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NYC mayor eulogizes officer as cops outside turn backs

Courier Newsroom - January 4, 2015

NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of police turned their backs Sunday as Mayor Bill de Blasio eulogized an officer shot dead with his partner,...

Edward Brooke, 1st Black elected US senator, dies

Courier Newsroom - January 3, 2015

BOSTON (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Edward W. Brooke, a liberal Republican who became the first Black in U.S. history to win popular election...

Cuomo's death marks the passing of a liberal lion

Courier Newsroom - January 3, 2015

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — With former Gov. Mario Cuomo's death, liberals have lost one of their last, best champions, a proud populist who represented...

Jim Crow-era shooting revisited in new documentary

Courier Newsroom - January 3, 2015

LIVE OAK, Fla. (AP) — On a sticky hot Sunday in August 1952, a wealthy Black woman named Ruby McCollum walked through the "colored...

Black officers: White culture impairs policing Blacks

Courier Newsroom - January 3, 2015

The failed indictments of police officers who killed Eric Garner and Michael Brown have unleashed ideas that the Jim Crow era of racism is...

Family of Utah man killed by police files lawsuit

Courier Newsroom - January 2, 2015

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The family of a young Utah man killed by police while wielding a samurai sword filed a civil rights...

Dr. Ben Carson a 2016 presidential hopeful?

Courier Newsroom - January 2, 2015

The 2016 primary elections are more than a year away, but former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson appears to be putting pieces into...

Black Pasadena Rose Parade Queen rides in parade 56 yrs. after being barred

Courier Newsroom - January 1, 2015

Joan Williams Finally to Receive Recognition Initially Denied Due to Her Race The qualities that led Pasadena, Calif. city workers to choose Joan Williams as...

10 people to watch in 2015 who may shift the 2016 campaign

Courier Newsroom - January 1, 2015

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the year that will pass before the 2016 campaign for president formally kicks off with the votes in the Iowa...

Cleveland seeks outside probe of boy's shooting

Courier Newsroom - January 1, 2015

CLEVELAND (AP) — The city is hoping to hand over the investigation of a 12-year-old boy's fatal shooting by police to an outside agency,...

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