DETROIT, MI -- Theodore Wafer, 55, of Dearborn Heights will learn his fate Wednesday when he is sentenced on a conviction of second-degree murder and felonious use of a firearm.
Wafer has been jailed since a jury unanimously convicted him Aug. 7 f ...
Posted Sunday, August 31st 2014 at 10:09PM
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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Funeral services were held Saturday morning for Ezell Ford, the man who was fatally shot during a police encounter in South Los Angeles nearly three weeks ago.
Large crowds attended the services for Ford, which got und ...
Posted Sunday, August 31st 2014 at 10:04PM
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Rob Neufeld, Visiting Our Past
6:50 p.m. EDT August 17, 2014
Every day we see and feel the beauty of the world and of humanity. But history sometimes shows us how wrong things can go, and we wonder why we are vulnerable to such aberrations.
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NEW YORK--It has been exactly one year since the U.S. Department of Justice promised to launch an investigation into the death of Ramarley Graham, an unarmed Bronx teen who was gunned down in his grandmother’s bathroom in February 2012 by NYPD Offi ...
Posted Sunday, August 31st 2014 at 5:14PM
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AvaLynn, in photos taken by her mother after she was called to pick her child up at school following a reported playground incident. (Courtesy of the mother)
PASCAGOULA, Mississippi-- Many people are asking questions about what happened to litt ...
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God willing, this Sunday, August 31, 2014 at 8:00 p.m. EST. please join your Marriage and Relationship Servants, Brother Marcus and Sister Cecelia, as we proudly welcome Brother Mustapha Muhammad aka Brother Charles Bobbitt for an Exclusive Interview! He will address the topic of: “The real truth of ...
Posted Saturday, August 30th 2014 at 11:19AM
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I am doing the Ice Bucket Hack, Comic Style, to raise awareness around Police Brutality, Racism, & Racial Profiling here in America. I challenge everyone, all my Facebook friends & family, my Twitter, Instagram, & Tumblr following. Please join me in ...
Posted Saturday, August 30th 2014 at 1:05AM
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Cell phone footage of Minneapolis police tasing and arresting a Black man, Chris Lollie, for sitting in a skyway in January has gone viral on YouTube.
The clip shows Lollie walking with an inquiring officer in Downtown St. Paul’s First Natio ...
Posted Friday, August 29th 2014 at 10:19PM
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From The New Orleans Tribune
August 28, 2014
In what was supposed to be the first year of full implementation, legal wrangling and fighting in Baton Rouge between the governor, state education superintendent and the BESE Board over the Common Cor ...
Posted Friday, August 29th 2014 at 5:48PM
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Police are scratching their heads trying to work out who donated a human skull to a thrift store in Austin, Texas.
Homicide Detective Derek Israel said Wednesday that foul play is not suspected and that he just wants to know how the adult skull ca ...
Posted Friday, August 29th 2014 at 11:13AM
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In a very interesting and surprising revelation by Buzzsaw, who poses the question, was James Brown murdered? The question lies in why there was no autopsy done on the late Godfather of Soul and the connection between his manager, who was by the ...
Posted Friday, August 29th 2014 at 10:56AM
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Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most o ...
Posted Thursday, August 28th 2014 at 9:01PM
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NN) -- The recording sounds like something from Jim Crow days: a white supervisor threatening to hang an African-American employee for drinking water from a "white people" fountain.
But it's 2014, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Untonia Harris, who worked a ...
Posted Thursday, August 28th 2014 at 8:29PM
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There has been a divergent view regarding the concept and philosophy of African
Traditional Religion. Some have seen Africans as not having the capacity to reason on the
concept or the philosophy of God. This led them into giving all forms of derogatory names to
African Traditional Religion. This ...
Posted Thursday, August 28th 2014 at 8:21PM
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Thieves have struck the apartment complex where Rosa Parks lived when she made history by refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, police said Tuesday.
Detectives are seeking suspect ...
Posted Thursday, August 28th 2014 at 11:45AM
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BATON ROUGE--The ACLU of Louisiana has come to the defense of a Rastafarian boy who has been suspended from school and forbidden to return until he cuts his dreadlocks.
The boy was sent home from South Plaquemines High School when classes resumed ...
Posted Wednesday, August 27th 2014 at 11:58AM
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FEMA is now going door to door in Detroit. The interesting thing about this was that Homeland Security was in Detroit, before the floods happened and were peering into people’s windows. Now they are coming door to door, what are they looking fo ...
Posted Wednesday, August 27th 2014 at 11:39AM
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GlobalResearch.com
August 26, 2014
Michael Brown is dead. Eighteen years old, a young man gunned down—not just shot–by police in his neighborhood in Ferguson, Missouri.
Brown’s experience earns international attention not because he is ...
Posted Wednesday, August 27th 2014 at 11:27AM
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Add your voice to the indiscriminate killing of black men in America. Join the campaign #BlackLifeMatters
https://twitter.com/vimforchange/status/502565789200052224?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=vimforchange&utm_content=50256578920005222 ...
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