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Chad Holley, 18, who at 15-years-old was suspected of burglary and beaten on video by Houston Police officers, was arrested again today on a new burglary charge, reports ABC.com. As previously reported by NewsOne, in a horrific video, police can be seen kicking and punching Holley, who does not fight back, multiple times. Holley laid […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A police officer was indicted Wednesday in the death of an unarmed drug suspect, the first time a New York City officer has faced criminal charges in a fatal shooting since a groom was killed in a 50-shot police barrage on his wedding day in 2006. New York Police Department Officer […]
African-American theater groups from New England to Texas will unite Monday with one voice to call attention their plight and raise funds for support, presenting James Baldwin’s Amen Corner, all on the same night. This is the second year for Project 1 Voice, launched in 2010 by New York-based stage actor Erich McMillan-McCall. In the […]
Before Jamal Tate decided to be a college student, he took a diversion. He went to jail once. Then again. And finally, a third time. “We had everybody praying—my coworkers, family members, friends, even people at the jail,” said his mother Erica Swinney, who raised Tate as a single parent. “Maybe a month after he […]
I’ve heard of “‘tis the season to be jolly,” but I’ve never heard of “‘tis the season to be anal.” Until now. Shannon Cooper of South Carolina knows all about this season, and the folks who have gone anal. She now has an arrest record that shows how anal they are. Here’s […]
COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) — A 15-year-old girl who told a 911 operator she was allegedly punched and choked by her televangelist father, Creflo Dollar Jr., also said on the call she felt threatened being in the house with her father. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported more details of the audio recording and said the teenager […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Four months ago, two African-American pastors stood in a hallway of the Southern Baptist Convention's Nashville headquarters looking at a row of white faces. The portraits of the 56 convention presidents since the denomination's 1845 founding are in large picture frames holding several portraits each. The final frame holds empty slots. […]
Curtis Jiles, 30, was a high school teacher’s aide at Tenoroc High School in Lakeland, Florida until it was discovered that he had been paying his students for sex. He even went as far as to follow a school bus home, get one student and pay him to allow him to perform oral sex in […]
CHICAGO (AP) — There are many theories about what has caused a recent spike in Chicago's homicide rate, including a splintering of established drug gangs, the warm winter and high unemployment in some neighborhoods that seem a world away from the city's beaches, lush parks and skyscrapers. The numbers clearly show there is a problem, […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A Ku Klux Klan group in Georgia lost its bid Tuesday to join the state's highway cleanup program, but a legal challenge to the decision may be looming. Similar groups in other states have won legal battles after initially being turned down for highway cleanup programs. The International Keystone Knights of the […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A man accused of killing three people at a party near Auburn University turned himself in Tuesday after a three-day manhunt that included a tense but fruitless search of a Montgomery home by police tactical units. A Montgomery defense attorney said she arranged for Desmonte Leonard to surrender after getting word […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A Ku Klux Klan group is trying to join Georgia's "Adopt-A-Highway" program to clean up litter on a mile-long stretch of road, creating a quandary for state officials hesitant to acknowledge a group with a violent, racist past on a roadside sign. The International Keystone Knights of the KKK applied last month […]
