Bring that Week Back: March 28
Trayvon Martin investigation continues, plus more news.
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Survey: Nigerians Most Educated in the US - According to recently revealed U.S. Census data, 37 percent of Nigerians had bachelor's degrees in 2006, 17 percent held master's degrees and 4 percent had doctorates. In contrast, the same Census data showed only 19 percent of white Americans had bachelor’s degrees, 8 percent held master’s degrees and only 1 percent held doctorates, making Nigerians some of the most educated people in the U.S. (Photo: Getty Images)
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Hunger Games Fans Upset Characters Are Black - Some fans of the new The Hunger Games movie took to Twitter to express disappointment that some characters, especially Rue, are portrayed by Black actors. Users made racist statements, such as ”Why does rue have to be black not gonna lie kinda ruined the movie.” (Photo: Courtesy Lionsgate)
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Mississippi College Disciplines Students Who Yelled Racist Chant During Basketball Game - Five members of the University of Southern Mississippi pep band were disciplined last week for taunting a Latino Kansas State University basketball player during an NCAA tournament game. (Photo: AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Footage Released of James Cameron’s Trip to Challenger Deep - On Tuesday, National Geographic released the first footage from film director and explorer James Cameron's solo journey to the floor of the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep, the deepest known point on Earth. Cameron described the point as a "completely featureless ... almost gelatinous flat plain.” (Photo: AP Photo/Mark Theissen, National Geographic)
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Supreme Court Hears Arguments for Affordable Care Act - Tuesday marked the second day the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, the Affordable Care Act. The two-hour hearing focused on the law's key component, a requirement that most Americans buy health insurance or pay a penalty.(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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McDonald's Hires First African-American CEO - Last week, McDonald’s Corp. appointed Don Thompson as its first African-American CEO. The 22-year McDonald's veteran will begin in June. He will replace current CEO Jim Skinner, who is retiring after 41 years with the company.(Photo: AP Photo/Yves Logghe, File)
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Black Marriage Day - March 25, 2012, marked “Black Marriage Day,” an unofficial holiday to celebrate Black marriage across the country. The “holiday” has been celebrated for nine years in more than 300 communities and neighborhoods across the country. (Photo: Rob Melnychuk/Getty Images)
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Feds Charge Three With Hate Crimes in Mississippi - Three white men were charged on Thursday with federal hate crimes for attacking, killing and running over James Craig Anderson, a 47-year-old auto plant worker, with a pick-up truck in Mississippi in June 2011. John Aaron Rice, Dylan Butler and Deryl Dedmon were charged in documents sealed in U.S. District Court in Jackson. (Photos from left: James Craig Anderson and Deryl Dedmon, Courtesy ABC News, AP Photo/The Clarion-Ledger, Joe Ellis)
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NAACP Legal Defense President John Payton Dies - John Payton, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, died late Thursday after a brief illness. He was 65. (Photo: Courtesy NAACP)
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Army Officer Charged With 17 Counts of Murder - Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was charged Friday with 17 counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder, along with other charges, in connection with a shooting rampage in two southern Afghanistan villages.(Photo: AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)
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Consumers Offended by Abercrombie & Fitch Hoax - Abercrombie & Fitch consumers were outraged when they saw a website with the A&F logo selling racist merchandise Thursday, but the company claimed the website was bogus and forced the fakers to shut it down. The website ignited panic across the Web when the link, claiming to be an A&F “outlet,” had what they called “N----r Brown Pants” for sale. (Photo: Courtesy Vibe.com)
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Drowning Killed Houston but Drugs Took High Toll - Drugs took many things from Whitney Houston — her pristine voice, clean image and her career — and coroner officials revealed Thursday that cocaine also played a role in the Grammy winner's death in the bathtub of a luxury hotel nearly seven weeks ago.(Photo: AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
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U.S. Could Bring Hate Charge in Trayvon Martin Shooting - The U.S. Justice Department could bring a hate crime charge against the shooter in the killing of black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin if there is sufficient evidence the slaying was motivated by racial bias, legal experts and former prosecutors say. So far, only one such clue has surfaced publicly against 28-year-old George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who fatally shot 17-year-old Martin on Feb. 26 in Sanford, FL. Protests demanding the arrest of Zimmerman continue nationwide. (Photo: AP Photo/Martin Family, File)
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FAMU Emails Detail Hazing Warnings - The father of Robert Champion, a freshman in Florida A&M University's famed marching band who died last fall as a result of hazing, emailed the school's president in 2007 after getting a series of panic-stricken phone calls, according to reports revealed Monday. The son never described exactly what was happening, but he made it clear he feared getting beaten.(Photo: AP Photo/The Tampa Tribune, Joseph Brown III, File)
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NYPD Forces Out Four Officers in Sean Bell Killing - After five and a half years, the case of Sean Bell, an unarmed man killed by a barrage of 50 shots fired by New York City police officers the day before his wedding, has come to an official close. On Friday, after a department administrative trial found the officers acted improperly during the 2006 shooting incident, New York Police Department Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly fired Det. Gescard Isnora; detectives Marc Cooper, Michael Oliver and Lt. Gary Napoli announced they will resign.(Photo: AP Photo/New York City Police Department, File)
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Cheating in School Is Nationwide Dilemma - Widespread cheating in schools is not exclusive to any one area in the country, a new report reveals. Atlanta was rocked by a cheating scandal last year, and an extensive investigation by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has found “suspicious” standardized test scores in nearly 200 school districts nationwide. The investigation analyzed standardized test scores from 69,000 public schools and found high concentrations of suspicious math and reading scores.(Photo: Commercial Appeal/Landov)
