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The Jackie Robinson West Little League champs have returned home and are gearing up for their big celebration parade. MyChicagoFox.com reports: CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) – Millennium Park is ready to welcome the Jackie Robinson West All-Stars team, the U.S. Little League champs. Since the moment the team came home, things have been far from normal […]
Bad news has come to Atlanta’s biggest news circuit and it’s in the form of layoffs and buyouts. WSB-TV reports: ATLANTA — Big changes will soon be coming to CNN staffing. Two company executives confirmed late Monday that Turner Broadcasting plans to offer buyouts to hundreds of employees, including those at CNN. Reporters for Channel 2 […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Justice Department probes the police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old in Missouri, history suggests there’s no guarantee of a criminal prosecution, let alone a conviction. Federal authorities investigating possible civil rights violations in the Aug. 9 death of Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson must meet a […]
In a twist of irony, Danish art project Through Different Eyes, which was supposedly designed to combat racial discrimination, was accused of racial discrimination, according…
The war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed another American life — but this time, one fighting on behalf of the jihadist group. Douglas McAuthur McCain, an American citizen from San Diego who’d traveled to Turkey in May, was slain during a fight between two Syrian factions while fighting for ISIS, […]
Actor/activist Hill Harper joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” and talked about how traumatized the young people in Ferguson are as a result a of…
The FBI has questioned a man who says he recorded audio of gunfire at the time Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot dead by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, on Aug. 9. A man who lives near the scene of the shooting says he inadvertently recorded the shots that killed Brown, his […]
A Ferguson police officer is in the midst of a civil rights lawsuit because he allegedly hog-tied a 12-year-old boy. According to a lawsuit filed…
A star Cameroonian football player has died after getting hit on the head with an unidentified object thrown by a spectator, the BBC reports. SEE…
Forney, Texas police have apologized to a distraught mother after they accidentally pulled her over, handcuffed and arrested her in front of her four children. Kametra Barbour…
Atlanta teacher Nikki Turner was fired after playing Beyonce and Jay Z‘s “Drunk in Love” to her sixth-grade class — among other failures as a teacher. “This song is not [in] alignment with Teacher Keys Standard 9, Professionalism,” read a a district document against the teacher. “This song contained profanity, vulgarity, and sexually explicit lyrics.” […]
Doesn’t it seem like every day some crazy story involving a police officer is in the headlines? As of late it seems to have been the authorities themselves giving somebody grief; but now, the “shoe is on the other foot” so to speak, as an Oklahoma City police officer found himself under arrest Thursday and […]
