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Hillary Clinton Taps Black Firm to Help Campaign Win African-American Votes
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has hired Burrell Communications, a black-owned advertising and marketing firm, to help it focus on black voters, NBC News reports. African Americans demonstrated their strength when they turned out in historic numbers to support President Barack Obama’s two presidential campaigns. But will they show up for Clinton? The former secretary of…
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#StudentBlackOut Movement Demands Institutional Change in Schools
Students across the nation joined together Wednesday in a mass protest to hold their universities accountable and demand an end to institutionalized racism on campuses. In what organizers are calling #StudentBlackOut, student leaders on campuses around the country are encouraged to organize events that uplift blackness, one organizer, Yamiesha Bell, told NBC News. “We hope…
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19 Cops Showed Up at a Black Calif. Businesswoman’s Apartment After a White Neighbor Reported a Possible Burglary
A California businesswoman gave a harrowing first-person account of her encounter with the Santa Monica, Calif., Police Department in the Washington Post, detailing how 19 officers arrived at her apartment after a white neighbor reported a possible burglary. Fay Wells, the vice president of strategy at a California company, told of how she accidentally locked…
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Trump’s New National Spokesperson Is African-American Tea Partier Katrina Pierson
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has brought on Katrina Pierson, a black Tea Party activist, as his new national spokeswoman, Politico reports. Pierson, who used to stand firmly by the side of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), represents, the news site explains, Trump’s hope to keep his hold on the party lead and keep it away…
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Jamar Clark, Unarmed Minneapolis Man Shot by Police, Dies
Jamar Clark, the 24-year-old man who was shot by Minneapolis police after an altercation Sunday, was taken off life support Monday and has died, officials announced Tuesday, Reuters reports. Clark’s shooting sparked several protests in and around Minneapolis after witnesses and community activists said that Clark was in handcuffs when police shot him, a charge…
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Man Who Allegedly Threatened Black Northwest Missouri State Students Is Out on Bond
A 19-year-old Northwest Missouri State University student charged with making terrorist threats against black people on that campus appeared in court Tuesday and was later released on bond, his attorney confirmed, Reuters reports. Connor Stottlemyre is one of three men arrested last week because of threats they allegedly made against black students on social media.…
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Lawyers: Black SC Restaurant Worker Beaten, Enslaved and Paid Little to No Money by Employer
Attorneys for a mentally disabled South Carolina man have filed a lawsuit against his employers, claiming that the owner and a manager beat him, called him racial slurs and forced him to work long hours for little to no pay. According to the Post and Courier, two attorneys—Mullins McLeod and David Aylor—representing Christopher Smith claim…
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Woman Claims Cops 'Murdered' Brother in NC Home after Entering Without Search Warrant
The grieving sister of a North Carolina man who was fatally shot by sheriff’s deputies on Sunday claims that her brother was “murdered,” and that deputies should have gotten a search warrant before entering the man’s Spring Lake trailer home, the Huffington Post reports. John Livingston, his sister insists, was “an innocent man” and officers…
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Willie Mays and Shirley Chisholm Among Medal of Freedom Honorees
Baseball legend Willie Mays will receive the nation’s highest civilian award—the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the White House announced in a statement Monday. The Hall of Fame center fielder, who spent the majority of his 22-year career with the New York and San Francisco Giants, is one of 17 honorees who will receive the award from…
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Elderly Ga. Man Helps Young Man With His Tie
A touching photo of an elderly Georgia man showing a much younger man how to tie his tie is going viral after being shared on Facebook, 11 Alive reports. In the photo, the much older man can be seen giving hands-on instruction to the younger man, who was dressed to the nines in business clothes…