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Samaria Rice Is ‘Mad as Hell’ Over the Grand Jury’s Failure to Indict Cop Who Killed Tamir Rice
Samaria Rice told MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Saturday that she’s “mad as hell” that a grand jury declined to indict the Cleveland cop who fatally shot her 12-year-old son, Tamir. “Due to the corrupt system, I have a dead child,” she told Harris-Perry. Rice added: “I feel like breath has been taken out my body again,…
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Terrorist Recruitment Video Targeting African Americans, Muslims Uses Trump Comments
The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab released a recruitment video Friday targeting African Americans and Muslims, which features Donald Trump, the Associated Press reports. It appeared on Twitter and reportedly recounts the stories of several Somali-Americans from Minnesota who journeyed to East Africa to fight alongside al-Shabab. The nearly hour-long video points to Ferguson, Mo., and…
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TCU Quarterback to Miss Bowl Game After Arrest for Bar Fight
Texas Christian University quarterback Trevone Boykin was arrested and charged with a felony early Thursday morning after allegedly hitting a bicycle patrol officer after a bar fight, according to ESPN. Boykin was formally charged with a third-degree felony, posted a $5,000 bond and was released from custody late Thursday morning. The quarterback, along with wide receiver Preston Miller,…
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Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Dead at 80
Renowned psychiatrist Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, author of the seminal 1991 work The Isis (Yssis) Papers: The Keys to the Colors (Third World Press), has died. She was 80 years old. “Media Assassin” Harry Allen reported via Twitter that Welsing died at 5:30 a.m. Saturday from a stroke she suffered earlier in the week. Welsing was…
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Philadelphia Mummers Parade Marred by Brownface, Anti-Gay Slurs
Philadelphia’s annual Mummers Parade hit the scene once again on Friday and was yet again mired in a series of racist and homophobic acts along the parade route, including the assault of a gay man, according to reports. The 116-year-old folk festival, considered the oldest in the United States, was created by Scandanavian, European and,…
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Nigeria’s Government Could Negotiate With Boko Haram to Free Kidnapped Schoolgirls
Nigeria is still open to negotiating with Boko Haram to secure the release of the 209 schoolgirls who were kidnapped in April 2014 by the terrorist group, Fox News reports. President Muhammadu Buhari announced on Wednesday that the government was ready to negotiate without preconditions if credible leadership could be identified. Other attempts made by…
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Mom of ‘Affluenza’ Teen Arrives in US After Being Deported From Mexico
The mother of the “affluenza” teen, Ethan Couch, arrived at Los Angeles International Airport after being deported from Mexico Wednesday evening, WFAA-TV reports. Tonya Couch, who is accused of helping her son flee the U.S. to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, was captured with the 18-year-old. Ethan Couch is two years into a 10-year probation term for a…
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Urban Bush Babes’ Cipriana Quann Accuses NYPD of False Arrest
Model and Editor-in-Chief of Urban Bush Babes Cipriana Quann is suing the New York City Police Department for an alleged false arrest, the New York Daily News reports. According to the report, Quann, 37, was going into dance club Verboten in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on May 2 with friends. She reportedly…
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FBI Offering $5,000 Reward for Information Leading to Man Who Left Raw Bacon at Nevada Mosque
Authorities are continuing to pursue a case in which an individual put raw bacon on the door of a Nevada mosque, with the FBI offering a $5,000 reward for information that helps officials locate the suspect, the Associated Press reports. The FBI confirmed that agents are trying to find the man captured on surveillance video…
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Minn. Man Fired After Racist Message Posted to Black Lives Matter Facebook
A Minnesota man lost his job after he reportedly sent racist messages to the Minneapolis chapter of Black Lives Matter last week. According to MPR News, Brad Schultz reportedly posted a message to the group’s Facebook page after learning of protests sponsored by the chapter inside the Mall of America. The message contained several expletives…