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Politics can make strange bedfellows with Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan finding a commonality in Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump.

Protesters took to the streets Monday night after police shot and seriously injured a 17-year-old Somali refugee in Salt Lake City, the Associated Press reports. 

A Raleigh, North Carolina police officer has been placed on administrative duty pending the investigation of the shooting death of a young black man, who was wanted on a warrant, ABC 11 reports.

Super Tuesday 2016 will soon be gone. Barring either 1) a miraculous influx of cash from donors with next to nothing else to give their money to (in which case, I would like to point them toward my IRS bill because the feds are absolutely not playing with me this year) or 2) a decision by one of the 11 states holding Republican primaries or caucuses today to throw some delegates his way—which almost every reputable poll indicates will not happen­—we are more than likely in the sunset era of the Ben Carson for President campaign. Читать дальше...

Police in Beaumont, Texas, arrested a white man and were questioning others after an allegedly racially charged shooting at the campaign headquarters of Jefferson County, Texas, sheriff candidate Zena Stephens, who is black, KMBT reports.

On Thursday, a Montgomery, Ala., police officer shot and killed Greg Gunn, 58, steps away from Gunn’s home. On Monday, Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange and Police Chief Ernest Finley held a press conference, where Gunn’s brother Franklin Gunn asked them both for five minutes. Five minutes, he said, that had his brother been afforded the night he was killed might have saved his life.

Prince William County Police Officer Ashley Guindon, 28, completed her official ceremony to join the Virginia force Friday and was working her first full shift Saturday when she responded to a domestic violence call with two other officers. When Guindon and her fellow officers arrived at the front door, “the subject opened fire,” Prince William County Police Chief Steve Hudson told USA Today.

Tristan Walker grew up on the hardscrabble streets of the Queens, New York, neighborhoods of Jamaica and Flushing, but he’s found a home in Palo Alto, Calif. He loves his native Gotham, but he’s now a Palo Alto man for one very compelling reason. 

Why another slavery narrative? One TV show cast is asking, “Why not?”

It's Super Tuesday. Here we are getting closer to locking in presidential nominations, and Donald Trump is still out here Trumping, still spewing hatred, and people are still getting slammed at his rallies.

So which one will it be, folks? If you're voting on the Democractic side are you going for Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton? Who really has the interests of the black electorate at heart? A lot is at stake when in 2016, 31 percent of the eligible voters will either be black or Hispanic.

I’ve long been of two minds about Kevin Hart.