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The shooting and killing of young black men by police officers seems to have now become a sport. According to one report, a black man was shot in the head during a routine traffic stop in Algiers, and the New Orleans Police Department didn’t even report it. Bossip reports via NOLA News the incident might […]
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has a message for the residents of Ferguson in the St. Louis Post Dispatch in which he describes what steps will be taken. Since the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown, the nation and the world have witnessed the unrest that has gripped Ferguson, Mo. At the core of these demonstrations […]
The TJMS talks to Jeff Rodgers, (Bahamas Tourism) and Curtis Symonds (founder of HBCUX) about the SWAC/SIAC game between Texas Southern University and Central State University on September 13th in Nassau, Bahamas. “We carved out this idea of bring ing a black college football game to the islands. We wanted to also bring education here,” Symonds […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry gave a confident, wry smile beneath flawless hair for his mug shot. Then he went out for a vanilla ice cream. That’s how the possible 2016 presidential candidate greeted his booking on criminal charges of abuse of power. But what’s next for the longest-serving in Texas […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police and protesters in Ferguson were finally able to share the streets again at night, putting aside for at least a few hours some of the hostility that had filled those hours with tear gas and smoke. The St. Louis suburb still had plenty of lively protest Tuesday over the fatal […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A grisly video released Tuesday shows Islamic State militants beheading American journalist James Foley, U.S. officials said, in what the extremists called retribution for recent U.S. airstrikes in Iraq. The militants threatened to kill another captive they also identified as an American journalist. Separately, Foley’s family confirmed his death in a statement […]
The parents of a Georgia teenager found dead rolled up in a mat in his high school gym have written a letter to the parents of police shooting victim Mike Brown. Kenneth and Jacquelyn Johnson’s son, Kendrick, was found in a rolled up gym mat at Lowndes High School on January 11, 2013. Authorities concluded that […]
Cory Nieves (pictured) is a chicly dressed 10-year-old who plans on building a cookie empire even before he’s old enough to drive! The bespectacled fifth-grader’s…
Reports are coming in that yet another man was shot and killed by police in St. Louis, Missouri Tuesday afternoon. The event happened just days after 18-year-old…
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson’s leaders urged residents Tuesday to stay home after dark to “allow peace to settle in” and pledged several actions to reconnect with the predominantly black community in the St. Louis suburb where the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown has sparked nightly clashes between protesters and police. According to a […]
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A grandmother shot and critically wounded her 7-year-old grandson early Tuesday after mistaking him for an intruder who had broken into her home, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. Linda Maddox, 63, and her twin grandsons were sleeping in a bedroom at about 1 a.m. after her son, who is the […]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Nearly $21,000 is missing after the cash fell from the roof of an armored truck that had picked it up from a soon-to-be-closed Atlantic City casino. GardaWorld armored car services picked up the cash at Revel on Aug. 6. An incident report obtained by The Press of Atlantic City says […]
