Obama 'deeply disturbed' by Chicago police shooting
Graphic footage released shortly after officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder on Tuesday has reignited impassioned debate about the use of force by law enforcement in the ...
Posted Thursday, November 26th 2015 at 3:15PM
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New York City Macy's Day Parade 2015: Photos And Facts About The Yearly Thanksgiving Procession In Manhattan
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade snaked its way through Manhattan under sunny skies Thursday morning in the annual spectacle that draws ...
Posted Thursday, November 26th 2015 at 2:01PM
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When Donald Trump landed in Ohio this week, he got a taste of the meager Republican super PAC efforts aimed at him: a 47-second Web video clipping together some of his most provocative comments and a small airplane trailing a banner proclaiming, “Ohi ...
Posted Thursday, November 26th 2015 at 1:48PM
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CHICAGO — The white Chicago police officer charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a black teenager was the subject of 18 civilian complaints over 14 years, including allegations that he used racial epithets and excessive force, pol ...
Posted Thursday, November 26th 2015 at 1:35PM
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Businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump is under fire for mocking a New York Times reporter with a congenital joint condition during a campaign rally in South Carolina this week, drawing a scornful rebuke from the reporter and others who called ...
Posted Thursday, November 26th 2015 at 1:29PM
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Chicago police say that four people were arrested during the second night of largely peaceful demonstrations following the release of a video showing last year's shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a police officer.
A total of eight p ...
Posted Thursday, November 26th 2015 at 1:19PM
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Brother Doctor Gregory Boulware Thank You for this reminder and the look back on how long that YAH, has been working through Hollywood that has been giving his people the message for who we ared
who's we are as his people. Some of us got back t ...
Posted Wednesday, November 25th 2015 at 9:54PM
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OK Brother Doctor Gregory Boulware, it is time for "Dr. Julia Hare tells it how it is.. LISTEN UP HEBREWS" to be reposted and this story must be retold.
The DESTRUCTION OF THE SO CALLED "BLACK" FAMILY/MAN
YOUR SO CALLED "BLACK" LEADERS ARE C ...
Posted Wednesday, November 25th 2015 at 9:37PM
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Hours after a Chicago police officer was ordered held without bond on first-degree murder charges, the city said it was releasing a shocking police dash-cam video that captured the white officer opening fire on an African American teen on Southwest ...
Posted Tuesday, November 24th 2015 at 7:23PM
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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has overtaken Ben Carson in Iowa to statistically tie Donald Trump atop the polls in the first-in-the-nation caucus state as foreign policy has reemerged as a key issue with the electorate following the Paris terrorist attacks.
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Posted Tuesday, November 24th 2015 at 4:06PM
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Donald Trump Tweets A Wildly Inaccurate Graphic To Portray Black People As Murderers
It falsely claimed that 81 percent of murders involving white people were committed by black people, when only 14 percent were in 2014.
Real estate mogul and r ...
Posted Sunday, November 22nd 2015 at 10:03PM
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“Race in the United States Criminal Justice System PART III”
1955 Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till, 14-year-old African American boy in Mississippi was murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman. His mother's insistence on an ope ...
Posted Sunday, November 22nd 2015 at 6:59PM
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“Race in the United States Criminal Justice System PART II
Let us pick up with this LAW during the Reconstruction Period (1865-1877)
The Ku Klux Klan, founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee as a vigilante organization whose goal was to keep cont ...
Posted Sunday, November 22nd 2015 at 6:37PM
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“Race in the United States Criminal Justice System”
Back some years ago, back when I had some hair, I was interest in history and the law and doing some research on “Race in the United States criminal justice system” when I ran across this desc ...
Posted Sunday, November 22nd 2015 at 6:05PM
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Justice for African Americans was challenged “on every front” in the past year according to a report released Thursday — especially in terms of accountability for police misconduct, erosion of voting rights and widening economic gaps.
“Simply put, ...
Posted Sunday, November 22nd 2015 at 5:12PM
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — President Barack Obama vowed Sunday that the United States and its international partners "will not relent" in the fight against the Islamic State group, insisting the world would not accept the extremists' attacks on civilia ...
Posted Sunday, November 22nd 2015 at 11:54AM
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Brushing off refugee worries at home, President Barack Obama crouched alongside migrant children on Saturday and declared they are the opposite of terrorists wreaking havoc from Paris to Mali. Working to put a human face on ...
Posted Saturday, November 21st 2015 at 11:54AM
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A photo of a high school student in Coweta County, Georgia wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood and holding a confederate flag has gained a lot of attention after someone posted it on social media this week.
The image was initially posted on Twitter by Lor ...
Posted Friday, November 20th 2015 at 7:42PM
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CONCORD, N.H. -- Ben Carson on Friday officially filed for New Hampshire's presidential primary, then waded through a bog of questions about whether special surveillance or "databases" were required to keep track of possible Muslims extremists.
"I ...
Posted Friday, November 20th 2015 at 7:17PM
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Donald Trump confirmed to NBC on Thursday evening that he supports a database to track Muslims in the United States. In a separate statement to The Washington Post, however, Trump expressed his opposition to another controversial database: One that w ...
Posted Friday, November 20th 2015 at 7:04PM
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Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) speech at George Washington University started with a familiar pitch. The crowd, around 150 undergrads invited by "Students for Rand," were invited to join the "leave us the hell alone coalition," and told that liberty retrac ...
Posted Friday, November 20th 2015 at 6:57PM
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Donald Trump called for the creation of a national database to register all Muslims living in the U.S. to protect the country against terrorism.
Round them all up, this is good management. I think that we have seen this before in history.
Tr ...
Posted Friday, November 20th 2015 at 10:46AM
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Gospel singer Kirk Franklin apologized to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people Friday for any homophobia they've experienced in the black church. In an interview with theGrio.com, the seven-time Grammy Award winner said the Bible is not "an ...
Posted Thursday, November 19th 2015 at 6:32PM
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