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Barbie Debuts New Shero Dolls, Including 1 Modeled After NASA Mathematician and ‘Hidden Figure’ Katherine Johnson
There are some new Barbie dolls out on the block, and they include some really special additions to the company’s Shero and Inspiring Women lines, which are based on inspirational contemporary women and inspirational historical figures, respectively. Among the inspirational figures touted in the newest release? Why, it’s NASA’s own Katherine Johnson, a trailblazer who…
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Cornell University Student Facing Hate Crime Charges in Racist Attack Could Be Deported if Convicted [Updated]
Updated: Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 6:02 p.m.: Greenwood pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in April. He admitted to using the racial slur but denied being involved in the physical attack. The original charges, including a charge of attempted assault as a hate crime, were dropped due to a “level of doubt.” Earlier: A Canadian citizen…
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Kansas Man Who Screamed ‘Get Out of My Country’ Before Killing Indian National Pleads Guilty to Multiple Charges, Faces Life in Prison
Adam Purinton, the 52-year-old Kansas man who opened fire in a local bar last year, killing one Indian national and injuring two other people in an incident that sparked outrage across the globe, has pleaded guilty to his crimes. According to the Washington Post, on Tuesday, Purinton pleaded guilty to one count of premeditated first-degree…
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‘I’m White. I Can Kill You, Nothing Will Happen’: African Actor Attacked at Bar in Spain
An African actor was attacked at a bar in Mósteles, Spain, over the weekend in an incident that the Spanish Immigration and Refugee Support Network has reported as a hate crime. According to El País, Marius Makon said that the incident occurred around 7 a.m., when the actor went up to a counter with his…
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Michelle Obama Meets Little Girl Who Thought She Was a Queen and They Have a Dance Party, Naturally
What happens when royalty meets royalty? Well, you have to throw a little dance party, of course, as is only fitting. Queen Michelle Obama and Princess Parker Curry—the little girl who thought that Obama was a queen upon viewing her portrait at the National Portrait Gallery—got to meet each other Tuesday. The first lady shared…
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Library of Congress Reveals Previously Unknown Portrait of Harriet Tubman in New, Digitized Album
It’s Harriet Tubman, the world’s No. 1 certified badass, as you’ve never seen her before. On Tuesday the Library of Congress announced that it had conserved and digitized a previously unknown portrait of the famed abolitionist and “conductor” of the Underground Railroad as part of an album to be exhibited in the Smithsonian’s National Museum…
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Alleged Sex Trafficker Arrested After Being Turned In by His Mother
A Milwaukee man accused of sex trafficking and prostituting a high school student was turned in by the girl’s high school teacher, who also happened to be the man’s mother. According to the Journal Sentinel, 50-year-old Sean Hayes is facing one felony count of trafficking a child for sex, among other charges. Hayes’ mother is…
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Tiffany Haddish Secures Role in Tyler Perry’s The List
Just in case you have not had enough Tiffany Haddish (when will we ever?), you’ll see the hilarious star next in Tyler Perry’s latest flick, The List, where she’ll star alongside Tika Sumpter and Omari Hardwick. According to Deadline, Perry wrote and is, of course, directing and producing the film, which is in the works…
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Betty Shelby, the Then-Tulsa, Okla., Cop Who Killed Terence Crutcher, Is Back Patrolling the Streets as a Full-Time Sheriff’s Deputy
There really is no justice in this world, and as such, a police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black motorist is somehow back patrolling the streets, this time as a sheriff’s deputy, even after the same jurors who acquitted her recommended that she “never be a patrol officer again.” Of course I am…
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Black Nurse Who Found Photo of Noose Taped to Her Locker at Hawaii Hospital Awarded $3,800,000
It’s been some five years since Ellen Harris, a registered nurse at the Queen’s Medical Center in Hawaii, filed a lawsuit claiming that she was subject to racial discrimination and harassment while doing her job. Last week, a jury ruled in her favor, awarding her $3.8 million in damages as a result of her treatment.…
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