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Redskins Player Wears Custom Cleats to Protest Police Violence Against Blacks
On Sunday, Washington Redskins wide receiver Desean Jackson wore custom cleats designed with police caution tape to protest police violence against African-American men, women and children. “I felt the need to do it,” Jackson said after the game, the Washington Post reports. “I felt like I’ve been silent long enough. It’s a bigger problem out…
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#SittingOnPorchWhileBlack: Video Shows NC Cop Violently Arresting Black Man
A Greensboro, N.C., police officer was stripped of his law-enforcement credentials last week via a vote by City Council members after body-camera footage of an arrest he made was made public, the Huffington Post reports. According to the report, the council voted unanimously Sept. 26 to permanently sanction Police Officer Travis Cole for his use…
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Texas Sonic Drive-In Customers Upset at 'Racist' Receipts
A Fort Worth, Texas, man is demanding answers after he and his friend noticed that the receipts for their Friday lunch included racial slurs, Fox4DC reports. Tyrone Moseley and a co-worker stopped at a local Sonic drive-in for their meal and ordered on the patio, where, according to Moseley, the servers usually take his name.…
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Ind. Woman Gives Birth to Twins at Age 60
A 60-year-old Indiana woman has become a mother for the first time, giving birth to fraternal twin boys last week, WFIE reports. “I cried. I was like, you know, you look at TV and you see other people in the delivery room and … it’s like, oh my goodness. And it was me. So, joy,…
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Black Va. Schoolhouse Built in 1892 Defaced With ‘White Power’ Signs
The Ashburn Colored School opened in 1892, a single-room schoolhouse that gave black children in Northern Virginia the opportunity to receive an education, 30 years after the Civil War ended in the capital of the Confederacy. The school was horribly vandalized this weekend. For the past two years, CNN reports, local students had tirelessly worked…
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Protests Mount After Teen Carnell Snell Jr. Shot and Killed by LAPD
An 18-year-old was shot fatally by the Los Angeles Police Department after a foot chase that relatives said ended tragically in front of his home. The dead teen has been identified as Carnell “C.J.” Snell Jr., a young man neighbors say was into skateboards and his family, according to the Los Angeles Times. LAPD officers…
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Pasadena, Calif., Man Dies in Police Custody After Being Tased
Pasadena, Calif., police quickly released grainy security video and audio from a 911 call from the family of a man who died in their custody after being restrained and tased early Friday morning. Although authorities have yet to release the name of the dead man, relatives have identified him as Reginald “Junior” Thomas, a father of eight.…
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New Video Reveals Sacramento, Calif., Police Tried to Run Over Black Man Before Fatally Shooting Him
According to recently released dashcam video from a July altercation, two Sacramento, Calif., police officers attempted to run over an African-American homeless man—twice—before they shot and killed him in a hail of bullets. The Sacramento Bee reports that one of the officers said, “[F—k] this guy” in the final minute before they shot Joseph Mann.…
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Police Release #AlfredOlango Videos; Sister Heard Shrieking, ‘Don’t Shoot Him!’
El Cajon, Calif., police released two short videos of the shooting death of Alfred Olango, on Friday, “for the sake of the well-being of the community,” USA Today reports. One of the videos shows the unarmed black man backing away from a police officer before he was fatally shot Tuesday night. El Cajon Police Chief Jeff…
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AT&T CEO Delivers Rousing Speech on Racial Tension in American Society
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson spoke poignantly on the issue of racial tension in America at a Sept. 23 conference for AT&T employees in Dallas. At the eighth annual National Employee Resource Group Conference, Stephenson took the stage and encouraged AT&T employees to have candid, open dialogues about race and inequality. The speech was captured on…