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Obama visit puts spotlight on rough plight in rural Alaska
AP Photo/Al Grillo, File) ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — It’s a good bet that President Barack Obama will never use a honey bucket The five-gallon drums serve as makeshift toilets in large swaths of rural...
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New Poll: Birthers and Bigots Fill Trump Supporters’ Ranks
New Poll: Birthers and Bigots Fill Trump Supporters’ Ranks Those noisy, rabid bands of Donald Trump crowds feel pressed to let you know that they aren’t racist. Far from it, they’ll attempt to convince...
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Home Detention for S.C. White Former Police Chief who Killed Walter Bailey, a...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A White former police chief will have to spend a year under home detention but won’t have to serve any prison time in the 2011 shooting death of an unarmed Black man. Prosecutors...
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Lake Arthur police officer has been fired after a picture on Facebook surfaced
The picture, which was taken last summer, shows now former officer Raymond Mott attending the rally with members of the KKK in South Carolina. On Wednesday, Mott was fired. However, Mott has declared...
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A. Philip Randolph Negro American Labor Council
Negro American Labor Council In the wake of the vicious reaction to the 1961 Freedom Rides, Negro American Labor Council (NALC) President A. Philip Randolph telegraphed Martin Luther King, pledging:...
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Establishment The founding convention of the American Negro Labor Congress opened on the evening of Sunday, October 25, 1925, with a mass meeting which heard the reports of national organizer...
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Police Chief ‘Compared Black People To Monkeys’ After Racism Complaint
The officers in Clatskanie, Oregon, filed a complaint that has resulted in Hoover, 56, resigning from his post. Officer Dustin Stone said in his complaint, that was seen by U.S. station KOIN 6: “I...
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Tuskegee airman, WWII hero from N.J., dies at 90, report says
Spann, who was raised in Rutherford, was a pioneering black World War II combat pilot recognized for his bravery escorting bombers over enemy territory in Europe in the 1940s. He once said watching...
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Family: Slain woman ‘Loved hard. She trusted even harder. That was my baby’s...
Twenty-year-old Shaquandra Ratliff was outspoken, trusting and hanging out with the wrong crowd when she was fatally shot during an outdoor party over the weekend, said her family. “She was my best...
View ArticlePoll: Blacks, Whites Agree Police Treat Blacks Differently
USA Today – Sharp differences exist between the way blacks and whites view the treatment of blacks by police, according to a poll being released Wednesday by the National Bar Association, the...
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Donald Trump Blasts Black Lives Matter
Business Insider – Real-estate mogul Donald Trump made it clear in a Tuesday interview that he was no fan of the Black Lives Matter movement. “I think they’re trouble. I think they’re looking for...
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NC Teen Charged as Adult Faces 10 Years in Prison for Having Naked Photos of...
A North Carolina teen is being charged as an adult and facing 10 years in prison for having and sharing naked photos of his girlfriend. In case you missed that, Cormega Copening, 17, is being charged...
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