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Calif. Teen Overcomes Abuse and Homelessness to Earn 4.1 GPA
Elexis Webster is a 17-year-old junior with a 4.1 GPA. She’s been on the honor roll throughout high school and has plans to go to college. “As a 17-year-old junior with a 4.1 GPA, many wouldn’t expect me to have such a rough life,” Elexis, of Oakland, Calif., began her application essay to Students Rising…
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White Supremacist Doesn't Understand What the 'N' in NAACP Means; Gets Dragged on Twitter
White supremacist leader Preston Wiginton is a genius racist, but that’s where his genius ends. On Wednesday the Texas A&M University student newspaper, The Battalion, reported comments made by Wiginton in which the racist says he wants to create a WAACP. “If we want to have a white state, or a white community or a…
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Police Looking for Broadway Pickpocket Targeting Hamilton Audience
While standing in line in New York City to meet the cast of Hamilton, the hottest show on Broadway, you may want to watch your pockets because a woman has reportedly been targeting the hit show to nab the wallets of unsuspecting out-of-towners. According to the New York Daily News, the thief started her spree…
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Ohio State University Suspect Shot and Killed; 10 Injured in Campus Attack
Updated Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, 8:46 p.m. EST: The suspect in the Ohio State University attack has been identified as 20-year-old Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a logistics-management major in the College of Business at Ohio State, the Columbus Dispatch reports. The officer who shot and killed Artan has been identified as Ohio State University Police Officer Alan…
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Minn. Bus Driver Uses Racial Slurs Before Kicking Kids Off Bus, Stranding Them
A Minnesota bus driver hurled racial slurs at a bunch of middle school students before forcing them off the bus and leaving them stranded in an industrial park in Moorhead, Minn. Horizon Middle School student DeShanna Dotson told WDAY that the bus driver left her and about 20 students on a street around 4:15 p.m. Tuesday.…
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Donald Trump’s Baseless Claim That Illegal Votes Cost Him Popular Vote Is Classic Trump
President-elect Donald Trump is continuing the same ridiculous stunts that got him elected. On Sunday, after learning that Hillary Clinton had joined Jill Stein’s movement to challenge voter results in three states, Trump tweeted that millions of votes were cast illegally for Clinton. “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won…
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Say Cheese? Black CVS Customer Asks for Cheese and Employees Hide and Call Police
Maybe “cheese” sounded like “freeze” to the Richmond, Va., CVS workers who ran to the back and called the police on a young black man who asked for sliced cheese. That’s right; Ricky Berry had the audacity to ask a store worker for cheese, and for some reason—which I’m sure has nothing to do with…
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Unique Views, Episode 20: Jive Turkey, Featuring Pam Grier
Are you like me? Have you ever wished that there was a bigger, blacker Netflix for all the blaxploitation movies of the past? Well, wait no more! Introducing Brown Sugar, the biggest, baddest, blackest mutha— Patti LaDanielle: Shut yo’ mouth! Just talking about Brown Sugar on Bounce TV. Seriously, the service is dope, free for the first…
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After Months of Spouting White Nationalist Sentiments, Trump Denounces Alt-Right
President-elect Donald Trump, who spent his entire campaign spouting white nationalist rhetoric, has once again tried to distance himself from the hate-filled groups. White supremacists, who have tried to rebrand themselves as the “alt-right,” have been praising Trump’s victory as a plus for their agenda, the Associated Press reports. “I disavow and condemn them,” Trump…
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Trump Picks SC Gov. Nikki Haley for US Ambassador to UN
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is reported to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. President-elect Donald Trump has picked Haley, the first woman and critic of Trump’s campaign to be chosen for a top-level position, sources told the Associated Press. If confirmed by the Senate, Haley, an Asian American, would be the…