Bring That Week Back: June 6
George Zimmerman’s bond revoked, plus more
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George Zimmerman’s Bond Revoked - A judge revoked George Zimmerman’s bond on Friday after it was revealed he misled the court about his family’s finances and about having a second passport. Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, surrendered to police custody Sunday afternoon. (Photo: Roberto Gonzalez/Getty Images)
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Man Tells Police He Ate the Heart of His Victim - In yet another gruesome act of violence in recent weeks, a 21-year-old college student in Maryland faces first-degree murder charges after he told police he ate the heart and part of the brain of his 37-year-old housemate. Alexander Kinyua, a native of Kenya, hid the head and hands of the dead man in his family's basement laundry room in Baltimore. (Photo: AP Photo/Hartford County Sheriff's Office)
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The Surge in Diversity at HBCUs - The hiring of Jay Hopson, a white man, last week as head coach of Alcorn State University, a historically Black institution, sparked rigorous debate over the shortage of Black football coaches hired at predominately white schools. "In my studies, people say the reason that they have not hired an African-American to lead their Division I program is because there aren’t any qualified African-American coaches," Fitzgerald Hill, author of Crackback: How College Football Blindsides the Hopes of Black Coaches, told the New York Times on Sunday. "If the majority schools can’t find any and the H.B.C.U.s can’t find any, where does the Black coach go?" (Photo: Reuben Canales/Getty Images)
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Unemployment Rates Go South - While President Obama tried to persuade voters last week that the economy will come back stronger, the latest unemployment figures — specifically in the Black community — presented a sharp reminder that there is still much work ahead. In May, Black unemployment rose to 13.6 percent from 13 percent in April. Nationally, unemployment rose slightly to 8.2 percent from 8.1 percent. (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
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John Edwards Found Not Guilty - Former presidential hopeful John Edwards was found not guilty on one of six campaign fraud charges, and a mistrial was ruled on the five other charges on May 31. Edwards was accused of masterminding a plan to use money from two wealthy donors to hide his pregnant mistress during his run for the White House in 2008. (Photo: AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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Black Doctor Sues UCLA for Racist Treatment - A Black surgeon and professor at the University of California Los Angeles who was depicted in a slideshow as a gorilla being sodomized by his white supervisor recently filed a lawsuit against the medical school. Dr. Christian Head, the only Black tenured professor in UCLA's department of head and neck surgery, said the offensive slideshow, which was originally shown at a UCLA School of Medicine graduation "roast" on his behalf and has since gone viral on YouTube, was just one in a string of racist and demeaning encounters he had during his time with the medical school. (Photo: Courtesy theroot.com)
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Alex Haley’s Son Fights for Return of Malcolm X Letter - The son of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alex Haley (who wrote Roots and co-wrote The Autobiography of Malcolm X) recently petitioned Syracuse University to turn over a letter written by Malcolm X to his father, citing the letter should be kept with the Haley family. Written in April 1964, the slain civil rights leader wrote the letter to Haley while on pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca and chronicles his pivotal shift in ideas about race and religion. (Photo: Courtesy Nicholas Lisi/The Post-Standard)
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President Obama Takes Digs at Donald Trump - As Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently hosted a fundraiser with Donald Trump, who has very publicly denounced President Obama’s American citizenship, it appears the president has figured out the only way to beat the naysayers is to join in on the game. “You and I can't tell them how to run their campaign. But we can make sure it is a losing one,” the president said in an email to his supporters on May 31 before signing off with an “Aloha,” a reference to his home state of Hawaii. (Photos from left: Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images, Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
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FEMA Trailer Makers to Pay $43 Million to Katrina Victims - The manufacturers and contractors that provided FEMA trailers to Hurricane Katrina victims agreed on May 28 to pay $43 million in a class action lawsuit brought by victims who said they suffered health problems from the industrial toxins, including formaldehyde, used to build the trailers. The award will be divided among 60,000 plaintiffs, though that number makes up less than half of the 114,000 households that were provided FEMA trailers after Katrina struck in 2005. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
