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  • Sam’s Club CEO Talks Diversity and White Men Are Outraged; Comments Deemed ‘Racist’

    Sam’s Club CEO Rosalind Brewer is in hot water with white men after a CNN interview in which she championed diversity and talked about an experience meeting with a supplier who had no representation of women or people of color. “It has to start with top leadership,” Brewer said regarding the way she promotes diversity…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 15, 2015
  • NBA Ref Reveals He Is Gay Days After NBA Star Is Suspended for Reportedly Calling Him Gay Slur 

    On Dec. 3, Sacramento Kings point guard Rajon Rondo was ejected from a game by referee Bill Kennedy. Rondo refused to leave the court immediately after being ejected and instead followed Kennedy to the far sideline, where he reportedly called the 18-year veteran a gay slur. Rondo was quoted as saying, “You’re a motherf—king f—got.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 15, 2015
  • President Obama Leads Rare Strategy Session on Terrorism

    President Barack Obama met with his national security team at the Pentagon Monday and then looked to ease fears of domestic terrorism during the holidays in a press conference. The president assured the public that the U.S.-led coalition is hitting ISIS, or the Islamic State, “harder than ever” and will continue with this strategy and…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 14, 2015
  • Police: Man Killed by Los Angeles Deputies Had Gun in His Hand When He Was Shot

    Video showing Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies fatally shoot a black man Saturday whose back was turned to them has gone viral and caused a backlash. Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials say that at the time of the shooting, the man, 28-year-old Nicholas Robertson, was holding a gun, which he never let go of, even…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 14, 2015
  • Suspect in Killing of Miss. Cops Dies After Being Found Unconscious in Cell

    Marvin Banks, 29, had been arrested in the fatal shooting of two Mississippi police officers. On Friday night, Banks was found unresponsive in his cell and rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. According to NBC News, “Autopsy results showed Banks died of severe heart disease, but toxicology tests are still pending.”…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 14, 2015
  • Ole Miss Star Defensive Lineman Falls From 4th-Floor Hotel Window

    University of Mississippi defensive lineman Robert Nkemdiche is in stable condition after falling from a Buckhead, Ga., hotel-room window late Saturday night. According to CBS News, Nkemdiche reportedly broke a fourth-floor window at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, climbed out of the broken window, walked about 15 feet, then climbed over a wall and fell about 15…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 14, 2015
  • Judge Orders Muslim Man Arrested for Supporting ISIS to Eat or Be Force-Fed

    On Thursday a California federal judge ordered a jailed Muslim inmate, who stopped eating after his May arrest for supporting ISIS, to eat or be force-fed. Muhanad Badawi, 24, appeared in court looking rail thin, having lost 30 pounds since his arrest in May. At the time of his arrest, Badawi weighed about 140 pounds.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 11, 2015
  • Hillary Clinton on Donald Trump: He Isn’t Funny Anymore, He’s Dangerous

    Hillary Clinton, like most of America, isn’t laughing at Donald Trump anymore. The Democratic presidential candidate appeared on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers Thursday and said that before Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the U.S., he was laughable, but that now the GOP presidential candidate has crossed the line. “I think for weeks…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 11, 2015
  • NC Man Dies in Police Custody After Being Pepper-Sprayed

    A North Carolina man died in police custody Wednesday after he was pepper-sprayed in a reported struggle with Winston-Salem police. According to WXII 12, officers were responding to a call made around 7:30 p.m. about shots fired when they encountered Travis Nevelle Page, 31, of Winston-Salem, who, they claim, matched the description given by the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 10, 2015
  • Houston Company Gives Every Employee $100,000 Christmas Bonus

    A Houston company just made all of its employees’ Christmas dreams come true after everyone, no matter his or her position or salary, received a $100,000 Christmas bonus. That’s right: All 1,380 employees at Hilcorp, “one the largest privately held oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the United States,” according to KTVU,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    December 10, 2015
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