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NJ Town Suspends Police Chief After Black Teens Were Assaulted By Cops
An incident that took place on July 5, 2016 has finally come to a head and the police chief in Maplewood, NJ has been suspended over it. Following a 4th of July celebration, several Black teens were confronted by township police officers and were eventually punched, kicked, and pepper sprayed. In a video that was […]
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Benjamin Crump Opens National Law Firm
Benjamin Crump, who became a household name after representing the families of murder victims, such as Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice, has turned his law practice into a national law firm, Ben Crump Law. Opening his original practice in Tallahassee, Florida, Crump will now have offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. The first civil rights […]
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Increased Number Of Black Women Are Getting Firearms Training For Self-Defense
Marchelle Tigner is on a mission to train ONE million Black women how to handle and shoot a gun in her lifetime. As a firearms instructor in Lawrenceville, Ga., Marchelle says it’s important for women to know how to use a gun for self-protection. She said her class isn’t about killing someone, but is instead about eliminating a threat. During […]
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Watch: DeKalb County Cop Beats and Threatens to Shoot Homeless Black Woman
A police department in Georgia has reopened an internal investigation after cellphone video surfaced showing a DeKalb County police officer striking a homeless woman with his baton several times during an arrest. Advertise Here
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Watch: Calif. Cop Calls Black Man The N Word and Threatens To Blow Him Away
A California police officer is under investigation and on administrative leave while the Vallejo Police Department determines if he used a racial slur during a traffic stop. The investigation was announced after a witness provided CBS San Francisco video of the incident, which took place Saturday morning near Sonoma Boulevard in the city of Vallejo. […]
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Watch: 19yr Old Female Beaten By Police and Attacked By K9 Police Dog
19 yr old, Tatyana was beaten by police and maliciously attacked by K9 police dog while riding her bike home. She would later find out that the attack occurred due to mistaken identity. The police had mistaken her for a male suspect they were looking for. Advertise Here
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Watch: Chicago Rapper Gives An Inside Look At The Violence Plaguing The City
Duwop, a rapper in his 20s, is the primary focus of a documentary chronicling the violence that is plaguing the city of Chicago. A reporter for the BBC, Ian Pannell, joins the rapper for a look at what it’s like to survive everyday in the city. The project is a mini-documentary called “The Lost Streets of […]
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Watch: The Secret of Selling to the Negro (1954)
The Secret of Selling the Negro Market is a 1954 film financed by Johnson Publishing Company, the publisher of Ebony magazine, to encourage advertisers to promote their products and services in the African-American media. The film showed African-American professionals, housewives and students as participants in the American consumer society, and it emphasized the economic power […]
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Watch: Jay-Z’s New Animated Video “The Story of OJ”
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Michigan Sues Flint After Council Refuses To OK Water Deal
The state of Michigan has sued the city of Flint, alleging that the city council’s refusal to approve a broadly backed deal to buy water long term from a Detroit-area system is endangering public health in the wake of a man-made crisis that left the supply contaminated with lead. The Department of Environmental Quality had […]
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Facebook’s Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack in London earlier this month, U.S. congressman Clay Higgins wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of “radicalized” Muslims. “Hunt them, identify them, and kill them,” declared U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, a Louisiana Republican. “Kill them all. For the sake of all that is good […]
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2nd Mistrial Declared in Case of Ohio Cop Who Shot and Killed Sam Dubose
Jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the murder trial of Ray Tensing for the second time. The former University of Cincinnati police officer is on trail for the shooting death of Sam Dubose. Dubose was shot in the head by Tensing during a traffic stop. Jury deliberations began Monday after six days […]
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Michael Brown’s Family Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit for $1.5M
The family of Michael Brown, a Black teen whose fatal shooting by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked large-scale protests, has settled its lawsuit against the city for $1.5 million. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the settlement was paid by the city of Ferguson’s insurance company “on behalf of multiple defendants,”. The […]
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Jay Z Plans To Help Bail Out Dads For Father’s Day
Jay Z is attacking the injustices of the American prison system and the businesses that use it to thrive in a new op-ed piece he penned for Time. In the essay, he states that he has become “obsessed with the injustice of the profitable bail bond industry” since producing the documentary Time: The Kalief Browder Story. “On any given […]
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Dr. Dre Donates $10 Million To Compton High School
Dr. Dre is giving back to his beloved Compton community by donating $10 million to create a state-of-the-art performing arts center at Compton High School. According to the vice chairman of the Compton Unified School District’s board of education, Micah Ali, the new high school will be one of the most modern public school complexes ever built. The […]
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School Accused Of Covering Up Student Created “Kill List” Targeting Black Students
Some students at Monta Vista Highschool in Cupertino, CA, have been accused of making a “kill list” targeting Black students. Parents at the school are saying the school district tried to cover the list up. One family pulled their daughter out of the school and is filing a civil rights suit against the school district and administrators […]
