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As I stood in the courtyard of Jackson State Prison in Georgia yesterday holding a prayer vigil for Troy Anthony Davis, I, like so many others held out hope for some sort of miracle. In the exact location where I joined Troy’s mother in 2008 when we received such a miracle 90 minutes before his […]
ATLANTA — After the Georgia Parole Board refused to grant a pardon for Troy Davis this past Thursday, they spared the life of a convicted killer and changed his sentence to life in prison hours before his scheduled execution. Samuel David Crowe was convicted of beating a store owner to death in 1988 and was […]
SAN ANTONIO — A longtime adviser to Gov. Rick Perry, upset over his abrupt firing at a Texas university, admitted Thursday he told staff he would surrender his office keys only if “anyone is man enough to take them” – all while brandishing a pocketknife in what police called a “nonthreatening” way. Huh? Perry Connects […]
JACKSONVILLE, Ark. — A couple featured on the first season of the MTV reality show “16 and Pregnant” have lost their child to the state and face criminal charges after officers serving a search warrant found their home was filled with feces, flies and maggots, police said Thursday. Young Girls Are Getting Pregnant To Appear […]
Airport security recently took to the afro of a Black Dallas woman after agents told her they had to check her hair for bombs. Isis Brantley was walking through Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport headed for Dallas when TSA Â officials ran her down just to check her hair. Click Here To See Video. See also:Â Natural Hair […]
Controversial television personality  and journalist Toure sat down with Dr. Boyce Watkins on CNN to debate the impact of director Tyler Perry’s movies on Black America, days after Perry was named Forbes magazine’s highest paid man in Hollywood. Dr. Watkins was casual with his examination, while Toure went in, telling CNN that Perry’s movies amount […]
The outpouring of support and grief for Troy Davis was visible across tv screens and the web in the last few weeks. But what was also visible though not as much on the surface, were the commenters glad to see an arguably innocent man be executed. Buzzfeed compiled a list of 15 of the most […]
Four men dressed as women were arrested Sunday for robbing a Florida fabric store after a clerk at the store said the men stuffed feathers, lace gloves, glitter tights and bra pads into their bags. The cross-dressing crooks fled from the the store with nearly $800 of stolen merchandise when the clerk confronted them, police said. […]
On June 16th, 1944, the United States put to rest the youngest person ever to be subjected to the death penalty. George Junius Stinney Jr. was only 14 when he was arrested and charged for allegedly murdering an 8 and an 11-year -old duo of white girls with a large railroad spike. The sheriff at […]
UPDATED (December 17, 2014): Seventy years after 14-year-old George Stinney became the youngest person in American history to be executed, he was “exonerated” today by a South Carolina judge who vacated his conviction. Judge Carmen T. Mullen wrote that her court “finds fundamental, Constitutional violations of due process exist in the 1944 prosecution of George Stinney, Jr. […]
From KYSDC Howard University students took to the streets to protest the execution of Troy Davis last night. 13 people including a professor were arrested in total. Read more here The students were told to move from the front of the White House to Lafayette Square. They refused to move and were then arrested. One […]
In the wake of several high-profile capital punishment cases, the death penalty is once again becoming a hot button political issue. And while the number of death sentences per year has dropped over the last decade, the data paints an interesting picture that demands heavy analysis from both sides of the issue. See also: Do You Agree […]
