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Blind Man Gets to Keep Heroic Guide Dog
Kind souls across the country delivered a Christmas blessing to a blind man and his guide dog. Cecil Williams, 61, was on his way to a dentist appointment when he began to feel faint. He collapsed onto the subway tracks, bringing his guide dog, Orlando, down with him. Orlando began barking and licking Williams’ face…
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Texas Judge Being Pressured to Give ‘Affluenza’ Kid Jail Time
The Texas judge whose lenient sentencing of the drunk-driving teen who killed four people yet was given probation is being pressured to sentence him to prison, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Sixteen-year-old Ethan Couch was given 10 years probation by the judge, who believes that rehabilitation is actually better for the teen than prison, after…
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Black Woman Wins $648,000,000 Jackpot
A Bronx, N.Y., native and current Stone Mountain, Ga., resident is flush after confirming that she is one of the two winners of the $648 million Mega Millions jackpot. Ira Curry, 56, came forward to reveal that she was a winner and is expected to take in a cool $120 million after taxes, Georgia Lottery…
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When Jim Brown Slams Kobe Bryant, Black Men Lose
There are two types of running backs: those who get the ball and dance around in the backfield waiting for a bit of daylight so they can slide through unscathed, and those who take the ball and go busting into the defense, making a path by brute force. Jim Brown was the second kind of…
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Guide Dog Risks Life to Save Owner
Cecil Williams, who is blind, left his home with his guide dog Orlando on a trip to the dentist. Williams began to feel faint while standing on a Manhattan subway platform and Orlando, a black lab, tried to prop Williams back up. “He tried to hold me up,” the emotional Williams told the Associated Press…
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Tulane Student Youngest Member of Mississippi House of Representatives
As a sophomore at Moss Point High School in Mississippi, Jeramey Anderson became interested in politics, and it’s a good thing, considering that those years in high school prepped him to become Mississippi’s youngest legislator, at age 22. Anderson is a senior at Tulane University’s Gulf Coast campus in Biloxi, Miss., where he studies homeland…
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George Zimmerman, the Next Picasso?
The art world has a new contemporary to add to its list of budding artists: George Zimmerman. That’s right, the acquitted shooter of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teen, is leveraging his “celebrity” to hock one of his original works on eBay. According to the Los Angeles Times, an eBay user with the alias “therealgeorgez”…
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Senate Confirms Jeh Johnson to Head Homeland Security
Democrats used the newly adjusted anti-filibustering rules to win Senate confirmation of Jeh Johnson, the president’s top pick for secretary of Homeland Security. The Senate voted 78-16 to confirm Johnson, a former top lawyer for the Pentagon who served as general counsel to the Defense Department during most of President Obama’s first term, ABC News…
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TMZ Poll: ‘African American’ or ‘N–ga’?
Former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight told TMZ that he is offended when people call him African American because he isn’t African. Knight said that the term is offensive to black people, TMZ reports. But Knight didn’t stop there, and neither did TMZ. Knight explained that he didn’t understand the controversy surrounding the word…
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No One Wants Michael Jordan’s Old House
Even after a modest price reduction, the house that was once home to arguably the greatest player ever to grace the hardwood is still for sale. Michael Jordan’s 56,000-square-foot home in suburban Chicago has failed to sell at auction after the bidding fell short, according to the Associated Press. The 7-acre estate in Highland Park,…
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