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Father of Victor White III: “My Son Did Not Kill Himself” - The first Black woman has been elected to lead the American Bar Association, plus more national news. — Natelege Whaley (@Natelege_) A Louisiana coroner says Victor White shot himself to death while he was handcuffed in the back of a police car, but his family does not believe he would commit suicide, CNN writes. “He had too much going on. He was full of life. He was working,” his father said. The family attorney said unless White is “Houdini or David Copperfield, it’s not possible.”   (Photo: CNN)

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Paulette Brown Becomes First Black Woman to Lead Bar Association - Paulette Brown will become the first Black woman to lead the American Bar Association and will take her post next year. She is currently a partner in the New Jersey law firm Edwards Wildman Palmer. Her long-list of accomplishments include serving as in-house counsel for Fortune 500 companies and opening her own firm, which focused on employment and civil rights. (Photo: Kathy Anderson Photography/ Courtesy of American Bar Association)

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Cop Identified in Beating Homeless Woman - Officer Daniel L. Andrew has been named as the authority that was caught on camera beating Marlene Mardella Pinnock, 51, by a Los Angeles freeway in July. Pinnock said she was approached by Andrew and later thrown on the ground. He then began hitting her. She remains in fear of the officer and continues to receive treatment in the hospital, according to TheGrio.  (Photo: David Diaz/AP Photo)

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Morehouse School of Medicine Inaugurates First Female President - Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice made history Thursday as she was ushered in as the first female president of the Morehouse College School of Medicine. Rice is the former dean of the Meharry Medical College. She is also an infertility specialist and researcher and has been honored by organizations such as the National Coalition of 100 Black Women for her work in women’s health. (Photo: Beverly Daniel Tatum via Twitter)

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Inmates Smuggle Drugs From Grandmother's Casket - Nekoase Antwan Vinson, 30, and his relative Henry Ison Rouse, 27, attempted to smuggle contraband into jail in a bizarre way, The Telegraph reports. The two were granted permission to attend the viewing for their grandmother’s funeral, where the men’s friends stashed marijuana, a cell phone and lighter in the dead woman’s casket. Her grandsons then took the items and were caught trying to bring them back to the Bibb County jail in Georgia. They now face charges for possession of the illegal items. (Photo: Law Enforcement/Bibb County Police Department)

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NY Police to Wear Body Cameras - The NYPD is the latest police department in America to begin testing body cameras that will be worn by its officers. New York Police Commissioner William Bratton said 60 of the devices will be tested during a trial. Support for the technology has grown in the wake of the killing of Michael Brown and other incidents of police brutality.  (Photo: Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

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Real Estate Agent Markets Brooklyn Neighborhood Without Blacks - A brochure created by a real estate agent that looks to bring in a slew of fancy restaurants to a popular strip in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood is being put on blast for not including photos of Black residents. The area is historically African-American. “Somewhere between the tough streets immortalized in the hip-hop genre and the chatter of gentrification and hipster invasion, BedStuy offers an interesting mix of transition and history,” reads the document.  (Photo: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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School Guard Pulled Racist Prank on Black Student - A white school guard at the Huntington School in Syracuse, New York, was suspended for a racist prank. Brandon Pearson, 12, who has Down syndrome, was posing for a picture in the hallway for his family members when the guard walked past and turned him to face the wall and lift his hands above his head. “Now take the picture, he’s in the right position,” the guard then said. His mother complained to the school’s principal later that day.  (Photo: Robert Nickelserg/Getty Images)