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BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — Police say a man shot a couple and their three children, killing the father and a 9-year-old daughter and critically wounding the mother and two other children. Neighbors say the mother and two children, covered in blood, crossed a usually busy two-lane highway to seek help after the early Friday shooting. […]
Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of…
It’s always great (and reassuring) to see young people tribute icons and legends, especially in the Black community. Similar to the Because Of Them, We…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In his final, courageous moments, Officer Robert Wilson III took on two armed robbers and gave his life to save those around him — an act so noble that Philadelphia’s police department will rename its valor medal in his honor, police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said Saturday. Ramsey recounted Wilson’s heroism during the […]
Since last November’s scary incident in which B. Smith went missing for seventeen hours (but was thankfully found safe and sound), we’ve been following her…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines woman stepped into the shower this week to help ease the discomfort of stomach pains. She emerged holding a newborn. Brittany Young, 24, told the Des Moines Register that she knew she was pregnant and had recurring stomach pains on Wednesday. Turns out, Young may have misunderstood […]
In what many considered a referendum on the status quo, NFL player representatives voted to retain DeMaurice Smith as executive director of the union. In voting Sunday by the player reps, it took just one ballot for Smith to gain his third three-year term in charge of the NFL Players Association. He beat eight other […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A 19-year-old biracial man who was unarmed when killed by a white Madison police officer was shot in his head, right arm and torso, according to preliminary autopsy reports released Friday. The reports from the Dane County Medical Examiner don’t say how many times Tony Robinson was shot on March 6, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Their reputations sullied by race-tainted incidents, many colleges are clamping down on campus fraternities. Despite some swift and tough actions by schools — and in some cases, public humiliation — episodes such as the racist chants by members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at the University of Oklahoma keep surfacing. In […]
3 ½ Minutes, a documentary on the murder of Jordan Davis, is set to premiere on HBO. The Marc Silver-helmed film, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, chronicles the killing of Davis, an unarmed 17-year-old who was shot by Michael Dunn in a gas station parking lot in Florida. In addition to Davis, Dunn, a […]
Over a thousand people poured into a Wisconsin high school auditorium on Saturday to say goodbye to 19-year-old Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. On March 6, an unarmed Robinson…
Police have arrested five teenage girls in connection for the brutal attack of a 15-year-old inside a Brooklyn McDonald’s, and continued the hunt for the…
