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Elementary Schoolboy Set 7-Year-Old Girl’s Hair on Fire, Outraged Mother Says
A Detroit mother is demanding answers after she says her two daughters told her that a student at their elementary school set her 7-year-old’s hair on fire before blowing it out. The incident happened at Noble Elementary School while the kids were standing in the lunch line, WXYZ-TV reports. Judy Holland took pictures of her…
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Texas Woman, Who Was Possibly Living at Fitness Center, Found Nearly Drowned in Pool
A Texas woman is on life support after she was found floating in the swimming pool of a Grapevine, Texas, Life Time Fitness studio, where friends say she may have been living for more than two weeks. According to CBS DFW, Jamila Hashim is being treated at the Baylor Scott & White Medical Center after…
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White Man Told Police That 2 Black Men Tried to Rob Him at Gunpoint; Surveillance Footage Told Another Story
Nobody has your back like Mama does. And it took one particularly insistent mother—and the surveillance video she pushed police to review—to stop her sons from being jailed on false robbery charges after they were set up by a white man whom cops chose to believe over them. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Patrick…
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Young Teacher Adopts 12-Year-Old Student Who Almost Caused Her to Quit
An unlikely duo have formed a mother-and-son bond, changing their lives for the better. Chelsea Haley, 24, appeared in fourth-grader Jerome Robinson’s life as a teacher at his elementary school in Baton Rouge, La., through Teach for America, hoping to make a difference in a low-income school. But there were times when Jerome’s behavior tested…
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Get Out Is an Iconic, Critically Acclaimed Film, but Writer-Director Jordan Peele ‘Didn’t Know It Was Ever Going to Get Made’
Looking at the success of Get Out, one would imagine that writer-director Jordan Peele knew what he was getting into when he started working on the project. But according to Peele himself, that was not the case. The story for the now-iconic horror flick started out as a “fun project,” something that he had wanted…
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Princeton Students Walk Out of Lecture After Professor Allegedly Used the N-Word: Report
Students from Princeton University say that an anthropology professor repeatedly used the n-word in class while asking students a question, prompting several of them to walk out of the Tuesday lecture. According to the Daily Princetonian, the university’s daily newspaper, Professor Lawrence Rosen asked students, “What is worse, a white man punching a black man,…
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‘I Love This Shit’: Tennessee Sheriff Recorded Boasting After Ordering Officers to Shoot Unarmed Man During Slow-Speed Chase
A Tennessee sheriff is being sued for excessive force after he was recorded laughing and boasting about how he told his officers to shoot a man during a slow-speed chase rather than risk damaging police cars attempting to drive him off the road. According to News Channel 5, White County Sheriff Oddie Shoupe did not…
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Scientists Reveal That Britain’s Oldest-Known Skeleton Had Dark Skin, and Twitter Has a Field Day
Well, well, well. It’s always nice to know from where we originated, but one particular scientific discovery that was unveiled Wednesday at London’s Natural History museum took social media by storm. It was revealed that one of the United Kingdom’s earliest men, nicknamed “Cheddar Man,” was actually dark-skinned. You hear that? That was the sound…
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Charleston, SC, Black Lives Matter Leader Dies After Being Shot in Louisiana
A Charleston, S.C., Black Lives Matter leader—who made headlines last year after being seen jumping over yellow police tape in an attempt to snatch a Confederate flag—has died after being shot in New Orleans. Muhiyidin d’Baha, whose legal name was Muhiyidin Moye, died Tuesday morning, the New Orleans Police Department confirmed, according to Live5News. Police…
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In His Latest Gift to Instagram, Will Smith Spoofs Jaden Smith’s ‘Icon’ Music Video to Celebrate 100 Million Streams
In true dad fashion, Will Smith has found a way to celebrate his son Jaden Smith’s achievements while simultaneously trolling him, and it is beautiful and hilarious to behold. Back in November, Jaden, an actor and rapper just like his dad, released the video for “Icon.” The song is the first single from Jaden’s first…
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