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Protestors Want Police Who killed Alton Sterling Arrested

August 17, 2016 Staff 0

PROTESTORS MARCH IN the street following the shooting death of Alton Sterling July 5 in Baton Rouge, La. (The Drum) By Candace J. Semien For NNPA, The Drum BATON ROUGE — Whether it was a […]

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Republicans are at Breaking Point with Donald Trump

August 15, 2016 Staff 0

ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — The Republican Party could be nearing a breaking point with Donald Trump. As he skips from one gaffe to the next, GOP leaders in Washington and in the most competitive states […]

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NAACP National President Cornell William Brooks Arrested After Sit-In with Youth in Congressional Office

August 10, 2016 Staff 0

ROANOKE, Va. – NAACP National President and CEO Cornell William Brooks was charged with trespassing by local police after refusing to leave a Congressman’s district office in southwest Virginia on Monday during a sit-in with […]

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Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., Last Surviving Birmingham Bomber, Denied Parole

August 5, 2016 Staff 0

by CORKY SIEMASZKO An Alabama parole board has denied the last surviving Birmingham church bomber’s first attempt to get out of prison. Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., an 86-year-old Ku Klux Klansman serving a life sentence for […]

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Slavery Reparations Sought in First Black Lives Matter Agenda

August 2, 2016 Staff 0

By Eric M. Johnson | SEATTLE A coalition affiliated with the anti-racism Black Lives Matter movement called for criminal justice reforms and reparations for slavery in the United States among other demands in its first […]

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Marilyn Mosby on Freddie Gray’s case: We Could Try the Cops 100 Times with the Same Result

August 1, 2016 Staff 0

(Andrew Burton/Getty Images) by Victoria Massie (Vox) A year after Freddie Gray, 25, died from a neck injury he incurred while in the custody of Baltimore police officers after an unlawful arrest, prosecutors announced that […]

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Comcast Gives Millions of Low Income Families Internet Service for $10

July 25, 2016 Staff 0

The largest broadcasting and largest cable television company in the world has just announced that they will be expanding their $9.95 per month Internet service so an additional 1.3 million low-income families will have Internet […]

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Baltimore Police Lieutenant Acquitted in Freddie Gray Death

July 18, 2016 Staff 0

BALTIMORE – A Maryland judge on Monday acquitted Baltimore police Lieutenant Brian Rice of involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office for the April 2015 death of black detainee Freddie Gray. Baltimore City Circuit […]

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Red Cross Safety Flyer Prompts Apology for Being Racist

July 8, 2016 Staff 0

An American Red Cross Hospital signboard that carried a “super racist” message about swim safety guidelines for children has prompted an apology from the hospital. The dialogue opened on Twitter after a photo circulated of […]

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Chief: Suspect in Dallas police attack wanted to ‘kill white people’

July 8, 2016 Staff 0

by Lisa Garza DALLAS, July 8 (Reuters) – At least one sniper in Dallas killed five police officers and wounded seven more in a coordinated attack that ended when police used a robot bomb to […]

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