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Photo Charleston police released a photograph taken from surveillance footage of the man who is believed to be the gunman. Credit Charleston Police Department, via Reuters CHARLESTON, S.C. — An intense manhunt was underway on Thursday for a white gunman who opened fire on Wednesday night at a historic black church in this city’s downtown,…
Let me be the first commentator to state explicitly what many Democratic insiders fear and many of the most progressive activists in the party yearn for: There is a very real prospect that Senator Bernie Sanders wins an outright victory in the Iowa caucus and pulls off one of the most stunning upsets in modern…
NEW YORK CITY – DECEMBER 27 2014: several protesters gathered at the Pink Houses for a march to Police Services Area #2 station demanding justice for Akai Gurley, who was killed by Peter Liang. Photo Credit: a katz / Shutterstock.com BODY According to a new report from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice African-American women in San…
This is a remarkably beautiful act of bravery. This is Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist who is an advocate and activist for religious freedom and women’s rights. Vox / Via youtube.com Since 1979, all women in Iran have been required to cover their hair in public. Vox / Via youtube.com In 2014, approximately 3.6 million women in…
THIS month, the headlines were about a Muslim man in Boston who was accused of threatening police officers with a knife. Last month, two Muslims attacked an anti-Islamic conference in Garland, Tex. The month before, a Muslim man was charged with plotting to drive a truck bomb onto a military installation in Kansas. If you…
Slouched deep in a swivel chair, knees bouncing up and down and hands gesticulating excitedly, Michael Pettis can’t contain his enthusiasm over “an explosion of creativity” in China’s underground rock music scene. Carsick Cars, the best-known band on Pettis’s music label Maybe Mars, has just won a semi-official award for exporting culture while another, Chui…
As a recent Peace Corps volunteer in the DR, stationed near the border of Haiti, I have a very personal perspective on this issue. This may be hard to believe for most Americans, but racism in the DR is much worse than racism here in the United States. The idea of being black in the…
Britain’s top credit rating is at risk because of Prime Minister David Cameron’s planned European Union referendum, according to Standard & Poor’s. In a statement on Friday, S&P lowered the outlook on the country’s AAA rating to “negative” from “stable.” That means there’s a one-in-three chance of a downgrade in the next two years. It…
The alternative lodging site has some interesting views on the city’s neighborhoods. View Full Caption DNAinfo Illustration NEW YORK CITY — What does Airbnb think about New York City neighborhoods? The site, which connects travelers looking for an alternative to hotels with residents in cities across the world, features write-ups of many of the city’s ‘hoods….
The New York Police Department is having trouble diversifying its ranks because so many black men have criminal records, according to Police Chief Bill Bratton. “We have a significant population gap among African-American males because so many of them have spent time in jail and, as such, we can’t hire them,” Bratton told the Guardian…