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Fundraiser to Replace Bullet-Riddled Emmett Till Memorial Sign Exceeds $15,000 Goal
A fundraiser started to replace a memorial sign marking the place where Emmett Till’s brutalized body was discovered in Mississippi’s Tallahatchie River in 1955 has exceeded its $15,000 goal, the New York Daily News reports. The memorial sign captured nationwide attention last week after filmmaker Kevin Wilson Jr. posted a photo showing the sign riddled with…
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Fla. Man Convicted in Racially Motivated Murder Gets a New Trial
Jacob Dougan was convicted for the 1974 racially motivated murder of Stephen Orlando, 18, in Jacksonville, Fla., over four decades ago and is now going to receive a new trial, CBS News reports. Police said that Dougan was one of many who were part of a group called the Black Liberation Army. Apparently, group members…
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NYC Woman Whose Child Died in Fire While Left Home Alone Will Not Face Jail Time
Leila Aquino, 21, faces three years’ probation after pleading guilty Friday to criminally negligent homicide in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Kalenah Muldrow, in February, CBS News reports. Aquino was out working as a stripper when her apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., caught fire. When she returned home, firefighters had already…
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Colin Kaepernick Proves He's the Blackest Athlete in Professional Sports
Colin Kaepernick is continuing his protest despite having earned the starting position with the San Francisco 49ers. Despite two losing efforts, the quarterback is also continuing to earn his place in the Afro Hall of Fame for having a perfectly coiffed mane. During his postgame press conference Sunday, Kaepernick sported not only a superb Afro…
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3 Mo. College Basketball Players Charged in Rape of Female Student
Three Missouri college basketball players have been arrested in the rape of a female student. According to Fox 2 Now, three Lindenwood University students—Tylan Birts, Ermias Nega and Bradley Newman—were arrested Thursday. Birts and Nega were charged with second-degree rape, while Newman was charged with second-degree invasion of privacy. According to a statement provided by…
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Watch NBA Great Scottie Pippen Butcher 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame'
NBA Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen is reported to be divorcing from his wife, Larsa, so now is probably not the best time to ask him to sing during the seventh-inning stretch, But it looks like the Chicago Cubs didn’t get the message, as Pippen led the crowd through a butchered rendition of “Take Me…
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NC Woman Fatally Shot While in Town to Attend Funeral
Gastonia, N.C., police are searching for a gunman who opened fire on a home Saturday, killing a woman and injuring a teenager, WSOC-TV reports. According to the report, the woman, Jacobia Lane, was in town for her sister-in-law’s funeral. Lane and about 30 others were at her brother’s home around midnight Saturday when someone opened fire…
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Ga. Teen Wakes From Coma Speaking Fluent Spanish After Severe Concussion
A Georgia teen who survived a near-fatal concussion awoke from a coma speaking fluent Spanish, WSB radio reports. Last month, 16-year-old Reuben Nsemoh was kicked in the head while playing goalie for his travel soccer team, the station reports. The teen suffered a severe concussion, his third concussion in his short life. According to WSB…
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94-Year-Old Black Judge Writes Scathing Dissent in Ohio’s Longest-Running Civil Rights Case
Federal appeals judge Damon Keith is one of several black judges involved in Ohio’s longest-running voting lawsuit, one that strikes at the heart of voter suppression in one of the most significant of the “battleground states.” And he’s not the only one. In the decade-old case, Judge Keith said he was “deeply saddened and distraught”…