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Miss. Gov. Declares April ‘Confederacy Heritage Month’
As Confederate flags and memorials are being taken down or moved from places of prominence across the country, the governor of Mississippi has dug in his heels and proclaimed April to be “Confederate Heritage Month” in the state. Gov. Phil Bryant issued the proclamation in response to a request from the Sons of Confederate Veterans,…
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Kan. Shooter’s Ex-Girlfriend Charged With Providing Guns to Him: Report
An ex-girlfriend of the man accused of killing three and wounding 14 others in a Kansas shooting spree has been charged with providing the ex-convict with the weapons, reports ABC News. A criminal charge filed Friday alleges that Sarah Hopkins, 28, gave Cedric Larry Ford an Zastava Serbia, which is an AK-47-type semi-automatic rifle, and…
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Melissa Harris-Perry Refuses to Go on Her MSNBC Show Following Pre-Emptions
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry has confirmed that she will not be appearing on the self-titled show she hosts this Saturday after several weeks of pre-emptions and what she says is a loss of editorial control, the New York Times reports. The Times reports that it obtained an email that was sent out this week to…
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Mass. Teen Who Raped, Murdered Math Teacher Sentenced to Life
A Massachusetts teen who followed his teacher into a school bathroom, then raped and killed her, was sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole in 40 years. According to the Associated Press, Philip Chism, who was 14 at the time of the incident, was convicted in December 2013 in the death of Danvers…
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Here’s What We Know About the Alleged Kan. Workplace Shooter
There are still a lot of questions that need to be answered as the nation reels from yet another mass shooting. On Thursday a gunman, identified as 38-year-old Cedric Ford, killed three people and injured at least 15 others before being killed himself in a shootout with a police officer. The motive behind the shooting…
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SUNY Albany Students Who Claimed They Were Victims of Racial Attack to Be Charged With Assault
Three students at SUNY Albany in upstate New York who said that they were targeted because of their race while on a bus last month will face assault charges after police cited evidence suggesting that they were the instigators, the New York Daily News reports. Alexis Briggs, Ariel Agudio and Asha Burwell, all 20 years…
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Library of Congress Puts Rosa Parks’ Archive Online
The Library of Congress has taken civil rights activist Rosa Parks’ archive of letters, writings, personal notes and photographs and made the entire collection available online. According to the Associated Press, the collection of 10,000 items belonging to Parks was made available to the public Wednesday, and we have philanthropist Howard Buffett to thank. That’s…
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St. Louis Student, 9, Can’t Attend School Because He’s Black
Nine-year-old Edmund Lee is a great student. He’s a third-grader at Gateway Science Academy, a charter school in south St. Louis. He’s been a student there since kindergarten, and he wants to stay there, but an archaic law on the city’s books won’t allow him to attend the school anymore because he’s black. Everything was…
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Multiple Deaths, Injuries in Kan. Workplace Shooting
Multiple people were killed and several dozen injured after an employee at Excel Industries in Hesston, Kan., opened fire Thursday. According to several news sources, the shooter has been identified as Cedric Ford, 38. Police have not confirmed the suspect’s identity but said that authorities killed the shooter. “There could be as many as three…
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Watch: BLM Activist Confronts Hillary Clinton During Fundraiser in SC
A Black Lives Matter activist confronted Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during a fundraiser in Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday. The protester, identified as Ashley Williams by the Huffington Post, paid $500 to attend the function while holding a sign that read, “We have to bring them to heel,” a reference to a speech Clinton made…