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#NoDAPL: Army Orders Protesters Out by Dec. 5; Concerns Rise Over Trump's Stock in Pipeline Company
The conflict between those who oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline and those who want to see it built may soon end in massive arrests. CNN reports that the Army Corps of Engineers announced Friday that the protesters fighting pipeline construction must vacate the property near the Cannonball River in North Dakota by Dec. 5 or be taken…
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NYC Pays $1,500,000 to Family of Man Who Screamed ‘I Can’t Breathe’ and Died in Police Custody
Four years before Eric Garner died after an altercation with New York City police officers on Staten Island, N.Y., another man also died in the same neighborhood, his last words eerily echoing Garner’s: “I can’t breathe.” The New York Daily News reports that New York City has agreed to pay $1.5 million to Stanley Streeter’s fiancee…
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E-Cigarette Explodes in Man’s Pants in NYC’s Grand Central Station
A popular e-cigarette exploded in a New York City man’s pants, resulting in second- and third-degree burns on his hand, leg and arm, according to his attorney. The scary incident was captured on video, where Otis Gooding can be seen jumping in surprise and pain as a huge spark bursts forth from his pants leg.…
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Dylann Roof Determined Fit to Stand Trial for Charleston, SC, Church Massacre
A court in South Carolina ruled today that shooting suspect Dylann Roof is fit to stand trial for the deaths of nine black parishioners at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., last year. As The Root reported earlier this month, a federal judge acknowledged that he had ordered an evaluation regarding whether…
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2 Killed at Popular Ky. Thanksgiving Football Game
Thanksgiving Day ended in tragedy when two people were shot and killed and four others wounded at an annual turkey-day football game in Louisville, Ky. Relatives and friends of the dead and wounded could be seen crying inconsolably on video taken by media outlets. CNN reports that the shootings happened shortly before 2 p.m., during the…
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#NoDAPL: Protester Hit With Police Concussion Grenade Faces Arm Amputation
A water protector who was present during the recent violent police response to protesters at Standing Rock in North Dakota is facing arm amputation after a concussion grenade thrown by police reportedly hit her left arm Sunday, Indian Country Today Media Network reports. Sophia Wilansky, 21, of New York City, was headed to bring water to…
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Baton Rouge, La., Settles Lawsuit With BLM Protesters for $100,000
Black Lives Matter protesters who were arrested in July while demonstrating after the shooting death of Alton Sterling will receive a monetary settlement from the city of Baton Rouge, La. As part of the settlement the Baton Rouge Metro Council approved on Tuesday, four agencies will pay activist DeRay Mckesson and his fellow plaintiffs $100,000.…
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Sojourner Truth Was Enslaved by Family of Rutgers’ 1st President
Like many other colleges that are now being forced to atone for their past transgressions against people of color (Georgetown’s sale of slaves to save the college, UT Austin and its fawning relationship with Jefferson Davis, Yale and its buildings named for slaveholders), Rutgers University is also soberly looking at its not-so-pristine history. In a recently…
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#Recount2016: Jill Stein Raises $3,000,000 for Vote Recount in 3 States Clinton Narrowly Lost
Perhaps that “blue wall” held after all. Or maybe the Defiance election-rigging plotline from Scandal has really come to life. In the last week, prominent computer scientists and election lawyers have been urging the Hillary Clinton campaign to challenge election results in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, three swing states that Donald Trump won, ceding him the…