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Solange Opens Up About Autonomic Disorder, Cancels New Year’s Eve Afropunk Performance in South Africa
Solange Knowles has spent much of the past year on the road, taking her acclaimed album A Seat at the Table and creating a space for black female art everywhere from the Hollywood Bowl to the Guggenheim Museum. But the year has taken its toll on the 31-year-old singer, who was forced to cancel her headline…
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Deadly Bronx, NY, Blaze Started by Toddler Playing With Stovetop
A deadly fire that quickly consumed a 100-year-old apartment building in New York City’s Bronx borough Thursday night was started by a toddler playing on a stovetop, officials say. The Washington Post reports that the blaze, which has the sad distinction of being New York’s deadliest fire in decades, claimed 12 lives, including those of…
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‘They’ve Chose a Real Good Color’: Owner of Defaced Confederate Eyesore Will Keep the Pink
To call it the ugliest Confederate statue in America seems a bit redundant, but the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest on Interstate 65 in Tennessee undoubtedly wins that distinction. The deranged interpretation of Forrest, a Confederate general, human trafficker and leader of the Ku Klux Klan, has been an eyesore in Tennessee for nearly 20…
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Houston Man Charged With Murder After ‘Nearly’ Decapitating Woman With Samurai Sword
Little is known about a 45-year-old Houston man who, according to authorities, killed his girlfriend Wednesday with a samurai sword. As the Houston Chronicle reports, officials say that Kenneth Wayne Lockings Jr. “nearly” decapitated Aracely Jernigan, who was found dead on Lockings’ living room floor. According to the Chronicle, Houston police responded to a call…
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Longtime Atlanta News Anchor Amanda Davis Dies After Massive Stroke
Atlanta has lost one of its most familiar faces. Amanda Davis, the morning news anchor for WGCL-TV, suffered a massive stroke at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Tuesday. She was traveling to San Antonio to attend the funeral of her stepfather, USA Today reports. Davis, 62, died Wednesday night surrounded by family, according to WGCL-TV.…
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Cops Suspended After Failing to Check Up on Pregnant NYC Mother Who Was Later Found Dead
On Wednesday morning, two police officers were dispatched to a home in New York City’s Brooklyn borough to check on a pregnant 22-year-old mother who was scared of her husband. But the two officers never got out of their car, the New York Post reports. The woman, Tonie Wells, was found later that morning at…
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NYPD Veteran Caught Stealing From Banana Republic Quits: Report
A 49-year-old New York City Police Department sergeant allegedly caught shoplifting from Banana Republic last week has quit the force. According to the New York Post, Police Sgt. Tamas Balatoni was accused of switching price tags at a Banana Republic in lower Manhattan on Dec. 21 when he was caught by a store employee, who…
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Ohio Woman Convicted of Murder Is Released on Christmas Morning After Serving 22 Years
After 22 years in prison, an Ohio woman falsely accused of being an accomplice to murder at the age of 19 finally got to spend Christmas by her mother’s side. Tyra Patterson, a Dayton native, was sentenced to life in prison for robbing and murdering 15-year-old Michelle Lai in 1994. In Ohio, accomplices to murder…
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Woman Falsely Accused of Fraud After Buying Louis Vuitton at Saks Fifth Avenue
A Michigan woman is alleging that Saks Fifth Avenue employees profiled her after she made some high-end purchases at their store last week. With only a few days left until Christmas, Dana Hale and her 24-year-old daughter, Paris, went to a Saks store store in Troy, Mich., on Dec. 21 to get some shopping done.…
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Can I Get a Window Seat? United Passenger Big Mad Over Losing 1st-Class Seat to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee became the subject of one United Airlines passenger’s ire after the customer alleged that the Texas Democrat had been assigned a first-class seat that was originally hers. Jean-Marie Simon, a 63-year-old attorney and private school teacher, according to the Houston Chronicle, said that she booked a first-class seat Dec. 3 for…
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