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Now It’s His Turn: Creflo Dollar in The Slam for Choking and Slapping His Fifteen-Year-Old Daughter Around

• June 9, 2012 • 3 Comments

Posted in Black People, Class, Cultural History, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
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BREAKING: Bishop Eddie Long Taking a Sabbatical; Church Insists That He Is Not Stepping Down

• December 4, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in African American History, Black People, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Health, Mental Health/Psychology, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, Preachers/Ministers, Protestant Denominations, Rape/Sex Crimes, Religion, Sexuality, Spirituality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
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Creflo Dollar Defends, Sherri Shepherd Derides Bishop Eddie Long As New Reports Surface Regarding How Much The Four Young Men Were Really Paid

• June 9, 2011 • 6 Comments

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UPDATE: Jamal Parris and Spencer LeGrande, Two of the Four Plaintiffs Against Bishop Eddie Long, Speak Out

• September 29, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in African American History, American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Love, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Protestant Denominations, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexuality, Televangelists, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
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Highland Park Shooting Reveals Limits of Illinois’s Gun Restrictions July 7, 2022
Legislators and gun control advocates are asking how the 21-year-old suspect was able to buy several weapons despite alarming police encounters and relatively strict state laws.
‘Ghost Flights’? The Facts Behind Transporting Migrant Children June 24, 2022
Government flights carrying undocumented children from the border to federally licensed shelters around the country are being criticized by conservative politicians in an election year.
Witnesses in Young Thug Case Have Been Threatened, Prosecutors Say July 6, 2022
Following a May indictment accusing the rapper and 27 others of gang-related crimes, defense lawyers must now withhold witnesses’ contact information from their clients.
How to Prepare for California’s Wildfire Season July 6, 2022
Tips for readying your home and packing your emergency bag.
Yellowstone Flooding Is a Sign of What’s to Come for National Parks June 30, 2022
Record rainfall and mudslides forced closures just as tourism season ramped up. Virtually none of America’s national parks are untouched by extreme weather and climate change.
A Decade After DACA, a New Generation of Undocumented Students Rises June 16, 2022
A vast majority of undocumented teenagers are graduating high school this year without protection from deportation and the ability to legally work.
Photos of Flooding Damage in Yellowstone June 16, 2022
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Southern Baptists, Battling Divisions, Elect Bart Barber as President June 15, 2022
The nation’s largest Protestant denomination, a bellwether for conservative Christianity, chose a rural Texas pastor and approved actions to address its sex abuse crisis.

The Guardian, UK

Teenager saves baby from shipwreck during Mediterranean crossing July 6, 2022
‘I went to help people,’ says Togolese boy, who was among 71 survivors rescued nine days after boat sank, killing at least 30The actions of a teenager from Togo have been lauded after video footage was published of him supporting a baby he saved from a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea last week in which at least 30 people died.The 17-year-old, whose identi […]
Suspected Islamist attack frees hundreds of prisoners in Nigeria July 6, 2022
Inmates on the run after gunmen armed with explosives attack prison near capital, AbujaHundreds of prisoners, including scores of terrorists, were on the run in Nigeria after suspected Islamist militants attacked a prison near the capital, Abuja.Gunmen armed with explosives blasted into Kuje medium-security prison, on the outskirts of Abuja, at about 10pm on […]
Famine: what is it, where will it strike and how should the world respond? July 6, 2022
A toxic combination of climate emergency, conflict and Covid is pushing some of the poorest countries into an acute hunger crisisGlobal hunger toll soars by 150m as Covid and war make their markThe world is in the grip of an unprecedented hunger crisis. A toxic combination of climate crisis, conflict and Covid had already placed some of the poorest countries […]
Sierra Leone backs bill to legalise abortion and end colonial-era law July 6, 2022
Country hails ‘monumental step’ towards expanding reproductive rights at a time when the US has overturned themMinisters in Sierra Leone have taken a major step towards decriminalising abortion and overturning the country’s colonial-era law, in a move hailed by campaigners and women’s rights activists.President Julius Maada Bio said his cabinet had unanimous […]
Lean times for Ghana’s yam traders as cost of living crisis bites July 6, 2022
People are buying less, costs are up, and profits are dwindling for traders at Kaneshi market in Accra On a quiet stretch amid the sprawling buzz of Kaneshie market in Accra, a group of traders sheltering under canopies from the blazing sun sell yams stacked along the roadside.Rita Oboh, 32, has worked the spot, or one nearby, since she was six, following in […]
Zimbabwe to introduce gold coins as local currency tumbles July 5, 2022
Soaring inflation piling pressure on country already struggling with shortages and stirring memories of Mugabe chaosZimbabwe will start issuing gold coins as legal tender in late July, its central bank has said, as the country battles to control runaway inflation that has considerably weakened the local currency.The inflation rate more than doubled last mont […]
Canadian swimmer says she was drugged at world championship event July 7, 2022
Mary-Sophie Harvey says a ‘four-to-six hour window where I can’t recall a single thing’ left her with a concussion and rib sprainA Canadian swimmer has said she was drugged at a recent world championship event in Budapest, leaving her with a concussion and rib sprain.Mary-Sophie Harvey said that celebrations on the final night of the competition in the Hunga […]
Venezuela Indigenous leader’s killing terrifies defenders of Amazon lands July 7, 2022
Virgilio Trujillo Arana, who led community defense from criminal groups and illegal mining, was gunned down in broad daylightVirgilio Trujillo Arana knew that he was risking his life by defending the Amazon lands on which his Indigenous Uwottuja community had lived for centuries.“Whatever happens, happens,” he said, in a video recorded before his death. “[Bu […]

The BBC

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Simba's ears measure 54cm (21in) each, a length his owner claims breaks global records.
Egypt arrests organisers of joke 'Helwan Real Batman Battle' event July 7, 2022
Four people who set up a Facebook event to find "the real Batman" are charged with "planning a riot".
Nicaragua expels Mother Teresa's nuns in latest crackdown July 7, 2022
The Missionaries of Charity nuns left after their organisation was stripped of its legal status.