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13-Year-Old Boy May Have Been Killed for Knocking Over Trash Cans
It turns out that Ashton Harting, a 13-year-old Indianapolis boy who was shot dead in the wee hours of the morning of Jan. 19, may have been killed for knocking over trash cans, the New York Daily News reports. Police arrested and charged Dino Thompson, 17, with Ashton’s murder Monday. At first, a witness at…
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Rosa Parks’ Writings Available to Public, Revealing a ‘Lonely’ Woman ‘Cut Off From Life’
Rosa Parks’ volumes of letters, writings, photographs and personal notes will be released to the Library of Congress on Wednesday, giving researchers and the public access to the revered civil rights figure’s life and innermost thoughts, the Associated Press reports. Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery, Ala.,…
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DC Middle School Students Protest the Firing of Teachers 'Who Taught Black History'
Students at Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science walked out of class Monday to protest the alleged firing of three social studies teachers that were reportedly let go for teaching African-American history, WJLA reports. The public charter school’s principal, Angelicque Blackmon, is a black woman, but a parent said that Principal Blackmon canned…
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Obama Budget Proposal Taxes the Rich, Cigarettes, Corporations
President Barack Obama sent a budget to Congress Monday with ambitious strategies to strengthen America’s middle class. Chief among his proposals are plans to raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations and to use that money to spend a record $4 trillion on “domestic and military programs” to do things like rebuild roads and bridges, the…
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Obama: Let’s Set Aside $50 Million to Restore Historic Civil Rights Sites
In a new budget plan, President Obama has earmarked approximately $50 million to be used to restore the national park sites affiliated with the civil rights movement. The move is a way to commemorate this year’s 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, The Hill reports. Obama hopes to invest in sites such as the Selma…
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Former University of North Carolina Athletes Sue School and the NCAA for ‘Academic Fraud’
Rashanda McCants and Devon Ramsay, two former student-athletes from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, filed a lawsuit last Thursday against their alma mater and the NCAA because they contend that they were veered away from “academically sound classes” and did not receive “legitimate educational instruction,” USA Today reports. McCants, a former member…
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Assault Charges Against George Zimmerman Dropped
George Zimmerman’s ex-girlfriend, 28-year-old Brittany Brunelle, is backpedaling from her accusation that her former beau threw a wine bottle at her, the Associated Press reports. As a result, Phil Archer, a Florida state attorney, said that he is no longer pursuing an aggravated assault case against Zimmerman, since his accuser has recanted her story and…
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Loretta Lynch Tastefully Distances Herself From Obama and Holder During Confirmation Hearing
Loretta Lynch, Obama’s nominee to replace Attorney General Eric Holder, held her own at Wednesday’s eight-hour confirmation hearing before the Senate, Al-Jazeera reports. Lynch lobbied back “measured answers” to questions from Republicans who were hell-bent on attacking Obama and Holder for how the Justice Department, they argue, has become “politicized.” Senate Republicans pressed Lynch on…
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Watch: Chilling Video of Gunman During His Shooting Spree at Florida State University
Myron May, the 31-year-old Florida State University 2005 alum who went on a shooting spree in the school’s library in November, can be seen carrying out the attack in new surveillance video recently released to the public, the New York Daily News reports. The footage shows May—conservatively dressed in a long-sleeved shirt, vest and baseball…
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