In a commencement address on Friday at City College in New York City, First Lady Michelle Obama raised more than a few eyebrows when she referred to the White House as “a house that was built by slaves”.
Though she did not mention Republican front ...
Posted Sunday, June 5th 2016 at 6:46PM
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Police in Chicago released more than 100 videos from pending investigations on Friday — including footage of police shootings and incidents of brutality — as part of a new effort by the embattled department to ...
Posted Sunday, June 5th 2016 at 6:36PM
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It has been widely argued that the multiple head injuries Muhammad Ali sustained during his boxing career could have caused his Parkinson's disease. In reality, the science behind it is much more nuanced.
Experts' theories vary on whether head tr ...
Posted Sunday, June 5th 2016 at 6:32PM
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LOS ANGELES--Donald Trump has been accused of “hypocrisy” for his tributes to Muhammad Ali, as Bernie Sanders criticised those who praise the boxing legend while being "prejudiced against Muslims in this country".
After publically calling for all ...
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NEW YORK--Afeni Shakur Davis, mother of late rap legend Tupac Shakur who was the subject of one of his most iconic songs and who oversaw his posthumous legacy, has died. She was 69 years old.
Marin County deputies responded to Shakur’s home in Sau ...
Posted Tuesday, May 3rd 2016 at 9:23AM
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Prince—The Essence Of Beauty
A tribute from Minister Louis Farrakhan
In everything that Allah (God) created, there are lessons to be learned. There is exquisite beauty in the flowers, in the rocks, in the birds, in the beasts, in the fish and th ...
Posted Friday, April 29th 2016 at 10:29PM
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Twelve people have said they witnessed a local police department's fatal shooting of a black motorist over the weekend, but none has stepped forward to say what they saw, a Florida sheriff investigating the death said Monday.
St. Lucie County Sher ...
Posted Monday, April 25th 2016 at 9:44PM
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Prince’s ex-fiancée, Sheila Escovedo, is determined to find out the cause of the legendary singer’s death. The star reportedly suffered with the flu several weeks before his death, but Shelia E., as she is better known, doesn’t think that’s how he di ...
Posted Monday, April 25th 2016 at 7:02PM
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A few hundred South Dallas residents, mostly black, flooded Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to oppose a planned demonstration by a mostly white group that routinely protests outside mosques.
Both sides were armed.
Dallas police stood guard on ...
Posted Sunday, April 3rd 2016 at 8:53PM
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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY — The recent arrest of an on-duty U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee in Crown Heights was unjustified, racially motivated and “could have been another Eric Garner situation," Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said at a ...
Posted Tuesday, March 29th 2016 at 10:48AM
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On Saturday, a 25-year-old Virginia woman named India M. Beaty was shot and killed by local police officers in a parking lot, where cops were staking out an unrelated investigation. At 1:20 a.m., police witnessed an altercation between India and an u ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2016 at 7:00PM
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