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Mosbys push back against ‘vindictive investigation’ | Afro

By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com Several leaders in Baltimore’s Black community believe a federal tax investigation accompanied by a simultaneous and seemingly unbalanced media probe of Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and her husband Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby, is part of an orchestrated political takedown of the power couple. In […]

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By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Clyde Robinson treasures the acre of land he inherited, a verdant space tucked into a cul-de-sac in a south Memphis neighborhood, surrounded by houses and trees beside a railroad track. For more than five decades, he nurtured it while his

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'Dangerous Policy': Michigan Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Constitutionality of Police Fingerprinting, Photographing Black Teens Without Charging Them

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