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CNN Hopes to Answer What Really Happened the Night Malcolm X Was Killed
Almost 50 years ago, Malcolm X, who had risen to prominence as one of the most outspoken and public faces of the Nation of Islam, was gunned down inside the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. And ever since his death Feb. 21, 1965, there has been speculation as to who had the civil rights…
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Radical Brownies Are Yelling ‘Black Lives Matter,’ Not Hawking Girl Scout Cookies
What happens when you mix the legacy of black protest in Oakland, Calif., racial injustice and 8- to 11-year-old girls? You get a revolutionary group called the Radical Brownies, “who don brown berets and participate in Black Lives Matter protests in order to help spread a message of racial justice,” KPIX reports. According to the…
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Man Claims St. Louis Cops Turned Off Dash Cam and Then Beat Him
Cortez Bufford, 18, was on the ground, surrounded by St. Louis cops, after a traffic stop in April 2014 when one of them, Kelli Swinton, reportedly told her fellow officers: “Hold up. Hold up, y’all. Hold up. Hold up, everybody, hold up. We’re red right now, so if you guys are worried about cameras, just wait.”…
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NJ Woman Freezes to Death Just Steps From Her Home
Olivia Benito, 66, stopped at her neighbor’s house for a nightcap Saturday night, and in the morning Benito was found dead, facedown and covered in snow. Police believe she froze to death just steps from her home. According to NJ.com, the Lakewood, N.J., resident had had a few drinks during the day and a few…
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Grandmother Left Granddaughter in Freezing Car While She Gambled: Report
A 56-year-old grandmother was arrested Saturday after she reportedly left her 5-year-old granddaughter in a car in below-freezing temperatures while she gambled at a New York casino. Renee Osby allegedly tried to bring her granddaughter, Jordan, into Resorts World Casino New York City in Queens earlier that day, but was denied when security told her…
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Fox News Affiliate Airs Photo of President Obama as Rape Suspect
A Fox News affiliate reportedly aired a photo of President Barack Obama as a rape suspect during a news segment Friday. According to the Times of San Diego, which initially caught the flub that aired on California news station KSWB around 10 p.m., a photo of President Obama was shown with the words “No Charges”…
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Miss. Judge Who Reportedly Hit Mentally Disabled Man and Yelled ‘Run, N–ger, Run’ Indicted After 9 Months
Nine months ago a now-former Mississippi judge is alleged to have smacked a mentally disabled man before yelling, “Run, n—ger, run.” In response to that incident, a grand jury has “served an indictment for simple assault on a vulnerable adult,” the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports. There was no word on why the process to indict former…
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The Day Len Bias Died Changed My Life
Editor’s note: During Black History Month, the focus is usually on historical figures who loomed larger than life, paving the way for the progress we experience today. But black history isn’t just about telling stories of our past. History is being made every day and has been made throughout our lives; it’s not just in…
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NC Mother of 4, Who Had to Quit Working to Care for Children, Hits Powerball
“Everything is all for them,” Marie Holmes, a 26-year-old Shallotte, N.C., mother of four, told WPXI, regarding her becoming an instant millionaire as one of three winners with all the numbers in Wednesday’s $564 million Powerball drawing. “All the struggle that I ever went through, it was all for them,” said Holmes, whose winnings, before taxes,…
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Police Shoot Unarmed Los Angeles Teen Standing Next to Friend Holding Toy Gun
On Tuesday 15-year-old Jamar Nicholson, of Los Angeles, was standing in an alley with a group of friends, one of whom was holding a toy gun. A plainclothes police officer, who believed that the gun was real, opened fire on the young men, hitting Jamar, who was unarmed, in the back. “What the officer thought…
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