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It was revealed Sunday that a tip provided to activist Shaun King and Harris County, Texas, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez led to the arrest of a suspect in the murder of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes. Barnes’s killer was initially described as a white male, leading to widespread allegations that she was the victim of a hate crime. But Gonzalez revealed Sunday that a black man has been arrested in the case. New questions are being raised though, after it was revealed that King and Gonzalez received the tip on Jan. 3. Both pushed the theory of a white suspect even after receiving...

A massive rift appeared Sunday in the Black Lives Matter movement, when two of its most high-profile activists went at it on Twitter. The beef appears to center on New York Daily News columnist Shaun King's defunct social justice charity, Justice Together. Deray McKesson, a prominent grassroots activist who sat on Justice Together"s board of directors, took King to task for blocking him on Twitter when he asked about the group's planning and financing. Following a Daily Caller expose last month, King announced that he was shutting down Justice Together and returning donations given to it and another similar group...