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Chicago Gang Leaders Allegedly Plotting an Attack on Police
After the fatal police shooting of Paul O’Neal in Chicago, police say that leaders of three West Side gangs met to discuss an attack on the Chicago Police Department. An alert was issued to the Chicago Police Department a day after the supposed meeting took place, insinuating that leaders of the Vice Lords, Black Disciples…
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Judge Considers Adult Charges in High School Student’s Homicide
During a Delaware Family Court hearing Monday in Wilmington, a video was shown featuring a fight in a high school bathroom in April that left 16-year-old Amy Joyner-Francis dead on the ground. The video was shown to decide whether or not her alleged attacker, another 16-year-old girl, should be brought up on adult homicide charges, CBS News…
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Black Families Are 228 Years Away From Accumulating the Same Amount of Wealth as White Families
There’s still a long way to go to close the racial wealth gap—some 228 years, to be precise, according to a study by the Corporation for Enterprise Development and Institute for Policy Studies (pdf). According to the report, if the average black family’s wealth continues to grow at the same pace it has over the past…
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Questions Remain in Fatal Shooting of 11-Year-Old Tenn. Schoolgirl
There are still many questions left unanswered after an 11-year-old girl was fatally shot after returning home from her first day of the new school year, News Channel 5 reports. According to the Hendersonville, Tenn., Police Department, the shooting happened around 3:20 p.m. Monday at 11-year-old Timea Batts’ home. Initially, officers were told that the girl…
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NC Man Charged in Fatal Shooting After 911 Call About 'Hoodlums'
A North Carolina man who made a 911 call about “hoodlums” near his house is now facing charges in the fatal shooting of a black man who was outside the home at the time, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, the early-Sunday-morning shooting occurred when Chad Cameron Copley, 39, who is white, fired…
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Gabby Douglas Cannot Advance to All-Around Finals in Gymnastics Because of '2 per Country' Rule
Pretty much everyone who is sane is all about the U.S. women’s gymnastics team, which is currently completely killing the game and owned the Olympic qualifiers Sunday. Unfortunately, as Cosmopolitan reports, Gabby Douglas, who wowed crowds in the 2012 Summer Olympics, taking home the gold in the individual and team all-around competitions, will not be…
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Muslim Teen Whose Homemade Clock Led to Arrest Sues School District
The family of Ahmed Mohamed, the young Texas teen whose case sparked a national debate last year when he was arrested at his high school after his homemade digital clock was mistaken for a bomb, is now suing the school district and the city where he once lived, Reuters reports. The lawsuit, filed in federal court…
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Donations Pour In for 10-Year-Old Boy Who Asked to Mow Lawns to Pay for School Supplies
Earlier this month, 10-year-old Tyran Bell, a boy from North Carolina, used his mother’s Facebook page to seek jobs mowing lawns because his mother could not afford to buy his school supplies for the school year. According to an earlier news report by WECT, Tyran’s mom had missed a lot of work recently because his uncle was…
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Serena, Venus Williams Lose Doubles Olympic Match as Partners for 1st Time
In a shocking Olympic upset, the Williams sisters, Serena and Venus, lost an Olympic match as partners for the first time in the opening round of the Rio de Janeiro Games against the Czech Republic, the Associated Press reports. As the report notes, the duo entered Sunday’s match with a 15-0 career record at the…