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NJ College Freshman Dies During Pickup Basketball Game
Patrick Awosogba, a New Jersey native and freshman at Rutgers University, died Sunday while playing a pickup basketball game at a recreation center on campus, NJ.com reports. The 18-year-old collapsed on the court around 2 p.m. Lifeguards on duty at the recreation center immediately began to administer CPR until paramedics and police officers arrived at the…
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3-Year-Old Brooklyn Boy Found Dead With Belt Marks and Bruises on His Body
Paramedics walked into a Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment Wednesday afternoon and found 3-year-old Ethan Ali dead, lying in the arms of his aunt, Kristen Dale. The boy’s body had belt marks and bruises on it. Police officers suspect that the boy “was beaten to death with a strap,” the New York Daily News reports. Medics were called…
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Family of Unarmed Hispanic Man Who Was Shot Dead by Police Hires Benjamin Crump
The family of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, the 35-year-old unarmed Mexican man shot dead by Washington state police officers Feb. 10, has hired civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump to seek justice in the incident, the New York Daily News reports. Zambrano-Montes’ family, like Michael Brown’s familiy before them, believe that their loved one was subjected to excessive…
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US Justice Department Will Not Bring Federal Charges Against George Zimmerman
The Justice Department will not bring federal charges against George Zimmerman, the 31-year-old Florida man who was tried and found not guilty in the 2012 shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, the New York Times reports. Federal prosecutors found that they did not have “sufficient evidence” to prove that Zimmerman “intentionally violated Martin’s civil…
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Transgender Inmate Sues Ga. Prison for Being Denied Hormone Treatments
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit group specializing in civil rights, filed a lawsuit Friday against Georgia’s Department of Corrections on behalf of 36-year-old transgender inmate Ashley Diamond, the New York Daily News reports. The suit seeks to have Diamond’s hormone therapy restored. According to the Daily News, Diamond, a Georgia native, has been…
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Watch: 12-Year-Old Ga. Boy Blasts Obama for Being Weak on ISIS and Terrorism
C.J. Pearson, a 12-year-old middle school student from Georgia, uploaded a video on his YouTube channel Saturday in which he blasted President Barack Obama for not really loving America, because if he did, C.J. claimed, Obama “would call ISIS what it really is—an assault on Christianity [and] an assault on America,” Pearson said. The video…
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Red-Carpet Fashion at the 2015 Academy Awards
Even though there was an uproar about the lack of diversity among the Academy Award acting nominees, that didn’t stop black actors, actresses and entertainers from gracing the red carpet. Have a look at some of the fashions on Oscar night. Jennifer Hudson Common Chrissy Teigen and John Legend David Oyelowo Viola Davis Kevin Hart…
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Why She Got a Tat of Malcolm X’s ‘By Any Means Necessary’ at Age 20
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination, The Root looked for ways that people continue to demonstrate their admiration for and inspiration by Malcolm X and his message. Whether it’s getting a tattoo of a Malcolm X quote, keeping his autobiography front and center on a coffee table, hanging his poster on a dorm-room wall or donning a Malcolm X T-shirt, there are…
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‘Been Around the World and I, I, I’: Why a Nomadic Couple Is Heading Out on a Wedding-Engagement Tour
Antoine Kinch hopped onto an ottoman in a swanky New York City rooftop lounge to toast his fiancee and thank their family and friends for making it out to celebrate his and Shaunte Otey’s wedding engagement. Kinch, a 37-year-old engineer, spoke giddily about how he was marrying a longtime friend and a woman whom he at…
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Leader of Prison Drug Ring Who Impregnated 4 Guards Gets Reduced Sentence for Testimony
It doesn’t matter that Tavon White—a Baltimore convict—helmed a drug-smuggling operation and impregnated four prison guards while serving out a stint in prison. Prosecutors on Monday reduced White’s sentence from 20 years to 12 years because he cooperated with authorities and testified against other prison inmates involved in the drug ring, which included two corrections…
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