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Man Accidentally Locked in Chicago Jail for 31 Hours Receives $600,000 Settlement
In July 2014, Farad Polk went to Chicago’s Cook County Jail to visit his son who’d been locked up on a drug charge. After being told by correctional officers at the jail to go down a hallway, Polk found himself locked inside a empty maximum security visiting area for over 30 hours. On Monday, Polk…
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jim Brown, Bill Russell to Receive Legacy Award
It feels fitting that in a time of the Movement for Black Lives and the last months of the first black president, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jim Brown and Bill Russell, champions of social justice, will receive the Sports Illustrated Muhammad Ali Legacy Award, not only for their achievement in sports but also for their activism, Sports…
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Trump on OSU Attacker: He ‘Should Not Have Been in Our Country’
President-elect Donald Trump is at it again. Shortly after the news that Abdul Razak Ali Artan—who stabbed students on the Ohio State University campus Monday—was a refugee from Somali, Trump took to Twitter to claim he “should not have been in our country.” The attack left 11 people injured and Artan dead, CBS News reports.…
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Racist Vandal Scrawls 'Kill All Koons' on Ind. Church Door
Evansville, Ind., police are looking for the person who vandalized a predominantly black church on Thanksgiving. The suspect scrawled, “Kill All Koons” on the church’s back door and “Koons Inside” on the church’s van. “I’ve been the pastor here for 17 years, and we’ve never had anything like this,” the Rev. Todd Robertson, pastor of…
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Fla. Man Charged After Shouting Racial Slurs, Threatening Motorists With Wrench
An 18-year-old Florida man has been arrested and charged with a felony after video showed him threatening a motorist and shouting racial slurs, officials say. Travis Thompson was arrested Monday and charged with improper exhibition of a firearm or dangerous weapon, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Police began investigating the incident, which was recorded and posted…
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President Obama: ‘Michelle Will Never Run for Office’
President Barack Obama isn’t just depressing us with his impending exit from the White House. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, he dashed any dreams that we collectively had for a Michelle Obama presidency. “Michelle will never run for office,” he said in the candid interview, which hit newsstands Tuesday. While many believe the…
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Texas to Require Hospitals and Clinics to Bury or Cremate All Aborted Fetal Tissue
In a stunning decision, Texas has banned health care facilities such as hospitals and women’s clinics from disposing of aborted fetuses and is requiring that the fetal remains be buried or cremated, despite fierce opposition from medical professionals and activists. According to the Texas Tribune, the new rules will take effect Dec. 19. What’s proving…
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Trump Believes Flag Burners Should Lose Citizenship or Spend a Year in Jail
President-elect Donald Trump is destroying freedoms on Twitter again. Despite two U.S. Supreme Court rulings that burning the U.S. flag is a right protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution, Trump tweeted Tuesday that burning the American flag should result in a penalty that could include jail time or loss of citizenship. “Nobody should…
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'I Voted for Trump': White Woman Has Epic Meltdown After Workers Ask Her to Pay for Bag
In the new Trump World, a shopper can rage and claim anti-white discrimination after being asked to purchase a $1 reusable bag at a Chicago-area arts and crafts store. “I voted for Trump—so there,” the woman shouted, according to Raw Story. “You want to kick me out for that? And look who won.” Several shoppers…
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This Homeless Man's Swanked-Out Digs Include a Bed and Living Room
Ceola Waddell Jr. is homeless. Ceola Waddell Jr. refuses to believe that, just because he doesn’t have a home, he shouldn’t have all the amenities that someone with a home would have. So with a lot of gumption and a bit of imagination and ingenuity, Waddell’s humble abode has made him something of an internet…
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