I am the greatest. I said that before I even knew I was.” – Muhammad Ali
Here’s your first look at the upcoming film, I AM ALI. From director Clare Lewins and the producers of the award-winning SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN comes an intimate and hear ...
Posted Friday, September 5th 2014 at 6:54PM
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(Special to the NNPA from The Afro-American Newspaper) — The United States has never had a Black female as the governor of a state-level jurisdiction but that could change in the November general election. U.S. Virgin Islands Del. Donna Christensen ( ...
Posted Friday, September 5th 2014 at 6:42PM
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The Tennessee woman who was on vacation with her five children, when she became the subject of a wild pursuit that ended with an officer firing upon her minivan, has broken her silence.
"I was just feeling more and more unsafe," Oriana Ferrell tol ...
Posted Friday, September 5th 2014 at 6:31PM
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Police said a man was injured Thursday after being shot by an officer in Marcus Garvey Park in East Harlem.
A uniformed officer was on patrol in the park, at 120th Street and Fifth Avenue, when he shot Daniel Cabrerra, 28, ...
Posted Friday, September 5th 2014 at 6:19PM
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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 under ...
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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Posted Sunday, August 31st 2014 at 5:47PM
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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 Office ...
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 ...
Posted Saturday, August 30th 2014 at 8:30PM
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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 Nationa ...
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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