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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…
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Authorities Search for Babysitter in Texas After Infant Dies
Police in Texas are searching for a babysitter by the name of Antoine Allen Gorman after a child he was babysitting was allegedly injured in his care, CBS News reports. Police arrived at an apartment complex Tuesday night in Freeport, Texas, after receiving a report about a 2-month-old infant who was not breathing. The child…
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W.Va. White Man Arrested in Fatal Shooting of Black Teen: ‘Another Piece of Trash Off the Street’
A West Virginia man who is accused of fatally shooting an unarmed teenager on Charleston’s East End on Monday night was not permitted to have a gun because of a previous domestic violence conviction, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reports. William Ronald Pulliam, 62, allegedly shot 15-year-old James Harvey Means twice in the abdomen with a .380-caliber…
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Suspect in Texas Police Shooting Death Got Married Hours Before His Arrest
A Texas man facing charges for allegedly ambushing and killing a San Antonio cop reportedly got married Monday, just hours before his arrest in the case, NBC News reports. Otis Tyrone McKane, 31, has been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of San Antonio Police Detective Benjamin Marconi during a traffic stop Sunday…