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‘Black Lives Matter’ Spray-Painted on Confederate Monument in Charleston, SC
Graffiti bearing the message “Black Lives Matter” has turned up on a memorial dedicated to the “Confederate Defenders of Charleston” who died at South Carolina’s Fort Sumter, Yahoo News reports. This comes days after a shooting rampage at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., by a gunman who has been photographed with a…
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Obama Addresses Racism, Says N-Word in Podcast
President Barack Obama underscored the persistence of racism in the United States, pointing out, for example, that just because it’s no longer considered polite to say the n-word in public doesn’t mean the country is not still suffering the aftereffects of systemic discrimination, the Associated Press reports. “Racism, we are not cured of it,” Obama…
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3 Children Shot at Philadelphia Block Party Over Weekend
Police are searching for gunmen after a West Philadelphia block party on Saturday ended with shooting, resulting in injuries to 10 people, including three children, CBS Philadelphia reports. According to the report, at least two blasts from a shotgun were fired at about 10 p.m. on Saturday. Police Lt. John Walker told the CBS station…
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New Orleans Cops Nab Escapee Who Fatally Shot Officer
After an intense manhunt, New Orleans police on Sunday arrested a 33-year-old man accused of shooting and killing a 22-year veteran of the Police Department, according to NOLA. Officers arrested Travis Boys, 33, a suspect in the Saturday shooting death of Officer Daryle Holloway, the report says. Boys was captured in the city’s Lower 9th Ward after…
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Ex-Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. Is Scheduled to Begin House Arrest Monday
Former Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is scheduled to be released from prison Monday to serve out the remaining three months of his prison term under house arrest, according to the Chicago Tribune. The 50-year-old entered prison on Oct. 29, 2013, after a conviction for misuse of about $750,000 in campaign funds, the report says.…
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Emanuel AME Church Opens Doors for Sunday Worship
If Dylann Roof’s goal was to halt worship at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., it did not work. The church held service Sunday after police say Roof shot and killed nine people, including the beloved pastor, at the historically black church last week in an effort to start a race war, according…
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SC Judge Who Urged Support for Family of Racist Church Killer Will Not Oversee Trial
Charleston County Magistrate James Gosnell Jr. sparked outrage Friday when he appealed for sympathy for the family of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old self-professed racist who last week gunned down nine African Americans at prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. But the good news in this sad and disturbing story is…
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Should We Forgive the Charleston Killer?
It was as if I were feeling the Charleston, S.C., massacre in my bones. I had been in the United States as a guest of the Brown University International Advanced Research Institute. I was scheduled to go back on June 21, but I insisted on going back as soon as I finished my talk on…
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Inside the Mind of Dylann Roof: Alleged Racist Manifesto Reveals Deep Hatred of Blacks
A 2,000-word screed believed to be written by Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old accused shooter in the Charleston, S.C., church massacre, are the ramblings of a man with a deep-seated hatred toward blacks. The manifesto was discovered at lastrhodesian.com through a Reverse Whois lookup on domaintools.com and is registered to Roof, Gawker reports. “I have no…
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Watch: SC Judge Calls for Sympathy for Family of Accused Church Shooter
A South Carolina judge—disciplined in the past for using the n-word in an open courtroom—Friday called for the community to rally around the family of accused church shooter Dylann Roof at a hearing, according to the New York Daily News. “We have victims—nine of them. But we also have victims on the other side,” Charleston…