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Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Buys TheGrio
Big changes are coming to the African-American news-media space: On Tuesday, Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios announced its acquisition of TheGrio, an online news website that focus primarily on black readers, The Wrap reports. “David Wilson and his founding partner Dan Woolsey have done an incredible job these past seven years building TheGrio, and we are one…
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Fired Fla. Cop Brings Black Girlfriend as Witness to Prove He’s Not Racist
One of the four Fort Lauderdale, Fla., cops who were terminated as a result of a racist-text-message scandal brought his black girlfriend to court for an arbitration hearing as proof that he was not racist, CBS Miami reports. Former Police Officer Jason Holding is fighting to get his job back, and his girlfriend, Perpetua Michel,…
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4 Alligators Killed in Search for Toddler Dragged From Orlando, Fla., Disney Resort
Authorities are continuing the search for a 2-year-old boy who was dragged away by an alligator from a Disney World, Orlando, Fla., resort late Tuesday, as officials continue to pull alligators from the nearby lagoon in order to check for the boy’s body, CBS News reports. Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jeff Williamson said the…
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Calif. Pastor on Orlando, Fla., Mass Shooting: ‘The Tragedy Is That More of Them Didn’t Die’
Mere hours after the Orlando, Fla., club shooter took the lives of 49 people, a Sacramento, Calif., pastor turned to his pulpit, delivering a hateful, violent speech saying that he was upset the shooter “didn’t finish the job,” the New York Daily News reports. “The tragedy is that more of them didn’t die,” the pastor, Roger…
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Johnson Publishing Sells Ebony to Texas-Based Private-Equity Firm
Johnson Publishing announced Tuesday that it has sold Ebony and Jet magazines to an Austin, Texas-based private-equity firm, bringing to an end more than seven decades of ownership by Johnson Publishing, the Chicago Tribune reports. The amount for which Johnson Publishing sold the influential African-American lifestyle magazines to Clear View Group, an African-American-owned firm, was not disclosed.…
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NYC Mom Indicted After Toddler Dies in Fire
A Brooklyn, N.Y., mother has been indicted on multiple charges by a grand jury after her 2-year-old daughter died in an apartment fire while she was out working, the New York Post reports. Leila Aquino, 20, will now face charges of criminally negligent homicide, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child in the…
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#PulseShooting: Gunman Reportedly Didn’t Want to Kill Black People: ‘You Guys Suffered Enough’
Patience Carter, 20, one of the survivors of the mass shooting Sunday morning at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., said that the shooter, Omar Mateen, 29, wanted to spare black lives from his violent rampage, CBS News reports. Carter had fled to the bathroom to seek shelter with other club patrons when the gunman entered and…
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Low-Income Tenant Leaders, Allies, Protest Displacement of Museum Square Residents in DC
Low-income tenant leaders, residents and allies protested at Museum Square in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning on behalf of tenants of the Chinatown apartment complex. The residents have been fighting for their right to remain in the area since being told in 2014 that the building’s Section 8 contract was due to expire and the owner,…