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Former MLB Player Slain in Murder-Suicide, Police Say
On Sunday officers found Darryl Hamilton, a former Major League Baseball player for five teams, dead inside a Pearland, Texas, home after a shooting in an apparent murder-suicide, police said, USA Today reports. Hamilton had sustained several gunshot wounds in a “dispute,” according to a police report cited by the news outlet. In another part…
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Report: SC Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham to Call for Removal of Confederate Flag
South Carolina’s Sen. Lindsey Graham is expected to add his voice to the growing number of lawmakers demanding that the Confederate flag be removed from state grounds, CNN reports. Graham, a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, is expected to appear alongside Gov. Nikki Haley late Monday afternoon to make his announcement calling for the flag’s removal.…
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Cousin: Dylann Roof ‘Went Over the Edge’ When His Girl Crush Started to Date a Black Guy
Editor’s note: After speaking with two members of Dylann Roof’s family, The Intercept, the outlet from which this piece obtained its information, can no longer stand by the premise of this story. Read The Intercept’s full retraction statement here. Dylann Roof’s hatred for black people—in horrific display during his shooting spree last week inside a historically black church—may…
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Israeli Minister’s Wife Posts Controversial Tweet: ‘Obama Coffee’ Is ‘Black and Weak’
A “joke” tweeted by the wife of Israeli Interior Minister Silvan Shalom drew fierce backlash on Twitter, ultimately leading her to delete the post and then apologize, Haaretz reports. “Do u know what Obama Coffee is? Black and weak,” Judy Nir-Mozes Shalom tweeted. According to the news report, Shalom quickly deleted the tweet, but not before…
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1st NAACP Member Killed in the Civil Rights Struggle Memorialized 75 Years Later
Brownsville, Tenn., police officers snatched Elbert Williams from his home in the middle of the night on June 20, 1940. His body was found—beaten and with bullet wounds—three days later in the Hatchie River. The authorities, without investigating his murder, had him buried in an unmarked grave, according to the committee organized to establish his…
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Russell Simmons Calls NYC Mayor de Blasio a ‘Bitch’ for Not Standing Up to the Police Department
Russell Simmons reportedly used some colorful language on a radio show June 18 to describe New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. According to Capital New York, the hip-hop mogul and activist called de Blasio a “bitch” for failing to stand up to the city’s police commissioner, William Bratton, and governor, Andrew Cuomo, over criminal…
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Leader of White Supremacist Group Referenced by Dylann Roof Donated Thousands to Top Republicans
The president of a white supremacist group that was referenced in a manifesto attributed to accused Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal shooter Dylann Roof donated tens of thousands of dollars to Republican campaigns, including those of former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pennsylvania) and Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Rand Paul (Kentucky), all of whom are running for…
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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…