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SC Senate Votes 36-3 to Remove Confederate Flag From Statehouse Grounds
Tuesday’s vote was essentially a vote of formality, a required one that will, one way or another, bring to an end the debate surrounding the Confederate battle flag flying on South Carolina’s Statehouse grounds in Columbia. State senators voted 36-3 on Tuesday to remove the flag from its position on Statehouse grounds and move it…
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Black NC Woman Denied Library Card in 1942 Returns at Age 92 to Get One
Pearl Thompson was a student at Shaw University in 1942 when she walked over to a public library in Raleigh, N.C., to check out a book she was assigned to read for class. But instead of issuing a library card to Thompson and allowing her to check out the book, the library staff at the…
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Mich. Student Faces Felony Charge for Driving to Well-Lit Area to Pull Over
DaJuawn Wallace was taught to ensure that he was in a safe, well-lit area before pulling over his car for a presumed traffic stop. Now the Detroit native, a student at Saginaw Valley State University, is facing a felony charge of fleeing and eluding for putting that lesson into practice, MLive reports. It was around…
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7-Year-Old Chicago Boy Fatally Shot in Chest While Playing Outside on 4th of July
At first Antonio Brown thought the gunshots he heard were fireworks, until someone yelled that his son, 7-year-old Amari Brown, had been shot. According to WGN-TV, Amari was shot in the chest Saturday while playing outside on a Chicago street during the July Fourth holiday. Amari later died during surgery at a local hospital. Brown was…
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Man, 20, Arrested in Shooting Death of Musician Kermit Ruffins’ Niece
New Orleans police have arrested a suspect in the death of a 20-year-old woman who is confirmed to have been the niece of jazz trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, the Associated Press reports. Will Reed, 20, was arrested during a traffic stop over the weekend and charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Milan Arriola,…
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‘Black Lives Matter’ Spray-Painted on Confederate Statue at UNC Chapel Hill
The Silent Sam statue, depicting a Confederate soldier, on the grounds of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been spray-painted with various messages, including “Black Lives Matter,” “KKK” and “murderer,” WRAL reports. The statue is one of the latest to be defaced in a recent spree targeting Confederate monuments in light of…
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Watch: NYC Police Officer Who Boxed With Suspect Is Being Investigated for Excessive Force
On Wednesday, Saykou George, 30, took out his wallet to present his ID to a plainsclothes New York City police officer in Harlem, and things took a turn for the worse—very quickly. In cellphone video of the incident, George and the police officer exchange words as George gives his license to the officer. A few…
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Serena Tops Venus at Wimbledon
Serena Williams once again showed up against big sister Venus Williams at Wimbledon, beating her in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, to reach the quarterfinals and extending her career victories over her older sister to 15-11, the Associated Press reports. “It’s hard to feel excited about [beating] someone you root for all the time no matter…
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Eric Garner’s Widow Doesn’t Want Anything to Do With Child He Had Out of Wedlock
A DNA test has confirmed that Eric Garner had a 16-month-old daughter with a woman he lived with for three years before his death. According to the New York Daily News, Garner, who died outside a Staten Island, N.Y., store after police administered a banned choke hold, was never legally divorced and his widow, Esaw…
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White Texas Family Has Black Guest Over and Wakes Up to Find ‘KKK’ Painted on Its Truck
For one Spring, Texas, family, the Fourth of July holiday weekend had barely started when they awoke to find racist and vulgar messages spray-painted on the family’s truck. “My black friend, he’s been here for two days,” Darren Franke told KHOU. “Me and him hung out in the yard and just mowed the grass and…