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Black Christian University Professor Suspended After Saying Some BLM Members ‘Should Be Hung’

August 28, 2017 Staff 0

A Black professor at a Christian university in Phoenix has been suspended after a video clip revealed him making troubling remarks about activists in the Black Lives Matter movement. Professor Toby Jennings, of Grand Canyon […]

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Emmett Till: 62nd Anniversary Of Lynching Reignites Calls For Apology

August 28, 2017 Staff 0

Sixty-two years ago on August 28, Carolyn Bryant Donham, a White woman, told a lie that got a fourteen year-old boy killed. The 62nd anniversary comes just days after the nation witnessed racial terror inCharlottesville, Virginia, […]

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More Chaos in Houston as Floodwaters Rise to Roof Lines

August 28, 2017 Staff 0

Rain from Tropical Storm Harvey falls as a firefighter is wheeled to a waiting ambulance after he became fatigued while fighting an office building fire in downtown in Houston, Texas, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. (AP […]

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Florida NAACP Calls on Governor to Remove All Confederate Symbols at the State Capitol, Ban from Public Property Statewide

August 24, 2017 Staff 0

The NAACP Florida State Conference has called on Florida Governor Rick Scott to remove all Confederate symbols at the State Capitol and requested legislative leaders to support a ban from public property statewide. The movement […]

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Secret Service Says it Will Run Out of Money to Protect Trump and his Family Sept. 30

August 23, 2017 Staff 0

By Lisa Rein, washingtonpost.com The Secret Service said Monday that it has enough money to cover the cost of protecting President Trump and his family through the end of September, but after that the agency […]

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Dick Gregory, Civil Rights Activist and Innovative Comedian, Dies at 84

August 21, 2017 Staff 0

Dick Gregory By Stacy M Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Legendary civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory died on Saturday. He was 84. Friends, family and celebrities took to social media to honor the icon […]

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Texas Governor Signs Sandra Bland Act Into Law With Major Revisions

August 17, 2017 Staff 0

By Taryn Finely, huffingtonpost.com Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the Sandra Bland Act into law Thursday to address the circumstances that led to Bland’s death in July 2015. The new law mandates the county jails […]

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Confederate Statue Toppled in North Carolina During Anti-racism Rally

August 16, 2017 Staff 0

(The Guardian) Protesters in North Carolina toppled a nearly century-old statue of a Confederate soldier on Monday at a rally against racism. Activists in Durham brought a ladder to the statue and used a rope […]

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FBI, Justice Department Open civil Rights Investigation into Charlottesville Car Attack

August 13, 2017 Staff 0

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — U.S. officials have opened a civil rights investigation into the circumstances of the deadly car attack that took place amid clashes of white nationalists and counter-demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia. One person was […]

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Senatory Cory Booker Pushing to Federally Legalize Marijuana

August 1, 2017 Staff 0

by Daniel Arkin (NBC) Sen. Cory Booker introduced a wide-reaching bill on Tuesday that would drop the federal prohibition on marijuana and even encourage states to legalize the drug. In an announcement on Facebook Live, […]

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