Carolyn Bryant Donham, the White woman whose accusation led to the 1955 lynching of Black teen Emmett Till in Mississippi – and whose role in the brutal death was reconsidered by a grand jury as recently as last year – has died in Louisiana, the Calcasieu Parish coroner’s office confirmed to CNN.
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A White 84-year-old homeowner who shot Ralph Yarl , a Black teen in the head, after the 16-year-old went to the wrong home to pick up his siblings will face two felony charges, Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson announced early Monday evening.
Andrew Lester will face charges of assault in the first degree and armed criminal action. Authorities have issued a warrant for his arrest and he’s not currently in custody, Thompson said.
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BALTIMORE — An aide to a prominent Maryland senator has left his job following allegations that he participated in personal sexual misconduct inside a Senate building, according to WJZ’s media partner the Baltimore Banner.
The office of Sen. Ben Cardin said in a two-sentence statement on Saturday that “Aidan Maese-Czeropski is no longer employed by the U.S. Senate.”
“We will have no further comment on this personnel matter,” the statement said.
Maese-Czeropski parted ways with Cardin’s office a day after allegations of personal sexual misconduct began circulating that he was one of two men who were filmed having sex in the Hart Senate Office Building, the Baltimore Banner reported.
The Daily Caller, citing an anonymous source, named Maese-Czeropski as one of the two men, according to the Baltimore Banner.
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#TheGamutt wraps up another Black History Month, we would be remiss if we did not feature the Harlem Renaissance. This MOVEMENT birthed SO MANY GREAT POETS, ENTERTAINERS, THINKERS–beautiful BLACKNESS on full display! Continue reading Black History Month Moment: #TheHarlemRenaissance [details]
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced R. Kelly to 20 years in prison for child sex crimes, after a jury found that he had produced three videos of himself sexually abusing his 14-year-old goddaughter.
In August 1831, Nat Turner struck fear into the hearts of white Southerners by leading the only effective slave rebellion in U.S. history. Born on a small plantation in Southampton County, Virginia, Turner inherited a passionate hatred of slavery from his African–born mother and came to see himself as anointed by God to lead his people out of bondage.
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Our SALUTE to BLACK ACHIEVEMENTS and Black History Month CONTINUES!
James McCune Smith was not just any physician. He was the first African American to earn a medical degree, educated at the University of Glasgow in the 1830s, when no American university would admit him. For this groundbreaking achievement alone, Smith warrants greater appreciation. Continue reading #BlackHistoryMonth Moment: #JamesMcCuneSmith-America’s 1st Black physician! [details]
Black History is EVERYBODY’S history!!
Alexander Miles was an African-American inventor who was best known for being awarded a patent for an automatically opening and closing elevator door design in 1887. Contrary to many sources, Miles was not the original inventor of this device. In 1874, 13 years before Miles’ patent was awarded, John W. Meaker was awarded U.S. Patent 147,853 for the invention of the first automatic elevator door system.
Continue reading #BlackHistoryMonth Moment: #AlexanderMiles PERFECTED the modern-day elevator! [details]
If you have a manual push mower today, it likely uses design elements from 19th Century Black American inventor John Albert Burr’s patented rotary blade lawn mower.
Continue reading #BlackHistoryMonth Moment: #JohnAlbertBurr PERFECTED the lawn mower! [Details]
Jack L. Cooper is widely acknowledged as the first African American radio broadcaster. Cooper, born in Memphis, Tennessee on September 18, 1888, was the youngest of 10 children.
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