MARCH 22, 2017 —The creators of a new Fox TV series, “Shots Fired,” hope to explore topics including race and the justice system with their program, the latest broadcast series to look at contemporary issues following the critical success of, for one ...
Posted Friday, March 24th 2017 at 1:35PM
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As over a dozen teens have gone missing in Washington D.C. since the beginning of the year, community leaders have become concerned that some of these girls may be victims of human trafficking.
Reports on the exact number of missing teens has vari ...
Posted Friday, March 24th 2017 at 12:42PM
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Jordan Peele is a horror fanatic. That may come as a shock to some who only know him as half of the duo behind the Comedy Central series "Key & Peele," alongside Keegan-Michael Key, but Peele is showing off his darker side in his directorial debu ...
Posted Friday, March 24th 2017 at 12:15PM
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A new study conducted by the University of California, Los Angeles, says that the city’s black community is in decline as a direct result of the lack of jobs available to black workers, who are more likely to remain unemployed or drop out of the work ...
Posted Friday, March 24th 2017 at 12:04PM
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigations is currently probing the shooting of Rodney James Hess by sheriff's deputies in Crockett County, Tennessee, on Thursday afternoon, CNN reported.
Hess, a 36-year-old New Orleans resident and father of ...
Posted Thursday, March 23rd 2017 at 2:36PM
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NPR--Prosecutors in Miami-Dade County said that they found no evidence of a crime in the death of a prison inmate who was left for two hours in a hot shower.
Four years after Darren Rainey died at the Dade Correctional Institution, the state's inv ...
Posted Thursday, March 23rd 2017 at 2:24PM
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Washington — The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is awarding a $100 million emergency grant to Michigan to fund infrastructure upgrades in Flint, where lead-contaminated water damaged service lines.
The state of Michigan is cont ...
Posted Thursday, March 23rd 2017 at 2:08PM
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From Time Magazine
March 20, 2017
Dear President Trump,
Representing the United States in the Olympic Games was the greatest honor of my life. I will never forget walking into Opening Ceremonies behind our American flag that I revere surrounde ...
Posted Tuesday, March 21st 2017 at 12:26PM
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NORTH CAROLINA--Community leaders and customers of a west Charlotte beauty supply store showed up to the store Sunday, calling for a boycott after cell phone video showed the owner - an Asian man - kicking and choking an African American woman.
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Posted Thursday, March 16th 2017 at 2:36PM
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Schoolboy Matthew Smith said he first heard Johann Strauss' operetta Die Fledermaus at the age of seven.
Four years later he has committed it to memory in order to become the world's youngest orchestra conductor.
Matthew will make musical histo ...
Posted Thursday, March 16th 2017 at 2:27PM
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Harlem’s been called “the Black Capital of America,” a haven for Blacks from around the nation (and the world). It has been the nexus of African American culture, and home to the largest black population outside Africa. All resulted from the ambiti ...
Posted Friday, February 3rd 2017 at 7:40PM
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