Racist Sentenced to Life Imprisonment

Texas woman calls her Black boss the N-word after getting fired

(Credit: screenshot/TMZ) A Texas woman launched into a racist tirade after her Black boss fired her and called him the N-word. The unidentified woman repeatedly called her boss a “motherf*****”, the N-word and at one point started a freestyle rap by using the slur,” TMZ reported.

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Women’s Group Rips Biden Vetting Klobuchar And Demands A VP Running Mate Of Color

Aimee Allison of She the People, which describes itself as “a national network connecting women of color to transform our democracy,” used no uncertain terms to implore Biden to look elsewhere for his running mate — specifically in the direction of a woman of

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Source: NewsOne

Brooklyn Lawyers Hit with Seven Federal Charges for Allegedly Throwing Molotov Cocktail Into NYPD Cruiser Now Face Life Imprisonment

Two lawyers are facing life in prison on charges of throwing an explosive into an unoccupied New York Police cruiser during a demonstration in late

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

COMMENTARY: George Floyd and the Continuing Legacy of Dred Scott

These next words, though, memorialized for all time in the High Court decision, put flesh on the bones of the pro-slavery argument: “[Blacks] had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

Coronavirus cases are spiking across the country and experts say Florida has the makings of the next epicenter | The Atlanta Voice

Ten states saw a record number of new Covid-19 cases this week, and one of them could be the next epicenter of the

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Surging US Virus Cases Raise Fear That Progress Is Slipping | Afro

By TAMARA LUSH, NATHAN ELLGREN and TAMMY WEBBER, Associated Press

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Utah company recruiting customers after citing production problems and refusing refunds | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Smilelove, providers of clear plastic aligners to consumers across the country, recently told customers that their aligners not only would not be shipped, but that they would not be issuing

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Mayor Johnny Magee Signed An Order Banning The Mississippi State Flag

Laurel, Mississippi, Mayor Johnny Magee held back tears as he signed an executive order removing the state’s flag from city-owned

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Léopold Senghor

Léopold Senghor , in full Léopold Sédar Senghor (born Oct. 9, 1906, Joal, Senegal, French West Africa [now in Senegal]—died Dec. 20, 2001, Verson, France), poet, teacher, and statesman, first president of Senegal, and a major proponent of the concept of

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Source: Brittanica

The Genesis Group of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1971– )

In 1971 Ruffin Bridgeforth, Darius Gray, and Eugene Orr, all African American Mormons, met at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City to create a strategy for receiving greater support for the black members of the Latter Day Saints. In that year, there were only three or four hundred Latter-day

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Source: Black Past

Two Tulsa Brothers Speak Out After Being Wrongfully Convicted Of Separate Crimes

On Friday, an NBC Dateline special takes a look at the story of Corey Atchison and Malcolm Scott, two Tulsa brothers wrongfully convicted of two separate murders, and who were both serving life sentences for crimes they say they did not

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Source: Black Women's Lifestyle Guide, Black Love & Beauty Trends - Essence

Players and staff most at risk when sports resume

But every day it is obvious it will have to take as long as it has to take,” admitted National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) Executive Director Michelle Roberts last week in a video appearance at Sports Business Daily’s CAA World Congress of Sports, a four-part virtual

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Can Photography Be Decolonial?

Art historian Shawn Michelle Smith—in her new book Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography—examines the famous photograph of Emmett

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Source: Public Books

How Retired NBA Player Deron Williams Finessed The Brooklyn Nets Out Of $98 Million

Source: Josh Hedges / Getty

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Source: Cassius | born unapologetic | News, Style, Culture

Mavs, Other Teams Prepare for Season’s Return

Now, almost three months later, the seventh-place Western Conference team (40-27) is preparing to resume play after the NBA Board of Governors voted to approve a competitive format to restart the 2019-20

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Source: Serving Northeast Texas

Bankhead, Mary Lucille Perkins (1902–1994)

Mary Lucille Perkins Bankhead, lifelong resident of Salt Lake City and member of the Genesis Group leadership, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on August 9, 1902. Her father, Sylvester Perkins, was a cowboy and farmer. Her mother, Martha Anne Jane Stevens Perkins Howell, was a homemaker and

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Source: Black Past

Jun

16

1994

Man who filmed Arbery shooting video charged in his slaying

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia man whose cellphone video of Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting helped reignite the case was charged with murder Thursday, making him the third person arrested more than two months after the

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Washington Post editor says white women are 'lucky' they are just being called Karen

(Credit: Karen

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'We're sick of it': Anger over police killings shatters US

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Americans awoke Sunday to charred and glass-strewn streets in dozens of cities after another night of unrest fueled by rage over the mistreatment of African Americans at the hands of police, who responded to the violence with tear gas and rubber

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Early Numbers Show New COVID-19 Syndrome May Place Black Children at Higher Risk | Black Voice News

Where the nation once believed children were rarely impacted by COVID-19, this mysterious COVID-19 related illness has touched children in every age group beginning with five percent of the cases impacting children under the age of one; 15 percent were between the ages of one and four years; 29

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Trump Doubles Down On Fact-Free Fraud Theory About Mail-In Voting

President Donald Trump on Sunday posted on Twitter alleging that mail-in ballots allow for widespread election fraud, despite widespread evidence to the

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

(BPRW) STARTINGPOINT: Efficient Client and Service Management For SMB Companies and Teams – The Black Chronicle

(Black PR Wire) Redondo Beach, CA: StartingPoint Technologies today announced the release of its new client and service management SaaS offering for small to medium sized companies and teams to securely increase client engagement and streamline workflow. Source link

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Coronavirus Update: Global Deaths Hit 400,000 As U.S. Infections Swell Amid Protests

Although wearing protective eye coverings to ward off COVID-19 has not been recommended to the general public by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, evidence is growing that shows the virus can be transmitted through the eyes via droplets from coughing, sneezing and even

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Source: Black America Web

(1898) Rev. Francis J. Grimke, “The Negro Will Never Acquiesce As Long As He Lives,”

On November 20, 1898, Reverend Francis J. Grimke, pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church of Washington, D.C., delivered a sermon in which he denounced those African Americans who called for conservatism and accommodation. Grimke vowed that as long as African Americans were deprived of

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Source: Black Past

Nov

20

1898

Man who pointed bow and arrow at protests now behind bars

Brandon McCormick aims bow and arrow at protesters in Salt Lake

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Source: theGrio

NYC mayor seeks $1 billion police cut amid protests | New York Carib News

NYC mayor seeks $1 billion police cut amid protests

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Source: The New York Carib News

AP FACT CHECK: Faulty Trump claims on virus drug, vote fraud | The Atlanta Voice

So it was this past week when he took very personally a scientific study that should give pause to anyone thinking of following Trump’s lead and ingesting a potentially risky drug for the

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

2 Lawyers, One Black, the Other Muslim, Face Possible Life Sentence

“Amid largely peaceful demonstrations taking place on the night of May 29, 2020, these defendants allegedly hurled Molotov Cocktails at NYPD vehicles without regard for the potentially deadly consequences,” stated United States Attorney

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Congo democratic republic

On March 14, 2012, Thomas Lubanga was convicted of using child soldiers during the ethnic conflict in the Ituri region. A former militia leader, Lubanga had been on trial for three-years and may receive life imprisonment. The use of child soldiers occurred in 2002 and 2003. The ruling made by the

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Mar

14

2012

NBA Player Mike Conley Donates $200,000 Towards Coronavirus Relief Efforts

NBA star Mike Conley is focused on providing relief for underserved groups who have been significantly impacted by the public health crisis, The Salt Lake Tribune

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