‘Race-switch’ Robbers Found Guilty On All Counts

By Selim Agar, Nypost.com The trio of black robbers who donned Hollywood-grade masks to appear Caucasian during the stickup of a Queens check cashing joint were found guilty on all counts in Brooklyn federal court today and each face life in prison. (…)Drawing their criminal inspiration from the Ben Affleck flick “The Town,” the crew…

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Ohio Organization Raising Funds to Buy George Zimmerman a New Gun

By Carrie Healey, TheGrio.com The Buckeye Firearms Foundation started a fund to buy George Zimmermann “a new gun and fight attacks on the Second Amendment.” (…) “This move to prevent Mr. Zimmerman from claiming his property is an unacceptable abuse of power,” the Buckeye Firearms Foundation wrote in their post. ”And the threats of federal…

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Oprah: Trayvon Martin The ‘Same Thing’ As Emmett Till

By Jack Mirkinson, HuffingtonPost.com In a brief clip that aired on Monday’s “Today”, Oprah Winfrey compared the killing of Trayvon Martin to that of Emmett Till, the young black boy whose brutal murderhelped fuel the civil rights movement. It was one of her first public comments about the case, which has seen African Americans and…

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Ku Klux Klan Recruits Members for Neighborhood Watch Program

Lilly Workneb, TheGrio.com Members of the Ku Klux Klan in Springfield, Mo. surprised some local residents with flyers in their front yard promoting a Klan-sponsored neighborhood watch program. The flyers were discovered by residents on Sunday morning, who woke up to find the piece of paper in a plastic bag and weighted down by a small rock…

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‘Fruitvale Station’ Shows Black Male Humanity

Jessie Washington, Huffington Post Oscar Grant did not deserve to die. This is the central message of “Fruitvale Station,” a film dramatizing the real-life case of the young unarmed black man shot in the back by a white police officer in 2009. It’s a common message, often heard in film and life in general. But…

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Zimmerman Verdict: 86 Percent of African Americans Disapprove

By: Jon Cohen, TheRoot.com,WashingtonPost.com African Americans have a mostly shared and sharply negative reaction to the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the not-guilty verdict in the resulting trial, while whites are far more divided, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. (…) Among African Americans, 87 percent say the shooting was unjustified; among whites,…

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2 Teens Rescue 5-yr-old Girl From Kidnapping

By:  NBC News, TheGrio.com A 5-year-old girl is safe after police said she was the victim of an apparent abduction. The search is on for her alleged abductor.  Joceyln Rojas had been playing outside her home when her mother was unable to find her. Police said two teenage boys on bicycles went searching for Rojas…

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Joining Together in Justice

By Charles Blow, New York Times Proponents of equality have reason to both cheer and cry this week…. One movement for equality [Gay Rights] had its spirits lifted and another [Civil Rights] had them crushed. But the truth is that these movements are not wholly dissimilar. All combatants for justice are cousins. Jim Crow and…

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Lil Wayne Puts Mountain Dew in Crisis Mode

By Tanzina Vega, New York Times How much street cred is too much? For executives at Mountain Dew, that may have been the question of the day on Monday, as the brand looked to move beyond a public relations embarrassment that had led it to end a multi-million-dollar endorsement deal with the rapper Lil Wayne. The brand severed…

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