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U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 10:50pm neoform

BBC News -- A former Ku Klux Klan member has been convicted by a US jury of kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with the 1964 murder of two black teenagers. James Seale, 71, a former labourer and police officer, denied killing Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hez.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 23, 2007 @ 11:26am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- In the cool and beflagged small courtroom in Jena, Louisiana, three black schoolboys - Robert Bailey, Theodore Shaw and Mychal Bell - are about to go on trial for a playground fight that could see them jailed for between 30 and 50 years. Jena, about 22.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 18, 2007 @ 11:07am neoform

Washington Post -- Lawyers for former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal argued in an appeals court Thursday that racism by a judge and prosecutors corrupted the 1982 trial at which he was condemned for killing a white police officer. Abu-Jamal, 53, once a radio reporter, has.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 24, 2007 @ 10:11am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- A potentially explosive dispute in the City Too Busy to Hate is taking shape over a proposal to break Fulton County in two and split off Atlanta's predominantly white, affluent suburbs to the north from some of the metropolitan area's poorest, black nei.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Dec 18, 2006 @ 11:33am mrmdc

Reuters -- Black New Yorkers angry over the police shooting death of a groom on his wedding day marched down Fifth Avenue on Saturday to demand better treatment by law officers... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Dec 10, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- Five months after being convicted of fraud and obstructing justice, former media tycoon Conrad Black is due in court for sentencing later. The maximum sentence for Black's crimes - whose guilty verdict the British peer is appealing - is 35 years. Bu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 8, 2007 @ 10:37pm neoform

www.insidebayarea.com -- Sprawled on his stomach outside a gas station in Golden Valley, Minn., Al Hixon had a police officer's boot planted on his neck and pepper spray shot deep into his nostrils, scorching his lungs. Moments earlier, Hixon had been pouring oil into his blue Ja.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Sep 30, 2007 @ 5:25pm neoform

New York Times -- THE police officer had not asked my name or my business before grabbing my wrists, jerking my hands high behind my back and slamming my head into the hood of his cruiser. “You have no right to put your hands on me!” I shouted lamely. “This is.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 19, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

USA Today -- In some ways, this town is still the same rural community it was a half-century ago, before integration pushed blacks and whites together in schools, workplaces and neighborhoods. African-Americans, who are a little more than a tenth of the town's near.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 14, 2007 @ 10:00am neoform

Associated Press -- Representatives of several black churches appealed to prosecutors Thursday to pursue hate-crime or civil-rights charges against six white people accused of torturing a black woman over several days. Logan County prosecutors say they have not ruled out.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 30, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

USA Today -- Of all the images of the civil rights movement, one of the most chilling is a photo of a black teenager in a shirtwaist dress and sunglasses walking through a screaming white mob. Since it was taken Sept. 4, 1957, Elizabeth Eckford has been the face of th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 10, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

Washington Post -- In a city where murder has taken on an element of routine, the shotgun slaying of Chauncey Bailey, in broad daylight by a young man who allegedly stood over the fallen journalist and pumped a second blast into his face, has galvanized Oakland as no single.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jul 11, 2007 @ 8:30pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Two black shoppers have sued Toys "R" Us saying they were subjected to racial discrimination and unjustified scrutiny at a store in New York. Patricia Drayton and Valerie Kirk said in the lawsuit that the store in The Bronx, a borough of New York City,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 27, 2007 @ 2:12pm neoform

Washington Post -- Black students in Montgomery and Fairfax high schools are far more successful in Advanced Placement testing than their peers in nine of the 10 school systems in the nation with the largest black populations, according to a Washington Post analysis. Par.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 10:46pm neoform

CNN -- A jury on Thursday convicted reputed Klansman James Ford Seale of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of two black teenagers in southwest Mississippi, grisly drownings that went unpunished before federal prosecutors re-examined the forgotten case.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 13, 2007 @ 12:29am neoform

CNN -- Defense lawyers at Conrad Black's criminal fraud trial wrapped up their case on Tuesday after the one-time media baron and three co-defendants turned down a last chance to take the stand in their own defense. The defense presentation, which lasted less.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 30, 2007 @ 11:05pm neoform

BBC News -- A former Ku Klux Klan member charged with kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with the 1964 murders of two black teenagers has gone on trial. James Seale, 71, denies killing Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee. The former sheriff's deputy.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 9:15pm neoform

CNN -- Black, Hispanic and white drivers are equally likely to be pulled over by police, but blacks and Hispanics are much more likely to be searched and arrested, a federal study found. Police were much more likely to threaten or use force against blacks and.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue Mar 27, 2007 @ 2:29pm neoform

Alter Net -- Democratic presidential candidates crave the Latino and black vote, but ignore the Drug War's unfair toll on people of color. There is a subject being forgotten in the 2008 Democratic race for the White House. While all the major candidates are vyin.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Mon Mar 19, 2007 @ 9:31am neoform

Alter Net -- Battles between the city's black and Latino gangs are the outcome of a dismal racial and economic situation. These days, Chris Bowers wakes up every morning to a vivid reminder that crossing borders can get you killed in South LA's Harbor Gateway area... Read More