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Former Oklahoma City Police Officer Daniel Holtzclaw, 29, has been sentenced to serve 263 years behind bars—the maximum sentence—for the rapes and sexual assaults of seven black women and one underage black girl.

Kwame Kilpatrick, the embattled and imprisoned former mayor of Detroit, is hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn his 28-year prison sentence, the Associated Press reports.

Aliya’s turn:

A former North Carolina Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted of murder after he shot and killed a black teenager using a crossbow just three days after Christmas in 1992 was denied parole.

Trayon Christian, the young black man who was arrested in 2013 for "Shopping While Black" at a Barneys in New York has reached a $45,000 settlement with the city, the New York Daily News reports.

For over 20 years now, master playwright Lynn Nottage has created work that has boldly inserted black women into the American theater conversation. Her numerous honors include a MacArthur “genius” grant and the Pulitzer Prize for Ruined, her play centered on Congolese women surviving their nation’s civil war that earned then-newbie Condola Rashad a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play in 2009. Viola Davis won the Drama Desk for Outstanding Actress in a Play for Nottage’s Intimate Apparel... Читать дальше...

In 2013, after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the U.S. justice system sent a message to the black community: You don’t matter.

Here’s a question: What could Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel do to prompt Democrats to call for his resignation? No Democrat has yet, even though Chicago’s mayor is in the throes of scandal centered around the issue of police misconduct.

Republican Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is in hot and highly contaminated water. Residents in Flint, Mich., have been drinking, bathing in and cooking with contaminated water for over a year, and all signs indicate that Snyder has known about it since Spring of 2015.