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Family of Mentally Ill Black Man Killed by Police Releases Graphic Video - Jason Harrison, 38, was killed in Dallas on June 14, 2014, by police officers who were responding to his mother’s call for help in taking him to the hospital. Harrison was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and was having a mental episode, Reuters reports. The cops were wearing body cameras and the family released the video Tuesday showing the man holding a screwdriver when they arrived. Cops demanded that Harrison drop the tool, and when he didn’t, they opened fire on him.  (Photo: Dallas Police Department)
Coast Guard Training Facility in D.C. Named After Black Woman  - The Coast Guard Headquarters will name a training center in Washington, D.C., after the first African-American woman to join the service, Fox News reports. Olivia Hooker, from Tulsa, Okla., turned 100 in February. She entered the U.S Coast Guard in 1945. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Museum to Be Built Where Slaves Were First Brought to America - History will continue to live on at the Charleston waterfront where enslaved Africans were brought to America for the first time in 1783. Organizers began laying down the plans for what is to become the International African American Museum. The new institution will hold the stories of these people and tell how they went about surviving in their new environments, the Reading Eagle reports. It is expected to open in 2018. (Photo: AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
Ebony Delays New Issue to Ensure Increase in Their Ad Rates - Ebony Magazine delayed the next issue of their magazine in order to confirm higher ad rates for the publication that will now be “the same market rates as any other magazine,” CEO Desiree Rogers told Richard Prince’s Journal-isms. The March issue will be combined with the April issue in order to get advertisers to agree on the new company rates. This will be the first issue produced since the recent departure of Mitzi Miller, who held the position as editor-in-chief up until Feb. 20.  (Photo: Ebony Magazine, February 2015)

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Coast Guard Training Facility in D.C. Named After Black Woman  - The Coast Guard Headquarters will name a training center in Washington, D.C., after the first African-American woman to join the service, Fox News reports. Olivia Hooker, from Tulsa, Okla., turned 100 in February. She entered the U.S Coast Guard in 1945. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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