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#BREAKINGMichael Brown's mom's book recalls death, lifeST. 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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#BREAKING#BLACKHEALTHMATTERSShreveport HIV/AIDS Call to Action:
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The statistics of blacks in Louisiana with HIV are sobering, and shocking. In 2015, statewide, 4904 black females, and 9076 black males were living with HIV infection in Louisiana. Of those cases, 846 men, and 414 women were from Shreveport. There were 521 male, and 188 female, new HIV diagnoses, statewide. 21 females, and 51 males were from Shreveport... MORE
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The Beatings Paradigm: A carryover from our slavery past?
Is there a correlation between plantation coding, and black parenting and discipline?
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I have been pondering this phrase, for weeks now, with a burning question in my mind. Bible verses, and poetry aside, how deeply rooted is our corporal punishment of our children carried over from that which our ancestors endured as slaves? Hear me out.
Late to the pickin’? You got beat. Late out of bed? Beaten. Talk back? Beaten. Disobedient? Yes, again, we were beaten. Is it too far a supposition to wonder if the spanking could not be an entrapment from plantation times, handed down to us generation after generation after we had been freed? MORE |
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S.P.D. Searching for Runaway Teen
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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. |
Photo credit: Shreveport Police Department
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American Ballerina, Misty Copeland, Gets Own Barbie Doll
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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.
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Risks of harm from spanking confirmed by analysis of 5 decades of research
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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Racism Litmus Test: Caught on Video
Anti-Racism Activist & Educator, Jane Elliot, Speaks To White Citizens On Receiving The Same Treatment As Black Citizens
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"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. |
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10 Things to Know for Tuesday
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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. FOR CAPITOL HILL, IT'S A NEW REALITY, NOT A SHOW Congressional Republicans return to Washington, grappling with the prospect of Donald Trump as their presidential nominee, with reactions ranging from rejection to lukewarm embrace. 2. NEW PHILIPPINE LEADER SEEN AS EMANCIPATOR, LOOMING DICTATOR Rodrigo Duterte is poised to become the president-elect of the Philippines after an incendiary and populist campaign... MORE |
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