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DETROIT (AP) — Police in Detroit are searching for men who allegedly robbed two young couples at gunpoint in separate attacks two hours apart and gang-raped the women while forcing the male victims to watch. The attacks happened Thursday night along a major street on Detroit’s northwest side, police said. In each case, the couples […]
STONEWALL, Miss. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered Sunday night at a baseball park in a small Mississippi town to remember a black man who died after a physical encounter with a white police officer and to call for action. The crowd repeatedly shouted “No justice, no peace!” Lawrence Kirskey, president of the Clark County […]
Sandra Barnett, 49, wife of former NFL player Buster Barnett, was shot and killed Wednesday by a woman friends say was her husband’s mistress, before…
More evidence surrounding the tragic case of Sandra Bland continues to surface. The police officer who took Bland into custody was reportedly fired from his previous…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is headed to New York for a rare father-daughter weekend in the city. He’ll also collect some cash for Democrats while he’s there. Obama was headlining a Democratic fundraiser Friday night hosted by businessman George Logothetis and his wife, Nitzia. About 30 supporters were contributing up to $33,400 each. […]
In a surprising move, Sandra Bland’s family has asked social media to stop posting about the death of their sister. The request was made via Sigma Gamma Rho’s website, a Divine 9 sorority founded in 1922 on the campus of Butler University in Indiana, a predominantly White institution. The organization posted this message from the […]
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit woman with no remorse for killing two of her four children and stuffing the bodies in a home freezer was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole. Mitchelle Blair was charged, convicted and sentenced in less than four months, since an eviction crew discovered the children’s bodies in the […]
As mainstream media begin to take notice of the social, political and economic power of black social media users, the LA Times has made a bold, and possibly strange move, in hiring a reporter to monitor current trends, rants and musings on #BlackTwitter. Dexter Thomas has joined the publication to cover the latest happenings in […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Taken from Africa and sold into slavery in Brazil, Mahommah Baquaqua’s tale of escape to freedom in New York is the only known story of its kind, an in-depth, firsthand account of slavery in the South America country. But few in Brazil are aware of Baquaqua’s biography which, 160 years […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities in Los Angeles are looking for a burglar who accidentally made a selfie with his victim’s iPhone. Police say the thief entered a home in the Venice area through an unlocked door Saturday and grabbed the phone, but he accidentally activated a video app. The crook briefly recorded himself standing […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — As she ramps up her presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton is returning this weekend to a state that’s part of her home territory — a place she’s so well known her name adorns landmarks including the national airport and a children’s library. But when she headlines the Arkansas Democratic Party’s […]
DALLAS (AP) — Family and friends sought more details Thursday about the death of a black woman who authorities say hanged herself in a Texas jail after her arrest for allegedly kicking an officer following a traffic stop, saying the 28-year-old gave no indication she was in such an emotional state that she would kill […]
