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‘We Can’t Sit Back and Watch History, We’ve Got to Create It’
In 2013, six black and brown kids from the Bronx Academy of Promise in New York City took on the odds, and more than 350 teams, and came out victorious after a math app they created for Google Play won Best in Nation at the Verizon Innovative App Challenge. Now those six teens—who received…
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Detroit Man Who Walks 21 Miles to Work Is Rewarded by Strangers
Detroit native James Robertson’s 1998 Honda Accord quit on him some 10 years ago, but he didn’t quit on life. For 10 years since losing his wheels, Robertson has walked some 21 miles a day, to and from his house in Detroit to his factory job in Rochester Hills, Mich., and in more than 10…
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Warren Sapp Arrested in Hotel on Charges of Soliciting a Prostitute
Former NFL player and current NFL analyst Warren Sapp was arrested Monday morning on charges he solicited a prostitute, according to TMZ Sports. The news site notes that Sapp, who does commentary for the NFL Network, was in Phoenix for the Super Bowl. The 42-year-old Hall of Famer was booked and no word was given on whether…
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Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch to Become a Sexual-Abuse Rehab Center for Children?
Michael Jackson’s famed Neverland Ranch could become a sex-assault rehabilitation facility for children, if rumors are correct that a New York businessman is bidding to purchase the property with plans to convert the deceased singer’s home. According to the New York Post’s Page Six, several buyers have emerged to purchase the 2,700-acre property—which Jackson purchased in…
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Watch: San Francisco Lawyer Arrested for Asking Police Not to Question or Photograph Her Client
The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office is outraged after Jami Tillotson, a deputy public defender at the office, was arrested Tuesday outside a courtroom for asking a plainclothes officer not to interview her client or take his photograph. According to a video released by the defender’s office, Tillotson and her client, an African-American male, are…
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Mo. Man Arrested After Telling Black Waitress He Wanted to Show Her Where He ‘Hung’ Her Grandpa
A 65-year-old white Missouri man was arrested and charged with a hate crime after he reportedly used racial slurs toward a black waitress whom he also allegedly told, “I have a place I would like to take you where I hung your grandpa.” Tommy Dean Gaa, of Maryville, reportedly told the waitress, after she asked…
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Norfolk State University Student Brutally Attacked by Police Dog
Editor’s note: This article contains a graphic image of the wounds sustained by London Colvin during an encounter with a police dog. A Norfolk State University student suffered several injuries when, she claims, a police dog attacked her while she was being arrested for not giving information about a fight she was not involved in. According…
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Marissa Alexander Released From Prison
Marissa Alexander, the Florida mother who fired warning shots to stop her abusive ex-husband’s attack in 2010, may finally see the dark days of prison behind her, with a judge releasing her late Tuesday to serve the rest of her sentence on house arrest. “Today, after the sentence given by Judge Daniel, my family and…
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CBS Sports Analyst Greg Anthony Caught in Sting, Agreed to Pay Escort $80 for Sex
Greg Anthony’s days as a CBS sports commentator have been on hold since he was suspended indefinitely after news broke that the former NBA player had been arrested for soliciting a prostitute. Now new details have surfaced that Anthony agreed to pay a “D.C. police officer who was working undercover as a prostitute $80,” according…
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Detroit Man Faces Jail for Refusing to Pay Child Support for Child Who Is Not His
The state is still after a Detroit man who has been ordered to pay $30,000 in back child support for a child he says is not his, a DNA test proves is not his and whose mother admits is not his child. Carnell Alexander was back in court Friday to face a Detroit judge at…
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