'Why did you have to shoot him?' Devastated girl, 9, writes letter to Phoenix cop who killed her father
Dec 4th 2014 5:26PM
By RYAN GORMAN
The young daughter of an unarmed black male gunned down by a white Phoenix cop this week has written a ...
Posted Saturday, December 6th 2014 at 2:46PM
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ORANGEBURG, S.C. -- A white man who was the police chief in a small South Carolina town was charged with murder Wednesday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man nearly four years ago.
A grand jury indicted Richard Combs on Wednesday, the sa ...
Posted Thursday, December 4th 2014 at 5:44PM
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KANO, Nigeria (AP) — The father of a 14-year-old child bride accused of murdering her husband said Thursday he was appealing to a Nigerian court to spare his daughter the death sentence.
Wasilat Tasi'u is on trial for the murder of her 35-year- ...
Posted Monday, December 1st 2014 at 5:54PM
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The following article contains excerpts from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s address delivered October 24, 1987 on “The Police Slaying of Michael Taylor.” Michael Taylor was a 16-year-old Black male whom Indianapolis police shot to dea ...
Posted Thursday, November 27th 2014 at 7:32PM
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The award-winning songwriter gave his thoughts on the unrest in Ferguson after a grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in Michael Brown’s shooting death.
Pharrell Williams
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Grammy Award-wi ...
Posted Tuesday, November 25th 2014 at 5:15PM
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The award-winning songwriter gave his thoughts on the unrest in Ferguson after a grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in Michael Brown’s shooting death.
Pharrell Williams
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images
Grammy Award-wi ...
Posted Tuesday, November 25th 2014 at 5:14PM
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November 22, 2014, 10:20 PM
In a speech Saturday at Morgan State University, Louis Farrakhan predicted violence in Ferguson this week and castigated black leaders — from fellow preachers to President Barack Obama — for trying to pacify protest ...
Posted Sunday, November 23rd 2014 at 4:56PM
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November 18, 2014
by Angela P. Moore-Thorpe
With anticipation building across the nation over the imminent decision by a Ferguson, Missouri grand jury to indict or not indict a white police officer, Darren Wilson, for the killing of an unarmed b ...
Posted Thursday, November 20th 2014 at 3:14PM
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Cedric the Entertainer is famous for comedy, but the St. Louis bred comedian definitely also has a serious side.
As the world prepares for the grand jury decision about whether white police officer Darren Wilson will be charged in the fatal Augus ...
Posted Thursday, November 20th 2014 at 3:08PM
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CRYSTAL CITY, Mo. – A possible Ebola case is being investigated at Mercy Jefferson Hospital in Crystal City.
According to Warren Robinson, director of emergency management for Jefferson County, the patient is a female nurse who recently returned ...
Posted Thursday, November 20th 2014 at 3:00PM
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Fox & Friends welcomed Geraldo Rivera onto their morning panel, and as Media Matters for America reported, it was not long before he blamed minorities not only for their own failures, but of those of their children too.
The hosts began by rolling ...
Posted Saturday, November 8th 2014 at 9:14PM
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WASHINGTON--The extensive private art collection of Bill and Camille Cosby opens to the public Sunday at the Smithsonian Institution as part of a major exhibition.
More than 60 rarely seen African-American artworks from the Cosby collection are be ...
Posted Saturday, November 8th 2014 at 9:08PM
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The Gould School of Law held a panel discussion on civil rights on Monday featuring actress and alumna Daniele Watts, who was involved in a controversy after she was arrested for lewd conduct in a September encounter with police. Watts, who graduated ...
Posted Tuesday, November 4th 2014 at 1:34PM
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The question of who ordered the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. is a vital one, and thousands of pages have been written on the issue. Those who dismiss the notion that the United States government would engage in assassination ...
Posted Monday, November 3rd 2014 at 10:15AM
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Lesley McSpadden, the mother of the 18-year-old boy whose death at the hands of a Ferguson police officer in August sparked weeks of protests, is going to Geneva, Switzerland next month to speak about her son and other victims of police brutality in ...
Posted Monday, November 3rd 2014 at 8:57AM
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HOUSTON – A local woman has a warning for social media users after she said she was targeted by a scam artist with a wild story.
Jennifer Murphy says she is determined to make sure it doesn't happen to someone else.
It all started after Mur ...
Posted Wednesday, October 29th 2014 at 9:01PM
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Centuries before Ebola, Cotton Mather faced down another global epidemic with a health tactic from abroad.
Cotton Mather’s successful smallpox campaign was based on inoculation advice he received from a slave named Onesimus.
The spread of E ...
Posted Saturday, October 25th 2014 at 3:40PM
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DETROIT (WXYZ) - The State of Michigan is ordering a Detroit man to pay tens of thousands of dollars, or go to prison. The reason? He owes back child support for a child that everyone agrees is not his.
"I feel like I’m standing in front of a b ...
Posted Saturday, October 25th 2014 at 2:28PM
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New York (CNN) -- A Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to New York from West Africa has tested positive for the Ebola virus, becoming the first diagnosed case in the city, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter told CNN ...
Posted Thursday, October 23rd 2014 at 8:46PM
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St. Louis (CNN) -- Activist and Princeton University professor Cornel West was among an estimated 10 people arrested at the "Moral Monday" march in Ferguson, Missouri, event organizer Andrew Kling said.
A photo from CNN affiliate KMOV-TV in St. L ...
Posted Monday, October 13th 2014 at 3:34PM
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Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY 5:03 p.m. EDT
October 9, 2014
Angry protests erupted Wednesday night in the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis after an off-duty white police officer shot and killed an African-American teenager who, police said, had fired t ...
Posted Thursday, October 9th 2014 at 6:04PM
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