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NBA Star Allen Iverson to Officially Retire
Casual basketball fans might have already thought that Allen Iverson stepped away from basketball and that they just missed the press conference. But Iverson, 38, never made his retirement official. Instead, reports over the years were always about him trying to get a spot on a roster both overseas and in the U.S. Only now,…
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Producer Scott Storch Robbed at Gunpoint
Hip-hop producer Scott Storch, along with members of his entourage, was robbed at gunpoint after putting in time during a graveyard shift at Platinum Studios near Times Square at around 6:45 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the Wall Street Journal. The group had entered a livery cab and was waiting for a second one for…
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Georgia Student Not Allowed to Use Social Media for 5 Years
There is an unspoken but generally understood rule about social media: Inflammatory remarks almost never go over well, even when they’re written in the name of art. Take, for example, 20-year-old Caleb Clemmons. In February the former Georgia Southern University student went to his Tumblr page and published a post threatening to blow up his…
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'Stand Your Ground' PSA Re-Enacts Trayvon Martin Killing
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, a nonprofit advocacy group for changes in gun laws, has released a dramatic public service announcement in its ongoing efforts to repeal the controversial “Stand your ground” law. The PSA features a re-enactment of the night George Zimmerman killed 17-year-old unarmed Trayvon Martin in February 2012 and uses audio…
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Obamas Add a Dog to Their Family
On Monday, the Obamas announced a new addition to their family: a dog named Sunny. Like the current Obama family dog, Bo, Sunny is a Portugese water dog. Sunny came to the Obamas from Michigan, according to a statement released by the White House, and was born in June 2012. The Obamas adopted the dog…
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Interracial Couple Attacked in NYC
NBC New York and NY1 are reporting an alleged hate crime that took place outside a bar in the New York City borough of Queens early Saturday morning. Billie and Jacob James-Vogel were leaving Shi restaurant in Long Island City with a gay friend after celebrating Billie’s 40th birthday. As they walked down the street,…
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Lawmakers: Maine Governor Says Obama 'Hates White People'
At a Maine Republican Party fundraiser last week for newly elected party Chairman Rick Bennett, Gov. Paul LePage told attendees that President Barack Obama “hates white people,” according to two Republican lawmakers who were there, reports the Portland Press Herald. They said LePage remarked that Obama had the potential to be the best president ever…
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Whites More Likely to Use the Internet Than Blacks
Although nearly 98 percent of U.S. homes now have access to some kind of broadband service, about 20 percent of the population doesn’t use the Internet at home, work or school or on a mobile device. And the disparity is still greater within the black community than the white community, according to a New York…
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Dante de Blasio's Famous Afro
Amid the multilple stories to be told about the candidates in this year’s New York City mayoral race, the one about New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and his family are some of the more interesting. De Blasio, who is of partly Italian descent (his surname comes from his mother), is married to…
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Michelle Obama on a Black Family in the White House
Michelle Obama recently sat down with Parade magazine in a short but wide-ranging interview about the significance of having the first African American in the White House. Children born in the last eight years will only know an African-American man being president of the United States. That changes the bar for all of our children,…
