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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Abused in life and death, an enslaved man known as Mr. Fortune will be honored with an elaborate funeral more than 200 years after he died in Connecticut. Fortune’s remains will lie in state in the Capitol rotunda in Hartford on Thursday before taken by state police escort to Waterbury […]
Ty’Aisa Jackson, 14, rejected a plea deal Wednesday and will now face life in prison for stabbing her 2-year-old sister to death, reports the Atlanta…
According to DJ’s Doing Work, a Chicago woman, Cierra Ross has been arrested and charged with raping and robbing a man at gun point. Allegedly…
50 years ago, the potential of a “black/brown coalition” in America was just a novel idea on very shaky ground. But at the 50th Anniversary…
It’s official. Florida is just not the place to be! From violent murders going unpunished to men turned zombies, eating faces–Florida’s been having the worst…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama has pushed Americans to eat healthier and to exercise more. Now she says we should “drink up” too. As in plain water. And as in more of it. The first lady, an exercise fanatic who loves French fries and whose biceps are envied by women everywhere, is getting behind a […]
PENINSULA, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in northeast Ohio say the remains found off a trail in a national park belong to a reported missing teen. The Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office on Wednesday said the remains are those of 19-year-old Taylor Robinson who went missing from Akron in May. Chief investigator Gary Guenther with the […]
The patron accused of writing the n-word on the tip section of receipt for teenage waitress Toni Christina Jenkins is denying he wrote the slur. While serving at a Tennessee Red Lobster, Jenkins says Devin Barnes signed his receipt with the n-word and she posted a photo of it to her Facebook page. The photo […]
(AP) -A federal judge has ruled that exotic dancers at a New York City strip club are protected by labor laws and entitled to be paid at least a minimum wage. The ruling came Tuesday in a class-action lawsuit brought by current and former dancers at Rick’s Cabaret in midtown Manhattan. The lawsuit charged that […]
MULBERRY, Florida (AP) — Law enforcement arrested a Florida pastor Wednesday as he drove to a park to light nearly 3,000 Qurans on fire to protest the 2001 terrorist attacks. Sheriff’s deputies arrested Pastor Terry Jones, 61, and his associate pastor, Marvin Sapp Jr., 34, on felony charges as he drove a pickup truck towing […]
GRAMBLING, La. (AP) – Grambling State has fired head football coach Doug Williams after the team lost its first two games of the season. The university announced Wednesday that it has bought out the remainder of the former NFL quarterback’s contract. Running backs coach George Ragsdale is taking over as interim head coach. Grambling had […]
The Atlanta Black Star is reporting that a group of Ohio state representatives will be forming a team to review the policies of the Deborah Brown Community School; the school responsible for sending home Tiana Parker for wearing her dreadlocks. State Rep. Kevin Matthews told a local Ohio station, “We are working to bring the […]
