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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — 3:30 p.m. Police in the Wisconsin capital have begun arresting protesters angry about a prosecutor’s decision not to charge a white police officer for shooting an unarmed biracial man. Officers converged on about 20 protesters who refused to leave an intersection near the Capitol building on Wednesday. The protesters linked arms […]
Roland Martin talks to Andrea Irwin the mother of Tony Robinson, Jr., the Wisconsin teen who was killed by a police officer and Curtis Sales, a Milwaukee activist. Robinson, 19, was suspected of attacking someone when he was confronted by Wisconsin police officer Matt Kenny. Kenny testified that when he followed Robinson into an […]
Well now that the principal who made the remark “Look, all the black people are leaving” has done exactly what she said she didn’t want to do: spoil her students graduation ceremony, she has obviously been toiling it around in her head; and has since recanted the apology she had made, saying she is “no […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A white Wisconsin police officer won’t be charged for fatally shooting an unarmed 19-year-old biracial man, a prosecutor announced Tuesday, prompting peaceful demonstrations but none of the immediate violence that has hit some other U.S. cities in similar cases. Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said he wouldn’t file charges against […]
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Large crowds joined mothers from all walks of life Saturday afternoon to participate in Washington DC’s “Million Moms March” — a gathering to call for…
Nine Chatham County sheriff’s deputies have been fired in the wake of the death of a 21-year-old mentally ill man in Savannah, Georgia, according to…
.@SUBWAY you have employees advocating cop killing while in work uniform. pic.twitter.com/Y25mJr7JXq — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) May 10, 2015 A Subway restaurant worker is out…
Legendary SWAC basketball coach Dave “The Wiz” Whitney died Sunday at his home in Biloxi, Mississippi. He was 85 years old. A native of Lexington,…
Salons without licenses or that have failed to adequately pay workers for owed wages will be shut down.
Authorities in rural Georgia are investigating the death of a black man found hanging in a tree Monday, reports CNN. While “nothing overt” suggests foul play, authorities haven’t ruled it out, according to Joe Wooten, special agent in charge with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The man found hanging, identified as Roosevelt Champion, 43, was […]
(DALLAS – May 7) Tom Joyner, the nationally syndicated radio personality and philanthropist, is set to give the commencement address at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C. Joyner, host of the Tom Joyner Morning Show and founder and chairman of the Tom Joyner Foundation, is scheduled to deliver his words of inspiration at 8 […]
