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DOVER, Del. (AP) — Federal and state authorities have charged a uniformed Secret Service officer from Maryland with sending obscene images and texts to someone he thought was a young Delaware girl, sometimes sending online communications while on duty at the White House. Unbeknownst to Lee Robert Moore, 37, the person he thought was a […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — A white Cleveland police officer had no choice but to fatally shoot a 12-year-old black boy carrying a pellet gun, an expert on police use of force said in a report released publicly Thursday by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office. Retired Florida police officer W. Ken Katsaris is the third expert who […]
BOSTON (AP) — It’s not always the slurs and the other out-and-out acts of racism. It’s the casual, everyday slights and insensitivities. Sheryce Holloway is tired of white people at Virginia Commonwealth University asking if they can touch her hair or if she knows the latest dance move. At Chicago’s Loyola University, Dominick Hall says […]
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — One of the University of Missouri’s first black law school graduates was appointed Thursday to lead the four-campus system through a tumultuous period of racial unrest, drawing praise from students who said he’s well-equipped to confront the problems they felt his predecessor largely ignored. Michael Middleton, 68, has spent 30 years […]
Katina Powell, a self-described former escort at the center of a sex scandal involving the Louisville men’s basketball team, is the target of a new lawsuit from the women she claimed to have pimped to recruits at sex parties, reports ESPN.com. Five women claim that Powell – in her tell-all book, “Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball […]
A violent threat has been made against students at Howard University by an anonymous person claiming to be a University of Missouri student, reports WNEW. The threat posted to a web forum Wednesday night reads, “I left MU yesterday because I couldn’t put up with it anymore. I go home to MD and what do […]
LONDON (AP) — A British woman who pretended to be a man to have sex with a female friend has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assault. Prosecutors say 25-year-old Gayle Newland went to great lengths to create a male persona, setting up a Facebook account in the name “Kye Fortune.” The […]
The Huffington Post interviewed four black students at the University of Missouri about their experiences on campus and their encounters with racism. “Cultural insensitivity, racial slurs and de facto segregation are the common threads minority students say separate the 7 percent of black students from the 77 percent white students that make up the school’s […]
Weeks after accusations were made against two women for sexually assaulting a man inside a gas station, the victim is speaking out on what happened that day. In an interview with Washington D.C.’s FOX 5DC, the man, who asked not to be identified, stated that the incident occurred when he was getting gas at the […]
The funeral of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, the Chicago boy who was fatally shot last week, still leaves the family numb and stunned by the what some are calling one of the worst crimes in a long time. The BBC.com reports: The Reverend Michael Pfleger told mourners it was “a new low for Chicago” and that the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah state child welfare officials on Wednesday were reviewing a ruling by a juvenile court judge who ordered a baby to be taken from lesbian foster parents and instead placed with a heterosexual couple for the child’s well-being. Judge Scott Johansen’s order Tuesday in the central Utah city of Price […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the daily fantasy sports website FanDuel told his New York customers Wednesday that they should keep on entering the company’s contests, despite a warning from the state’s attorney general that they amount to illegal gambling. FanDuel’s Nigel Eccles said its lawyers will try to persuade Attorney General Eric […]
