By SALEH MWANAMILONGO, Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Another person has died in Congo of a confirmed case of Ebola, bringing the number of fatalities from the latest outbreak to 12, the country’s health ministry said Sunday. The death happened in Iboko, a rural area in northwestern Equateur province, the health ministry said in […]
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Civils Rights Activists Rally Outside of NFL Headquarters
By RALPH D. RUSSO, AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Civil rights activists protested outside NFL headquarters Friday, calling on team owners to overturn their new national anthem policy and urging a boycott of the league and its sponsors. About 50 people gathered at the midtown Manhattan office building for a rally organized by […]
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Civil Rights Historians Tell Little Known Story of Black WWII Vet
By CHRISTINA L. MYERS, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Hours after leaving military service behind in 1946, a decorated African-American World War II veteran still wearing his uniform was removed from a Greyhound bus while heading home, beaten by a White South Carolina police chief and left permanently blind. Sgt. Isaac Woodard’s brutal encounter […]
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Opposition to Sale of Historic Reconstruction Chapel to Episcopal Church
By The Associated Press PORT ROYAL, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina town plans to sell a Reconstruction era church building it owns to an Episcopal congregation who has worshipped there for nearly a decade. But volunteers who raised money and spent time restoring Union Church after the dilapidated building was sold to Port Royal […]
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Iconic BET Exec Leaving Network
By Lenore T. Adkins/Special to the AFRO Debra Lee, chairman and chief executive officer of BET Networks, is leaving the company after spending 32 years there, Lee announced May 25. Her last day is May 28. The Hollywood Reporter reported that Lee won’t be replaced and that her departure comes months after she shifted her […]
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Community Protests Death of Marcus-David Peters in Fatal Police Shooting
By DENISE LAVOIE, Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — More than 200 people turned out for a community meeting Saturday to protest the death of a young Black man who was fatally shot by a Virginia police officer after he ran naked onto an interstate highway. Speakers at the meeting at Richmond’s Second Baptist Church […]
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Burkina Faso Resumes Ties With China After Taiwan Break
By The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The West African Nation of Burkina Faso formally resumed diplomatic ties with China on Saturday after breaking off relations with Taiwan, which now has just 18 diplomatic allies. Burkina Faso’s decision was the latest blow to Taiwan, a self-governing democracy that Beijing claims as its own territory and […]
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Morgan Freeman Says He Did Not Assault Women
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Morgan Freeman says he likes to compliment people to make them feel at ease around him but that he has never sexually assaulted women. The Academy Award-winning actor is fighting back against charges of bad behavior made by multiple women in a CNN report this […]
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Ebola Vaccinations Begin in Rural Congo on Monday: Ministry
By SALEH MWANAMILONGO, Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Ebola vaccinations will begin Monday in the two rural areas of Congo where the latest deadly outbreak was declared this month, the health ministry said Saturday, as the number of confirmed Ebola cases rose to 35, including 10 deaths. A vaccination campaign is already under way […]
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Students Hand Back in Yearbook After Racial Slur is Pictured
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Students at a coastal Georgia high school are being asked to hand back in their yearbooks after an anti-Black slur made for some bad memories. The Savannah-Chatham County school district tells news outlets that the publisher has recalled the Windsor Forest High School yearbook because one image shows a student holding […]
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George Zimmerman Tells Court he’s $2.5 Million in Debt
By The Associated Press SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The ex-neighborhood watch volunteer who killed a Black teen in Florida in 2012 says he’s $2.5 million in debt and has no income. George Zimmerman filed paperwork detailing his financial state as he fights a misdemeanor stalking charge. In this Sept. 13, 2016, file photo, George Zimmerman […]
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Footage Shows Fatal Shooting of Marcus-David Peters by Richmond Police
By SARAH RANKIN, Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Body-camera video released Friday of the fatal police shooting of a Virginia man shows him emerge naked from a car and dash onto a highway, where he flails erratically before running toward the officer while shouting threats. Richmond police Chief Alfred Durham asked the community for […]