people out. The saying is that if you were darker than a brown paper bag, then you had no place in said organization. As has been the case for some time, lighter skin…
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Reported ICE Immigration Sweeps in Southern Calif. Prompt Angry Response in Los Angeles
Civil rights groups in Los Angeles said Thursday that they had been alerted by “credible sources,” including attorneys, that immigration sweeps were taking place in the greater L.A. area, prompting more than 100 protesters fueled by fear and outrage to march in the streets of downtown L.A. on Thursday evening. As the Los Angeles Daily…
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Could This Be 1st Step in Impeachment Process? Democrat Files ‘Resolution of Inquiry’ on Trump
A senior member of the House Judiciary Committee introduced a Resolution of Inquiry on Thursday that directs the Department of Justice to provide the House of Representatives with any and all information relevant to an inquiry into President Donald Trump and his associates’ conflicts of interest, ethical violations (including the emoluments clause) and Russia ties.…
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Neo-Confederate Group Asks ‘Able-Bodied, Traditionalist Southern Men’ to Join Vigilante Defense Force
The neo-Confederate group League of the South announced last week that it is forming a force called the Southern Defense Force to combat the “leftist menace to our historic Christian civilization.” The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog, which monitors and exposes the activities of the American radical right, reports that League of the South…
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Wrongfully Convicted Ind. Man Says Pence ‘Abandoned Me’
Keith Cooper is still getting used to being an officially pardoned man. It’s only been a day, after all, since new Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb removed the wrongfully placed stain from his record, a stain put there because of a violent armed robbery Cooper did not commit, but for which he spent nearly a decade…