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Jan 25, 2012 at 4:43 pm

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Man Charged With Kicking Kitten 15 Feet And Making Field Goal Sign

Man Charged With Kicking Kitten 15 Feet And Making Field Goal Sign

CHICAGO-22-year-old Percy Love was charged with animal cruelty after police claimed that he took a running start and kicked a kitten 15 to 18 feet in the air and then raising his hands in the air, mimicking the sign referees make when a field goal is good in football.

The cat survived the kicking and officers brought it to an Animal Care facility.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

The officers immediately arrested a laughing 22-year-old

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Dec 21, 2011 at 4:58 pm

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R. Kelly Releasing 32 New ‘Trapped in the Closet’ Chapters

R. Kelly Releasing 32 New ‘Trapped in the Closet’ Chapters

R. Kelly offer 32 more chapters of “Trapped in the Closet” for Hollywood. Where can he take the storyline next?

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Dec 20, 2011 at 5:34 pm

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Police Investigating Picture Of Girl Bound With Duct Tape

Police Investigating Picture Of Girl Bound With Duct Tape

Chicago police are investigating a picture of a girl who was was bound by her arms and legs, and mouth covered with duct tape, allegedly by her father.

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Nov 8, 2011 at 1:36 pm

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Teen Murdered Grandmother After Confrontation Over Skipping School

Teen Murdered Grandmother After Confrontation Over Skipping School

A Chicago teenager murdered his grandmother this past Friday morning after she began admonishing him for skipping school.

The ninth-grader, Keshawn Perkins, 15, pummeled his grandmother with a lamp and stabbed her in the neck, head, and body with a kitchen knife. He then wrapped her body in a blanket and dumped it in a sewer trap behind her house, before taking off with her purse.

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Oct 26, 2011 at 3:42 pm

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Farrakhan Not Taking ‘Assassination of Muammar Kadafi Lightly’

Farrakhan Not Taking ‘Assassination of Muammar Kadafi Lightly’

Kadafi death has big effect on Minister Louis Farrahkan.

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Oct 25, 2011 at 3:02 pm

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Legendary Black Paper, The Chicago Defender, Lays Off More Staff Members

Legendary Black Paper, The Chicago Defender, Lays Off More Staff Members

Legendary Chicago Black newspaper the Chicago Defender laid off numerous staff members this past weekend as the paper continues to struggle financially.

Laid off were the only two editors left among its staff of 18 — Executive Editor Lou Ransom and News Editor Rhonda Gillespie

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An accounts receivables staffer also was laid off, and the paper’s only photographer switched from full- to part-time,

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Sep 19, 2011 at 12:05 pm

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Black Chicagoans Used To Seeing The Economy’s Downside

Black Chicagoans Used To Seeing The Economy’s Downside

Black folks in Obama’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois have little confusion when it comes to the state of the economy.

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With the national African-American unemployment rate at 16.7 percent, the highest since 1984, Chicago’s community of color is a dismal example.

“I know that our black men don’t have nowhere

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Sep 8, 2011 at 3:01 pm

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Soul Train Celebrates Its Chicago Roots At 40th Anniversary

Soul Train Celebrates Its Chicago Roots At 40th Anniversary

For those who love to bathe in the nostalgia of the 1970s, Chicago’s Soul Train reunion party this Labor Day weekend rolled in to meet those expectations. In celebration of the show’s 40th anniversary, fans were treated to a Soul Train party Friday night; a showing of the VH1 documentary, “The Hippest Trip in America,” with a panel discussion featuring the train operator Don Cornelius, director of the documentary J. Kevin

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Aug 15, 2011 at 2:07 pm

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Chicago To Study Economic Disparities In Black Communities

Chicago To Study Economic Disparities In Black Communities

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has approved a bill creating a commission aimed at researching disparities in the African-American community.

The commission will study social and economic issues including health services, employment and education.

“We know that disparities exist within the African-American community, preventing some from achieving their full potential,” Quinn said in a statement. “In Illinois, we want everybody in, and nobody left out. We won’t shy away from examining

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Aug 4, 2011 at 7:41 am

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Happy 50th Birthday President Obama! [VIDEO]

Happy 50th Birthday President Obama! [VIDEO]

Cue Marilyn Monroe! Better yet, cue Jennifer Hudson! Barack Obama hits the half century mark today. Jennifer Hudson led the crowd in singing Happy Birthday to “Mr. President” at a fundraising event in Chicago last night.

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