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Fort Jackson Commander Facing Adultery Charges
Originally published May 22, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army says the commanding general of Fort Jackson, S.C., has been suspended in connection with charges of adultery and involvement in a physical altercation.more More Arrow
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Mark Carson
Suspect in NY Point-Blank Shooting of Black Man is Charged with Hate Crime
by Verena Dobnik
May 19, 2013 - NEW YORK (AP) — The man who police say hurled homophobic slurs at a gay man on a Manhattan street before firing a single fatal shot to his head appeared in court Sunday to face a charge of murder as a hate crime.more More Arrow

Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald
Cleveland Area Boosts Efforts to Find the Missing
by Associated Press
May 17, 2013 - The county that includes Cleveland said May 16 that it will strengthen efforts to locate missing people following the discovery of three women who said they were held captive in a home there for about a decade.more More Arrow

Columbia University Seeks to Alter Whites-Only Bequest
by Associated Press
May 17, 2013 - Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a 93-year-old trust earmarked for white students from Iowa.more More Arrow

Jimmy Iovine, the co-founder of Interscope Records, far left, Erica Muhl, dean of th USC Roski School of Fine Arts, hip-hop mogul Andre Young
Dr. Dre, Iovine Donate $70M for New USC Center
by Associated Press
May 17, 2013 - The new Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy at the University of Southern California will offer a curriculum aimed to help young innovators create the next iPod or Facebook.more More Arrow

James Parham appears in Englewood municipal court to enter a plea on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 in Englewood, N.J. Parham, 75, is accused of possessing a glass pipe used for smoking crack cocaine and maintaining a nuisance in which people gathered for unlawful purposes. Parhnam was among three people arrested amid allegations of prostitution and drug use at the Vincente Tibbs Senior Citizen Building in Englewood. He pleaded not guilty. Photo/The Record, Amy Newman, Pool
Prostitution Ring Busted in N.J. Senior Citizen Complex
by Zenitha Prince
May 17, 2013 - Authorities have arrested three people on allegations that they used cocaine and operated a prostitution ring out of a senior citizen housing complex in Englewood, N.J.more More Arrow

This May 1, 2013 photo released by OWN shows host Oprah Winfrey poses with NBA basketball player Jason Collins, right, and his twin brother Jarron, during an interview for
NBA’s Jarron Collins Jokes he Missed Brother’s “Red Flags” of Homosexuality
by Associated Press
May 17, 2013 - Jason Collins would always make excuses for why he wasn't interested in the women his twin brother and sister-in-law would set him up with on dates.more More Arrow

Brandon Frame
Morehouse Alum Creates Annual “Black Men Can” Awards
by Krishana Davis
May 17, 2013 - Although he did not meet his own father until he was 18 years old, Brandon Frame never rejected the importance of strong male influences in childhood development.more More Arrow

Roslyn M. Brock, chairwoman of the NAACP national board of directors, shows the new message on t-shirts that honor slain Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers, during a wreath-laying ceremony Thursday, May 16, 2013, at the Jackson, Miss., home of Evers who who was shot in his driveway in 1963. Brock presented widow Myrle Evers-Williams, center, with a new T-shirt emblazoned with
NAACP Board Honors Evers' Memory in Miss. Capital
by Associated Press
May 17, 2013 - NAACP leaders from around the country are honoring the memory of the group’s former Mississippi leader, Medgar Evers, nearly 50 years after he was assassinated outside his Jackson home.more More Arrow

Hand-scrawled racist note
UC Irvine Black Student Targeted with Racist Note
by Associated Press
May 17, 2013 - University of California, Irvine officials pledged to work on race relations on campus after a Black student found a hand-scrawled note in her backpack calling her a slave, making it the second racist incident that has offended Black students in recent weeks.more More Arrow

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