Melanie Eversley
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Exec. ed., Black News & Views, @blacknandv, site launched by @NABJ 8/22. Ex @USAToday. Founder, @BeyondRailroad. Marathoner. @columbiajourn @oberlincollege.
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4 days ago |
blacknewsandviews.com | Melanie Eversley |Dyepkazah Shibayan
BUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Netherlands on Thursday returned 119 artifacts looted from Nigeria, including human and animal figures, plaques, royal regalia and a bell. The artifacts, known as the Benin Bronzes and mostly housed in a museum in the city of Leiden, were looted in the late 19th century by British soldiers. In recent years, museums across Europe and North America have moved to address ownership disputes over artifacts looted during the colonial era.
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1 week ago |
blacknewsandviews.com | Melanie Eversley
When superstar basketball player LeBron James announced he was leaving the ClevelandCavaliers to join the Miami Heat in the summer of 2010, he was deemed “Public EnemyNo. 1″ by the city of Cleveland. They would boo him mercilessly every time he came tothe city to face the Cavaliers. But in the summer of 2014, James decided to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers to fulfill the promise he made when he was initially drafted to Cleveland to bring a title home.
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blacknewsandviews.com | Melanie Eversley
Five white men facing felony charges in the beating of a Black man at an Indiana bar last month are due in court today. Six men were initially arrested in connection with the May 30 incident in Fort Wayne, Indiana, that sent James Simmons, a Black man, to the hospital, but one of the men arrested told Black News & Views that he was able to prove he was not involved. His charges were dismissed.
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2 weeks ago |
blacknewsandviews.com | Melanie Eversley
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blacknewsandviews.com | Melanie Eversley
A blitz of immigration raids across Southern California — now backed by the National Guard — has met heavy resistance from local communities. And more raids could be coming, with President Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan saying that immigration enforcement would be coming to Los Angeles “every day.”But even as the Trump administration is ramping up raids in places like Southern California, those actions aren’t resulting in many more cases finding their way to immigration courts.
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