AP--Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette charged five officials with involuntary manslaughter Wednesday over their handling of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
The officials presided over a failure to maintain the safety of the city’s wa ...
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Bronx mom dies after botched plastic surgery procedures she received in the Dominican Republic
KERRY BURKE, ELLEN MOYNIHAN, THOMAS TRACY JUN 10, 2017 8:00 AM
The never-ending search for beauty ended tragically for a Bronx mother who died of compl ...
Posted Thursday, June 15th 2017 at 11:19AM
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From Huffington Post South Africa
07/06/2017 10:28 SAST | Updated 08/06/2017 09:22 SAST
Former anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela says she doesn't recognise the African National Congress (ANC) anymore.
In an exclusive interview ...
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A black man, that was found not guilty of armed robbery, will still serve up to ten years in prison after a judge ruled he had breached the rules of his probation terms for another crime.
According to NBC 11 Live in Atlanta, Ramad Chatman turn ...
Posted Tuesday, June 6th 2017 at 9:18PM
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While, in the mid-1960s, the Black Panthers – the famous, American, shotgun-toting ones – were scaring the crap out of white America, the British Black Panthers (BBP) were educating their communities and fighting discrimination. Outrightly racist ...
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More than 40 years after Leonard Brown and Denver Smith were shot dead on the Southern University campus, they will receive posthumous degrees.
The Southern University System board's academic affairs committee voted in favor unanimously Friday (Ma ...
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OHIO--A fight at a Cleveland nail salon went viral on Facebook and now the owner of Fantasy Nails on West 25th Street has released the surveillance video from the salon.
The incident happened around 4 p.m. March 28.
According to a Cleveland ...
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Minister Nuri Muhammad provides a detailed analysis of the controversial movie, “Get Out”. Materials and documents referenced are available via the Final Call store at https://store.finalcall.com. Minister Nuri Muhammad is an representative f ...
Posted Monday, April 3rd 2017 at 7:42AM
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By RYAN LOVELACE (@LOVELACERYAND) • 3/25/17 11:28 AM
Rev. Al Sharpton is not happy with what he perceives as the White House's special treatment of President Trump's daughter.
At an event Saturday morning, Sharpton echoed several ethics ...
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The sister of a South Carolina man who was killed by police after a high-speed car chase claims in a lawsuit that three officers shot her unarmed brother 17 times in the back — as he lay on the ground.
Waltki Cermoun Williams "did not have a ...
Posted Friday, March 31st 2017 at 6:05PM
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From BlackEnterprise.com
March 22, 2017
By this time next year, the documentary Tell Them We Are Rising may have already aired on PBS, but even now there’s plenty of buzz around this eagerly awaited film.
Scheduled to broadcast nationall ...
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HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia Randolph was an African American educator in Henrico in the late 1800’s.
Randolph taught her students woodworking, sewing, cooking, gardening and academics. Two schools were named in her honor.
Charles ...
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Earlene Campbell-Coleman opened an email earlier this month and discovered a grainy old picture of "a very distinguished looking elderly gentleman with white hair and familiar facial features."
It was of her great-great-great grandfather, Frank Ca ...
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MARCH 22, 2017 —The creators of a new Fox TV series, “Shots Fired,” hope to explore topics including race and the justice system with their program, the latest broadcast series to look at contemporary issues following the critical success of, f ...
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As over a dozen teens have gone missing in Washington D.C. since the beginning of the year, community leaders have become concerned that some of these girls may be victims of human trafficking.
Reports on the exact number of missing teens has vari ...
Posted Friday, March 24th 2017 at 12:42PM
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Jordan Peele is a horror fanatic. That may come as a shock to some who only know him as half of the duo behind the Comedy Central series "Key & Peele," alongside Keegan-Michael Key, but Peele is showing off his darker side in his directorial debu ...
Posted Friday, March 24th 2017 at 12:15PM
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A new study conducted by the University of California, Los Angeles, says that the city’s black community is in decline as a direct result of the lack of jobs available to black workers, who are more likely to remain unemployed or drop out of the wo ...
Posted Friday, March 24th 2017 at 12:04PM
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigations is currently probing the shooting of Rodney James Hess by sheriff's deputies in Crockett County, Tennessee, on Thursday afternoon, CNN reported.
Hess, a 36-year-old New Orleans resident and father of ...
Posted Thursday, March 23rd 2017 at 2:36PM
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NPR--Prosecutors in Miami-Dade County said that they found no evidence of a crime in the death of a prison inmate who was left for two hours in a hot shower.
Four years after Darren Rainey died at the Dade Correctional Institution, the state's inv ...
Posted Thursday, March 23rd 2017 at 2:24PM
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Washington — The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is awarding a $100 million emergency grant to Michigan to fund infrastructure upgrades in Flint, where lead-contaminated water damaged service lines.
The state of Michigan is co ...
Posted Thursday, March 23rd 2017 at 2:08PM
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From Time Magazine
March 20, 2017
Dear President Trump,
Representing the United States in the Olympic Games was the greatest honor of my life. I will never forget walking into Opening Ceremonies behind our American flag that I revere surrounde ...
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