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DC Council to Vote on Redskins Name Change
The 13-member D.C. Council will vote today on a resolution calling for the Washington Redskins to change the team name as, “the right and prudent thing to do,” the Washington Post reports. While the ruling would have no legal weight in forcing team owner Daniel Synder to change the team name, it does send another…
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NFL Player Bullies Biracial Teammate
Last week, NFL rookie Johnathan Martin left the Miami Dolphins amid allegations that he was being bullied by teammates. Shortly after, NFL talking heads hit the televisions screens to initiate the uninformed into the culture of football locker-room antics. On the NFL Network, former Dallas Cowboys star wideout Michael Irvin talked about his heydays in…
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Dancing for Action Has Flash Mob at Barclays Center
Dancing for Action, an interpretive protest dance troupe, held a flash mob outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., to rally against “Stand your ground” and the illegality of stop-and-frisk laws, Newsone reports. The troupe chose Saturday evening outside the arena as the Brooklyn Nets were playing the Miami Heat for one reason: The Heat…
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Usain Bolt Talks McNuggets in Memoir
When you are the fastest man on the planet, you can eat whatever you want — even boatloads of McDonald’s chicken nuggets. Usain Bolt revealed in a newly published memoir that during his two-week stay in Beijing during the 2008 Olympics, he consumed roughly 1,000 chicken nuggets, according to excerpts published by the New York…
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Obama Was Told Health Care Website Was Working
Turns out that President Obama was just as shocked as the rest of America that the Healthcare.gov website wasn’t working. He was told that the site would be fully functional — even as private contractors and some administration knew the site had failed early testing, a senior White House advisor said Sunday. The Los Angeles…
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Harry Belafonte Compares Koch Brothers to KKK
Beloved singer and activist Harry Belafonte put both feet down in the paint on Sunday when he compared the Tea Party-supporting Koch brothers to the KKK, the New York Post reports. Belafonte, 87, was warming up the mostly black congregation at the First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem to introduce democratic mayoral front-runner, Bill de Blasio.…
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Suit Claiming Racism Filed Against Barclays Center
A group of African-American men are claiming that the staff and security at the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn, N.Y., have given them shoddy treatment, accused them of skipping out on bills and even had security rush what they believed was their luxury box, the New York Post reports. The three men, Glen DeFreitas, Sean…
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Food Stamp Benefit Cuts Start Today
On Friday, a boost from the federal stimulus package is set to expire, which will cut the “food stamp” program by $5 billion dollars nationally. More than 47 million Americans — or 1 in 7 — will see a decrease in their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, reports CBS News. The amount could get…
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Football Field Turned Organic Farm at HBCU
In Texas, where football is king, Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell chose to cut the school’s football program, Yahoo Sports reports. The sports department and upkeep was draining the budget of the small HBCU, which is located seven miles outside of downtown Dallas. Sorrell, a Root100 alum and president of the school since 2007, had to make the unpopular…
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New York Bus Driver Saves Woman's Life
A Buffalo, N.Y. school bus driver risked his life to save a woman he didn’t know. Darnell Barton, 37, was driving a bus full of high school students along a parkway when he saw woman standing on the ledge, “leaning out over the traffic below,” The Buffalo News, reports. That is when Barton stopped the bus…
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