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WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO LOS ANGELES (AP) — A black man who was fatally shot by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies kept holding a gun as he lay dying on the ground, authorities said Sunday in response to questions about why they continued to fire on the man after he fell to the pavement. A close-up […]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The rape convictions that could put a fired Oklahoma City police officer behind bars for life are vindication for some of the women he targeted, and also a reminder of how difficult it is to achieve justice in such cases. Most victims never report sexual assaults, and those who accused ex-officer […]
Springfield, Missouri resident Jeffrey Tindle says his neighbors are wrong to complain about the Confederate flag and noose hanging outside his home, because it isn't racist.
After images surfaced online of eight students at The Citadel wearing what appears to be KKK hoods, officials at the renowned public military college in Charleston, South Carolina suspended the students and launched a probe, according to CNN and The New York Times. Citadel students wear pillowcases, claim they were performing as “Ghosts of Christmas Past": […]
Mercutio Southall, a Black protester who was violently ousted from a Donald Trump rally last month, is seeking the possibilities of bringing hate crime charges forth. Who those charges will go against hasn’t been specified but Southall seems close to calling for a deeper investigation. The Daily Beast writes: Mercutio Southall, who was violently kicked […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s military college The Citadel announced Thursday it is investigating after photos surfaced on social media of cadets dressed all in white with pillowcases over their heads, images that evoke the Ku Klux Klan. “A social media posting, which I find offensive and disturbing, was brought to my attention this […]
Bradley Gilbeaux and Damon Willis, MBA candidates at Clark Atlanta University, are the recipients of the 2015 FORD HBCU Community Challenge for their Telepath Water System proposal. Listen to the interview above to hear all about their project, the impact of HBCUs on their lives and much more! You are sure to be inspired! Like […]
19-year-old activist, Joshua Williams will spent 8-years in prison after being caught on camera setting fire to a Berkley, MO convenience store
Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson had to know that their cooning and shuckin’-n-jivin’ for racist Donald Trump would result in backlash and Black Twitter coming for that a**. When we first saw their viral video support for Muslim-hating Trump, we thought it was satire. Sadly, these two women are serious with their insistence that Trump […]
The Supreme Court is taking on affirmative action again in a case that involves the University of Texas. Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the court’s staunchest conservatives was questioning a lawyer arguing for race being a factor that should be incorporated into the admission process. During that questioning, Scalia made these comments: There are those […]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former Oklahoma City police officer was convicted Thursday of 18 of the 36 counts he faced, including four counts of first-degree rape, related to accusations that he victimized 13 women on his police beat in a minority, low-income neighborhood. Daniel Holtzclaw, 29, sobbed as the verdict was read aloud. He […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is calling a video showing a white Chicago police officer fatally shooting a black teen “very disturbing.” And he says the city’s delay releasing the footage was “a failure of government.” Carson spoke Thursday in Chicago, where video of the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald released last […]
