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Rachel Dolezal Spotted on Howard U’s Campus Filming Doc on Race
Our favorite race imposter, Rachel Dolezal, is back. And she reared her fuzzy head on Howard University’s campus on Thursday. Maya Cade, editor of A Tribe Called News, a Howard-based news site for millennial POCs, captured Dolezal with her baby in a snuggy on the yard, and another social media sleuth snapped the embattled fake black…
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Police Officer Shoots Man at Dallas Love Field Airport Terminal Following Alleged Domestic Dispute
A police officer at Dallas Love Field Airport has shot a man outside the baggage claim area after he allegedly rushed at an officer, a police spokesperson confirmed Friday. The man was said to have been throwing rocks at the mother of his children when officers responded, CNN reports. Authorities were able to move the woman…
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#TakeItDownAmerica: Fight to Remove Mississippi’s Racist Flag Heads to the Nation’s Capital
On Flag Day (June 14), McComb, Miss., native and actress Aunjanue Ellis (Quantico, The Help) is taking the fight against the state’s flag all the way to the nation’s capital. Ellis will be joined by Michael Eric Dyson, musician Genesis Be and attorney Carlos Moore, along with lawmakers, celebrities and civic leaders from across the country. Moore…
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Owner of Dogs That Mauled 4-Year-Old Detroit Boy to Death Is Convicted of Manslaughter
Geneke Lyons, the owner of a pack of dogs that fatally mauled a Detroit 4-year-old boy in December after dragging the child, Xavier Strickland, from his mother was convicted of involuntary manslaughter Friday, the Detroit Free Press reports. The deadly attack was captured on surveillance video, which jurors viewed during a trial that included testimony…
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Accused Charleston, SC, Church Shooter Dylann Roof Seeks Bench Trial
Dylann Roof, accused of fatally shooting nine black parishioners in a racially motivated attack at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., is seeking to be tried and, if found guilty, sentenced by the court rather than a jury, Reuters reports. Roof, attorneys noted in a filing in federal court, would like to waive…
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Prosecutor: Freddie Gray Was Victim of ‘Rough Ride’
During opening statements Thursday in the trial of Baltimore Officer Caesar Goodson Jr. over the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray while in police custody, Chief Deputy State’s Attorney Michael Shatzow alleged that Gray was the victim of a “rough ride.” It was the first time that the practice of a rough ride has been…
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DOJ Files Lawsuit Against NYC Department of Education for Allowing Principal to ‘Discriminate Against Every Black Teacher’
New York City’s Department of Education is facing a federal lawsuit after the U.S. Department of Justice accused the body of allowing a Queens, N.Y., high school principal to “discriminate against every black teacher” at the school, a press release from the DOJ notes. The lawsuit claims that Pan American International High School Principal Minerva…
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Video of Mo. Cop Using Taser on Teen for Over 20 Seconds Released
On Monday a federal judge released the police dashcam video showing a now-former Independence, Mo., police officer using excessive force during the 2014 traffic-stop arrest of then-17-year-old Bryce Masters, the Kansas City Star reports. The video of the Sept. 14, 2014, arrest shows then-Officer Timothy N. Runnels using a stun gun on Bryce for more…