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The Root’s Response to the Worst Letter We’ve Ever Gotten
On Saturday evening the Michael Dunn verdict came in, and I was thrown. Not because he wouldn’t be serving time, as the jury found him guilty for shooting at the three boys he didn’t kill, but because I, like many people around the nation, felt like another grown white man had gotten away with killing…
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Tom Ford Pays Tribute to Jay Z at London’s Fashion Week
Turns out that Tom Ford also rocks Tom Ford. The high-end fashion retailer included two sequined football-jersey-style dresses with “TOM FORD” emblazoned across the back in his runway show at London’s Fashion Week on Monday. In between his luxurious fur coats and cashmere dresses, the designer sent down two versions of the dress, which had…
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Fox News Anchor Calls Don Lemon ‘the Al Sharpton of CNN’
Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett doubled down on his attacks on CNN’s Don Lemon. On Sunday the two had a war of tweets over Lemon’s live, impassioned delivery of the news after receiving the verdict in the Michael Dunn “loud music” murder trial. Jarrett called Lemon a “pompous, pretentious jerk,” to which Lemon replied, “mind…
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George Zimmerman: Only God Can Judge Me
On Monday, George Zimmerman appeared on CNN’s New Day to say that he was the victim in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin. He doesn’t watch the news anymore, he said, so he isn’t up on the Michael Dunn case, and only God can judge him. Zimmerman also told host Chris Cuomo, in one of…
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Obama: Uganda Anti-Gay Bill Is a Step Backward
On Sunday, President Barack Obama warned Uganda that plans to further criminalize homosexuality would “complicate our valued relationship,” the Associated Press reports. Obama said that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s pledge to sign an anti-gay bill marks a “step backward” for all Ugandans. Obama added that the bill also reflects poorly on the country’s commitment to…
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Prosecutors: Ex-NFL Player Darren Sharper Drugged and Raped Women
Former NFL safety pro bowler and Super Bowl champ Darren Sharper has been charged with seven felony drug and rape counts in connection with two separate incidents, the New York Daily News reports. If convicted, Sharper faces 30 years in prison. The Daily News notes that Sharper, 38, is also under investigation in at least…
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Michael Dunn: A New Breed of Thug in Florida
Michael Dunn was strapped when he pulled into the gas station that night as Lil Reese’s “Beef” blared from the speakers of the red Dodge Durango already parked there. He let his lady know he wasn’t feeling the “thug music.” She left the car to get wine, and Dunn decided he was going to do…
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Michael Dunn Verdict: Guilty of 4 of the 5 Charges
Michael Dunn, the 47-year-old man accused of killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis, has been found guilty of four of the five counts. Dunn sat silently as the court reporter announced guilty on three counts of attempted second-degree murder and one count of shooting into an occupied vehicle. The jury remained deadlocked on the first-degree murder charges,…
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Mistrial on Murder Charge in Michael Dunn Case
Updated Feb. 15, 7:00 p.m. The jury in the Michael Dunn murder trial, in the murder of Jordan Davis, is deadlocked on the charge of first degree murder and the lesser charges of second degree murder. The judge declared that charge of murder to be mistried. Michael Dunn has been found guilty of attempted second-degree…
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Michael Dunn’s Fate and National Debate Rest in Jury’s Hands
The fate of Michael Dunn, the 47-year-old man who pumped nine bullets into a parked SUV carrying three teenagers and killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis, lies with a Florida jury. On the first full day of jury deliberations in the first-degree-murder charges against Dunn, the jury has asked to see a foam mannequin used as a…
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