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Ga. Mom Believed She Had 2 Choices: Let School Paddle Her 5-Year-Old Son or Go to Jail
A Georgia mother says she was faced with an impossible choice: Let her 5-year-old son get paddled by the school principal or the child would be suspended, which she says would have landed her in jail. Shana Marie Perez told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that she had been arrested two weeks prior on truancy charges after…
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Escaped Texas Inmate Found in Girlfriend’s Dishwasher
He almost made a clean getaway. East Texas police say they found escaped inmate Wesley Evans, 20, inside his girlfriend’s dishwasher. Evans was wearing only his boxers and the handcuffs that had been placed on him shortly before he fled Christus Jasper Memorial Hospital around 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, KTRE reports. Records obtained by the news…
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8 African-American Women Make History at the Ind. School of Education
Eight African-American women, all on different paths at different times, are set to make history at the Indiana School of Education, where they are all doctoral candidates. “We understood very early on that we had a distinction, a commonality, a thread between all of us, and so we began to meet as a group,” doctoral…
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Dispatches From NAN: Ripping Off ‘the Mask’ of Mental Illness
There was a packed house in the Empire Ballroom of the Sheraton New York Times Square for the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network’s silver-anniversary convention Wednesday. The panel, “I Don’t Need to See A Doctor: Mental Health in the African-American Community,” reportedly came about because Sharpton would repeatedly hear those words when he would try…
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Tenn. School Security Officer Claims He Was Fired for Having Black Wife
Last week a former school security officer for the Knox County Schools district in Tennessee filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination, claiming that he was fired from his job because his boss had a problem with the fact that his wife is black, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports. In the lawsuit, filed in Knox County…
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Obama to Deliver One of Final Commencement Addresses as President at Howard University
President Barack Obama will deliver one of his last commencement addresses as president to the 2016 graduating class of Howard University in Washington, D.C., according to the White House. The commencement is scheduled for Saturday, May 7, and needless to say, the HBCU is excited to have him. “It is an extraordinary honor and privilege…
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Report: Chicago Police Have ‘No Regard for the Sanctity of Life When It Comes to People of Color’
A task force established by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after an outcry over police shootings has found that the Chicago Police Department has a history of using excessive force against minorities, perpetuates a code of silence and has “no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color,” according to a…
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Jean-Michel Basquiat Painting Could Fetch $50,000,000 at May Auction
The artwork of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who burst onto the art scene in the early 1980s and died of a drug overdose in 1988 at age 27, has commanded a hefty price tag since his death. Christie’s auction house will offer Basquiat’s Untitled, 1982 as part of its postwar- and contemporary-art sale May…
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‘Proof of Life’ Video Shows Some of Chibok, Nigeria’s Kidnapped Girls
CNN has obtained video footage of some of the girls kidnapped from a girls school in Chibok, Nigeria, that had apparently been sent to negotiators as “proof of life.” CNN reports that the video had been seen by negotiators and some members of the government, but the parents of the girls had not seen the…
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Trial for Dylann Roof, Accused Charleston, SC, Church Shooter, Delayed Until January 2017
The trial of Dylann Roof, charged with murder in the shooting deaths of nine churchgoers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., last summer, has been delayed and is now rescheduled for Jan. 17, 2017, Reuters reports. Judge J.C. Nicholson said that he was obligated to once again delay the trial because…