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(Photos: Twitter\YouTube) “It’s on us to listen, to speak out, and to take action. Not because women are our mothers, sisters, wives or friends—but because women are people. And all people deserve to control their own bodies.” —Sen. Cory Booker Exa...
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& Back with her first Dallas-based show in two years, international couture designer Ese Grembowski of Ese Azenabor shows Dallas her newest collections at her brand new showroom in the design district. Bridal looks from Ese Azenabor’s 2022...
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By Steven Monacelli & It isn’t everyday that environmental advocates who have filed lawsuits against the City of Dallas engage in a public dialogue with city officials. But that’s exactly what happened on April 23 inside the Kay Bailey Hutchison...
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While honoring the two, the WHCA failed to acknowledge National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., who inexplicably was seated in the back of the room out of the view of most attendees including fami...
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(Photos: Earth.com\Twitter) We don’t need, indeed can’t tolerate, any more Earth Days during which we salve our consciences and then go back to a world that is grossly and unsustainably over-populated, fantastically littered with thousand-year plasti...
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(Photos: Facebook\Twitter) On Thursday, in a conversation with Black Star News publisher, Milton Allimadi, we talked about the police penchant to lie, particularly in cases where they kill or murder innocent Black people. And by Friday, when the Gran...
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The Dallas Arboretum announces the second annual Black Heritage Celebration (BHC), presented by Bank of America, taking place on Saturday, May 14 and Sunday, May 15. The weekend will place the spotlight on the unique talents, art and businesses fro...
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(Photos: Wikimedia Commons\Twitter) It's May Day, a day loved and hated by many. It's ancient, a pagan celebration of what was regarded as the first day of summer, focusing on flowers, Aphrodite, and Dionysus. In other words, a balling good time...
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(Photos: Twitter\ScreenshotYouTube) Whatever horror I felt watching the March 1991 tape of Los Angeles Police officers fracturing Rodney King’s skull, breaking his teeth and bones and causing him permanent brain damage was partially offset by a sense...
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(Photo/Twitter) Crosley Green, a wrongfully convicted man who spent 32 years in prison, may have to go back after a higher court reinstated his conviction. Crosley was convicted in 1990 of murdering 22-year-old Charles Flynn.There was no physical evi...
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(Photo/Twitter) A rediscovered rape kit has freed a man after 15 years of wrongful imprisonment, giving 35-year-old Terance Calhoun a new lease on life.Calhoun was initially scheduled for exoneration Friday afternoon, but the hearing was adjourned du...
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(Photo: Law and Crime) Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Roger Handberg for the Middle District of Florida announced today that a federal grand jury in Tampa, Florida, returned a two-count indict...
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(Photos: ACLU\Screenshot) The horrific death of Patrick Lyoya at the hands of a Grand Rapids police officer was not just preventable, it was predictable. GRPD has a long history of racist policing.The department relies on an enforcement-only approac...
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By: Pamela Denise LongThe Coalition of Concerned Freedmen is a voluntary association of 2nd through 20th+ generation descendants of U.S. slaves committed to delivery on the promise of a comprehensive package of reparations for slavery and robust poli...
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(Photos: Facebook\ACLU) Civic and youth leaders in Mississippi sued the state this week, challenging district lines that dilute the voting power of Black residents in state Supreme Court elections, a violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the...
