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  This post comes from Huffington Post. It was written by Charlotte Alfred. By: Charlotte Alfred On the night of April 14, 2014, hundreds of schoolgirls at the Chibok boarding school in northeastern Nigeria awoke to the sound of gunfire. They saw men in camouflage approaching and thought soldiers were coming to save them from […]

  In an emotional message, the wife of former Ravens running back Ray Rice broke her silence Tuesday after Rice’s contract was terminated with the NFL. The events followed the release of a graphic video surfacing that shows Rice punching his then-fiancee, Janay Palmer. The couple has been in counseling since the February incident. 

The following post is from the Chicago Reader. It was written by Steve Bogira. By: Steve Bogira e many Chicagoans, Latoya Winters was stunned by the fatal shooting of 11-year-old Shamiya Adams at a sleepover in July. Shamiya and several friends were in the bedroom of a home in West Garfield Park. They were circled […]

Chicago’s Jackie Robinson West Little League team advanced to earn a spot in the U.S. championship game after beating Taney of Philadelphia (6-5) on Thursday.

  NBA player Ray Allen is calling out the Coral Gables (Fl) police for their handling of a home invasion. A group of teenagers broke into the Allens home in the early morning hours of August 14. Allen’s wife and children were in the home. Allen’s wife woke up to see the group of teenagers […]

  The mother of a 5-year-old Memphis, Tennessee child says her daughter was punched in the face by her kindergarten teacher. Tiffany McConnell, says her daughter Payton was punched by her teacher after requesting to use the bathroom for a second time. 

Jurors have begun deliberating in the trial of a suburban Detroit man charged with second-degree murder for fatally shooting an unarmed teen outside his home last year. Theodore Wafer, 55, shot and killed Renisha McBride as she banged on his front door in the early hours of Nov. 2. 

  Residents of a South Carolina town say they woke up to candy from the Ku Klux Klan on their front lawns. Individuals who reside in an Oconee County subdivision found the bags between Saturday night and Sunday morning. 

  A Michigan teacher was suspended, and later reinstated after teaching a lesson on Blackface. Al Barron teaches at Monroe Middle School, and is set to retire in two weeks. Administrators deemed his lesson to be inappropriate. 

Members of the NYPD have barged into James Jordan Sr.’s family home looking for him more than a dozen times. Jordan Sr. has been dead for 8 years, and despite his family members posting his death certificate on the front door, police are still invading their home. 

A Pennsylvania chapter of the Ku Klux Klan launched a neighborhood watch group in the area of Ridge Road in Fairview Township. The hate group formed the committee in response to a series of recent break-ins in the neighborhood, said Frank Ancona, the organization’s imperial wizard and president. 

Semen matching former NFL star Darren Sharper’s DNA was found on the leggings of one of his alleged rape victims in Arizona. The findings came during testimony from a Tempe police detective on Wednesday.