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Ariz. NAACP President Issues Expletive-Laced Apology After Being Caught on Audio Commenting on Reporter’s ‘T–s’
It was supposed to have been a discussion about racial sensitivity during a meeting with members of the community after a group of Phoenix high school students used their T-shirts to spell out the n-word. Shortly after the meeting let out last week, 77-year-old attorney and civil rights leader Don Harris, who is white and…
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Ferguson, Mo., and Justice Department Reach Tentative Deal on Police Reform, Use of Force
The Ferguson, Mo., Police Department and the Justice Department have reached a tentative agreement to overhaul training, policies and practices in the wake of a federal investigation after the 2014 fatal police shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown that uncovered unconstitutional and discriminatory practices. According to the Associated Press, the overhaul comes after seven months…
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Top Ga. Department of Education Official Fired After Racially Charged Facebook Post
A top-ranking Georgia Department of Education official has been fired after making a racially charged comment on his personal Facebook page, 11 Alive reports, the latest in a spate of homophobic and anti-Muslim posts made from the account. Jeremy Spencer, who was the associate superintendent of virtual instruction for the Georgia Department of Education, was…
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Mo. Lawmakers Get Into Alley Fistfight Over Right-to-Work Legislation
Two members of the Missouri House of Representatives reportedly got into an alley fistfight over right-to-work legislation, ultimately prompting one of them to seek a restraining order, the Associated Press reports. State Rep. Courtney Allen Curtis reportedly released a copy of the restraining order and a House ethics complaint that he filed against fellow Democratic…
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‘Affluenza’ Teen Ethan Couch to Return to Texas to Face Charges
Infamous “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch is going to drop an appeal against his deportation from Mexico and will return to Texas to face the charges awaiting him there, his lawyer in Mexico, Fernando Benitez, revealed, according to The Guardian. Couch reportedly formally decided to drop the appeal Monday. “I gave him several options, but he…
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1 Dead as Feds Arrest Ammon Bundy, 7 Others in Oregon Wildlife-Refuge Takeover
The FBI and Oregon State Police have arrested members of a group of armed protesters who took over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon for more than three weeks, including group leader Ammon Bundy, USA Today reports. Authorities moved in on the group around 4:25 p.m. PST Tuesday along Highway 395 during a traffic stop.…
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Medical Examiner Rules Death of Fla. Inmate, Locked in Scalding Shower, an ‘Accident’
A civil rights group is growing more insistent in its calls for a federal inquiry after a medical examiner ruled the death of an inmate locked in a scalding shower for two hours by prison guards an accident, The Guardian reports. Darren Rainey, an inmate at Florida’s Dade Correctional Institution, died in June 2012 after he…
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Chicago Teen Killed by Police Called 911 3 Times Asking for Help, and Dispatcher Hung Up on Him
Quintonio LeGrier, the Chicago teen who was fatally shot by police, called 911 three times the day he was killed, asking for help, and was hung up on by a 911 operator, ABC News reports. According to ABC News, audio of the 19-year-old’s 911 calls made Dec. 26 were released late Monday by Chicago’s Independent…
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14 Citadel Cadets Disciplined After Caroling in KKK-Style White Hoods
Fourteen cadets at the Citadel, the Military School of South Carolina, in Charleston have been punished after a number of them appeared in photos wearing Ku Klux Klan-style hoods over their heads while caroling in early December, the New York Daily News reports. The punishments come after about a month of investigation. The investigation was…
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Man Transforms Home Into Museum of Love in Tribute to Late Wife
Love knows no bounds and has no limits. Charles “LaLa” Evans seems to know that well: He created a museum of love in his own home as a tribute to his late wife, Louise, who died in 2011 just one month shy of their 60th wedding anniversary. According to the Huffington Post, the couple had…