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SC Church-Shooting Suspect Dylann Roof Indicted on 4 More Charges
Dylann Roof, the South Carolina suspect who was arrested and charged in the shooting deaths of nine people inside Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., last month, has been indicted on new charges by a grand jury. NBC News reports that Roof has been charged with three counts of attempted murder connected…
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Why I Miss Rachel Dolezal
I miss Rachel Dolezal. I want her back. Not the actual her, since I don’t know her, but the story of her (and let me be clear that I don’t want the actual story of her because that story is the story of a dysfunctional family and possible sexual abuse, and I don’t want that…
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Eric Garner’s Widow Doesn’t Want Anything to Do With Child He Had Out of Wedlock
A DNA test has confirmed that Eric Garner had a 16-month-old daughter with a woman he lived with for three years before his death. According to the New York Daily News, Garner, who died outside a Staten Island, N.Y., store after police administered a banned choke hold, was never legally divorced and his widow, Esaw…
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White Texas Family Has Black Guest Over and Wakes Up to Find ‘KKK’ Painted on Its Truck
For one Spring, Texas, family, the Fourth of July holiday weekend had barely started when they awoke to find racist and vulgar messages spray-painted on the family’s truck. “My black friend, he’s been here for two days,” Darren Franke told KHOU. “Me and him hung out in the yard and just mowed the grass and…
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Former FDNY Employee Who Posted Several Bigoted Tweets Gets His Job Back
The son of a former New York City fire commissioner who resigned from his position with the city’s Fire Department after admitting to posting several bigoted and anti-Semitic tweets is set to rejoin the department, to the ire of some black firefighters. According to the New York Daily News, Joseph Cassano, 26, was still on…
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Poll: Many Still See Confederate Flag as Symbol of Southern Pride
Even after the South Carolina church massacre during which nine African-American worshippers were fatally shot, and the subsequent public outcry that the Confederate flag be removed from the Statehouse, a new CNN/ORC poll shows that public opinion on the flag has not changed in 15 years. According to the poll, most still believe that the…
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Man Arrested Over $749 Cab Fare
On Saturday, John S. Williams Jr. and his children took a cab from Philadelphia to Uniontown, Pa., to surprise his fiancee, but the person who got the biggest surprise was the cabbie, who officials say had driven some 300 miles, only to be stiffed on the fare. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Williams, 35, told…
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SC Black Church, Torched by KKK 20 Years Ago, Erupts in Flames
A historically black church located just outside Charleston, S.C., and which was burned to the ground 20 years ago by the Ku Klux Klan, was ablaze Tuesday evening. According to WACH Fox 57, the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, located in Greeleyville, S.C.—about an hour away from Charleston—burned well into the evening as two…
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5 Philadelphia Teens Are Arrested After Taped Attack on Student Goes Viral
A viral video of a 17-year-old Philadelphia teenager being brutally beaten by a group of teens has led to the arrest of five people. According to ABC Action News, 18-year-old Jerome Baston and four teen boys were arrested after someone brought the video to the attention of Martin Luther King High School, where the victim is…
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Baltimore County Police Fatally Shoot Unarmed Black Man
Baltimore County police fatally shot an unarmed black man after they were called to an Owings Mill, Md., home while responding to a domestic dispute. According to the Associated Press, Spencer Lee McCain, 41, was in a “defensive stance” when he was shot by police around 1 a.m. on Thursday, according to the police. Baltimore County…
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