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Little Richard gets honorary doctorate from Mercer University

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GOOD GOLLY—Little Richard acknowledges the crowd while being wheeled onstage during Mercer University’s commencement ceremony.

 

by Wayne Crenshaw

MACON, Ga.--Not far from where he grew up decades ago in poverty and segregation, Mercer University bestowed music legend Little Richard with an honorary doctorate of humanities.

Last Updated on Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:52

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Wife: I'm sorry for trusting Pa. abortion doctor

 

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Pearl Gosnell, wife of Kermit Gosnell, walks to the center for criminal justice, May 29, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

 

 

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The wife of a Philadelphia abortion doctor, a cosmetologist who admitted helping him perform very late-term abortions at his corrupt, grimy clinic, said Wednesday that she was sorry for trusting her husband and was sentenced seven to 23 months in prison.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 May 2013 17:10

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Detroit officer on trial in death of girl, 7

Police accompanied by a reality TV crew fired a stun grenade through a window as they raided a Detroit home in search of a murder suspect. A gunshot then went off inside, fatally striking a 7-year-old girl in the head while she slept on a couch.

Police_Raid_Girl_Kill_Broa.jpgAiyana Stanley-Jones, 7, was shot and killed May 16, 2010, by a shot from a Detroit police officer during a raid of a Detroit home in search of a murder suspect. (AP Photo/Family Photo via The Detroit News)


DETROIT (AP) — Police accompanied by a reality TV crew fired a stun grenade through a window as they raided a Detroit home in search of a murder suspect. A gunshot then went off inside, fatally striking a 7-year-old girl in the head while she slept on a couch.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 May 2013 16:53

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This Week In Black History 5-29-13

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SOJOURNER TRUTH

 

Week of May 29 to June 4

May 29

1854—Escaped slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth delivers her famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron. Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) had been physically and sexually abused by various slave owners and their wives in New York. She sought refuge in religion. She finally escaped after her last slave owner reneged on a promise to free her. She became the leading female abolitionist of the period giving powerful speeches. She traveled widely in her anti-slavery mission telling friends “The spirit calls me and I must go.”

Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 May 2013 12:39

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Obama and Christie yet again; emphasis on recovery

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President Barack Obama, accompanied by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, stop to play the 'Touchdown Fever' arcade game on the boardwalk during their visit to Point Pleasant, NJ., May 28. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)


WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama was looking to get his groove back — at the beach.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 May 2013 18:44

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