AP--Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette charged five officials with involuntary manslaughter Wednesday over their handling of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
The officials presided over a failure to maintain the safety of the city’s wate ...
Posted Thursday, June 15th 2017 at 11:24AM
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Bronx mom dies after botched plastic surgery procedures she received in the Dominican Republic
KERRY BURKE, ELLEN MOYNIHAN, THOMAS TRACY JUN 10, 2017 8:00 AM
The never-ending search for beauty ended tragically for a Bronx mother who died of compl ...
Posted Thursday, June 15th 2017 at 11:19AM
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From Huffington Post South Africa
07/06/2017 10:28 SAST | Updated 08/06/2017 09:22 SAST
Former anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela says she doesn't recognise the African National Congress (ANC) anymore.
In an exclusive interview ...
Posted Thursday, June 15th 2017 at 11:09AM
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A black man, that was found not guilty of armed robbery, will still serve up to ten years in prison after a judge ruled he had breached the rules of his probation terms for another crime.
According to NBC 11 Live in Atlanta, Ramad Chatman turn ...
Posted Tuesday, June 6th 2017 at 9:18PM
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While, in the mid-1960s, the Black Panthers – the famous, American, shotgun-toting ones – were scaring the crap out of white America, the British Black Panthers (BBP) were educating their communities and fighting discrimination. Outrightly racist law ...
Posted Monday, April 3rd 2017 at 5:20PM
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More than 40 years after Leonard Brown and Denver Smith were shot dead on the Southern University campus, they will receive posthumous degrees.
The Southern University System board's academic affairs committee voted in favor unanimously Friday (Ma ...
Posted Monday, April 3rd 2017 at 5:03PM
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OHIO--A fight at a Cleveland nail salon went viral on Facebook and now the owner of Fantasy Nails on West 25th Street has released the surveillance video from the salon.
The incident happened around 4 p.m. March 28.
According to a Cleveland ...
Posted Monday, April 3rd 2017 at 12:46PM
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The sister of a South Carolina man who was killed by police after a high-speed car chase claims in a lawsuit that three officers shot her unarmed brother 17 times in the back — as he lay on the ground.
Waltki Cermoun Williams "did not have a w ...
Posted Friday, March 31st 2017 at 6:05PM
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From BlackEnterprise.com
March 22, 2017
By this time next year, the documentary Tell Them We Are Rising may have already aired on PBS, but even now there’s plenty of buzz around this eagerly awaited film.
Scheduled to broadcast nationally ...
Posted Friday, March 31st 2017 at 5:56PM
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HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia Randolph was an African American educator in Henrico in the late 1800’s.
Randolph taught her students woodworking, sewing, cooking, gardening and academics. Two schools were named in her honor.
Charles Ande ...
Posted Friday, March 31st 2017 at 5:48PM
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Earlene Campbell-Coleman opened an email earlier this month and discovered a grainy old picture of "a very distinguished looking elderly gentleman with white hair and familiar facial features."
It was of her great-great-great grandfather, Frank Ca ...
Posted Friday, March 31st 2017 at 5:38PM
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