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A West Side Chicago woman is facing a mandatory six years in prison for kicking a sheriff’s deputy in the shin, the Chicago Tribune reports.  It all started in November 2013, when Tina Hunt, 49, went to the Cook County Criminal Court to attend her son’s court appearance, the news site reports. It was then…

Research inspired by the alarmingly frequent deaths of young black people, particularly young men, in the U.S. at the hands of police suggests that even black children as young as 5 are thought to be aggressive and dangerous, a press release on Eureka Alert notes.  The study, which is published in the February issue of…

A handful of students at Durham, N.C.’s School for Creative Studies had planned to kick off Black History Month with a bang by wearing colorful head wraps reminiscent of those worn by many women across the African continent.  However, parents and students are now planning a protest after an administrator told the students that they…

Two white South African University students were suspended, pending an investigation, after painting their faces in what has been deemed a racially offensive “blackface” incident, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, however, one of the Stellenbosch University students insists that they were dressed as purple aliens for a galactic-themed party. As the newswire notes,…

A female correctional officer at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex said that she was blinded by love after being charged Sunday with raping an inmate and conspiring to traffic marijuana into jail for him, the New York Daily News reports.  Nicole Bartley, 30, who worked at the George R. Vierno Center facility, said…

A Brooklyn, N.Y., man reportedly researched some two dozen variations of “Can being hit in the stomach cause a miscarriage?” mere months before he and an accomplice allegedly attacked his very pregnant girlfriend in the hallway of her building, the New York Post reports. “What happens if you get hit in the stomach while pregnant?”…