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Community Fears Investigation After Death of Black Man Found Hanging in Alabama
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Community Fears Investigation After Death of Black Man Found Hanging in Alabama

Associated Press  

Local sheriff requests FBI investigation into death of Black man found hanging in Alabama. The sheriff's office ruled the man's death a suicide, but his wife claims he was murdered due to a lawsuit he filed against the local police department. The community is highly skeptical of the ruling and is demanding an investigation by the FBI. The case has …

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Al Sharpton to deliver eulogy for Black man who died after being held down by Milwaukee hotel guards
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Al Sharpton to deliver eulogy for Black man who died after being held down by Milwaukee hotel guards

Associated Press  

MILWAUKEE — The Rev. Al Sharpton is scheduled deliver a eulogy for a Black man who died last month after being pinned to the ground by hotel security guards in Milwaukee, his office said Tuesday. The death of D’Vontaye Mitchell has drawn comparisons to the murder of George Floyd, a Black man killed in 2020 after a white police officer …

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In death, 3 decades after his trial verdict, O.J. Simpson still reflects America’s racial divides
8 months, 1 week ago

In death, 3 decades after his trial verdict, O.J. Simpson still reflects America’s racial divides

Associated Press  

For many people old enough to remember O.J. “But there are people who don’t want us to learn from our past.” During the trial, African Americans were four times as likely to presume Simpson was innocent or being set up by the police, said UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt, who at the time was a young sociologist …

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How Black women coined the ‘say her name’ rallying cry before Biden’s State of the Union address
9 months, 2 weeks ago

How Black women coined the ‘say her name’ rallying cry before Biden’s State of the Union address

Associated Press  

Marjorie Taylor Greene wore a T-shirt to Thursday night’s State of the Union address that carried a seemingly simple message: Say Her Name. However, Greene used the rallying cry to successfully goad President Joe Biden into saying the name Laken Riley, a nursing student from Georgia whose death is now at the center of U.S. immigration debate. Black women are …

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Body of missing Margaret Mbitu found in a Boston airport parking garage as police say murder suspect fled to Kenya
1 year, 1 month ago

Body of missing Margaret Mbitu found in a Boston airport parking garage as police say murder suspect fled to Kenya

Daily Mail  

The body of a missing woman was found murdered in a car at a Boston airport parking garage as police say the suspected killer fled to Kenya. The remains of Margaret 'Maggie' Mbitu, 31 - who was last seen on October 30 around 11 pm - was found inside a car at the garage around 6:30pm Wednesday, police said. The …

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What Happens After You Eat The Sourest Candy In The World? This Video Is The Answer
1 year, 2 months ago

What Happens After You Eat The Sourest Candy In The World? This Video Is The Answer

News 18  

Food challenges are fun, but sometimes such fun activities can make tears run down your eyes. Well, some people try out ways to avoid the shudder-worthy sourness, while others go a bit more extreme than one can imagine and taste the ‘sourest candy in the world’. A social media content creator went above and beyond to test out the Mr …

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Justice Department investigating Memphis police practices after Tyre Nichols death
1 year, 4 months ago

Justice Department investigating Memphis police practices after Tyre Nichols death

LA Times  

Gen. Kristen Clarke discusses the investigation into the Memphis, Tenn., Police Department at a news conference Thursday. The U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday it is investigating the patterns and practices of the Police Department in Memphis, Tenn., nearly seven months after the violent beating of Tyre Nichols by five officers after a traffic stop. Clarke said that in even …

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3 ex-officers indicted in death of Black man seen on video being shocked with stun guns
1 year, 6 months ago

3 ex-officers indicted in death of Black man seen on video being shocked with stun guns

Associated Press  

— A Mississippi grand jury has indicted two former police officers on murder charges and another ex-officer on a manslaughter charge in the death of a Black man seen on video being pinned down and repeatedly shocked with stun guns during a New Year’s eve arrest. Officials in the state capital of Jackson released body camera footage Wednesday that showed …

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Army sergeant sentenced to 25 years in Black Lives Matter death
1 year, 7 months ago

Army sergeant sentenced to 25 years in Black Lives Matter death

Al Jazeera  

Daniel Perry, a US army sergeant stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, had been found guilty of murder in a 2020 shooting. A Texas state district court has sentenced a United States army sergeant to 25 years in prison on Wednesday, after he was found guilty last month of killing a Black Lives Matter protester. In her remarks, she addressed Perry …

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‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ movie review: A glorious, poignant tribute worthy of a superhero spectacle
2 years, 1 month ago

‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ movie review: A glorious, poignant tribute worthy of a superhero spectacle

The Hindu  

Apart from being a heartfelt and organic tribute to the immensely talented and profoundly missed Chadwick Boseman, who passed away in 2020 of colon cancer, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever also checks all the MCU’s DNA markers. The 30th film in the MCU and a sequel to 2018’s extraordinary Black Panther,.Wakanda Forever is gloriously thrilling, lithe and light on its feet …

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Gene helped overcome the Black Death, may put us at risk now
2 years, 1 month ago

Gene helped overcome the Black Death, may put us at risk now

The Hindu  

The second biggest pandemic of plague, the Black Death, wiped out almost half the population of Europe and North Africa. Having searched for genetic adaptation related to the plague, scientists found that the Black Death was a powerful selection force that altered genetic diversity associated with the immune system. The study, which comprised researchers from McMaster University, the University of …

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Scientists reveal how Black Death may have influenced evolution of human genes
2 years, 2 months ago

Scientists reveal how Black Death may have influenced evolution of human genes

The Independent  

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Officer convicted of manslaughter in Black motorist’s death
2 years, 3 months ago

Officer convicted of manslaughter in Black motorist’s death

Associated Press  

PHILADELPHIA — A white Philadelphia police officer was convicted Wednesday of voluntary manslaughter and a weapons charge in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black motorist shot six seconds after the officer arrived on the scene. Officer Eric Ruch Jr. told jurors he feared for his life when he fired at Dennis Plowden Jr. as the 25-year-old sat on a …

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Cyrus Mistry Death: Amid Experts’ Call for Consistent Road Design, Crash Site May be Declared ‘Black Spot’
2 years, 3 months ago

Cyrus Mistry Death: Amid Experts’ Call for Consistent Road Design, Crash Site May be Declared ‘Black Spot’

News 18  

The section of the highway in which former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry died in a car accident on Sunday will likely be declared a “black spot” by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. According to the Ministry, road accident black spot is a stretch of National Highway of about 500 meters in length in which either five accidents …

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Will monkeypox become a pandemic?
2 years, 4 months ago

Will monkeypox become a pandemic?

Slate  

This story originally appeared on OpenMind, a digital magazine tackling science controversies and deceptions. But the Black Death, uniquely virulent and transmissible, burned across Europe, eastern and central Asia, the Muslim world, North Africa, and Russia for seven years. Ebola, a deadly virus spread by exposure to blood and other bodily fluids, isn’t a pandemic threat because it doesn’t have …

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New analysis sheds light on mysterious source of Black Death
2 years, 6 months ago

New analysis sheds light on mysterious source of Black Death

CNN  

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory newsletter. Genome sequencing of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis, found in teeth exhumed from two grave sites in what’s now Kyrgyzstan, may have solved the riddle of the Black Death’s mysterious origins. Some stars in the Milky Way have strange and unexpected “tsunami-like” starquakes, new data from the European Space …

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Explained: The origins of Black Death, the deadliest pandemic recorded in history
2 years, 6 months ago

Explained: The origins of Black Death, the deadliest pandemic recorded in history

Firstpost  

Researchers say they have pinpointed the source of the plague to a region of Kyrgyzstan after analysing DNA from remains at an ancient burial site A deadly pandemic with mysterious origins: it might sound like a modern headline, but scientists have spent centuries debating the source of the Black Death that devastated the medieval world. Slavin, an associate professor at …

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700-year-old Mystery Behind Origin of 'Black Death' May Finally Have Been Solved
2 years, 6 months ago

700-year-old Mystery Behind Origin of 'Black Death' May Finally Have Been Solved

News 18  

Researchers have claimed that they have solved the nearly 700-year-old mystery of the origins of the deadliest pandemic in recorded history, the Black Death, also called bubonic plague. We found not only the ancestor of the Black Death, but the ancestor of the majority of the plague strains that are circulating in the world today.” Further research revealed the sites …

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Ancient DNA solves mystery over origin of medieval Black Death
2 years, 6 months ago

Ancient DNA solves mystery over origin of medieval Black Death

Hindustan Times  

Ancient DNA from bubonic plague victims buried in cemeteries on the old Silk Road trade route in Central Asia has helped solve an enduring mystery, pinpointing an area in northern Kyrgyzstan as the launching point for the Black Death that killed tens of millions of people in the mid-14th century. "Our finding that the Black Death originated in Central Asia …

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Place where Black Death emerged is discovered after more than 600 years
2 years, 6 months ago

Place where Black Death emerged is discovered after more than 600 years

The Independent  

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‘Black Death’ may not have killed half of Europe as previously believed, study finds
2 years, 10 months ago

‘Black Death’ may not have killed half of Europe as previously believed, study finds

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Historians have long held that the “Black Death” wreaked havoc across Europe, west Asia and …

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Like COVID-19, the Black Death had its own 'truther' movement too
2 years, 11 months ago

Like COVID-19, the Black Death had its own 'truther' movement too

Raw Story  

While the COVID-19 pandemic has been an inflection point of modern history, it is nowhere close to being the deadliest pandemic in human history. That dubious distinction belongs to the infamous "Black Death," a bubonic plague that swept through Europe and the Near East in the mid-14th century. Yet the Black Death is not often mentioned in reference or in …

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Attacks on Black transgender women are rising, advocacy groups say
3 years, 6 months ago

Attacks on Black transgender women are rising, advocacy groups say

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Watch “United Shades of America,” Sundays at 10 pm ET on CNN. I said, ‘Well, how the hell are you going to do that?’” she told W. Kamau Bell, host of the CNN original series “United Shades of America,” which explores the challenges facing Black trans women in Sunday’s episode. “If you are transgender, if you’re Black or …

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Louisiana gambling board leader resigns before Senate vote
3 years, 6 months ago

Louisiana gambling board leader resigns before Senate vote

Associated Press  

— Louisiana’s gambling regulatory chief Mike Noel told the governor Wednesday that he’s resigning, preempting a Senate confirmation hearing where Noel could have been questioned about his State Police work during the fatal arrest of a Black man whose death remains under investigation. The Democratic governor’s spokesperson Christina Stephens didn’t respond to questions about why Noel was leaving the post, …

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