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Prince Cremated Before Private Service at Paisley Park: Reports
Prince Rogers Nelson’s body was cremated Friday, hours after his body was released from the coroner’s office, according to several reports. The Daily Mirror says that a source close to the late singer, who died Thursday at age 57, said that Prince had “very precise ideas” of how he wanted to be laid to rest,…
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Bucking a National Trend, Suicide Rates Decline for Black Men in US
A recently released study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that suicide in the United States has surged to the highest levels in 30 years, with increases in every age group except older adults and black men, reports the New York Times. The good news for black men is especially heartening…
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Va. Restores Voting Rights to More Than 200,000 Felons
The Democratic governor of Virginia announced Friday that more than 206,000 people convicted of felonies will now be eligible to vote in the state. Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed an executive order Friday restoring the civil rights of both nonviolent and violent former offenders after they complete their sentence and all other requirements, such s supervised probation or…
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Prince Remembered as Tech Advocate for Black Youth
No matter what the circumstances of his death, those who honor, revere and love Prince know that the contributions of his masterful life are what truly matter. And though he was not always vocal about it, Prince loved blackness and black people, and this especially extended to young people. Pundit and advocate Van Jones remembers…
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Ga. Man Kills 5 After Wife Wanted Divorce
In yet another tragic mass shooting, a 50-year-old Georgia man took the lives of five people before turning the gun on himself Friday. Local station WRDW reports that Wayne Anthony Hawes was discovered dead at his home in Appling, Ga, a town that is part of the Augusta, Ga., metropolitan area. Police say that Hawes…
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NC Boy Suspended From School After Pushing Away Bully Who Punched Him
A North Carolina mother is demanding a closer look at “zero tolerance” policies, especially with self-defense on the line, after her 12-year-old was suspended from school for pushing away a bully who was hitting him repeatedly in the head, Fox 46 reports. Jaden Malone said no teachers were around when he was attacked in the…
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Clemson Student Arrested After Threatening to Lynch Student Protesters: ‘Slave Auction Tomorrow Morning’
A Clemson University student is accused of posting intimidating and harassing comments about student protests over diversity issues on the South Carolina school’s campus, WSPA reports. Jamie Reece Moore, 21, was arrested and charged with unlawful use of a telephone after posting several threatening messages on the social media app Yik Yak regarding the ongoing…
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Woman in Leading Lawsuit Over Flint, Mich., Water Crisis Found Shot to Death in Home
A woman who was at the center of a leading Flint, Mich., contaminated-water lawsuit was one of two women who were found shot to death inside a townhouse in the city earlier this week, MLive reports. Sasha Avonna Bell, the site notes, who says that her child was poisoned by lead in the water, was…
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Dashcam Footage Shows Fla. Deputies Discussing Whether to Rescue Drowning Girls in Stolen Car
Dashcam footage released shows that sheriff’s deputies did not try to save three Florida teenagers who were drowning after driving into a cemetery pond in a stolen car last month, Raw Story reports. Dominique Battle, 16, and Ashaunti Butler and Laniya Miller, both 15, died March 31 after a car chase with officers. The Pinellas County…
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‘The Person Is Dead Here’: Read the Prince 911 Call Transcript
Whoever called 911 to report that Prince was in dire need of medical assistance didn’t seem to know that he was at Paisley Park or the address or the city in which it is located. Prince, born Prince Rogers Nelson, died Thursday at his Paisley Park compound in the Minneapolis suburb of Chanhassen. A transcript…