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Video Shows Man Punching Security Guard in Her Face
A Chicago security guard is recovering after being brutally punched in the face during an attack early Sunday morning that left her with serious injuries. “He fractured a bone right below my eye,” Zoa Stigler, a security guard at the Six30 condo complex, told NBC Chicago. “He punched me and threw his water bottle all…
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Recent College Graduate, Mother of 2 Killed in Fatal Shooting on I-95 in Va.
Two people were shot and killed as they were driving along on Interstate 95 in downtown Richmond, Va., early Sunday morning after another car pulled up and opened fire. According to WTVR, Tanna Gardner, 23, was driving the car, which contained six other passengers, when the shooting happened. Gardner and a passenger, 26-year-old Sharayne Holland,…
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Supreme Court Rejects Appeal to Reinstate NC’s Strict Voter-ID Law
The Supreme Court on Monday said that it had zero time for North Carolina and its shenanigans, rejecting an appeal to reinstate its stupid voter-identification laws, which a lower court had ruled targeted African Americans “with almost surgical precision.” The justices instead let stand the lower court’s ruling, which struck down the photo-ID requirement and…
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14-Year-Old Carson Huey-You Becomes Youngest Person to Graduate From Texas Christian University
On Saturday, some 2,000 students received their undergraduate, graduate or doctorate degrees from Chancellor Victor J. Boschini Jr. during three ceremonies at Texas Christian University. Carson Huey-You was one of them, officially becoming the youngest person to ever receive a bachelor’s degree at the school as he walked across the stage at age 14. But…
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NJ Family Kicked Off JetBlue Flight Over a Birthday Cake
I’m beginning to think that all these airlines are trolling us. There’s no way that so much bad news can circulate at once, but alas, here we are again. This time, a New Jersey family was kicked off a Las Vegas-bound JetBlue flight—delaying birthday-party plans and quite possibly leaving a bad taste in the family’s…
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SC Mom Charged With Child Cruelty After Beating 6-Year-Old Son Who Made Mother’s Day Card for His Grandmother and Not Her: Report
A South Carolina woman is facing a child-cruelty charge after authorities say she beat her 6-year-old son because he made a Mother’s Day card for his grandmother but not her. According to Fox Carolina, the Spartanburg, S.C., Police Department was called to a disturbance at a home Thursday around 6:40 p.m. When they arrived at…
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Mass. Charter School Students Sent to Detention, Banned From Prom Because They Wear Braids
Why black hair in school environments is still an issue in this, the year of our Lord 2017, is beyond me. But here we are, yet again. This time, in an apparent sudden enforcement of the “rules,” black students at a charter school in Malden, Mass., have been subject to punishment over braids (yes, the…
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‘Why Are N–gers Black?’ Final-Exam Question Causes Uproar at NM High School
Normally, final exams cause enough stress and anxiety in and of themselves. However, one biology exam at Roswell (New Mexico) High School reportedly caused an uproar at the school after a screenshot of one offensive question began circulating. “Why are niggers black?” the question read. “When I first saw it, you know, I was just…
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NC Middle School Teacher Suspended After Saying N-Word, Comparing Student to Slave
An Apex, N.C., middle school teacher has been suspended after video surfaced on social media showing him saying a racial slur and comparing a seventh-grade student to a slave. The incident happened Wednesday in Apex Middle School’s “Cougar Den,” where students finish school work. In the video, the teacher, identified by WRAL as Dick Wesenduck,…
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Video Shows Bullies Kicking Unconscious 8-Year-Old Who Later Killed Himself
Surveillance footage from a Cincinnati elementary school shows students beating up an unconscious 8-year-old who took his own life two days later, police say. Carson Elementary School has declined to release the video that shows what took place Jan. 24 in one of its bathrooms, putting in dispute exactly what it contains, according to the…
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