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NJ Girl, 12, Left ‘Brain Dead’ After Shooting, Police Say
Three friends—two girls and one boy—had taken a walk Saturday to their Paterson, N.J., neighborhood store around 8:40 p.m. When they got to the store and realized it was closed, they started their walk home, sharing rides on a scooter. A gunman who was reportedly aiming for someone else opened fire. Genesis Rincon, a 12-year-old…
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Memphis, Tenn., Police Find 8-Year-Old Boy Chained to Backyard Shed
Police in Memphis, Tenn., are investigating a bizarre incident after a child called to report that an 8-year-old sibling was chained up to a backyard shed. When police arrived, they found the boy unharmed but, indeed, chained up. WMC-TV reports that police also found six children ranging in age from 2 to 14 in the…
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Reading Rainbow Kickstarter Leads to More Than $5,400,000 in Donations
The pot of gold at the end of Reading Rainbow is somewhere in the neighborhood of $5.4 million. At the end of May, executive producer and host LeVar Burton launched the Kickstarter campaign in hopes of creating a Web version of the popular PBS show. He saw its initial goal of $1 million reached just…
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Opie & Anthony Host Calls Black Woman a ‘Savage’ During Racist Twitter Rant
Editor’s note: This article contains tweets that some may find offensive. Anthony Cumia, the “Anthony” half of the enormously unfunny shock-jock comedy team of Opie and Anthony—whose show by the same name airs on SiriusXM—was out late in New York taking photos, some of which included women dressed in club attire who did not give…
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Prince Leads an All-Star Lineup at the Essence Music Festival
It seems fitting that the Essence Festival—which has hosted and broken some of the biggest names in black music for the past 20 years—would have the man who at one point was so big that he used only a symbol as his moniker to headline the 20th-anniversary installment of the three-day musical free-for-all. The Purple…
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Man Who Threatened to Kill Michael Strahan Arrested Outside GMA Studio
Police arrested a man with a knife outside ABC studios Tuesday morning after he claimed he was there to “kill Michael Strahan,” the New York Post reports. According to sources who spoke with the Post, Andre Johnson, 25, was outside the Good Morning America studio around 8 a.m. when he flashed the knife in front…
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Fast-Food Worker Claims She Was Forced to Clean Bathrooms With Toothbrush
Whitney Clark didn’t think her job as a cook at a Houston fast-food restaurant would mean she would have to endure taunts about her weight or demeaning physical labor. “I just [didn’t] let it get to me because you hear it over and over and over,” she told KHOU 11 News about the daily fat…
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Woman Surrenders in Brutal Beating of Mother in Front of 2-Year-Old
The two women worked at a New Jersey McDonald’s. They didn’t get along. Their beef allegedly turned violent after Latia Harris, 25, heard rumors that Catherine Ferreira had made jokes about her being romantically involved with another co-worker. Harris is charged with confronting Ferreira on June 24 while still dressed in her work uniform and…
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Texas Tech Cuts Football Player After He Reportedly Punches Woman in Face
Texas Tech has cut ties with football freshman defensive back Nigel Bethel II after ” … he allegedly punched a female athlete in the face so hard that she will need surgery,” Raw Story reports. Bethel II reportedly punched Texas Tech basketball star Amber Battle over the weekend during a pickup game at a campus…
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Poll: 63 Percent of Americans Believe Blacks Are Responsible for Their Own Conditions
According to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center (pdf), 63 percent of Americans believe blacks are responsible for their own inability to succeed. Those polled ranged from those who identified as “solid liberals” to those who identified as “steadfast conservatives.” They were asked whether they believed that “racial discrimination is the main reason why…
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