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Former boxing champ Vernon Forrest shot and killed
12:30 PM on 07/26/2009
Former boxing champion Vernon Forrest was shot and killed during an apparent robbery in Atlanta, police said Sunday. Atlanta Police Sgt. Lisa Keyes said in an e-mail Sunday that Forrest may have been robbed and was shot "multiple times in the back"...
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Author E. Lynn Harris dies at age 54
4:09 PM on 07/24/2009
E. Lynn Harris, a pioneer of gay black fiction and a literary entrepreneur who rose from self-publishing to best-selling status, has died, his publicist said Friday. He was 54. Publicist Laura Gilmore said Harris died Thursday night after being stricken at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills...
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Obama admits overreaction in Gates response
2:50 PM on 07/24/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Trying to tamp down an uproar over race, President Barack Obama said Friday he used an unfortunate choice of words in commenting on the arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and could have "calibrated those words differently."
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Cambridge cops want apology
12:55 PM on 07/24/2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- A multiracial group of police officers on Friday stood with the white officer who arrested a prominent black Harvard scholar and asked President Barack Obama and Gov. Deval Patrick to apologize for comments the union leaders called insulting.
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Friends, coworkers support Sgt. Crowley
8:17 AM on 07/24/2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Supporters say the white policeman who arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his home is a principled police officer and family man who is being unfairly described as racist.
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