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Trump Disses Cory Booker on Twitter; Booker Responds With Love
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker isn’t at all disturbed by Donald Trump’s attack on him after Booker’s speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday. In fact, Booker has taken to responding to Trump with love, CNN notes. “I love Donald Trump,” Booker said Tuesday on CNN’s New Day. “I don’t want to answer his hate…
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NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton Announces Plans to Step Down by End of 2017
New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton confirmed Monday that he has no intentions of remaining the head of the Police Department past the end of 2017, CBS News reports. “I do not intend to stay into a second term,” Bratton said during an unrelated news conference with New York City’s mayor. According to CBS,…
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Who's Running the DNC? Black Women
Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) took her place as chair of the Democratic National Convention, and although the role was unexpected, NBCBLK notes, the Ohio congresswoman made a point to open with a call for unity and respect. “We’re all Democrats and we need to act like it,” Fudge said Monday, vowing a “different kind of convention than…
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Ohio Attorney Faces Jail for Refusing to Remove Black Lives Matter Pin
An Ohio attorney was sentenced to five days in jail after refusing to remove a Black Lives Matter pin she was wearing. According to the Washington Post, an Ohio judge had told attorney Andrea Burton that there had been complaints about her pin and that court officials were not allowed to wear political pins in…
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2nd Victim in Fla. Nightclub Shooting Identified as 14-Year-Old Sean Archilles
The second victim of a shooting outside a Fort Myers, Fla., nightclub has been identified as 14-year-old Sean Archilles, the Fort Myers, Fla., News-Press reports. Sean was one of two teens killed in the incident that left dozens injured. According to the report, Jean Robert Archilles, Sean’s father, heard the news from the boy’s mother,…
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Michael Jordan Speaks Out on Police Brutality, Targeting of Cops
Basketball legend Michael Jordan is speaking out on the shootings of black Americans, as well as the recent attacks on officers, issuing a statement today through The Undefeated in which he declares that he “can no longer stay silent”: As a proud American, a father who lost his own dad in a senseless act of…
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2 Dead, Several Injured After Shooting at Teen Event at Fla. Nightclub
A teen event at a Florida nightclub ended in tragedy after at least two people were killed and more than a dozen others were injured after a shooting outside the club, NBC News reports. According to the report, the shots started just as family members were picking up the children from Club Blu in Fort…
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#PokémonGoWhileBlack: Police Point Guns at Iowa Football Player They Say Fit Description of Bank Robber
A University of Iowa defensive end took to Facebook Wednesday to describe a frightful encounter with police while outside playing Pokémon Go in an Iowa City, Iowa, park last week, the Washington Post reports. “Today was the first time I’ve truly feared my life and I have the media to thank for that,” Faith Ekakitie, a…