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Lawsuit filed to block Obama Presidential Center in Chicago

June 19, 2018

Crusader Staff Report The Chicago Crusader Days before the Chicago Plan Commission approved plans for the Obama Presidential Center, a federal lawsuit was filed to block the proposed $500 million facility that will be built in Jackson Park. The 500-acre park is located in Chicago’s predominately Black

Susan Rice joins Netflix’s board

May 22, 2018

Special to the Outlook Netflix, Inc., the world’s leading Internet-service company, has named Susan M. Rice, former Ambassador to the United Nations and former U.S. National Security Advisor, to its board of directors. “We are delighted to welcome Ambassador Rice to the Netflix board,” said Reed Hastings,

Rapper Meek Mill calls for criminal justice reform

May 22, 2018

By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Contributor Rapper Meek Mill sat down with NBC’s Lester Holt to talk about his experiences in the criminal justice system for a Dateline interview that aired on Sunday, May 6. “I had eight years of probation that turned [into] 16 years of

Black jobless rate was 6.60 percent in April, the lowest since 1972, but…

May 22, 2018

Special to the Outlook April’s jobless rate for Black men and Black women improved to 6.60 percent, down from 6.90 percent in March as the nonfarm business payroll increased by 164,000, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported May 4. The jobless rate for Blacks was the

Museum memorializing Black lynching victims opens in Montgomery, Alabama

May 22, 2018

By Frederick H. Lowe Trice Edney News Wire The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum has opened to teach American history never published in textbooks. The museum is a memorial to the documented 4,400 African-Americans murdered in lynchings, which included beatings, drownings and

Black male hero disarms man who murdered four with AR-15 rifle

May 7, 2018

By Frederick H. Lowe Trice Edney News Wire After watching WGN television news in Chicago on this past Sunday show mugshot after mugshot of Black men either under arrest or wanted by police, it was exciting to see a photo, not a mugshot, of James Shaw, Jr., a 29

Judge O’Neill’s impartiality questioned in Bill Cosby hearing

April 11, 2018

NNPA NEWSWIRE SPECIAL REPORTING: The Bill Cosby Trial By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Contributor NORRISTOWN—Two days of hearings in the Bill Cosby retrial got off to a rough start, as the judge chastised defense attorneys for the way they’ve filed paperwork with the court. Judge Steven O’Neill, who

Linda Brown, plaintiff in Landmark School desegregation case, has died

April 11, 2018

By Frederick H. Lowe Trice Edney Newswire Linda Brown, the named plaintiff in the 1954 landmark civil rights case “Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka” in which the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the nation’s public schools to desegregate, has died. Ms. Brown died Sunday, March 25, in Topeka,

Stephon Clark remembered by loved ones as activists call for justice

April 11, 2018

By Genoa Barrow Trice Edney News Wire SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Having come together to mourn Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old Black father killed by Sacramento police officers on March 18, many funeral goers voiced the common refrain, “that could have been my son.” Veteran activist Rev. Al Sharpton echoed the sentiment

Clark autopsy reveals he was shot in the back six times

April 11, 2018

Sacramento Observer Staff Report SACRAMENTO, Calif.– The eight bullets that struck unarmed Stephon Clark hit him in the back or side, and none came from the front, clearly refuting the contention by police that Clark was moving toward them when they gunned him down. Those are the findings of an