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Jalen Rose Leadership Academy’s Entire Inaugural Graduating Class Headed to Promising Future
In 2011, Jalen Rose put his money where his heart is and started a school in his hometown of Detroit. On Saturday the 13-year NBA player-turned-ESPN and ABC analyst told the 100 young men and women of the school’s first graduating class, “The only person that you are destined to become is the person you…
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Here’s Everything We Know About the Pool Party in Texas
A pool party in McKinney, Texas, Friday has shocked the nation after footage went viral showing a white police officer cursing, threatening and ultimately slamming into the ground and handcuffing a 15-year-old African-American bikini-clad girl. At one point the officer is seen pulling out and pointing his service weapon at a group of teens. The…
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Death of 22-Year-Old Student in Police Custody Ruled a Homicide
A 22-year-old college student who was arrested after a domestic violence dispute and later died in restraints inside a Georgia cell on New Year’s Day, died from blunt-force injuries, and his death has been ruled a homicide. According to the Associated Press, Matthew Ajibade’s parents have being searching for answers for months about exactly what…
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Ohio Man Posts Emotional Video After He Is Badly Beaten Trying to Help His Community
Ronald Moon Jr. has a house in the same Cincinnati neighborhood where he grew up. But instead of turning the family home into a rental property, he decided to make it a community center for the children in the neighborhood. For the past six months, Moon, who quit his job to try to create his…
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Detroit Mom on Trial in Killing of 2 Kids Erupts in Courtroom: ‘Yes, I Did Kill Her!’
A Detroit courtroom dealt with some pretty tense moments Thursday as Mitchelle Blair, the Detroit mom accused of killing two of her children and storing their bodies in a freezer for years, exploded in the courtroom, yelling, “Yes, I did kill her!” According to My Fox Detroit, Blair, 35, is facing murder charges in the…
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Calif. Parents Furious With High School Teacher Who They Say Asked Students to Take Selfies With Parents’ Sex Toys
A California teacher reportedly sent his high school students home with a bizarre request for extra credit. “It was to go into your parents’ private drawers or whatever to seek out sexual toys or condoms, or anything of that nature, and to take a selfie with it,” one student’s mother, Kimberly Cobene, told KPIX. Cobene,…
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Cleveland Cop Michael Brelo Arrested 4 Days After Being Acquitted in 2012 Shooting of Unarmed Couple
Just four days after he was acquitted in the 2012 shooting of an unarmed black couple, Cleveland Police Officer Michael Brelo has been arrested and is facing assault charges after an altercation with his twin brother. According to CNN, Brelo, 31, and his brother Mark both surrendered to police on Wednesday after a drunken fight…
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A Calif. Teen With Special Needs Gunned Down for Wearing Red Shoes in Wrong Neighborhood
Nineteen-year-old Tavin Price and his mother, Jennifer Rivers, stopped at a South Los Angeles car wash Friday on their way to the beach. Rivers began vacuuming out the car. Price, who had special needs, went inside to buy some cigarettes. A man told Price to take off his red shoes because the color is associated…
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Warrants Issued for 4 People Who Cheered During Miss. Graduation
June is graduation month, so when the person at the lectern says save your applause until all the graduates’ names have been called, it is probably best to heed that warning, especially if you live in Mississippi. Police have issued warrants (that’s right, warrants) for four people who shouted or cheered during Senatobia High School’s graduation…
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4-Year-Old Boy Hit by Car Miraculously Escapes Serious Injury
An out-of-control car was caught on surveillance camera as it hopped a curb, hit a tree and ran over a 4-year-old boy who was walking on the sidewalk in his Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood. According to WABC, the child survived the Monday-afternoon crash with only a few bruises and escaped more serious injury. Neighbors who saw…
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