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Get THINspired This New Year and Stick to Your Weight-Loss Goals
It’s a new year, and once again you resolutely put improved fitness and health down as one of your goals—never mind the countless jokes and memes that poke fun at individuals who join a gym on Jan. 1, and point out that by Jan. 31, the facilities are as empty as can be. This time,…
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Ala. Grandmother’s Home Spray-Painted: ‘Move N–ger Now’
As Terry Turner prepared to bring in 2015 with her granddaughter, festivities took a frightening turn as vandals threw rocks at the front of her house in Limestone County, Ala., WHNT 19 reports. According to the news station, three windows at the front of the house were broken in, causing the grandmother, terrified that someone was in…
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Texas Server Fired After Using N-Word on Receipt to Label Diners
One group of friends in Pantego, Texas, closed out their year in shock after discovering that their server had labeled each of their receipts with the word “nigga,” CBS DFW reports. The group from North Texas wanted to celebrate New Year’s Eve at Shatila, a Lebanese restaurant, and had a good time, but when it…
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Black Calif. Woman Denied Spot Almost 60 Years Ago on Rose Parade Float Gets Retribution
The opportunity to ride on a city-sponsored float at the annual Rose Parade has been almost 60 years in the making for 82-year-old Pasadena, Calif., native Joan Williams. The honor was originally denied her in 1958 when officials found out that she was black, the Pasadena Star-News reports. Williams was chosen as Miss Crown City…
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La. Black Republican Defends Scalise Against White Supremacist Controversy
A black Louisiana state senator is coming to House Majority Whip Steve Scalise’s defense after the congressman was discovered to have given a speech before a white nationalist group founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke in 2002, the Daily Caller reports. “It is a desperate attempt to create something that does not…
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Report: Baltimore Ravens’ Security Director Charged With Sex Offense
The Baltimore Ravens’ security director, Darren Sanders, was charged with a fourth-degree sexual offense Tuesday night involving a Dec. 14 incident, the New York Post reports. The 48-year-old is scheduled for a hearing in early February, but there were no more details given on the charge, the Post notes. Other sources have also been tightlipped, with…
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Man Shoots and Robs Woman He Met on Online Dating Site
Georgia police are searching for an assailant said to target his victims via online dating after he allegedly robbed and shot a woman on Christmas Eve, WXIA reports. College Park, Ga., police released photos of the suspect from the dating website Badoo, where he is known as “King Lucciano.” He told the 34-year-old woman, whom…
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Texas Teen Arrested in Tweet of Photo Showing Pellet Gun Pointed at Police Car
One Fort Worth, Texas, teen has found himself in a lot of trouble after he allegedly posted to Twitter a photo of an airsoft pellet gun being pointed at a police car with the caption, “Should I do it? They don’t care for a black male anyways!” CBS News reports. Montrae Toliver, 17, was arrested…
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LAPD Cops Shot Ezell Ford in the Back, Autopsy Finds
An autopsy released by the Los Angeles Police Department details that Ezell Ford, the mentally ill 25-year-old who was killed by police Aug. 11, was shot three times, including once in the back, KABC reports. Two days after Michael Brown’s shooting death, Los Angeles police officers were attempting to restrain Ford, who family members said…
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DNC Slams La. Rep. Steve Scalise’s Explanation for Speaking to White Supremacist Group
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) is facing a backlash after attempting to explain that he was unaware he was speaking to a white supremacist group when he appeared at its convention in 2002 while still a state legislator. But the Democratic National Committee isn’t buying it. The controversy began Monday when the recently elected House majority…
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