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Massive Manhunt Underway for Suspect Who Fatally Shot Orlando, Fla., Police Officer
A massive manhunt is underway in Florida after a man fatally shot an Orlando police officer Monday morning, the Associated Press reports. According to the newswire, Orlando Police Master Sgt. Debra Clayton was gunned down near a Wal-Mart store in northwest Orlando earlier Monday. The suspect has been identified as 41-year-old Markeith Loyd, who was…
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Amazon.com, FreshDirect to Accept Food Stamps for Online Grocery Shopping
Soon it will be that much easier for busy families who use food stamps to get groceries. According to Mashable, online grocery-shopping sites such as Amazon.com and FreshDirect will now accept food stamps as part of a pilot program in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The report notes that the two-year program for…
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NJ High School Investigating Hanging Black Dummy Found by Girls Basketball Team
Officials at the Arthur L. Johnson High School in Clark, N.J., plan to investigate an incident in which a visiting girls basketball team found a black dummy hanging from its neck in a room they were assigned, the Courier News and Home Tribune reports. According to the report, when girls from the Plainfield High School…
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ACLU of Mass.: Plan to Use Inmates to Build Border Wall 'Modern-Day Slave Labor'
Last week, during his swearing-in ceremony, Bristol County, Mass., Sheriff Thomas Hodgson proposed offering inmates as free labor if President-elect Donald Trump decided to go forth with his plans to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. As it turns out, some civil rights advocates, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts included, aren’t very…
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President Obama Pens 55-Page Article on Criminal Justice for Harvard Law Review
President Barack Obama returned to his Harvard Law Review roots (he was the first black president of the 100-plus-year-old journal in his last year at the school) as he penned a 55-page-article on our justice system, how his administration has moved the needle and how far we have to go to make substantive change. Entitled…
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Ala.’s Black Belt Hit Hard by Voter-Suppression Measures
Voter suppression is alive and well, and a case in Alabama’s Black Belt proves it. When the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency announced the closure of 31 driver’s license offices in 2015, a journalist in the state showed that the state’s “Black Belt”— the region of Alabama that takes its name first from the color of its…
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Colin Kaepernick Donates Huge Sneaker Collection to Bay Area Orphanages, Shelters
San Francisco backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who has stood for the sanctity of black lives by kneeling during the national anthem, is giving away at least a portion of his colossal footwear collection to Bay Area homeless shelters and orphanages, according to a video posted on Instagram by his girlfriend, DJ Nessa. Kaepernick, who is…
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Sam’s Club’s 1st Black CEO, Rosalind Brewer, Steps Down
Rosalind Brewer, the first woman and the first African American to head Sam’s Club, stepped down from her position Friday, reports Fortune. After five years at the helm of Sam’s Club, Brewer will be replaced by John Furner, Sam’s Club’s chief merchant. Although Brewer said she is leaving the $57 billion-a-year company because “she wants…
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Dylann Roof Wears Racist Symbols on Shoes in Court
Dylann Roof, who was convicted in December of killing nine black parishioners in Charleston, S.C.’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015, has been wearing shoes adorned with racist symbols to court as recently as Monday, the Daily Beast reports. Roof, who is representing himself in the murder trial and who testified that he has…