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  • Watch: Apple Employee Tells Black Teens to Leave: ‘Worried About Your Presence in Our Store’

    A video uploaded to Facebook shows the moment when six Australian teens were denied entry to an Apple store and told to leave because staff and security were worried they “might steal something.” According to The Guardian, all six teens were met by an Apple staff member and two security guards Tuesday as they tried…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 12, 2015
  • Police: SC Boy, 13, Fatally Shoots Burglar With Mom’s Gun 

    Around 2 p.m. Tuesday, a 13-year-old South Carolina boy was home alone when a car pulled up behind his house. The driver stayed in the car while an armed man exited the vehicle and began walking toward the home. The teen did not know the men but knew where his mother kept her gun, so…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 12, 2015
  • Ala. Boy, 8, Charged With Murder of 1-Year-Old Girl; Mom Charged With Manslaughter After Reportedly Leaving Baby to Party

    An 8-year-old Alabama boy has been charged with murder for reportedly beating a 1-year-old girl to death, and the girl’s mother has been charged with manslaughter after, police claim, she and a friend left the baby and four other children in the boy’s care while they went to a nightclub. “There are just too many…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 11, 2015
  • Dancing? More Like 3rd-Degree Sexual Abuse: Woman Arrested for Twerking on Man 

    Some call it twerking; Washington, D.C., police call it sexual abuse. One woman has been arrested and a second is being sought after both women reportedly gyrated their backsides against a man and fondled his genitalia. According to the Huffington Post, the two African-American women were captured on video Oct. 7 around 4 p.m. inside…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 11, 2015
  • 90-Year-Old WWII Veteran Evicted on Stretcher Buys House Back With Community’s Help

    In July, 90-year-old World War II veteran Johnnie Hodges Sr. was forcibly removed from his Buffalo, N.Y., home, where he lived for more than 60 years, after falling behind on his mortgage payments. Hodges became delinquent on the payments while caring for his wife, Flora, who was in failing health with Alzheimer’s disease, WKBW reports.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 10, 2015
  • Everything We Know About the University of Mo. Football Boycott 

    Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect Tim Wolfe’s resignation. University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe announced his resignation during a press conference Monday morning amid growing outrage over his handling of racial matters on campus. “Please, please use my resignation to heal, not to hate,” he said. The story garnered national attention…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 9, 2015
  • Donations Stream in After Video of Homeless Single Dad Goes Viral

    In October, James Moss moved to Denver from New York with his 1-year-old son, Zhi, in search of a better life. A friend offered him a place to stay and a job opportunity, but shortly after they arrived, things took a turn and both his housing and job were gone. “It seemed like everything I was trying…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 9, 2015
  • Native American Leader Who Opposes the Term ‘Redskins’ Poses in Blackface

    An Arizona Native American leader who has been adamant about his efforts to have the Washington Redskins’ name changed because it’s offensive to American Indians posted a photo of himself in blackface dressed as Bob Marley. According to the New York Post, Terry Rambler, chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona, posted the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 6, 2015
  • Ben Carson’s Campaign Admits He Lied About West Point Scholarship

    Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson’s campaign admits that the former neurosurgeon never received a full-scholarship offer to attend the prestigious U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a claim that Carson wrote about in his autobiography, Gifted Hands. According to Politico, in the book Carson says he was offered and subsequently turned down a full scholarship…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 6, 2015
  • Life Sentence for Pa. Woman Who Enslaved and Stole From Mentally Disabled People 

    A Philadelphia woman who kept mentally disabled adults locked in the basement of her home so that she could collect and cash their disability checks was sentenced to life plus 80 years in prison Thursday. Linda Weston, 55, pleaded guilty in September to all 196 counts against her, which included kidnapping, racketeering, conspiracy and murder…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 6, 2015
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