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The Revolution Is Socialized: Organization ‘Live-Tweets’ Watts Riots on 50th Anniversary
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Watts rebellion (Aug. 11-17, 1965), the California Endowment’s Sons and Brothers Campaign, in partnership with the Community Coalition of South Los Angeles, is “live-tweeting” the uprising, drawing clear parallels between the raw revolution of Watts, a South Los Angeles neighborhood, and its grandchild, the uprising in Ferguson, Mo. It hasn’t been marked with the pageantry…
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Former Texas Officer Tried to Hire Hit Man to Kill Pregnant Lover: Report
A former Austin, Texas, police officer has been named a suspect in the death of his pregnant lover, with a warrant revealing that he reportedly sought out a hit man to kill the woman so that he wouldn’t have to pay child support. The nightmare began Feb. 4 when Samantha Dean, a pregnant, 29-year-old crimes-victim…
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Hillary Clinton’s ‘New College Compact’ Includes $25,000,000,000 to Support Private HBCUs
Hillary Clinton unveiled a “New College Compact”—a $350 billion proposal—as part of her 2016 presidential platform this week, promising to ease the cost of higher education and, in the same breath, reduce student debt. In the broader proposal, Clinton proposes that states “will have to step up … by maintaining current levels of higher education…
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Tenn. School District Says It Can’t Stop Students From Displaying Confederate Flag Unless It Causes a ‘Disturbance’
A Tennessee mother is questioning the freedom students have to openly display the Confederate flag while on a high school campus, WKRN-TV reports. The mother, who is black and wants to remain unidentified, contacted the news station because she was concerned about her son’s safety at Stewarts Creek High School in Smyrna, Tenn. According to…
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Black Nationalist Charlie Hill Fears Life in Cuba Now That US Relationship Is on the Mend
The United States and Cuba are reconciling. And even though the mend in the battered relationship is still in its beginning stages, American fugitives who have been granted political asylum in Cuba are worrying about their future. Charlie Hill, who told CBS News that he still considers himself a “revolutionary,” is one of those fugitives,…
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Father: 15-Year-Old Boy Shot by Indianapolis Police Was No Threat
Fifteen-year-old Andre Green was fatally shot by Indianapolis police who said the teen was driving a stolen car and accelerated toward officers, causing them to open fire. The boy’s father questions the cops’ account and believes that lethal force wasn’t needed. According to the Associated Press, Kenneth Green has several questions about the officers’ account…
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Iowa Barber Gave Free Back-to-School Haircuts to Kids as Long as They Read to Him
A Dubuque, Iowa, barber figured he would do his part to help the community get ready for the upcoming school year, so on Saturday he offered children haircuts, with the only payment being that they had to read a book to the barber. “I just want to support kids reading,” barber Courtney Holmes, who set…
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Trump to #BlackLivesMatter: ‘I Would Never Give Up My Microphone’
Republican presidential contender Donald Trump is not known for backing down … to anyone about anything. So “the Donald” was quite shocked when Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) did not protest when protesters affiliated with Black Lives Matter took over a political rally at which Sanders was scheduled to address supporters. Not I,…
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‘I Don’t Want to Die in Your Cell,’ Ralkina Jones Told Police in Video Taken Before Her in-Custody Death
“I don’t want to die in your cell.” Those were some of the last words Ohio mom Ralkina Jones spoke to Cleveland Heights police officers, a mere 15 hours or so before she was found dead in a jail cell, Cleveland.com reports. Jones, who died July 26, can be seen on body-camera footage talking candidly…
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Ohio Woman’s Truck Is Burned After Racist Letter Threatened, ‘Don’t Get Burnt Up in There’
Nicole Rhodes was in the process of reopening a hair salon and beauty school in a Youngstown, Ohio, building that she has owned for the last three-and-a-half years. A few weeks ago, she says, someone, presumably a neighbor, left a racist letter on the building with a deadly warning: ” ‘Black bitch, we don’t want…