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John Conyers Jr., who co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus, helped create Martin Luther King Jr. Day and became the longest-serving Black person in Congress, died on Sunday at his home in Detroit, spokeswoman Holly Baird confirmed. He was 90. Conyers’ long political career as a Democrat from Michigan began in…
Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal has donated an entire year’s rent to an Atlanta woman whose 12-year-old son was struck in the spine by a stray bullet and paralyzed from the chest down as he was leaving a high school football game on Aug. 17, according to WXIA-TV. It…
Sally Hazelgrove, the white leader of the Chicago-based Crushers Club charity, has been facing serious backlash over images from October 2016 showing her cutting the dreadlocks of two Black teenagers. The images have been condemned as racist and were deleted from Twitter on Friday. Today, the NFL’s #InspireChange “social justice”…
The University of Alabama has a long history of racism and segregation on campus, as recently as 2013. In another fumble, the dean of students at the university, Jamie Riley, was fired about Breitbart News published an article about some of Riley’s tweets from 2016 and 2017. Riley, who is…
Last July, 47-year-old Michael Drejka got in a fight with Britany Jacobs, then 24, who was parked in a handicapped-accessible spot outside a grocery store. Her boyfriend, Markeis McGlockton, who was only 28, walked outside after them with their five-year-old son and defended Jacobs from Drejka, who had become aggressive….
“It’s a testament to how we can be there for each other in these times of grief,” Ohio native and famous performer John Legend told a crowd at Blind Bob’s Bar on Sunday night in Dayton after singing “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. Legend sang the song to the gathering of…
When the SWAT officer burst into his bedroom, Amir Worship put up his hands – and the officer shot him anyway. Moments later, the 12-year-old felt a terrible pain in his knee as he lay, shirtless and terrified, on his bed. It was early morning on May 26 and a…
In Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, Sheriff Leon Lott is calling for the state to enact a hate crime law after his department was not able to charge a 16-year-old for four days after he made racially charged death threats. The teenager was eventually charged four days after making two…
Shai Werts, a star football player at Georgia Southern University, left his grandmother’s house in Clinton, S.C., last month to drive three hours back to college. He was told he had been pulled over because he was speeding and didn’t immediately stop for officers – because he was afraid. He…
Elisha Brittman was badly beaten in Chicago. He was found naked and beaten underneath a car near 47th Street and Wabash Avenue in Bronzeville on April 29, according to the Chicago Tribune. He was taken to Mercy Hospital and listed as John Doe – and taken off of life support by…
