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Marcy Borders, 9/11 ‘Dust Lady,’ Dies of Cancer at 42
Her name was Marcy Borders, but the world knew her as the “Dust Lady” after a now-iconic image showed Borders covered in dust during the attacks on New York City’s twin towers Sept. 11, 2001. Photographer Stan Honda was working for Agence France-Presse when he captured the image, which was snapped just moments before the…
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Va. Reporter, Cameraman Fatally Shot During Live Broadcast
Updated Wednesday, Aug. 26, 10:45 a.m. EDT: Authorities have identified the suspected shooter accused of killing two WDBJ7 employees early Wednesday morning, CNN reports. “We do not know the motive. We do not know who the killer is,” WDBJ7 General Manager Jeff Marks said. “We do know the Franklin County sheriff … they are working…
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Texas Street Where Sandra Bland Was Arrested Is Renamed After Her
Sandra Bland moved back to Texas in July to take a job with her alma mater, Prairie View A&M University. On July 10 a traffic stop ended in Bland’s arrest, with jail officials claiming a few days later that she was found hanged in her Waller County cell. On Tuesday evening, the Prairie View City…
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Black Women’s Book Club Kicked Off Napa Wine Train for Laughing While Black Gets Apology
The African-American book club that was booted from California’s Napa Valley Wine Train Saturday for what has been dubbed “laughing while black” was given a public apology Tuesday from the company’s CEO. “The Napa Valley Wine Train was 100 percent wrong in its handling of this issue,” Anthony “Tony” Giaccio said in a statement viewed by the…
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Former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke Endorses Trump for President
The Donald has been in a bit of news involving white supremacists of late. Of course, it is not Donald Trump’s fault that one such supremacist wanted to rename a North Dakota town after him. It is also fairly safe to assume that Trump didn’t ask notorious former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke…
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Family of Black Man Injured During Arrest Claims He Was Beaten With Baton
The family of a Florida man arrested over the weekend claims that he was brutally beaten, as evidenced by the significant injuries seen in his mug shot, WPBF reports. Jamell Adamson was arrested Saturday after he allegedly didn’t stop at a stop sign and then refused to pull over when a sheriff’s deputy tried to…
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Ala. Officer Didn’t Have Body Camera Turned on When He Fatally Shot Man Having a ‘Mental Episode’
A Tuscaloosa, Ala., police officer who fatally shot a man carrying a “large metal spoon in a threatening manner” was wearing a body camera but did not have it turned on, The Guardian reports. Jeffory Tevis was shot and killed last Thursday evening by officers responding to an alleged assault at his home. Tevis, who…
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Fla. Man Whose Confederate Flag Was Stolen Unable to Identify Suspect: ‘They All Look the Same to Me’
Police have arrested a suspected thief who was reportedly involved in the tearing down of a Confederate flag at a Bradenton, Fla., residence in July. Police reportedly learned about the theft after a video was posted to the Facebook page of Jamari Williams. Robin Eaker, the reported owner of the flag, didn’t initially report the…
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To #BlackLivesMatter: You’re Marching the Wrong Way—Signed, Ben Carson
In an opinion column published in USA Today Wednesday, Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson blasted the Black Lives Matter movement, which he said he believes is “focused on the wrong targets,” and called its recent disruption of Bernie Sanders’ speeches “lunacy.” The retired neurosurgeon acknowledged that protesters are right “that racial policing issues exist and some rotten…
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Racist Fliers Reading ‘Let’s Get the Blacks Out’ Spark Outrage in Mich. Community
There is a flier being distributed in Southfield, Mich., that shows a photo of a Klansman in a hood pointing his gun at the head of a black child who couldn’t be more than 6. The black child is wearing a white hoodie and is extending a bag of Skittles to the man. Another flier…