Martin Luther King Jr. is shown standing on balcony of Lorraine Motel in Memphis with (l-r) Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson and Ralph Abernathy on April 3, 1968.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was on the balcony with King when the shot rang out, shared with BET News the details leading up to King’s last moments with [...]

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From the place that gave us the Beatles. They must be real bored in Liverpool: Police are hunting a gang who filmed themselves speeding along a motorway at 134mph in a high-performance Jaguar.
The gang - who dub themselves Liverpool Jaguar Boyz - took the footage on a mobile phone and posted it on video sharing [...]

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It is evident that race plays a factor in coverage.
JACKSON, Miss. — The newly named chief of Mississippi’s largest police force says race is among the reasons the case of a missing Jackson State University student hasn’t received national media attention. Latasha Norman, who is black, was last seen Nov. 13 in [...]

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Great police work. Those guys can’t even tell a black guy from a white guy. You gotta love Florida.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A bad case of mistaken identity in Orange County should have been as clear as black and white. Anthony Johnson, an African American, was convicted of felony drug possession. Andrew Johnson, a [...]

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A Fox 5 exclusive: investigative team has obtained pictures involving a local police lieutenant who is already in hot water.
Lt. Andriani is currently on an extended vacation and has not been suspended from the force. Lt. Andriani called Wednesday afternoon and said that no laws were broken because the photos were [...]

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If this was a Rudi postcard his political career would be over.
A RACIALLY insensitive moment from Bill Clinton’s boyhood is coming back to haunt him. It’s a postcard the future president sent his grandma Edith Cassidy in 1966 showing a black youth eagerly polishing a gigantic watermelon, titled “Hope, Arkansas - Home of the [...]

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JENA, La. - A video in which rapper-actor Mos Def asked students around the country to walk out Oct. 1 to support the “Jena Six” escaped comment by this town’s mayor. But when John Mellencamp sang, “Jena, take your nooses down,” he took issue.
“The town of Jena has for months been mischaracterized in the media [...]

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O’HARA TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A third possible incident of racial workplace intimidation in the Pittsburgh area this week was reported on Thursday morning. Errol Madyun told WTAE Channel 4 Action News reporter Ari Hait that he found a noose on Wednesday at the construction site where he’s working in O’Hara Township.Madyun said the site had [...]

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HOUSTON - — No sooner did thousands of African American demonstrators depart the racially tense town of Jena, La., last week after protesting perceived injustices than white supremacists started calling for violence.
First a neo-Nazi website posted the names, addresses and phone numbers of some of the six black teenagers and their families at the center [...]

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Four teenagers have been charged with a hate crime, accused of the beating and attempted drowning of a black college student at Haulover Beach Park Marina over the weekend. After calling him the N-word, the teens beat Florida International University freshman Stephen Barrett with a baseball bat and tried to drown him in the Intracoastal [...]

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