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George Zimmerman’s New Painting Targets Special Prosecutor
Using dark reds and deep oranges, George Zimmerman is painting his way back into the conversation as he is set to release another piece of original artwork. This time his muse is the special prosecutor who charged him with second-degree murder, the Associated Press reports via Yahoo News. Zimmerman’s brother, Robert Zimmerman Jr., posted the…
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Teacher Twerking for Students?
A cellphone video is making the rounds on social media showing a Mississippi teacher twerking in front of a class. The video shows a male teacher bent over wiggling in front of another teacher. Students can be scene in the video gasping and turning away from the site of the gyrating teacher. One student can…
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New Video Shows Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at It Again
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is back at it again: drinking, cussing and imitating a Jamaican accent, as two new videos have emerged on YouTube that show the mayor, well, being the mayor. In one video titled “New Video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Drunk, Swearing in Jamaican Patois? Bumbaclot,” the mayor is shown in a…
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Teen Whom Kanye West Allegedly Beat Up Seeks Out-of-Court Settlement
The 18-year-old whom Kanye West allegedly pummeled last week in a chiropractor’s waiting room for supposedly hurling racist slurs at West’s fiancee wants to settle out of court for a few hundred thousand dollars, TMZ reports. According to TMZ, sources connected with the 18-year-old tell the news site that his lawyer has contacted West’s people…
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A Mother Loses 2 Sons to Violence Only 19 Days Apart
On New Year’s Eve, Dinyal New lost her 13-year-old son, Lee Weathersby III, to gun violence in East Oakland, Calif. Three weeks later her 19-year-old son, Lamar Broussard, has also been killed. Two funerals for her two babies in under a month. “I have no more kids,” New told the San Francisco Chronicle, adding that…
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The Root’s Keli Goff Named New Emerging Playwright
Keli Goff, special correspondent for The Root, was named one of 10 new playwrights for the Public Theater’s 2014-2015 Emerging Writers Group. The Public Theater announced on Tuesday that Goff, along with nine other playwrights, was selected out of some 475 applicants to participate in the fifth cycle of the program, which cultivates talent “at…
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Seahawks’ Richard Sherman Is Not a Thug. Stop Calling Him One
There was a moment in the NFL version of the Hatfields and McCoys that could have ended the blood feud. It came at the end of the game Sunday, after Seattle’s Richard Sherman batted a pass intended for San Francisco 49er Michael Crabtree into the arms of a teammate, causing an interception that would seal…
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Florida House Candidate Calls for Hanging of President
On the national day of reflection for Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, an African-American Republican candidate for Florida House District 68 took to Twitter to demand that the president be hanged for war crimes, the Tampa Bay Times reports. “I’m past impeachment,” Joshua Black wrote on Twitter. “It’s time to arrest and hang him high.”…
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North Carolina School Gives Black Student Confederate Hat as Prize
When Natasha Lea’s 9-year-old son, Jacob, got off the bus, she noticed that he was sporting a new gray hat with a black bill. She looked closer and saw that it was a Confederate-style costume piece. “I did not want to believe that. That the school actually let him walk around as an African-American child…
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Teacher Put Kindergartner in Closet and Left School
A Memphis, Tenn., teacher has been suspended and an investigation is under way after she reportedly put a 5-year-old student in a closet and then left the school, WAFB 9 News reports. According to officials at Shelby County Schools, Kristin Oshfeldt, a teacher at A.B. Hill Elementary, has been suspended without pay after an administrator…
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