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The Ancestors Take The Ivory Queen of Soul, The Lady T, Teena Marie

• December 29, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, African American History, Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Cultural History, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, New Orleans, People of Color, Race, Sexuality, Stroke, Teena Marie, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: "Congo Square", "Fire and Desire", "La Dona", "Square Biz", "The Wall Street Journal", African Americans, Alia Rose Brockert, Alternative Medicine, American Academy of Neurology, Berry Gordy, Black Women, Blacks, Blue-Eyed Soul, California, Children, Diazepam, Drugs, Family, Grand Mal Seizure, Herbal Remedies, Hindsight, Hood Pass, L.A. County, L.A. County Coroner, Lady T, Latin Music, Lenny Kravitz, Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, Love, Lovergirl: Teena Marie Story, Lynn Jeter, Mary Christine Brockert, Medications, MedPage Today, Motherhood, Motown, Neurologist, Neurology, NewsOne, Phoebe Snow, Portuguese, R&B, Rick James, Sapphire, Self-Medication, Side Effects, Singer, Singing, Soul Music, Stax, Teena Marie, The 2000s, The Eighties, The Nineties, The Seventies, TMZ.com, Tonic–clonic seizure, Valium, Venice CA

Mitrice Richardson: Okay, So Explain It to Me Again; Why Did The L.A. Sheriff’s Deputies Need Her Skull So Badly That They Got “Authorization” to Move Her Body?

• October 26, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, African American History, Black People, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Dr. Ronda Hampton, Hate Crimes, Journalism and Ethics, Latice Sutton, Mental Health/Psychology, Mitrice Richardson, Murder/Manslaughter, Police Misconduct/Killings, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: "The Malibu Surfside News", Agoura Hills California, Anne Soble, Assistant Chief Ed Winter, Body, Coroner, Death by Cop, Death by Cops, Decomposition, Guilt, Guilty, Haste, Innocence, L.A. County, L.A. County Coroner's Office, Las Vegas Nevada, Latice Sutton, Law, Lee Baca, Los Angeles County California, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Lt. Mike Rosson, Malibu, Malibu Agoura-Lost Hills Sheriff's Department, Malibu CA, Michael Richardson, Mitrice Richardson, NCIS, Sheriff, Sheriff Lee Baca, Sheriff's Deputies, Skeleton, Steve Whitmore

Johannes Mehserle GUILTY of Involuntary Manslaughter in the Shooting of Oscar Grant

• July 8, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Hate Crimes, Journalism and Ethics, Murder/Manslaughter, People of Color, Race, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Uncategorized
Tags: African Americans, Alameda County, BART, BART Cops, BART Train, Black Mothers, Black Women, Blacks, California, Civil Suit, Constables on Patrol, Cops, Discharging Weapon, District Attorney David Stein, Fruitvale Station, Johannes Mehserle, L.A. County, Los Angeles CA, Los Angeles County, Money, Oakland, Oaktown, Oscar Grant, Oscar Grant III, Wanda Johnson

Sean Bell’s Killers Are Not Going to Face Trial

• February 17, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Chicanos/Latinos, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Murder/Manslaughter, People of Color, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: Attorney General Eric Holder, Constables on Patrol, Death by Cops, Exoneration, F.B.I., Flight Risk, Johannes Mehserle, Justice Department, L.A. County, L.A. County Sheriff's Department, Michael Oliver, Mitrice Richardson, Nicole Paultre-Bell, Obama Administration, Oscar Grant, Oscar Grant III, Police Commissioner Kelly, Politics, Queens N.Y., Sean Bell, Steve Gilliard, The News Blog, Undercover Cops, William Shatner

Family of Mitrice Richardson Files Claim Against Los Angeles County

• January 14, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Black People, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Health, Jasmyne Cannick, Mental Health/Psychology, Mitrice Richardson, Race, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Our Weekly: Los Angeles", "The Malibu Surfside News", Ann Soble, Bipolar Disorder, City of Malibu, Infliction of Emotional Distress, L.A. County, Latice Sutton, Leo Terrell, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Malibu Agoura-Lost Hills Sheriff's Department, Malibu CA, Michael Richardson, Mitrice Richardson, Mitrice Richardson Law, Negligence, Santa Monica Mountains, Wrongful Death

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