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Emmy-winning actress Mary Alice Smith has passed away. She was 84.

The actress' family confirmed she passed away on Wednesday, July 27th.

The star of stage and screen is best known for her roles as Leticia "Lettie" Bostic on NBC's TV sitcom A Different World (1987–1989) and Effie Williams in the 1976 musical drama Sparkle.

#MaryAlice also performed on Broadway and she won an Emmy award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (I'll Fly Away) in 1993.

She also won a Tony Award in 1987 for Best Featured Actress in a Play (Fences).

Rest in power.

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The father and son convicted of murdering #AhmaudArbery were both given an additional sentence of life in prison Monday on federal hate crime charges, while their neighbor was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

The Gregory McMichael,Travis McMichael, and William Roddie Bryan, who are all white, were found guilty in February on federal hate crime charges in the killing of Arbery, a Black man who was running in their neighborhood when the defendants confronted him in February 2020. The three men were convicted of all of the federal charges against them, including hate crimes, attempted kidnapping and the use of a firearm to commit a crime.

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A Colorado judge ruled Monday that five former Aurora police officers and paramedics involved in the wrongful 2019 death of #ElijahMcClain can now face criminal cases.

In September 2021, the police officers and paramedics were indicted on multiple charges including manslaughter and negligent homicide in the death of McClain, a 23-year-old Black man put into a chokehold and injected with ketamine in a fatal encounter.

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Grammy-Winning rapper Coolio, best known for the hits "Gangsta's Paradise" and "Fantastic Voyage" has reportedly passed away. He was 59.

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#ElijahMcClain was a 23-year-old African-American massage therapist from Aurora, Colorado, who died while being arrested by local police.

An autopsy report released Friday revealed McClain died because he was injected with ketamine by paramedics after being forcibly restrained.

Last year a grand jury indicted three police officers and two paramedics involved in the McClain case. They face charges of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and other charges.

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We remember #PhilandoCastile, who would have turned 39 today.

On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was fatally shot during a traffic stop by police officer Jeronimo Yanez of the St. Anthony police department in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area.

Continue to #sayhisname

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The last two officers involved in the death of #GeorgeFloyd have been sentenced for "depriving [Floyd] of his Constitutional rights."

In a Wednesday release, the United States Department of Justice revealed that the two former Minneapolis Police Department officers — Tou Thao, 36, and J. Alexander Kueng, 28 — have been ordered to serve 42 months and 36 months in prison, respectively.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as first Black woman Supreme Court Justice

#KetanjiBrownJackson was sworn in on Thursday as the newest Supreme Court justice — becoming the first Black woman ever to serve on the high court.

Jackson, 51, took the constitutional oath from Chief Justice John Roberts and judicial oath from 83-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer, whose retirement became official just minutes before the swearing-in ceremony.

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Remembering talented actor #JamesAvery on what would have been his 77th birthday.

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RIP: According to reports, #Takeoff from #Migos has died after being shot over a dice game in Houston.

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N.O.R.E., co-host of #DrinkChamps is expressing regret over allowing Kanye West to make controversial comments during the podcast.

The rapper called "The Breakfast Club" radio show Tuesday to address what happened with West on the show.

"I just want to be honest, I support freedom of speech," N.O.R.E said. "I support anybody not being censored. But I do not support anybody being hurt. I did not realize that the George Floyd statements [made by West] on my show were so hurtful."

N.O.R.E. has come under fire for not pushing back on West during the interview. He explained to "The Breakfast Club" that the controversial Floyd comments happened during the "first five minutes of the show" and said West told the producer that if they stopped filming he would walk out."

"I wanted the man to speak," N.O.R.E. said. "Later on I actually checked him about the George Floyd comments, I actually checked him about the 'White Lives Matter' but it was so later in the episode...I was so inebriated at the time that maybe people looked over it."

"But I apologize to the George Floyd family, I apologize to anybody that was hurt by Kanye West's comments," he added.

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#FrankieLymon was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City-based early rock and roll doo-wop group The Teenagers. 

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Actor #JimmyAkingbola shared a throwback photo of him and fellow actor #JosephMarcell when they starred in "Death In Paradise". Marcell played his father on the show. Akingbola plays "Jeffrey" in "Bel Air".

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A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation led to the lynching of Black teenager #EmmettTill nearly 70 years ago.

A Leflore County grand jury considered evidence and testimony regarding Carolyn Bryant Donham's involvement in the kidnapping and death of Till, Leflore County District Attorney Dewayne Richardson said in a news release.

After more than seven hours of testimony from witnesses and investigators, a Leflore County grand jury determined that there was not enough evidence to indict Donham on charges of manslaughter and kidnapping. The jury's decision means Donham will most likely not ever be prosecuted for her role in Till's death.

The decision comes more than a month after an unserved arrest warrant for Donham was unearthed in the basement of the Leflore County Courthouse.

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ICYMI: Bruce’s Beach has officially been returned to the descendants of a Black couple in Southern California this past Wednesday. The couple and original landowners—Willa and Charles Bruce, had their land wrongfully stripped from them 98 years ago by Los Angeles County. 

The land was purchased by the Bruces in 1912 for $1,225, and various facilities were built on it. In 1924, LA County took the family’s property through eminent domain and only gave the Bruces a portion of what they asked for when trying to sell it. Bruce’s Beach is now estimated to be worth $20 million, with the houses next to the property pushing prices of $7 million.

Anthony Bruce, the great-great-grandson of the original landowners, was presented with an official transfer-of-land deed by the LA County Registrar-Recorder. State Senator Steven Bradford said, “This transfer will allow the Bruce family to realize generational wealth, which they have been denied for generations simply because they were black in America.” 

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