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NEW YORK (AP) — A 24-year-old nonprofit worker wept on the witness stand Tuesday as he described an unnerving episode of being handcuffed near his home while an officer took his keys and went inside his building. Nicholas Pert, who is black, is one of about a dozen New Yorkers expected to tell their stories […]
It’s official: Roland Martin is out at CNN. After a six-year run on CNN, Martin tweeted that the “new boss wants his own peeps.” The “boss” Martin referred to is CNN President Jeff Zucker who chose not to renew Martin’s contract as a CNN commentator. Martin’s contract ends April 6. “Roland I am really missing […]
There’s nothing worse than getting an injury down low for simply trying to get dressed. According to a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), trouser zippers are the most common cause of penile injuries among men in the United States. Researchers’ data suggests that each year a whopping 900 […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Devin Almonor, the teenage son of a former police officer, said he was thrown against an unmarked car and temporarily handcuffed walking home from a bus stop. Medical student David Floyd was frisked by officers outside of his apartment as he helped a neighbor locked out of his home. For both, […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Teddy bears and flowers decorated a church Tuesday as pastors prayed for strength at the funeral of a 6-month-old baby girl killed when a gunman fired at a minivan as she sat on her father’s lap. “Lord, we pray that you would give (the girl’s family) supernatural strength,” Pastor Monique McCord said […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is working on a book about democracy. Henry Holt and Company announced Tuesday that the book, currently untitled, will be published in 2015. The 58-year-old Rice has previously written or co-written a handful of policy books, along with memoirs about her family and her years […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A day after two high school football players were convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl, authorities arrested two Ohio girls suspected of making online threats against the accuser. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said the girls arrested Monday posted threatening comments on Twitter on Sunday, the day the players were convicted […]
Tom Joyner Morning Show commentator Jacque Reid went “Inside her Story” with Dr. Noelle Hunter, a mother who is asking for people to sign a petition to get her daughter Maayimuna ‘Muna’ N’Diaye home. Muna was illegally kidnapped by her father and taken to Mali, West Africa on December 27, 2011. Hunter has not seen her […]
The body of missing 19-year-old Elisabeth Pack who was missing for three weeks was found in a ditch near her home. Pack disappeared on February 25, she was discovered in a drain in her hometown of Indianapolis. According to her grandmother, Pack never returned home after heading out to a party. The New York Post, […]
According to CBS New Orleans, police say that surveillance video shows that missing teacher Terrilynn Monette, who disappeared on March 2, was driving alone in her car when she left a bar at approximately 5: 15 a.m. on the morning of her disappearance. CBS is reporting that the New Orleans Police Department reviewed three red […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A lawyer defending a Philadelphia abortion provider on murder charges accused officials of “an elitist, racist prosecution,” as the death-penalty trial opened Monday. Lawyer Jack McMahon also accused city officials of “a prosecutorial lynching” of his client, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who is black. Gosnell, 72, is accused of running a rogue clinic […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Many of the 5 million New Yorkers stopped, questioned and sometimes frisked by police in the past decade were wrongly targeted because of their race, lawyers for four men who said they were illegally stopped said Monday. New York Police Department lawyers countered that officers must go where the crime is […]
