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Black Breaking News
Louisiana man on death row dies weeks before March execution date
ANGOLA, La. — A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing…
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Black Breaking News
Jerry ‘Ice Man’ Butler, soul singer whose hits included ‘Only the Strong Survive,’ dies at 85
Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer of the 1960s and after whose rich, intimate baritone graced such hits as “For…
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Black Breaking News
The white man who pleaded guilty to shooting a Black teen who rang a wrong doorbell dies
An 86-year-old Kansas City man has died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting…
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Black Breaking News
Florida Man Jailed Over Wi-Fi Dispute with Neighbor Dies After County Denies Heart Medication—Family Awarded $300K
A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit that accused a Florida sheriff’s office of negligence for ignoring a…
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Black Breaking News
Tom Robbins, ‘Even Cowgirls Get the Blues’ author, dies at 92
Author Tom Robbins, whose novels read like a hit of literary LSD, filled with fantastical characters, manic metaphors and counterculture…
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Politics
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Dies At 74
Source: Earl Gibson III / Getty Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), the beloved Texas congresswoman who has been at the…
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Black Breaking News
Namibia president and anti-apartheid activist Hage Geingob dies. He pushed for Africa on world stage
WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Namibia’s president and founding prime minister Hage Geingob died Sunday at age 82 while receiving treatment for…
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Health + Wellness
Dexter Scott King, Youngest Son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dies at 62
Dexter King, son of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., in Jackson, Tennessee on August 29, 1997.…
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