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4 Dead, 33 Hurt In Weekend Chicago Shootings

Source: Chicago Sun-Times / ABC 7 Chicago Four people were killed and at least 33 others were wounded in shootings across the city since Friday afternoon. The most recent fatality happened early Sunday in the South Side Washington Park neighborhood. Corey Brownlee, 32, was shot in the chest about 2:40 a.m. in the 6000 block […]

New Rule Prohibits Voters In Miami-Dade County From Using The Restroom, No Matter How Long The Line

Source:  Nicole Flatow / Think Progress During the 2012 presidential election, voters reportedly waited on line for upwards of six hours. That wait alone is enough to deter would-be voters from going to the polls. But now residents in Florida’s most populous county will have another disincentive: they won’t be able to go to the bathroom. Earlier this year, […]

ROLAND S. MARTIN: Message From The GOP: Hey, Poor People, You’re Not Real Americans

by Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com Host and Managing Editor of TV One’s NewsOne Now Looks like its time for another season of America’s favorite political sport: demonizing folks on welfare. Last month, the RNC announced that welfare would be one of the top issues they want to hammer home in the 2014 midterms. And on the […]

Supremacist Held In Slayings At Kansas Jewish Center

Source: Wes Johnson, Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader / USA Today   SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A longtime white supremacist from rural Missouri was arrested Sunday and held on a charge of premeditated first-degree murder in connection with a shooting spree in Kansas that killed three people at a Jewish community center and a Jewish retirement home. Frazier Glenn Cross, 73 […]

UW Professor Stephanie Camp, 46, Feminist Historian, Dies

Source: Katherine Long / Seattle Times She was a well-known feminist historian who wrote a groundbreaking book on enslaved women in the antebellum South, and a social-justice activist who dared to take controversial stands. But Stephanie Camp was also known for her love of popular culture and her sense of adventure and for hosting great […]

Harry Belafonte Keeping King Documents In Settlement

Source: AP / Miami Herald WASHINGTON – Singer and activist Harry Belafonte will get to keep three of Martin Luther King’s documents that the King estate had blocked him from selling. Lawyers announced a confidential settlement Friday between Belafonte and the estate letting Belafonte retain possession of the documents. No other terms were announced, and […]

President Obama Vows To Fight GOP Led Voting Restrictions

Source: Andrew Rafferty / NBC News President Barack Obama on Friday vowed to fight back against Republican led efforts to implement restrictive voter identification measures in some states, capping off a week in which Democrats have attempted to bring the issue to the forefront of national attention. “The right to vote is threatened today in a […]

UT Suspects Sabotage After A&M-Created Maroon Flowers Pop Up Near Tower

Source: Heather Alexander / Houston Chronicle President Barack Obama’s visit to the University of Texas in Austin could be overshadowed by the emergence of a scandal of potentially epic proportions. Maroon bluebonnets are taking over flowerbeds below the school’s iconic tower. Officials fear their landscape has been infiltrated by longtime rival Aggies. “There were just a few […]

Roland Martin Jokes w/ Comedian Pierre About His NY Times #1 Best Teller

Roland Martin and comedians Eddie Bryant, Pierre and Timmy Hall bring the funny on TV One’s News One Now.

Google Doodle Celebrates Percy Julian’s Birthday

Source: theGrio Google honors late chemist Percy Julian with today’s Google doodle. The Alabama native was born to two former slaves, and while he faced much adversity, still attained his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna in Austria. His research led to advances in birth control and treatments for both arthritis and glaucoma. After establishing his own laboratory, Julian […]