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Family of Md. Transgender Woman Believes Her Shooting Death Was Hate Crime
Authorities have not ruled the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old Maryland transgender woman as a hate crime, but they haven’t ruled out the possibility, either. “We are not ruling out the possibility that this could be hate-based,” Montgomery County (Md.) Police spokesman Capt. Paul Starks told NBC Washington. However, the family of Zella Ziona believes…
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Folks in a Rush to Get Their Money as Russell Simmons’ Prepaid Bank Card Stops Working
Looks like Russell Simmons has some explaining to do after scores of people took to Twitter and Facebook to voice their displeasure over the hip-hop mogul’s prepaid debit card, which they said had many locked out of their accounts and some showing zero balances. According to Time, the controversial prepaid RushCard debit card, which some…
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Kevin Merida to Leave Washington Post for ESPN
Washington Post Managing Editor Kevin Merida will be stepping down at the end of the month after accepting a job at ESPN. According to the Post, Merida will become an ESPN senior vice president, as well as editor-in-chief of The Undefeated, a digital site that delves into the intersection of sports, race and culture. “I…
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Police: Body Found in Freezer Could be Missing Fla. 11-Year-Old
The body of a Florida girl who had been missing may have been uncovered in a freezer by relatives, who made the gruesome discovery after the child’s mother dropped the freezer off at a relative’s home, WTSP reports. According to the report, on Friday, Bradenton, Fla., police were following up on a Child Protective Services…
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Detroit Pastor Kills Man During Sunday-Afternoon Service: Report
A Detroit pastor pulled out a Glock handgun during the 1:30 p.m. Sunday service and fatally shot a man who was reportedly trying to attack him, authorities say. “The pastor had had issues with the man before,” Assistant Police Chief Steve Dolunt told the Detroit News. “He had been threatening him to do bodily harm.…
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Watch: Handcuffed Man Punched by Md. Cop
A four-part video posted on Twitter Saturday appears to show a Prince George’s County, Md., police officer punching a handcuffed man. In the first installment of the video, the man can be seen on the ground with the officer on top of him. The officer appears to punch the man in the face. In the…
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Boston Man Who Posed as Uber Driver and Raped Passenger Is Sentenced
A Boston man who posed as an Uber driver and raped a passenger has been sentenced to 10-12 years in prison. According to the New York Daily News, Alejandro Done, 47, “pleaded guilty on Friday to charges of aggravated rape, kidnapping and assault and battery.” In December, Done convinced his victim that he was the…
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Civil Rights Groups Oppose Plan to Erect MLK Monument at Confederacy Site
A proposal to place a monument to Martin Luther King Jr. on Stone Mountain in Georgia is coming under attack—from civil rights leaders and Sons of Confederate Veterans. The Atlanta and DeKalb County branches of the NAACP and the national office of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference want to halt the plan because the site…
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White Man Who Targeted Elderly Black Man for ‘Knockout’ Gets Federal Prison Sentence
A federal judge sentenced Conrad Alvin Barrett on Friday to 71 months in prison for randomly attacking an elderly black man in Texas, breaking the victim’s jaw with a single punch, in what is dubbed the “knockout game,” the Huffington Post reports. Barrett, 29, pleaded guilty last June to a federal hate crime charge for…
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Lost Malcolm X Letter Found in Storage Locker on Sale for $1,250,000
Lending more credence to the adage that “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” a letter written by civil rights activist Malcolm X in 1964 has been discovered in a California storage locker among items that were headed for the trash. It is now on sale for $1.25 million, reports the New York Post. The…