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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s state broadcaster says Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, prominent anti-apartheid activist and the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, has died. She was 81. Madikizela-Mandela was married to Nelson Mandela from 1958 to 1996. Mandela was imprisoned throughout most of their marriage and Madikizela-Mandela’s own activism against the apartheid regime led to her being imprisoned […]
In North Carolina, a Black man is dead after a white police officer shot and killed him during a traffic stop. NBC News reports, Officer D.E. McGuire shot and killed 60-year-old Edward Van McCrae after a physical struggle in which he asked McCrae to stop reaching for his gun. McCrae and two others traveling in the car […]
TV ONE PRESENTS MLK50: DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE LIVE STREAM EVENT April 2nd – April 4th, 2018 HOSTED BY: ROLAND S. MARTIN OVERVIEW: April 4, 2018 – A Day of Remembrance Our nation was forever changed on April 4, 1968 when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, just one […]
DUNDEE, Miss. (AP) — Wearing aqua-colored T-shirts and hydration backpacks, a group of teenagers on Saturday launched a 50-mile walk from northern Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee, a tribute to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Escorted by police cars, support vans and a portable restroom, six […]
MENDOCINO, Calif. (AP) — An SUV carrying a large, free-spirited family from Washington state accelerated straight off a scenic California cliff and authorities said the deadly wreck may have been intentional. Information pulled from the vehicle’s software shows it was stopped at a flat, dirt pull-off area before it sped off the steep rocky face […]
Follow MAJIC 94.5 On Twitter: Happy 35th birthday to rapper Young Joc. I chose this picture because I just couldn’t post one of his more recent hairstyles. I’ll remember him like this. He was born April 2nd, 1983 in Atlanta, GA.
Follow MAJIC 94.5 On Twitter: Today wpuld have Marvin Gaye’s 79th birthday. He died one day before his 45th birthday. Marvin was born April 2nd, 1939 in Washington, DC.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The family of Stephon Clark joined hundreds of people at a rally urging California’s capital city not to let his memory or calls for police reform fade nearly two weeks after the 22-year-old unarmed black man was killed by Sacramento officers. Clark’s fiancee, Salena Manni, stood on stage with his two […]
Follow MAJIC 94.5 On Twitter: Shocking details of how Rapper Fabolous punched ‘Love and Hip Hop’ star Emily B., the mother of his two children seven times. After turning his self in Wednesday, we are finding out what made Fabolous fly into a rage at Emily and threatening to shoot her and her family. According […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sacramento police shot Stephon Clark seven times from behind, according to autopsy results released Friday by a pathologist hired by Clark’s family, findings that call into question the department’s assertion that the 22-year-old black man was facing officers and walked toward them when he was killed. Dr. Bennet Omalu, whose study […]