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  • Teen Suspect Reportedly Kills Himself After Alleged Middle School Shooting Attempt in Richmond, Indiana

    A teenage suspect is dead after being cornered by police during an alleged attempted shooting at Dennis Intermediate School in Richmond, Indiana. According to the IndyStar, police had been tipped off about a potential school shooter early Thursday morning, at which point they had the middle school go on lockdown. Officers reached the school at…

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    Natalie Degraffinried

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  • Family of 9-Year-Old Says Racist Bullying Drove Her to Suicide

    Authorities in Linden, Ala. are searching for answers after the suicide of McKenzie Nicole Adams. Her family members believe racism was to blame. Adams, who loved dolls and hoped to become a scientist, was found dead at her home by her grandmother. While the official cause of death has yet to be revealed, Eddwina Harris,…

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    Ibn Safir

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  • Craig Turner, Eldest Son of Tina Turner, Dead at 59

    Tina Turner’s oldest son, Craig Raymond Turner, has died. The 59-year-old was pronounced dead at his home in Studio City, Calif. at 12:58 p.m. on Tuesday of an apparent suicide, a spokesperson told ET. “The call was reported as a suicide, gunshot wound,” the spokesperson said. “The next of kin has been notified. There will…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • ‘Suck It Up’ or Pray: Advice That Almost Killed Me

    I was beaten quite a bit as a child. I wasn’t a “bad kid” or a troublemaker, I just happened to come from a violent place (America) and a culture (small town, black, 1980s; take your pick) where beating children was de rigueur. As an infant, I was beaten with a wooden yardstick until my…

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    Taii K. Austin

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  • The Fashion World Loses the Great Kate Spade

    Very sad news in the fashion world: Designer Kate Spade has died in New York City at age 55 of an apparent suicide. She was discovered by her housekeeper Tuesday morning in her Park Avenue home, TMZ reports. The designer, born Katherine Noel Brosnahan, got her start in fashion while working as a salesperson in…

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    Maiysha Kai

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  • Former Playboy Model Jumps to Her Death With Her 7-Year-Old Son

    In a most tragic incident coincidentally occurring during Mental Health Awareness Month, a former African-American Playboy model has jumped to her death, taking her 7-year-old son with her. The former Miss November Stephanie Adams vaulted from the 25th-floor window of a New York City hotel Friday morning. Some hotel employees of the Gotham Hotel speculate…

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    Angela Helm

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  • Watch: More Black Children Are Turning to Suicide, so What Can We Do About It?

    Ashawnty Davis attempted to take her own life by hanging in November 2017. Two weeks later, the 10-year-old succumbed to her injuries. Days after Ashawnty’s death, 8-year-old Imani McCray hanged herself in her New Jersey home. And weeks earlier, 11-year-old Rylan Thai Hagan hanged himself from the bunk bed in his family’s Washington, D.C., home.…

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    Ashley Velez

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  • Father of 9-Year-Old Girl Who Committed Suicide Cautions Parents Not to Miss the Warning Signs

    Charles Weatherspoon was preparing lunch for his family Jan. 4 when he told his son, Charles, to run some vitamins up to his sister, A’layah. Charles came back moments later from his sister’s room, telling his father that A’layah was playing a prank and pretending to be asleep. When Weatherspoon went up to check on…

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    Anne Branigin

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  • Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart, Fidel Castro’s Eldest Son, Commits Suicide

    Fidel Ángel “Fidelito” Castro Díaz-Balart, 68, the eldest son of Cuban revolutionary and former President Fidel Castro, committed suicide Thursday, Cuba’s state media reported. He was found Thursday morning in Havana and is said to have suffered from depression. Díaz-Balart was a nuclear physicist who served as a scientific adviser to the Council of State…

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    Kirsten West Savali

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  • Death at DC Boarding School Highlights the Alarming Increase of Suicides Among Young Black Children

    At about 6:15 a.m. Tuesday, several middle-school-age students at a boarding school in Washington, D.C., found their 12-year-old classmate unconscious. Officials would later confirm that the girl, one of the students’ roommates, was dead of an apparent suicide, Fox 5 DC reports. Paramedics who rushed to the scene could not revive her. The unidentified girl…

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    Anne Branigin

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