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Shreveport NAACP Leaders Want Answers to Rash of Violence

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The NAACP held a community forum to talk about violence in Shreveport. Local chapter President Lloyd Thompson says he...

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Today in History: May 17th!

Brown v. Board of Education; Watergate, and more!

​Black Republicans: The RNC Gave Up on Us

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The RNC had pledged to make outreach to black voters a priority. But as staff dedicated to the effort quit, the committee has been slow to replace them, causing black Republicans to question their commitment to the effort.

If Republicans want to grow their support with black voters in 2016, they might want to start internally.

​Over the past few months, all the D.C. members of its black outreach team quit. And the committee only... MORE

​Racist Michelle Obama Cartoon Is Just Another Example of Conservatives’ Blatant Hypocrisy

​Michelle Obama has been plagued by racist depictions since before her husband won the White House and throughout his presidency. There was the infamous cover of the New Yorker picturing the first lady as an Afro-haired, machine gun-toting militant in combat boots giving her husband a fist bump, also known as a “terrorist fist jab.”

​Fuera de Serie, a Spanish magazine, superimposed an image of Michelle Obama onto a popular 1800 French painting of an enslaved woman with her right breast exposed...MORE
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[UPDATE] Shreveport police are looking for the man who robbed Capital One in the 4800 block of Line Avenue.

Just after 4 p.m., the suspect entered the bank and gave a teller a note demanding cash. He ran off on foot with an unknown amount of money, but he was captured on surveillance footage from the business... MORE
​JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A federal judge says Mississippi’s Cleveland school district must merge its high schools and middle schools to achieve racial desegregation. U.S. District Judge Debra Brown handed down the ruling late Friday, nearly a year after she held a week-long hearing on the subject... MORE

Come Inside the New African American History Museum (Photos) 

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​Police: Actor Wendell Pierce upset by politics, hits woman

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​ATLANTA (AP) - A discussion about politics upset actor Wendell Pierce so much that he followed a group of people to their hotel room, tried to force his way inside, hit a woman in the head and ripped the hood off of her hoodie, she told Atlanta police in a report released Monday.

Pierce gave police a different version of the early morning fracas at the Loews Atlanta Hotel early Saturday morning.

Pierce acknowledged following the group to their room after the ... MORE

​Memorial Day Events Planned in Shreveport Bossier

Memorial Day is the traditional start of summer in our country. But we also should know this is a day to remember those men and women who have died to protect our country... MORE
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​Photo controversy highlights black women in Long Gray Line

Self-expression is hardly a part of life for cadets at the United States Military Academy.

So it was far from ordinary when 16 black women put their own spin on the traditional graduation photo, hoisting their fists in the air while posing in their dress uniforms, swords at their sides.

A social media firestorm followed. So did an internal inquiry at the school.

Some viewed the cadets' pose as a gesture of racial solidarity and strength. Others questioned whether it was... MORE
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In this photo taken May 13, 2016, Mary Tobin, wearing her West Point class ring, poses for picture in Washington, Friday, May 13, 2016. Self-expression is hardly a part of life for cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Tobin, who has mentored other black women cadets since graduating in 2003, said the experience is one rarely discussed publicly. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

​World's Oldest Person Dies in New York at Age 116

Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world's oldest person, has died in New York at age 116.

​Jones, who was affectionately known by family and neighbors as Miss Susie, died Thursday night at a public housing facility for seniors in Brooklyn where she had lived for more than three decades, according to Robert Young, a senior consultant for the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group... MORE

​US gives directive to schools on transgender bathroom access

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Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division listens at left as Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, May 9, 2016. North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory's administration sued the federal government Monday in a fight for a state law that limits protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Public schools must permit transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity, according to an Obama administration directive issued amid a court fight between the federal government and North Carolina.

The guidance from leaders at the departments of Education and Justice says public schools are obligated to treat transgender students in a way that matches their gender identity, even if their education records or identity documents indicate a different sex... MORE

​Donald Trump butler posts Obama death threats on Facebook

Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump's butler has called for President Obama to be killed, according to a post on his Facebook page on Wednesday.

Anthony Senecal, who worked as Trump's butler for 17 years at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and is currently the in-house historian there, frequently expresses his hatred for Mr. Obama in social media posts... MORE

​Racial disparities in breast cancer

By Jovita Oruwari MD FACS
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Cancer affects more than half a million Americans and is the second leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease.

It occurs when the normal orderly process of cell growth and division fail, therefore cells grow uncontrollably forming growths or tumors.  

One in three Americans will get some form of cancer in their lifetime and it will account for one of every four deaths... MORE
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​Michael Brown's mom's book recalls death, life

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lezley McSpadden was taking a cigarette break from her grocery store job when a friend called to say someone had been shot in the street near Canfield Green Apartments in Ferguson.

Within minutes, her cellphone rang again. It was a family member declaring the victim was McSpadden's 18-year-old son, Michael Brown. The shooter was a police officer.
The next moments that sultry August day grew more and more... MORE
In this April 27, 2016, photo, Lezley McSpadden poses for a portrait in St. Louis. McSpadden was sitting in her car on a smoke break from her grocery store job on Aug. 9, 2014, when a friend told her someone had been shot near Canfield Apartments in Ferguson, Mo. After that her life crumbled learning her son, 18-year-old son Michael Brown, had been shot and killed by a police officer. McSpadden recounts what happened that fateful day two summers ago in her autobiography, "Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil," set to be released Tuesday, May 10, 2016, and co-written by Lyah Beth LeFlore. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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​COMMENTARY: How to go Asian
Why do black people often resist alternative medicine? Even when it works.

We are off the plantation. There is a universe of information, research, anecdotal evidence, and empirical proof that Chinese Medicine has benefits, yet most of us immediately wince, “I ain’t doin’ that!”--- instead of considering the evidence, and blazing personal proofs, and investigations. Why do we choose to be stuck on “Lock” when it comes to something new?

Afrikans, and Original (Native) Americans also have medicinal practices which pre-date Western medicine by centuries. Yet we reject anything we don’t understand, immediately. Don’t we?
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According to Wikipedia, “Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM; simplified Chinese: 中医; traditional Chinese: 中醫; pinyin: Zhōngyī) is a style of traditional Asian medicine informed by modern medicine but built on a foundation of more than 2,500 years of Chinese medical practice that includes various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage (tui na), exercise (qigong), and...    MORE

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S.P.D. Searching for Runaway Teen

Shreveport police are looking for a teenaged girl who reportedly ran away from a local youth shelter last week.

​Juvenile detectives say 17-year-old Kaleigh Sheldon apparently left Rutherford House on April 27 and hasn’t returned to the facility. No one has been able to contact her. 

Sheldon is a white female, about 5’3″ tall and 160 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. If you know where she is, call police at 318-673-6955.
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American Ballerina, Misty Copeland, Gets Own Barbie Doll
New York--- Barbie doll manufacturer, Mattel, has just announced that they will honor the African-American celebrity Ballet dancer with her very own Barbie in their collection.
The more children are spanked, the more likely they are to defy their parents and to experience increased anti-social behavior, aggression, mental health problems and cognitive difficulties, according to a new meta-analysis of 50 years of research on spanking... MORE

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​Shreveport HIV/AIDS Call to Action: 
Half of black, quarter of Latino gay men projected to be diagnosed within their lifetime. Heterosexuals not immune.
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​​The Beatings Paradigm: A carryover from our slavery past? Is there a correlation between planta-tion coding, and black parenting and discipline?
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Community Mourns the Loss of Radio Personality ‘Cat Daddy'
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Hillary Clinton: The Secretary Wears Nada​
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REVIEW: Shreveport's Ology Jazz Sextet
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   REVIEW: "United Shades      of America" with With.
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​REVIEW: Larry Wilmore's Set on the White House Correspondent's Dinner

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​​National Museum of African American Music to open on Lower Broadway
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​TAMIR RICE: Settlement of $6 Million, No Culpability
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Racism Litmus Test: Caught on Video

Anti-Racism Activist & Educator, Jane Elliot, Speaks To White Citizens On Receiving The Same Treatment As Black Citizens

 "I want every white person in this room, who would be happy to be treated as this society in general treats our citizens, our black citizens. If you as a white person would be happy to receive the same treatment that our black citizens do in this society - please stand! 

"​You didn't understand the directions. If you white folks want to be treated the way blacks are in this society - stand! - Nobody is standing here. That says very plainly that you KNOW what's happening. You KNOW you don't want it for YOU. I want to know why YOU are so willing to accept it or to ALLOW it to happen for others?" - Jane Elliot.​

10 THINGS TO KNOW FOR TUESDAY

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday:

1. WHO'S UP NEXT IN PICKING A DEMOCRAT
Oregon and Kentucky line up to vote in the Democratic presidential nominating contest, while the pall of a divisive state party convention in Nevada hangs over the race.

2. WHAT'S AT STAKE IN SYRIAN TALKS
World and regional powers meet in Vienna to overcome substantial divisions among Syrian factions that have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced millions since violence turned to war five years ago... MORE

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•  American Girl Debuts African-American Doll From the Civil  
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• ​Jeb Bush drops out of the Republican race for president  
​• Southern University Shreveport Gets New Chancellor
• SCOTUS analyst: Loretta Lynch ‘most likely candidate’ to
   replace Scalia
• Landmark Study Finds U.S. Dementia Incidence Highest
​   In African Americans And American Indians
•  Tornado Watch for Natchitoches Parish, LA
•  Unrestrained Sterlington Man Killed in Single-Vehicle Crash
•  Bossier Parish Crash Claims the Life of a Shreveport Man 
•  What you need to know about Zika virus​
•  Baton Rouge Police: Teenager arrested after loaded
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May is Mental Health Month 2016​

Since 1949, Mental Health America and our affiliates across the country have led the observance of May is Mental Health Month by reaching millions of people through the media, local events and screenings. 

This year’s theme for Mental Health Month is - Life with a Mental Illness - and will call on individuals to share what life with a mental illness feels like for them in words, pictures and video by tagging their social media posts with #mentalillnessfeelslike (or submitting to MHA anonymously). Posts will be collected and displayed at mentalhealthamerica.net/feelslike.  ​More...
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