A letter to our African-American sons
Emma McElvaney Talbott, Special to The Courier-Journal 12:07 a.m. EST December 6, 2014
Dear African-American sons:
What just played out in Ferguson, Mo., and in Sanford, Fla., is nothing new. These stori ...
Posted Sunday, December 7th 2014 at 7:48PM
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In life, Marion Barry Jr. was known for his entrances, his sense of when to step into a room, light up a crowd and put himself at the center of the action — often conspicuously late.
In death, Barry delivered a remarkable exit, a three-day specta ...
Posted Saturday, December 6th 2014 at 8:05PM
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Autopsy Shows Mentally Ill Man Shot From Behind and Above, 14 Times
December 3, 2014
BreakingBrown reported in October that the officer who killed Dontre Hamilton had been fired from the Milwaukee Police Department. Now an autopsy confirms that t ...
Posted Saturday, December 6th 2014 at 2:56PM
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'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-ol ...
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 death whi ...
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
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images
Grammy Award-winn ...
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-winn ...
Posted Tuesday, November 25th 2014 at 5:14PM
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