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Herbie Hancock Named Professor of Poetry at Harvard
Herbie Hancock, one of the architects of contemporary American music, who has left his fingerprints in just about every form of the art, is now the Harvard University 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry, BBC reports. The jazz legend will deliver six lectures on a variety of topics, according to Rolling Stone. His talks will mostly…
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Transgender Woman CeCe McDonald Released From Prison
CeCe McDonald, a 26-year-old transgender woman who was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for manslaughter, was released Monday, ABC News reports. McDonald didn’t plan on becoming a figure for the transgender-activist community late one night in June 2011, when she and friends were leaving a Minneapolis bar and were confronted by ex-con Dean Schmitz.…
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Teenager Hurls Racist Remarks, Kanye West Allegedly Throws Punches
Looks like Kanye West’s plan to chill didn’t last long, as TMZ is reporting that the hotheaded rapper, who is now known as much for his antics as for his music, punched a teenager. According to TMZ, his fiancee, Kim Kardashian, had arrived at medical building when photographers swarmed her. Not wanting to deal with…
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Online Gangbangin’: Flaunt It, Boast About It, Busted
The beat comes in—a rapid high-hat, laced with a dope-smoking, hypnotic keyboard punch—and then the hook, an ode to how Twain Gotti, a 22-year-old rapper from Newport News, Va., will ride out on his enemies. Gotti proceeds to spit the lyrics that got him arrested for an unsolved murder in 2007: Listen, walk to your…
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RNC Chairman Defends Gov. Christie and Slams President Obama
NBC host David Gregory got into a heated debate with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus about Priebus’ forgiving views toward New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the role Christie played, if any, in the traffic-jam scandal reported last week. In a Sunday morning interview on Meet the Press, Priebus argued that Americans would forgive…
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Texas Man Pays Child Support Debt Yet Still Heads to Prison
Updated Saturday, Jan. 11, 1:08 p.m. EST: A bizarre case involving a Texas man who was jailed for paying too much child support has the social media world abuzz. Change.org is urging people to sign a petition asking Gov. Rick Perry to lift all charges against Clifford Hall, who earlier this month was sentenced to six…
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Black Parents Forced to Fight for Justice For Their Sons
A year ago today in the small town of Valdosta, Ga., Kendrick Johnson, a 17-year-old junior at Lowndes High School, was found dead, and three stories emerged. The first was told by the police about a teenager trying to retrieve a shoe out of a rolled-up mat in the high school gym. He fell in,…
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Transgender Teen Facing Criminal Charges for Fighting Bullies
A 16-year-old California transgender student who stood up to three bullies, who she claims have taunted her for years over her gender identity, is facing criminal charges. The other three teens were only suspended, the New York Daily News reports. Jewlyes Gutierrez, a student at Hercules High School in Hercules, Calif., says she snapped during…
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29-Year-Old Mother of 3 Dies From the Flu
Alice and Darrell Jones, both young, in college and in love, were raising three children together. Earlier last week, they both got sick with the flu. On Monday, Alice, an aspiring Dallas nurse, was dead. She was 29. “I made it through Afghanistan and thought we would move on with our lives,” Darrell Jones, who…
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Fox News Hosts ‘Heart’ Don Lemon
Even Fox News is confused as to which channel Don Lemon works for. On Thursday, Fox News’ The Five aplauded CNN’s Lemon for the smooth way he dragged the president’s name into New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s bridge scandal, Mediaite reports. One of Christie’s top aides allegedly sent emails asking that traffic jams be created, by…
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