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Kalief Browder’s Mother Laid to Rest in NYC
About 100 mourners gathered to honor 63-year-old Venida Browder’s life on Saturday in the Bronx, N.Y., according to the New York Daily News. Browder died after a series of heart attacks on Oct. 14. Browder was the mother of the late Kalief Browder, the young New York City man who committed suicide about a year…
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Petition Started to Include Clarence Thomas in National African American Museum
This month marks the 25th anniversary of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ arrival on the nation’s highest court. But the only mention of him that the recently opened National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., has is in reference to Anita Hill’s testimony against him regarding sexual harassment during his confirmation…
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Watch: Attorney General Loretta Lynch Discusses Federal Election Monitors for 2016 Race
In a climate where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has asked his supporters to “monitor” elections and has repeatedly called the system “rigged,” U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch this week released a video discussing this year’s elections and how the federal government will play a part in monitoring them. Considering that this is the first presidential contest…
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Watch: Black Anthem Singer Takes Knee at NBA Game
Yet another citizen has protested police brutality and racial oppression in the sports arena. A black woman performing the national anthem prior to an NBA preseason game in Miami knelt as she sang. Before dropping to her knee to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Denasia Lawrence opened her jacket to reveal a “Black Lives Matter” shirt.…
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Wells Fargo Fraud Scandal Could Force Branch Closures
As Wells Fargo fights to come out from under a fake-account scandal that has forced its former CEO and chairman to retire, there is talk that branch closures may be in the near future. Over the last few years, the Wells Fargo network has held strong, with only 2 percent of its branches closing, compared…
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Twitter, Spotify and Netflix Among Websites Downed in Massive Internet Outage
If you had trouble reading your Twitter timeline or listening to your favorite Spotify playlist Friday morning, you are not alone. Major sites like Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, Netflix and Etsy were down Friday morning after hackers unleashed a major distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attack on servers at Dyn, a major DNS host. Domain…
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T-Mobile Punished for Misleading Customers About 'Unlimited Data' Plans
T-Mobile has come to an agreement with the Federal Communications Commission to pay at least $48 million for not telling its customers that there were actually limits to its highly publicized unlimited-data plans. The settlement, announced Wednesday, is a result of an FCC investigation that began last year into whether the mobile carrier had adequately…
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The Son Rae Carruth Tried to Have Killed Will Be There to Greet Him When He Walks Out of Prison
Rae Carruth is still in denial. The onetime promising Carolina Panthers wide receiver was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in the 1999 shooting death of Cherica Adams, who was pregnant with Carruth’s son at the time. Carruth hired a gunman in order to end the pregnancy because Adams refused to have an abortion.…
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Autopsy Findings of Fatally Beaten NYC 6-Year-Old Released
Autopsy results for Zymere Perkins, 6, who died after being physically abused, have been released, the New York Post reports. On Sept. 26, Zymere was beaten with a broomstick in his Harlem apartment. Apparently he was beaten for defecating in a bucket. “The cause of death is fatal child-abuse syndrome,” said Julie Bolcer, spokeswoman for…
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Forget the Protests; the NFL's Real Black Eye Is and Always Has Been Domestic Violence
New York Giants kicker Josh Brown is a woman-beater. Full stop. He’s not paid to beat women. He’s paid to kick a football. The former has not affected the latter. The New York Giants still employ Brown even though they know Brown is a woman-beater. It isn’t a secret because Brown admitted to being an…