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'Protecting Myself': Teen Claims Self-Defense In Track Meet Stabbing Death
A Texas teenager accused in the stabbing death of a fellow high school student at a track meet told police he acted in self-defense.
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How Tschabalala Self Fashions Black Womanhood Through Art
Inspired by the likes of Faith Ringgold, Mickalene Thomas, Jacob Lawrence, Romaire Bearden, and Wangechi Mutu, Self illustrates the modernity of Black life and, more specifically, the iconographic ...
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Gun owners rarely use firearms for self-defense, Rutgers report shows
It asked gun owners how often they used their weapons for self-defense and experienced gun violence, both throughout their lives and within the last year .Of the 3,000 respondents, 91.7% reported no ...
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West Virginia Black Medal of Honor removed from US Department of Defense website
A Defense Department webpage honoring Black Medal of Honor recipient Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers was taken down last week. The department actually temporarily changed the web address to ...
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Pentagon restores a few webpages honoring servicemembers but still defends DEI purge
A Defense Department webpage honoring Black Medal of Honor recipient Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers was taken down last week. The department actually temporarily changed the web address to ...
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Less Than 1% of Gun Owners Use Their Firearms for Self-Defense Each Year. But Many More Are Exposed to Gun Violence
The study found that less than 1% of people with firearm access used their guns in self-defense in any given year. That can be taken as good news. After all, nobody wants to get into a situation ...
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Black Medal of Honor recipient's government page briefly inaccessible; 'deimedal' added to URL
A Department of Defense webpage honoring a Black Army general was temporarily updated with the addition of the letters "DEI" in the page's URL, as well as being inaccessible altogether on the ...
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Here are 10 ways DOGE can remake our outdated Defense Department
In the early 1990s, the Department of Defense made a pivotal decision that has shaped American defense production for decades. Then-Secretary of Defense Les Aspin’s infamous “Last Supper ...
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Black Medal of Honor Recipient Removed From Pentagon Site as URL Points to 'DEI.' Defense Department Blames 'Auto Removal'
The webpage of a Black Medal of Honor Recipient has been restored by the US Defense Department after it was removed and had the letters "DEI" added to its address. The page dedicated to Medal of ...
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Veteran Charles Calvin Rogers won the Medal of Honor for his service in Vietnam
The US Department of Defense was hit with widespread backlash after a page detailing the achievements of Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers, a Black man who served in Vietnam, was temporarily ...
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Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Defense website in ‘blood-boiling’ DEI purge
A Black soldier, Charles C. Rogers, who was awarded the Medal Of Honor, has been removed from a US Department of Defense website, amid an ongoing purge of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ...