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Federal Judge Orders Notorious Angola Prison in La. to Release Black Panther, but State Declines
There’s a legal tug-of-war going on between a federal judge and Louisiana. On Monday U.S. District Judge James Brady ordered the immediate release of Albert Woodfox from a Louisiana prison, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune. But the state is appealing Brady’s ruling. The 68-year-old Black Panther has been in solitary confinement at the infamous…
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Barbershops Get Stocked With Books for Boys, Thanks to Ala. Attorney
An article published in The Root last year about a Florida barbershop that promotes literacy sparked a movement miles away in the cities of Prichard and Mobile, Ala. Freddie Stokes launched Books for Boys about three weeks ago. He initially intended to establish small libraries, of about 75 books each, in two or three barbershops,…
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Tech Pioneers: Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves
It was a pleasantly shocking moment that Dara Solomon and Fela Strickland-Smith will always remember. At Black Enterprise’s Entrepreneurs Summit last month, the magazine awarded the sisters a Small Business Award as Family Business of the Year. The recognition is especially surprising because the sisters launched Satori Interactive in 2004 without any entrepreneurial experience, business…
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Report: Mo. Police Disproportionately Stop and Search Black Drivers
Missouri police were more likely to stop and search black drivers than white drivers in 2014, yet they were more likely to find contraband with white drivers, an annual Missouri attorney general report reveals, according to the New York Times. According to the report, police were 75 percent more likely to stop black motorists than…
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Devon Still’s Daughter Experiences Setback in Her Battle Against Cancer
Devon Still is urging all of us to keep his 5-year-old daughter in our thoughts. On Friday he tweeted, “I need some prayers sent up for Leah tonight! We hit a pretty serious complication from the stem cell … ” Just two months after announcing that she’s in remission from cancer, the Cincinnati Bengals defensive…
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Study: Black Teachers are Just as Likely as White Teachers to Disproportionately Punish Black Students
Implicit bias makes teachers of all races more likely to punish black students than white students for the same misbehavior, according to a new Stanford University study, the Huffington Post reports. In an experiment, teachers of all races exhibited unconscious bias against students with “black-sounding names.” Researchers showed teachers the school records of misbehaving students.…
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Groups Across Southern States Burn and Symbolically Bury the Confederate Flag
At a Memorial Day gathering outside Atlanta, poets expressed their feelings about the Confederate flag before symbolically burying it. “A lot of lives have been lost around this Confederate flag,” the event’s organizer, Terone Allen, told WTVM. People in 13 Southern states “buried” or burned the Stars and Bars in their own unique way. The…
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Once-Youngest Death Row Inmate Dies From Apparent Suicide
Paula Cooper, once the nation’s youngest person on death row, was found dead in Indianapolis Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. Authorities said that the 45-year-old, who had been released from prison in 2013 after the Indiana Supreme Court set aside her death sentence, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. “It’s an unusual ending to a…
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Black Soldier Killed in Iraq Gets Justice
A British court sentenced a London cabdriver to life in prison Friday for the murder of a U.S. soldier in Iraq in a roadside bombing in 2007. As NBC News reports, for the family of Sgt. Randy Johnson, this case was a rare opportunity to see a person involved in a service member’s death face…
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