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Fla. Police Arrest Woman Who Left 5 Kids in Hot Car to Get Job Application
Jacksonville, Fla., police arrested a 23-year-old woman who left five children in the car on a 92-degree day while she ran into a business to get a job application. According to News 4 Jax, Betty Brunson was charged with five counts of child neglect. Police told the news station that her relationship to the children…
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Audra McDonald Talks About Suicide Attempt: ‘I Tried to Slit My Wrist’
Audra McDonald is the most decorated actress in Broadway history. In June she won her sixth Tony Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. But life for McDonald wasn’t always this rosy. “When I was [in college] at Juilliard, I had a suicide attempt,” she said in…
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Christian Groups Aren’t Happy With Black Jesus
The Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder’s new show, Black Jesus, hasn’t even aired its first episode, and if Christian-rights groups have their way, it never will. McGruder’s comedy show for the Adult Swim network finds Black Jesus, played by actor Gerald “Slink” Johnson, living in Compton, Calif., where he tells his followers, “You get money f—king with…
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Video Surfaces of 2nd Man Apparently Choked by NYPD
An internal investigation is being launched within the New York City Police Department after a second video reportedly surfaced of another officer using an alleged choke hold on a man during an arrest. Choke holds are banned by the NYPD as a tactic for restraining a suspect. According to the Associated Press, on July 14,…
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LA Clippers Player Matt Barnes Turns to Social Media to Catch Aunt’s Killer
On Tuesday night, Los Angeles Clippers player Matt Barnes took his fight to find his aunt’s killer to social media. Barnes posted a photo of his aunt’s husband to his Instagram account with this caption: “This dude stabbed my auntie in the neck last week & left her for dead on the sidewalk, she ended…
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Have the Obamas Purchased Their Post-White House Home in California?
While the Obamas aren’t officially set to leave their current accommodations until after the 2016 election, that doesn’t mean they have to wait that long to start house shopping. According to unidentified real estate sources that spoke to the Los Angeles Times, the president and first lady are reportedly in escrow on a $4.25 million…
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LA Clippers CEO: If Donald Sterling Stays, Doc Rivers Quits
Donald Sterling is toxic, or at least that is the sentiment from current Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers and interim CEO of the organization Richard Parsons, who testified Tuesday that Rivers would quit if Sterling were still the owner of the team. “Doc is troubled by this, maybe more so than anybody else,” Parsons…
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Top High School Basketball Player to Forgo College to Play Overseas
Emmanuel Mudiay, one of the top high school basketball recruits, will forgo playing for Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown at Southern Methodist University and will play in China instead. He has signed a one-year contract worth $1.2 million with Guangdong of the China Basketball Association, Yahoo Sports reports. According to the news site, Mudiay,…
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Michigan Jail Switches Prison Jumpsuits After Success of OITNB
Orange is the old prison color. At least it is now at one Michigan prison that changed the prisoner garb from orange to black-and-white stripes after the success of the Netflix show Orange Is the New Black. “I see a lot of people wearing all orange, and they think it’s cool. And some people even…
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President Obama Announces Financial Boost for My Brother’s Keeper
Some months ago, President Barack Obama announced that his sights were set firmly on helping black and Latino young men with a special initiative called My Brother’s Keeper. On Monday the president announced during a town hall at the Walker-Jones Education Campus in Washington, D.C., that new private partnerships have donated some $104 million to…
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