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FDA Gives Authorization to Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine, Allowing for Doses to Be Distributed Across Country
The Federal Drug Administration has authorized a second COVID-19 vaccine, opening the door for more people to receive doses against the virus which brought the country to a halt this year and continues to rack up deaths. On Friday, the FDA announced that it has issued emergency use authorization for a vaccine developed by Moderna,…
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Black Man Sues Kansas Sheriff's Deputy for Allegedly Running Over Him With a Patrol Truck
It sounds like something from a nightmare, but itās what 35-year-old Lionel Womack is alleging he experienced in real lifeāa cop in Kansas deliberately driving a patrol truck over his body while chasing him through an open field. Womack, who used to be a former police officer, was pulled over during a late-night traffic stop…
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Imprisoned in Michigan for Nearly Four Decades, Walter Forbes Is Freed After Witness Recants Statement
Walter Forbes, a 63-year-old Black man in Michigan, is now free to spend the holidays with his family for the first time in over 37 years. Forbes was recently released from his decadeslong incarceration after the witness who helped imprison him recanted her original testimony this year and acknowledged it was a lie, due to…
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In First Decision of Its Kind, British Officials Rule That Air Pollution Was a Cause in the Death of 9-Year-Old Black Girl
A coronerās court in the United Kingdom has ruled that air pollution was a cause of death in the case of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, an asthmatic 9-year-old girl who lived in southeast London and died in 2013. The landmark decision came on Wednesday and is the first time in the U.K. that a death certificate has…
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Police in Colombia Seen on Video Punching and Pulling Gun on Insecureās Kendrick Sampson
Anti-blackness and violent policing may have some of their most visible expressions in the U.S. given the nationās outsized visibility on the global stage, but by no means are these issues limited to America. The latest evidence of this is the brutal treatment that Insecure actor Kendrick Sampson appears to have received at the hand…
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A Former Houston Police Captain Was Arrested for Accosting a Repairman and Putting a Gun to His Head Over Fake Ballot Claims
If you still donāt believe that certain people are empowered to operate with violence indiscriminately in this country or that the repeated claims of voter fraud pushed by President Trump pose a danger to society, the case of former Houston Police Captain Mark Anthony Aguirreās arrest on Tuesday for his alleged assault on a civilian…
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MAGA Marchers and Proud Boys Descend on D.C., Setting Fire to Churches' Black Lives Matter Signs and Getting into Stabbing Fights [Updated]
Roaming bands of white supremacists trawled the streets of Washington D.C. on Saturday, setting fires to Black Lives Matter banners and getting into stabbing fights in what appeared to be a free-for all outpouring of racist rage. Earlier in the day, MAGA supporters gathered in the nationās capital for a rally to protest the election…
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Iconic Country Singer Charley Pride Dead at 86 of COVID-19
Another Black veteran of the entertainment industry has died due to COVID-19. Charley Pride, the country singer behind classic songs such as āKiss an Angel Good Mornināā and āIs Anybody Goinā to San Antoneā is dead at 86. Prideās publicist said that the singer died on Saturday in Dallas of complications from the coronavirus, reports…
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Lil Wayne Pleads Guilty To Federal Gun Charge, Could Go To Prison for 10 Years
Lil Wayne could be headed to the slammer based on federal charges for illegal possession of a firearm. AP reports that the 38-year-old rapper, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter, on Friday pled guilty in a Miami court to charges related to an incident last December when federal agents searched his private plane and…
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Carol Sutton, Actress Featured in Steel Magnolias and Queen Sugar, Dead at 76 From COVID-19
New Orleans-based actress Carol Sutton, whose long career spanned film, stage, and television performances, has died at 76 from complications of the coronavirus. Sutton had been hospitalized at the Touro Infirmary in New Orleans with a COVID-19 infection and died on Thursday night, reports WGNO ABC. The veteran actress featured in numerous big name film,…
