President and Michelle Obama personally identify with everyday experiences of racial bias in America that have underpinned recent protests across the country, they told People magazine in an interview to be released Friday.
“Barack Obama was a ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 1:31PM
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BATON ROUGE--Mychal Bell, who made national headlines a few years ago as part of the ‘Jena Six,’ has graduated from Southern University.
According to a graduate list supplied by the school, Bell received a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplin ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 1:25PM
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PORTLAND, OREGON--Mariann Hyland made a vow 10 years ago, after Portland Police fatally shot 21-year-old Kendra James during a routine traffic stop.
Hyland, a Portland lawyer who is African American, promised to teach young black people how to su ...
Posted Wednesday, December 10th 2014 at 12:05PM
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CHICAGO--DuPage County sheriff’s records allege that 911 received a frantic call from the boy’s dad, Michael Cattron Sr., 46, stating his son had been shot and was laying in a pool of blood. When investigators arrived on the scene, the boy was no ...
Posted Wednesday, December 10th 2014 at 11:59AM
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Researchers working with Brockington Cultural Resources Consulting believe they have found the remnants of Gadsden’s Wharf in South Carolina, where an estimated 100,000 enslaved Africans arrived in America.
“It is the place of arrival for a hu ...
Posted Wednesday, December 10th 2014 at 11:37AM
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In recent weeks, the list of celebrities who have publicly defended Bill Cosby against his multiple sexual abuse accusations have included from Jill Scott, Whoopi Goldberg, and Cee Lo Green. And now longtime Cosby associate, Debbie Allen has shared h ...
Posted Sunday, December 7th 2014 at 8:02PM
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A letter to our African-American sons
Emma McElvaney Talbott, Special to The Courier-Journal 12:07 a.m. EST December 6, 2014
Dear African-American sons:
What just played out in Ferguson, Mo., and in Sanford, Fla., is nothing new. These stori ...
Posted Sunday, December 7th 2014 at 7:48PM
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In life, Marion Barry Jr. was known for his entrances, his sense of when to step into a room, light up a crowd and put himself at the center of the action — often conspicuously late.
In death, Barry delivered a remarkable exit, a three-day spec ...
Posted Saturday, December 6th 2014 at 8:05PM
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Autopsy Shows Mentally Ill Man Shot From Behind and Above, 14 Times
December 3, 2014
BreakingBrown reported in October that the officer who killed Dontre Hamilton had been fired from the Milwaukee Police Department. Now an autopsy confirms that t ...
Posted Saturday, December 6th 2014 at 2:56PM
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'Why did you have to shoot him?' Devastated girl, 9, writes letter to Phoenix cop who killed her father
Dec 4th 2014 5:26PM
By RYAN GORMAN
The young daughter of an unarmed black male gunned down by a white Phoenix cop this week has written a ...
Posted Saturday, December 6th 2014 at 2:46PM
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ORANGEBURG, S.C. -- A white man who was the police chief in a small South Carolina town was charged with murder Wednesday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man nearly four years ago.
A grand jury indicted Richard Combs on Wednesday, the sa ...
Posted Thursday, December 4th 2014 at 5:44PM
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KANO, Nigeria (AP) — The father of a 14-year-old child bride accused of murdering her husband said Thursday he was appealing to a Nigerian court to spare his daughter the death sentence.
Wasilat Tasi'u is on trial for the murder of her 35-year- ...
Posted Monday, December 1st 2014 at 5:54PM
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The following article contains excerpts from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s address delivered October 24, 1987 on “The Police Slaying of Michael Taylor.” Michael Taylor was a 16-year-old Black male whom Indianapolis police shot to dea ...
Posted Thursday, November 27th 2014 at 7:32PM
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The award-winning songwriter gave his thoughts on the unrest in Ferguson after a grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in Michael Brown’s shooting death.
Pharrell Williams
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Grammy Award-wi ...
Posted Tuesday, November 25th 2014 at 5:15PM
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The award-winning songwriter gave his thoughts on the unrest in Ferguson after a grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in Michael Brown’s shooting death.
Pharrell Williams
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images
Grammy Award-wi ...
Posted Tuesday, November 25th 2014 at 5:14PM
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November 22, 2014, 10:20 PM
In a speech Saturday at Morgan State University, Louis Farrakhan predicted violence in Ferguson this week and castigated black leaders — from fellow preachers to President Barack Obama — for trying to pacify protest ...
Posted Sunday, November 23rd 2014 at 4:56PM
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November 18, 2014
by Angela P. Moore-Thorpe
With anticipation building across the nation over the imminent decision by a Ferguson, Missouri grand jury to indict or not indict a white police officer, Darren Wilson, for the killing of an unarmed b ...
Posted Thursday, November 20th 2014 at 3:14PM
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Cedric the Entertainer is famous for comedy, but the St. Louis bred comedian definitely also has a serious side.
As the world prepares for the grand jury decision about whether white police officer Darren Wilson will be charged in the fatal Augus ...
Posted Thursday, November 20th 2014 at 3:08PM
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CRYSTAL CITY, Mo. – A possible Ebola case is being investigated at Mercy Jefferson Hospital in Crystal City.
According to Warren Robinson, director of emergency management for Jefferson County, the patient is a female nurse who recently returned ...
Posted Thursday, November 20th 2014 at 3:00PM
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Following the viral scandal of iconic comedian Bill Cosby’s sexual abuse allegations, meet the latest gal involved in such claims.
34-year-old Lachele Elizabeth Covington is really not a new face in the Cosby accusations, she was actually one o ...
Posted Thursday, November 20th 2014 at 2:42PM
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Fox & Friends welcomed Geraldo Rivera onto their morning panel, and as Media Matters for America reported, it was not long before he blamed minorities not only for their own failures, but of those of their children too.
The hosts began by rolling ...
Posted Saturday, November 8th 2014 at 9:14PM
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