By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — After battling for more than four years to keep a comatose daughter declared brain dead from being issued a California death certificate, Nailah Winkfield forcefully told mourners at her daughter’s funeral service Friday to stop letting doctors “pull the plug on your people.” The San Francisco […]
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Family: University Must Disarm Officers After Fatality
By The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The family of a Black man who was fatally shot by Portland State University campus police on Friday demanded that the university immediately disarm its campus officers. Jason Erik Washington was shot on June 29 while trying to break up a fight outside a bar near the […]
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White Man Quits After Calling Police on Black Woman at Pool
By The Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A White man who challenged a Black family’s right to use the neighborhood pool has resigned from a homeowners’ association board in North Carolina. Screenshot from video taken by Jasmine Edwards (Facebook) A video recorded by Jasmine Edwards on July 4, seen more than 4 million times […]
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$1.1M Awarded to Preserve African-American Historic Sites
By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Grants totaling $1.1 million will help support important African-American heritage sites including the homes of jazz musician John Coltrane and playwright August Wilson, a Virginia location central to the slave trade and civil rights locations in Birmingham, a preservation group announced Friday. The money from the […]
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Mother: Caring for Girl Amid Brain-Death Debate ‘Worth It’
By The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The mother of a girl at the center of a medical and religious debate over brain death said she does not regret moving from California to New Jersey so her daughter could receive care after being declared dead. Nailah Winkfield told reporters Tuesday that she gave up […]
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Indiana GOP Leaders Call on AG to Resign Amid Groping Claims
By BRIAN SLODYSKO, Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and the two GOP Statehouse leaders have called for Republican Attorney General Curtis Hill to resign amid what they say are credible claims that Hill drunkenly groped four women, including a lawmaker, at an Indianapolis bar. “Four women had the courage to step […]
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Therese Okoumou, Statue of Liberty Climber, Unrepentant
By TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An unrepentant protester who climbed the base of the Statue of Liberty on a busy Fourth of July in what prosecutors called a “dangerous stunt” pleaded not guilty on Thursday to misdemeanor trespassing and disorderly conduct. Activists, packed into a Manhattan courtroom, cheered when a federal […]
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Black Women Leaders Band Together on Behalf of Maxine Waters
Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com “Never get on a Black woman’s bad side,” are the wise words of anybody who’s ever found themselves on a Black woman’s bad side. Yet, for some reason or another, people will just keep testing Rep. Maxine Waters’ (D-CA) patience. She’s reclaimed her time, defended her honor and even […]
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West Point Gets 1st Black Superintendent in 216-Year History
Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams, a 1983 U.S. Military Academy graduate who has held high-ranking Army posts in Europe and Asia, will become the first black officer to command West Point in its 216-year history, academy officials announced Friday. Williams will assume command as the academy’s 60th superintendent during […]
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Laura Murphy Helps Online Organizations Fight Discrimination and Bias
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Civil Rights activist, crisis management expert and AFRO board member Laura Murphy has come to the rescue of online organizations who need a healthy dose of #BlackGirlMagic to identify, resolve and help avoid issues of discrimination and bias. Labeled the “Olivia Pope of the Tech World” in jest, […]
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Ndaba Mandela’s Memoir Reveals Lessons Learned from Madiba
By Lenore T. Adkins, Special to the AFRO “Always stay humble. Be a leader. Don’t drive a Jaguar because you don’t want people to know how wealthy you are.” Those are some of the critical lessons Ndaba Mandela, 35, learned during the 20 years he lived with his grandfather, Nelson Mandela, the first Black president of […]
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Mostly Black Fraternity Says Business Violated Civil Rights
By The Associated Press A fraternity hoping to rent a restaurant pavilion for a social event says in a lawsuit that the Alabama business refused because most of its members are black. The Tuscaloosa Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity made the allegations in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed last week against the […]