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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Recent protests against the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown have created a conundrum for the nation’s black fraternities and sororities: to remain relevant in the black community they need to be involved, but protect their reputations if demonstrations go awry. The competing pressures were exemplified last weekend when […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Photojournalist Michel du Cille, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who recently captured compelling images of Ebola patients and their caretakers, died in Liberia while on assignment for The Washington Post. He was 58. Executive Editor Martin Baron sent a statement to the newspaper staff informing them of du Cille’s death. Baron called […]
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — Two police officers were shot in a gun battle Friday morning near the eastern edge of Atlanta, leaving one suspect hospitalized in critical condition, police said. A second suspect was captured late Friday morning after an hours-long search involving dozens of officers, police dogs and helicopters. Both officers were taken to hospitals with […]
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A former Veterans Affairs worker who pleaded guilty to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon in a VA hospital shooting that wounded an employee in the ankle was sentenced Friday to 5 1/2 years in prison. Neil Moore, 59, of Trotwood, will get credit for time served. He had […]
Yahnick Martin (pictured) got sweet reparation from the New York City Police Department after they mistakenly slapped him with cuffs, hauled him off to jail, and had him leave…
A Florida State University teacher recently learned a valuable lesson about the ills of racism, especially views that are spread through social media. SEE ALSO:…
Little did spoken word artist Steven Prescod (pictured on stage) ever fathom that one day, he would not only entertain U.K.’s royal couple, Prince William (pictured second from right,…
Amber Andujar celebrated a bittersweet victory when the man who raped her and killed her younger brother was sentenced to 110 years in prison. Amber…
Perhaps former CNN talk show host Piers Morgan failed to realize that the Barclays Center is in the United States, specifically Brooklyn, N.Y., not the…
A key witness interview involving the deadly shooting of Missouri teen Michael Brown was not among the thousands of pages of documents released by the St. Louis…
The Atlanta Hawks have hired Nzinga Shaw as the team’s first “Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.” The Hawks announced Thursday Shaw will guide Hawks executives “so that they can engender inclusivity in every facet of the business.” She’ll report directly to Hawks chief executive officer Steve Koonin. The hiring follows racist remarks by owner Bruce […]
A 36-year-old mother of two became the first female firefighter to die in the line of duty in the city of Philadelphia. The New York Daily News reports: Joyce Craig Lewis became trapped in the basement while battling a house fire in northeast Philadelphia early Tuesday, authorities said. Her actions contributed to getting an elderly […]
