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Black Lives Matter Movement Recruits Other People of Color: Report
From the beginning, Black Lives Matter supporters have included protesters and activists of all races. In a recent campaign, people of color are turning to their own communities and recruiting them to the BLM fight as well, the Associated Press reports. Like the rest of the country, the especially explicit deaths of Philando Castile and Alton…
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Twitter Destroys Donald Trump With #TrumpSacrifices
In what has become an almost predictable cycle—Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump makes a ridiculous, insulting comment, and he is condemned by Democrats, some Republicans, the press and social media. And then he backtracks. See the Russia/Putin/Hillary Clinton/Democratic National Committee email-hack debacle for a recent example. This time, sensing that lawyer Khizr Khan got the best…
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Democratic VP Pick Tim Kaine Has Attended a Black Church for More Than 30 Years
They say the 11 o’clock hour on Sunday morning is the most segregated time in America. Breaking with that tradition, Sen. Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, has attended an integrated (well, technically, “black”) church for more than 30 years. Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton, have been parishioners of St. Elizabeth’s Roman Catholic Church…
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Demarjay Smith: ‘The Young Jamaican Trainer’ Gives the Best Motivational Speech of All Time
We’re going to let y’all finish, but Demarjay Smith, 9, known in these internet streets as “the young Jamaican trainer,” has the best motivational speech of all time. You may have seen this pint-size dynamo on the Ellen DeGeneres Show last year after his father posted a video of him that went Insta-viral and has gained…
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St. Louis Reporter Loses Job After Sick Michael Brown Joke
In more news of just how sick American racism is and, further, how it permeates every single aspect of American life, a St. Louis TV reporter got the boot after he posted a crass “lead diet” joke on Facebook around the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. According to reports, after it was announced that…
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Watch: Judge Goes Off After Black Woman Appears in Her Court Without Pants
In a sad story making its rounds on social media, a black woman who appears to be wearing no pants for a court date gets serious backing from the judge—a woman—she stood before, a jurist who was truly irate at the state of her appearance. WDRB reports that the unidentified inmate was brought to Jefferson…
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Nicki Minaj’s Brother Faces Life in Prison for Child Rape
The brother of rapper Nicki Minaj may be spending a long time in the clink for child rape. According to Bossip, prosecutors reveal that Jelani Maraj’s DNA matches semen found on his 12-year-old accuser’s clothes—a more than billion-to-one match—and have offered him a deal of 15 years to life. The 12-year-old girl was reportedly raped repeatedly between…
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Ex-NFL Player, Wife Killed by 16-Year-old Son
A 16-year-old has been charged with murder in the tragic death of his parents, who were shot early Friday morning in their Houston home. Former NFL player Antonio Armstrong was pronounced dead at a Houston hospital on Friday, while his wife, Dawn Armstrong, was reportedly killed in her bedroom earlier that night. Their teenage son is being…
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Cousin of Cop Killed in Baton Rouge, La., Wrongly Arrested in the Ambush, Allegedly Denied Diabetes Medication
The cousin of one of the Baton Rouge, La., law-enforcement officials killed in an apparent ambush was wrongfully arrested and allegedly denied his diabetes medicine after being deemed a suspect in the ambush, the Daily Beast reports. Damarcus Alexander was out with a friend at a Wal-Mart July 17, buying a white shirt for church.…
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Special Attorney Joins Team in Philando Castile Case
John Choi, who is the county attorney for Ramsey County, Minn., overseeing the case of Philando Castile’s death, said that Don Lewis, a black defense lawyer, would be joining his team to help weigh possible charges emerging from the death of Castile earlier this month. According to Choi, Lewis will “provide an independent perspective bolstered…