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BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it will be testing its grocery delivery service with ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft in the next two weeks in Denver and Phoenix. That’s in addition to a quiet pilot program that started in March with Deliv for its Sam’s Club customers that involves delivery of general […]
Host of AM Joy, Joy Ann Reid goes Inside Her Story with a mother-daughter duo Rozalynn and Gabby Goodwin, owners of Gabby’s Bows. The South Carolina natives invented a double sided hair bow to prevent the age-old disappearing act of little girls bows. How nine-year-old Gabby started her business: “My mom went on Twitter to rant abut my […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Rising drug and alcohol overdoses, suicides, and disease from chronic alcoholism — labeled “deaths of despair” by one expert — are cutting the lives of white Americans short by nearly a half a year on average. Increases in these types of deaths among whites means that life expectancy for whites is […]
She’s gone, yall. It took less than 24 hours for Christine Mcmullen Lindgren to get fired from her job as a personal banker at an Atlanta Bank of America after posting a racist rant on Facebook that quickly went viral before it was deleted. Of course, folks took screenshots. Lindgren stated in her post that […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Baton Rouge man was arrested Thursday on murder charges in the deaths of two Southern University students who were killed in a shootout at an off-campus party in April. Brandon Christopher Henderson, 25, was jailed on two counts of second-degree murder and one count of illegal use of a […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A judge ordered the appointment of a special prosecutor Thursday to handle the case of a white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times after the embattled Cook County state’s attorney asked to step aside. Officer Jason Van Dyke is charged with first-degree murder in the 2014 killing of […]
DALLAS, May 23, 2016 – Allstate Insurance Company and the Tom Joyner Foundation will be presenting a check for $50,000 to Grambling State University as part of the annual Allstate Quotes for Education program, designed to help raise money for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Grambling State University, located in Grambling, LA, won the Allstate […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the murder-suicide at the University of California, Los Angeles (all times local): 7:15 a.m. Los Angeles police have identified the man they say carried out a murder-suicide on the UCLA campus. A police spokeswoman, Officer Jenny Houser, says the gunman was Mainak Sarkar. Sarkar gunned down mechanical engineering […]
An English teacher in Conroe, Texas has been released from jail after accusations of her having sex with a 13-year-old student became public. Click2Houston.com reports: Prosecutors said Alexandria Vera had a sexual relationship with one of her students and also got pregnant by the eighth-grader. An Aldine Independent School District peace officer was assigned to […]
QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — A 5-year-old Massachusetts boy may have a future in law enforcement. The Quincy Police Department on Wednesday posted to Facebook a recording of a 911 call the boy placed to report his father had run a red light. The boy tells a dispatcher: “Daddy went through a red light.” He then […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Black drivers in Missouri were nearly 70 percent more likely than whites to get stopped by the police last year, marking a slight improvement from the year before but showing there still are significant racial disparities in such stops. State Attorney General Chris Koster’s office released a report Wednesday showing […]
