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Karle Robinson, 61, a retired Army vet was finally living his dream moving to the countryside. He bought a home in Tonganoxie, Kan., and had almost finished a grueling 12-hour move back in August, in the early hours of the morning, when police showed up, shined flashlights, and asked him…
Wale, a rapper and record producer, stated two members of an American Airlines crew told him “he didn’t belong in first class” and, allegedly, threatened to call the police. Wale explained that he was traveling from New York to Los Angeles, when his flight was canceled. Upon boarding a new…
Three former federal air marshals, Steve Theodoropoulos, Henry Preston, and Ed Cunningham, said they were told by a supervisor to target “the Black people” when they worked in Orlando because “they’re the ones who have warrants.” “But he didn’t use ‘Black people’ he used the n-word,” said Theodoropoulos. All three…
Trayvon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted, according to jurors on the basis of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law. It seems the same law will not work in shooter Michael Drejka’s favor. Drejka, 48, was arrested and charged with manslaughter on Monday for killing Markeis McGlockton, 28, in a store…
Puget Sound Energy (PSE), a utility company in Washington, sent Erica Conway, a Black woman, a racial slur as the temporary password for her online account. PSE claims it was a mistake, but Conway, a longtime volunteer of the Seattle chapter of the NAACP, refutes that — she said it…
Thurman Blevins reportedly was drinking gin and shooting a gun in the air on June 23 in a Minneapolis, Minn., neighborhood. When police arrived on the scene, Blevins was sitting on the curb with his girlfriend and baby. From bodycam footage released Sunday, the police are heard saying he’s got…
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had a few choice words on President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, one of which was “dangerous.” In a statement this week the organization said it is greatly opposed to Judge Brett Kavanaugh potentially serving for the highest court…
A tone-deaf apology, a PR campaign with a commercial name-dropping a celebrity, a one-day training, a chairman steps down and here Starbucks is none the wiser. Sam, a UPenn doctoral at the Wharton School, was getting iced coffee and stuttered when the Starbucks barista at the Walnut and 34th Streets…
In Collierville, Tenn., last week, Jovita Jones Cage returned a bra with a receipt to Victoria’s Secret because the security tag had not been removed. An employee later called the police, and Jones was approached, cuffed with no explanation, escorted out and told she was banned from shopping there. “Victoria’s…
Bobby Paul Edwards, 53, who was charged with slavery, assault and battery, false imprisonment, Fair Labor violations and discriminations against John Christopher Smith, a Black employee with intellectual disabilities at J&J Cafeteria in Myrtle Beach, S.C., plead guilty on Monday. Edwards, Smith’s manager and brother of the business owner Edward…
