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Mich. Barbershop Gives Discounts to Kids Who Read Aloud During Appointment
A Michigan barbershop is attracting a lot of attention, giving $2 discounts to kids who read books aloud to their barbers while they are getting their hair styled, the Huffington Post reports. Most of the time, the $2 goes straight back into the kids’ hands. “Parents love it and the kids … well, they like…
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Department of Justice to Begin Collecting Data on Use of Force by Police
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it will begin collecting data on deadly police encounters nationwide, starting early next year, the New York Times reports. As the report notes, it marks the beginning of the most ambitious effort the federal government has ever made to track police use of force, coming after the nation…
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#BeingADoctorWhileBlack: Man Almost Denied Care After Flight Attendant Refused to Believe Black Woman Is a Doctor
A Houston OB-GYN’s Facebook post is going viral after she recounted the dismissive racism she encountered on a Delta flight, where a flight attendant refused to believe that she was a doctor and refused to let her aid a man who had become unresponsive. “I’m sure many of my fellow young, corporate America working women…
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Ky. High School Apologizes After Assignment on the N-Word
A high school in Lexington, Ky., is apologizing after an assignment focused on questions surrounding the use of the n-word, WKYT reports. According to the report, Kiarah Raglin, a freshman at Lafayette High School, was given the assignment in English class last week, prior to fall break. According to school Principal Bryne Jacobs, the assignment…
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Independent Autopsy Shows Keith Lamont Scott Was Shot in Back and Abdomen
The family of a black man shot and killed by a North Carolina police officer last month released details from an independent autopsy showing that the victim suffered fatal gunshot wounds to the back and abdomen, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, attorneys for the family of Keith Lamont Scott said in a…
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Boko Haram Releases 21 Chibok Girls to the Nigerian Government
Boko Haram militants released 21 of the more than 200 girls the terrorist group originally kidnapped in 2014 in Chibok, Nigeria, the Nigerian government confirmed Thursday, Reuters reports. “The release of the girls … is the outcome of negotiations between the administration and the Boko Haram brokered by the International Red Cross and the Swiss…
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Texas Restaurant Employee Fired After Playing N.W.A’s ‘F–k tha Police’ While Officers Ate
A Texas BBQ restaurant has drawn attention after an employee reportedly blasted N.W.A’s “F-ck tha Police” while officers were eating there, according to Complex. According to a Facebook post reportedly written by Deputy Shane Cates that has since been removed, he and a few other fellow officers went to Going’s Barbeque & Steak Co. in…
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Family Members Overpower Convicted Sex Offender Who Climbed Into Girls’ Bedroom: Report
Family members of two teenage girls in San Bernardino County, Calif., were able to overpower and pin down a convicted sex offender who reportedly sneaked into the girls’ room and tried to sexually assault them, according to the police, the Los Angeles Times reports. Derek Lamont Fowler of Los Angeles was charged Tuesday with burglary…
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Detroit Woman Displays Real-Life Horrors for Halloween
A Detroit woman is getting a lot of attention for her controversial, conversation-inducing Halloween decorations, WJBK reports. The decorations depict the victims of police shootings, neighborhood violence and even the Flint, Mich., water crisis. According to the news station, it isn’t the first time the homeowners have shied away from the Halloween tradition of showing…
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Iowa Man Convicted of a Racially Motivated Hate Crime Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
An Iowa white supremacist who brutally beat a black man in a Dubuque, Iowa, bar last year has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for what a federal judge slammed as a “brutal and outrageous attack,” the Washington Post reports. “This vicious attack threatened the most basic standards of human decency and dignity,” Deputy Assistant…
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