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‘So Much Trauma’: FBI Agents Raided the Wrong House, Pointing Guns at Terrified 7-Year-Old Black Boy and His Family, But Court Says Qualified Immunity Protects Agency Against Legal Action

August 16, 2024
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A Georgia couple is still seeking justice nearly seven years after the FBI mistakenly raided their home when agents showed up at the wrong address. Curtrina Martin and her then-fiancé, Hilliard Toi Cliatt, were unintended victims of the raid at their Atlanta home in 2017, but their quest for accountability has been complicated by qualified…

Most Black hospitals across the South closed long ago. Their impact endures

August 16, 2024
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Nurses attend to patients in this historical photo of the children’s ward inside Wheatley-Provident Hospital, a Black hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. It opened in 1918, but, like most Black hospitals, it closed following the federal campaign to desegregate hospitals in the 1960s. (Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library) When Jim Crow laws…

‘Steve and His Wife Cheated on Each Other’: Marjorie and Steve Harvey’s Relationship Advice to Struggling Couple Backfires a Year After Dodging Rumors About Their Marriage

August 16, 2024
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Not all of Steve Harvey’s fans believe that he is living happily ever after with his wife, Marjorie Harvey. For a year, the couple has been plagued by rumors that the fashionista had an affair with a bodyguard and a personal chef. The “Family Feud” host has denied the hearsay while Marjorie has largely ignored…

Jordan Chiles says panel’s call for her to return Olympic bronze is ‘unjust’ and ‘significant blow’

August 16, 2024
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Jordan Chiles (right) and Simone Biles (left) of the United States celebrate after the women’s artistic gymnastics individual floor finals in Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Biles won the silver medal and Chiles the bronze medal, but an arbitration panel’s decision dropped Chiles out of the bronze medal position. (Photo:…

Harbaugh says Kaepernick will not be a player or coach with the Chargers this season

August 16, 2024
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Then-free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick arrives for a workout for NFL football scouts and media in Riverdale, Georgia in Nov. 2019. (Photo: Todd Kirkland/AP, file) L.A. Chargers’ Jim Harbaugh admitted earlier this week that he reached out to Colin Kaepernick about joining his Chargers’ staff shortly after being named coach on Jan. 24. EL SEGUNDO,…

Water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi developed during failures in oversight, watchdog says

August 16, 2024
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A recruit for the Jackson Fire Department carries a case of bottled water to a resident’s car in August 2022 as part of the city’s response to longstanding water system problems in Jackson, Miss. (Photo: Rogelio V. Solis/AP, file) Tens of thousands of people were left without safe drinking water for weeks in 2021 and…

Michael Rubin And When Outsiders Speak Freely About The Black Community

August 16, 2024
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Michael Rubin speaks as the United Justice Coalition hosts the Inaugural Social Justice Summit with acclaimed activists, entertainers, attorneys, experts and more at Center415 on July 23, 2022, in New York City. | Source: Shareif Ziyadat / Getty By the time Michael Rubin said “I’m probably going to get killed for saying this because I’m…

Detroit judge sidelined for making sleepy teen wear jail clothes on court field trip

August 16, 2024
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Detroit Judge Kenneth King listens during a probable-cause hearing in April 2015. (Photo: Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP) Judge Kenneth King will undergo “necessary training to address the underlying issues that contributed to this incident,” said William McConico, the chief judge at 36th District Court. DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit judge who ordered a teenager…

‘Not Cool to Blast Music’: Video of Woman Throwing Couple’s Portable Speaker Off Cruise Ship Into Water Draws Debate About Public Courtesy

August 16, 2024
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A video that has drawn millions of views on social media shows a woman taking someone else’s portable speaker playing loud music and chucking it off a cruiseliner into the ocean. The brief 30-second clip shows a woman on a cruise ship with a Greek flag approaching a couple seated at a table on the…

7 Times Black Music Was Code For Freedom: The Evolution Of Black Revolutionary Music

August 16, 2024
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Andra Day, who won a Golden Globe for her performance of Billie Holiday in The United States vs. Billie Holiday Source: Drew Angerer / Getty In 1939, not even three-quarters of a century after Black people took their final steps in this country as slaves, Billie Holiday released “Strange Fruit.” It was an uncoded charge…