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World Health Organization Declares the End of Ebola in Guinea
The World Health Organization recently declared Guinea free of Ebola transmission, and Guineans plan to celebrate. The West African country was the site where the original Ebola chain of transmission began two years ago. A menacing disease, it spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and seven additional countries. According to the New York Times, the December…
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Antonio LeGrier: My Son ‘Was Still Alive and Moving and No One Assisted Him’
The father of Quintonio LeGrier, the 19-year-old who was fatally shot alongside his 55-year-old neighbor by Chicago police last week, filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that the officer shot his son without justification. According to CNN, Antonio LeGrier filed the lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on Monday. In addition to claiming that the…
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Tamir Rice’s Mother Cried So Hard She Could Barely Speak After Grand Jury Did Not Indict Officers Involved in Son’s Death
The mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice was so devastated that a grand jury refused to indict the two Cleveland cops involved in her child’s death that she cried until she could barely speak, her lawyer said, according to WKYC-TV. Rice’s lawyer, Subodh Chandra, said that both he and the grieving mother believe that Cuyahoga County,…
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Chicago Cop Charged in Death of Laquan McDonald Enters Not-Guilty Plea
Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke, who faces a first-degree-murder charge in the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, entered a not-guilty plea at his Tuesday-morning arraignment, the Chicago Tribune reports. According to the report, it was the first time Van Dyke appeared before Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan, who is hearing the case. His…
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Calif. Man Arrested for Allegedly Burning Woman Alive on Christmas Day
California police have arrested a man for reportedly dousing a woman with gasoline and lighting her on fire during a domestic dispute on Christmas day in Pomona in Los Angeles, the Associated Press reports. Clarence Dear, 51, was arrested on Sunday on a bus in Atladena following a tip. He is currently being held on…
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Muslim Family Dines at Ga. Restaurant on Christmas Eve and This Happens
Eslam Mohamed and his family went to an Olive Garden in Georgia on Christmas Eve, and when he asked for the check for his table of 12, he received a receipt with the message, “Paid. Merry Christmas Beautiful Family” written across it. Turns out that an anonymous customer, who embodied the true spirit of the…
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‘Affluenza’ Teen Ethan Couch and Mom Captured in Mexico
Ethan Couch—who became infamous after a fatal 2013 drunken-driving crash for which his lawyers argued that the Texas teen should be spared jail time because he suffered from “affluenza,” an affliction of wealth with little understanding of consequences—has been captured in Mexico. NBC News reports that Couch, 18, was detained along with his mother in…
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Hillary Clinton Vows to Champion Wage Increase for Struggling Black Families in SC Radio Ad
Hillary Clinton is reaching out to South Carolina’s black families through an ad on black radio that debuts Tuesday. In the 60-second spot, the Democratic presidential candidate delivers a key message of her campaign: Raising wages “is the defining economic challenge of our time.” A narrator in the ad says that hardworking black families in…
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Tamir Rice Found Guilty of Being Young, Free and Black
Today a grand jury in Cleveland did what this system does. They put an exclamation point on the statement that black lives don’t matter. That black children do not matter. That being young, black and free is a crime punishable immediately by death. For over a year, there has been a chorus of people demanding…
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No Criminal Charges for Cleveland Officer Who Killed 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice
Updated Monday, Dec. 28, 2015, 8:24 p.m. EST: Samaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice, released the following statement shortly after the grand jury released its decision not to indict Officers Timothy Loehmann (who shot and killed Tamir) and Frank Garmback: My family and I are in pain and devastated by the non-indictment of officers…