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Blackout Music & Film Festival Celebrates Community, Creativity and Culture
Blackout for Human Rights, a collective of actors, artists and activists speaking out for justice, will be holding a one-day film festival, the first Blackout Music & Film Festival, in downtown Los Angeles Saturday. The festival, which organizers plan to host annually, will boast special film screenings, art installations, panel discussions and live musical performances…
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White Supremacist Wants to Rename Town After Donald Trump
This isn’t the first time that white supremacist Craig Cobb has tried to buy out a small town for his own uses. He attempted and ultimately failed to create a whites-only community in Leith, N.D. Now, however, according to the Grand Forks Herald, Cobb has his eyes set on another small town in North Dakota:…
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Mass. Family ‘Terrorized’ by SWAT Team That Raided the Wrong Home
A Massachusetts family said that they feared for their lives when a SWAT team erroneously entered their home last week with guns drawn, CBS Boston reports. Marianne Diaz, who lives in the home with her fiance, Bryant Alequin, and her two daughters, ages 7 and 18 months, said that she prayed and tried to protect…
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11 Black Women Kicked Off Napa Wine Train for Laughing While Black
On Saturday afternoon, the Sistahs on the Reading Edge, a book club made up of 11 African-American women, boarded a Napa Valley Wine Train in California, intent on having a good time. But what started off pleasantly turned into a “humiliating” experience after the women were escorted off the train for laughing and talking too…
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Ill. Mom’s Anti-Black Lives Matter Rant Goes Viral
Peggy Hubbard, an Illinois mother, has a message for the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and she took to Facebook to voice her concerns. In a video posted to her Facebook page, Hubbard said she believes that the outrage over the Aug. 19 St. Louis police shooting of 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey, whom she calls a “thug,” was misdirected.…
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1 Dead, 1 Critically Injured in Fight Over Umbrella at NYC McDonald’s
A dispute over an umbrella turned deadly Friday morning at a McDonald’s in New York City’s East Harlem community when a quarrel between two couples erupted into a “savage knife-stabbing frenzy,” reports the New York Daily News. The incident occurred on a bustling commercial strip during peak rush hour traffic outside the McDonald’s at 125th…
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Zoë Kravitz Says Mom Lisa Bonet Is ‘Disgusted’ by Cosby Charges
While former Cosby Show star Lisa Bonet pleads “the fifth” on the swirl of allegations surrounding Bill Cosby, her daughter says the actress is “appalled” by sex assault charges against her once-beloved television dad, according to the New York Daily News. Zoë Kravitz, 26, told The Guardian that her mother, who played Denise Huxtable on…
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Father of US Train Hero Anthony Sadler Jr. Is ‘Relieved’ He ‘Wasn’t Hurt or Killed’
Anthony Sadler Sr. told NBC News affiliate KCRA in Sacramento, Calif., that he was “stunned” and “relieved” when he heard that his son was one of three Americans who on Friday helped subdue a gunman aboard a high-speed train en route to Paris from Amsterdam. “[I’m] proud, you know,” the father told the news station…
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Watch: Obamas Take Bike Ride in State Forest on Martha’s Vineyard Vacation
During the last day full day of the first family’s summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, the Obamas on Saturday took a bike ride through the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest in West Tisbury, Mass., according to the Cape Cod Times. On Sunday the president and his family are expected to end their two-week…
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Fla. Ex-Con Arrested After Giving Police Fake Name—for Wanted Felon
When ex-con Darius Devonte McClain was questioned by police for blaring loud music from his car stereo on a side street in Winter Haven, Fla., he gave them his brother’s name, according to the New York Daily News. Little did he know, however, that his brother Dequan Gunter, from nearby Putnam County in central Florida,…