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San Francisco School Board President Wants Schools Tied to Slavery to Be Renamed
Matt Haney, president of the San Francisco School Board, wants to change the names of schools in the city named after slave owners, such as Washington and Jefferson, the Los Angeles Times reports. He said that he got the idea while listening to a sermon of the Rev. Amos Brown at San Francisco’s Third Baptist…
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Tenn. Woman Accused of Trying to Remove Body From Funeral
Cynthia Ann Frierson, 36, is being accused of trying to remove a body from a casket after walking into a funeral Monday in Columbia, Tenn., CBS News reports. Frierson is also being charged with public intoxication, unlawful drug paraphernalia, and driving on a revoked and suspended license. According to CBS, before arriving at the funeral, Frierson hit…
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Obama Administration Encourages Schools to Clarify Role of School Police
The Obama administration is asking schools and colleges to clarify the role of law-enforcement officials who serve campuses, the Washington Post reports. According to the report, the recommendations come after several violent encounters between school police and students, sparking debate about whether authorities are actually keeping children safe or arresting them for no reason. “The…
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Man Accused of Running Over, Killing Black Teen Is Linked to White Supremacist Prison Gang: Cops
Investigators say that that an Oregon man accused of running over a black teen and killing him is associated with a white supremacist prison gang, the Washington Post reports. According to the Post, police are not sure what started the fight between Russell Courtier and Larnell Bruce or why, according to authorities, Courtier chased the…
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Minn. Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Firebombing Somali Restaurant in Hate Crime
A Minnesota man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to a federal hate crime for starting a fire at a Somali restaurant in North Dakota, the Associated Press reports. Prosecutors said that Matthew Gust did not like Somalis and did not want them living in the area. Gust, of East…
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Student Killed at NYC J'Ouvert Event Told Man to Stop Grinding on Her, Cops Say
A St. John’s University student who was killed during J’Ouvert festivities in Brooklyn, N.Y., had reportedly told a man to stop grinding against her, police said Tuesday, according to the New York Post. According to the report, 22-year-old Tiarah Poyau was walking the J’Ouvert route with three friends when she was accosted by a man. Poyau told…
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Man Who Killed Wife's Would-Be Rapist Cleared of All Charges
On Wednesday, Mamadou Diallo, a Bronx, N.Y., man who killed his wife’s would-be rapist, became a free man, the New York Daily News reports. Diallo’s wife called him when she fought off Earl Nash in their apartment. Diallo, 61, arrived shortly after to save her, armed with a tire iron, the weapon that killed Nash. The medical…
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Video Footage Shows Questionable Arrest of Black Teenage Girls in Texas
Vanae Wright, 17, and her friend Leilani Green were eating at a Whataburger restaurant in San Antonio on Friday when sheriff’s deputies arrested them because of what the lawyer for one of the teens is calling racial profiling, according to the Huffington Post. Deputies were responding to reports of a fight in the Whataburger parking…
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Man Shoots Ex-Wife and Son, Confesses on Facebook Live
Earl Valentine is facing first-degree murder charges for the death of his 15-year-old son. He also shot and critically wounded his ex-wife, Keisha Valentine, in her home in Norlina, N.C., according to the New York Daily News. After shooting both his son and ex-wife, Valentine took to Facebook Live to confess early Tuesday. “What’s up,…