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FBI Examines Whether Assault on Black Man Thrown Onto Train Tracks and Beaten Is Federal Hate Crime
The FBI is examining whether a nearly fatal attack on a black man at a Pittsburgh train station was a federal hate crime, WTAE-TV reports. Ryan Kyle, 21, faces the most serious charges among the five white men who allegedly attacked 55-year-old Kevin Lockett May 30. State authorities charged Kyle with attempted homicide, ethnic intimidation,…
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WNBA Star Donates Half Her Salary to Preventing Deaths From Sudden Cardiac Arrest
The New York Liberty’s Tina Charles will again donate half of her WNBA salary to Hopey’s Heart, the foundation she established in honor of her beloved aunt, Maureen “Hopey” Vaz, who died of multiple organ failure in 2013, the Associated Press reports. According to the foundation’s website, “Hopey was known for having a very giving…
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Ohio Family Accuses Police of Using Excessive Force in Fairfield Pool Incident
Fairfield, Ohio, police and a local family are disagreeing on almost every point of an altercation last week that led to the arrest of two adults, Krystal and Maya Dixon, and two children, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. The family is accusing the officers of using excessive force against its members, while the police are saying that…
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NC’s GOP Elects Its 1st Black Party Chairman
Delegates to the 2015 North Carolina Republican State Convention took a major step toward diversity. They elected Hasan Harnett as the party’s chairman—the first African American to hold that position. Harnett says he can make the party more appealing to minorities, the Charlotte Observer reports. His June 6 victory was “a rebuke” of Craig Collins,…
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Golden State Warriors Snag 1st NBA Title Since 1975
The Golden State Warriors made their claim to the NBA title Tuesday night, ending the grueling showdown between the California team and the Cleveland Cavaliers, CNN reports. Tuesday night’s game was close, 105-97, with the Warriors’ Stephen Curry and Andrew Iguodala scoring 25 points each. Iguodala was named MVP of the series. “They were all in…
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Former Ga. ‘Miracle Baby’ Gets Anti-Bullying Book Published
When little Emmanuel Hawkins discovered that his mother had died at the hands of a “bully,” his confusion prompted his grandmother to help him write an anti-bullying book, featuring the active 11-year-old as a superhero, My Fox Atlanta reports. In 2003, while his mother, Tara Hawkins, was only three months pregnant, she was viciously attacked by…
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Okla. Teen Gets Life in Prison for Shooting Death of Australian Student
An Oklahoma teen was sentenced to spend the remainder of his life in prison, without the possibility of parole, for the 2013 murder of an Australian student baseball player, Reuters reports. Chancey Luna was 16 when he and two other teenagers drove by 22-year-old Christopher Lane and shot him to death as he was jogging…
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Rachel Dolezal Decried Exodus Movie as ‘Highly Offensive’ for Portraying Ancient Egyptians as White
This morning in: irony. Turns out, former Spokane, Wash., NAACP President Rachel Dolezal was not a fan of Exodus, the embattled movie starring The Dark Knight trilogy’s Christian Bale as Moses. More specifically, she echoed a lot of the complaints that circled the movie last year, decrying the casting of white actors as ancient Egyptians. In an interview…
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Rachel Dolezal’s Older Brother Will Stand Trial in Molestation of Young Black Child
One reason Rachel Dolezal’s parents may have outed her as the white woman she is—since she’s been successfully masquerading as a black woman for years—is the role she may have played in her older brother’s standing trial in the sexual assault of a young black child, the Washington Post reports. Joshua Dolezal is Rachel Dolezal’s only…
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Norfolk, Va., Policeman Accused of Fatally Shooting David Latham Released on Bond
Norfolk, Va., Officer Michael Carlton Edington Jr., accused of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a mentally ill man, was released on a personal recognizance bond, the Virginian-Pilot reports. On June 6, 2014, David Latham’s family called 911 to get emergency psychiatric treatment for him. Latham, 35, was mentally ill and had previous interactions…