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6-Year-Old Fla. Boy Shot Dead While Playing With Friends
A 6-year-old Florida boy was killed Saturday afternoon after two men began shooting as he was outside playing with friends. According to Local 10, King Carter and friends were playing in Pinewood, Fla., just north of Miami in Miami-Dade County, when “two unknown black males exited a dark, four-door sedan and began shooting, striking [King].…
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Duke Students Protest Annual Prison-Themed Party on Campus
Protesters from Duke University and Durham, N.C., residents gathered Friday evening in front of Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity to protest an annual incarceration-themed party held by the fraternity and Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, reports the Duke Chronicle. According to a Tumblr page put up by a group calling itself #DukeEnrage, the party, dubbed “Kappa Kops,” was held…
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6 Dead, 2 Wounded After Gunman Opens Fire in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Six people were killed and two others wounded in a series of apparently random shootings throughout Kalamazoo County, Mich., on Saturday evening. Initial reports said that a 14-year-old girl was killed, but she is critically injured but alive. NBC News reports that alleged shooter Jason Brian Dalton, 45, was taken into custody early Sunday morning…
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Buffalo, NY, Dad Dies After Saving His 3-Year-Old Son From Raging Fire
A father’s love knows no bounds. Demetrius Johnson’s last known words to his family were, “I’m not going to let my son die.” The 24-year-old Buffalo, N.Y., man had rescued his fiancée and two of his kids but died Friday when he ran back into a raging fire to save his 3-year-old son, reports the…
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President Responds to Little Girl Who Cried Over His Leaving White House: ‘I’m Not Going Anywhere’
It appears that President Barack Obama, possibly inspired by the adorable viral hashtag #ObamaAndKids this weekend, caught wind of a popular video showing a little girl crying when she learned that he was leaving office next January. The Facebook page belonging to the little girl’s grandmother Caprina D. Harris shows a video of her totally…
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Hillary Clinton Wins Democratic Caucuses in Nev.
Hillary Clinton won Nevada’s Democratic caucuses Saturday, according to the Associated Press, holding off an unexpectedly difficult challenge from Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. In a race that many initially called too close to predict, Clinton eked out a victory over Sanders (52 percent to 48 percent with 75 percents of precincts reporting), and most likely…
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Last of Angola 3 Released After Being Kept in Solitary More Than 40 Years
Albert Woodfox, the last incarcerated member of the Angola Three, was released from prison on his 69th birthday, CNN reports. Woodfox was going to a third trial for the 1972 slaying of prison guard Brent Miller at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola but pleaded no contest Friday to lesser charges, according to a statement.…
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Howard Becomes Only HBCU With Swim Team
A few weeks ago, the Internets got broke when a photo of the North Carolina A&T women’s swim team burned up social media—a beacon of beautiful #BlackGirlMagic for all the world to see. Unfortunately, not long after that, it was announced that that swim team would be no more, because the school’s regular conference does…
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Black Woman to Lead School of Public Health at Harvard
We are still seeing many “firsts” in the year 2016, and higher education is no different. Harvard University announced Friday that Michelle A. Williams will become the first black person to head a faculty at Harvard and the first female dean of the School of Public Heath, come July. Williams, who is currently an epidemiologist…
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Va. Bill Would Be 1st in Nation to Keep Cops’ Names Secret
A proposed bill allowing all Virginia law-enforcement officers’ names to be withheld from the public would be the first of its kind in the country and is being decried by police-accountability groups and those who believe in freedom of the press, reports the Virginian-Pilot. A Jan. 13 proposal put forth by Republican Virginia state Sen. John…