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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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12 Years a Slave Wins Best Picture at the Critics’ Choice Awards
The lead-up to the Academy Awards is getting intense as last night’s Broadcast Film Critics Association presented its annual awards ceremony in Santa Monica, Calif., honoring several movies that had earned Oscar nominations hours earlier, the Associated Press reports. 12 Years a Slave, the favorite by Vegas oddsmakers for Oscar’s top billing, walked away with…
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Arkansas State Football Player Markel Owens and Stepfather Killed in Robbery
An Arkansas State football player who was trying to shield his family from robbers was shot to death, along with his stepfather, the New York Daily News reports. Markel Owens, a 21-year-old junior defensive lineman for the Red Wolves, was fatally shot along with Johnny Shivers, 36, during the robbery at a duplex in Jackson,…
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Dad Who Shot Daughter, 11, Denied Funeral Pass
A Cincinnati man charged in the accidental shooting death of his 11-year-old daughter was denied a temporary release to attend his daughter’s funeral after a judge cited security concerns, CNN reports. Judge Nadine Allen denied a motion filed by a lawyer for Deandre Kelley, 34, because she was concerned that people might want to hurt…
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