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2 Mo. Men Arrested After Throwing Eggs, Shouting Racial Slurs
Police are calling the actions of two Missouri men who allegedly threw eggs and hurled racial slurs at African Americans in south St. Louis a “hate crime,” KSDK reports. Jesse Reed, 30, and David Ragain, also 30, were arrested late Friday and charged with assault motivated by discrimination in the third degree, the station notes. “A white…
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Family Outraged After Video, Photos of Chicago Stabbing Victim Posted Online
A grieving Chicago family is outraged after graphic images and video showing their loved one being stabbed to death on a Chicago Red Line train Thursday were posted online, CBS Chicago reports. “My sister was beautiful, gifted young lady. She didn’t deserve to go the way she did,” Lorel Hampton, the victim’s sister, told the…
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Red Cross Apologizes After 'Super Racist' Pool-Safety Poster
The American Red Cross is learning that a little revision goes a long way after a signboard about swim-safety guidelines came under fire for its “racist” message, prompting an apology from the Red Cross, NBC News reports. The backlash started after a photo of a pool-safety poster in Fort Morgan, Colo., started circulating on social…
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Abortion Restrictions in Texas
The Supreme Court of the United States has struck down a restrictive Texas law that required clinics that provide abortions to have surgical facilities and doctors with admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, NPR reports, ruling the restrictions unconstitutional. In a 5-3 decision in the case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the court overturned a decision made…
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NJ Mom Facing Charges After 5-Year-Old Boy Fatally Shoots 4-Year-Old Brother
A New Jersey mother is facing multiple charges after her 5-year-old son shot his 4-year-old brother in the head while playing with her gun, killing the younger child, the Washington Post reports. The shooting, which authorities have classified as accidental, occurred at the family’s East Orange, N.J., home around 11 a.m. Saturday, the Jersey Journal…
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Multiple People Stabbed at Neo-Nazi Event Near Calif. State Capitol in Sacramento
At least seven people were stabbed after neo-Nazis and counterdemonstrators clashed at a rally at the state Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the report, five people, some of whom were critically injured, were taken to local hospitals, the Sacramento Fire Department’s public information officer, Chris Harvey, told the Times.…
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After Deadly W.Va. Floods, Obama Declares Federal Disaster
President Barack Obama signed the West Virginia Disaster Declaration after severe flash flooding left at least 24 people dead and wreaked havoc on communities. According to NPR, the historic floods are the worst the state has seen in a century, destroying or seriously damaging at least 100 homes. In some areas, water levels reached as high as…
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Congresswoman Mia Love Ditches GOP Convention Next Month
In what surely is a check against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (though she will not admit it), Utah Rep. Mia Love said she will not be attending the party’s convention next month, and will instead visit Israel with a congressional delegation. Love, the very first African-American Republican woman ever elected to Congress, and who was…
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President Obama: 12,000 Inmates to Receive Pell Grants for College Study
Even though Congress banned providing financial aid to prisoners in 1994, as many as 12,000 prison inmates will be able to use federal Pell Grants to finance college classes next month, the White House announced Friday. The $30 million Second Chance Pell Grant pilot program, announced by President Barack Obama, will be available to inmates…
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Jack Daniel’s Whiskey Most Likely Created by a Slave
For 150 years, the story of how Jack Daniel’s whiskey came to be is that a man named Dan Call taught young Jack how to run his still. But the truth, like the truth of America, is a bit more complicated. And as is often true in America, that complication involves that most peculiar institution.…