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  • Parents Protest Charge Against Spring Valley High School Student After Violent Arrest

    Black parents at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C., and civil rights leaders have joined together in a call for charges to be removed against a 16-year-old student who was assaulted by a school resource officer who yanked her from her desk and tossed her across the floor in October, according to the Associated Press.…

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  • 250,000 Sign Petition in Call for Emanuel and Alvarez to Resign Amid New Evidence 

    A wide coalition of activists have collected over 250,000 signatures on a petition that calls for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez to step down immediately, according to Fox 32. ColorOfChange.org, MoveOn.org, Democracy for America and Credo collected the signatures after the elected officials failed to hold the Chicago Police Department accountable…

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  • Bill Cosby’s Lawyers Fight Wife’s Deposition in Defamation Suit

    Lawyers representing seven women who accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault are seeking to depose the entertainer’s wife in a federal defamation lawsuit filed in Springfield, Mass., reports the Associated Press. Cosby’s lawyers on Friday filed a motion to block the subpoena against his wife, Camille, arguing that “information from the couple’s private conversations is…

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  • ‘Not Giving Me My Props Doesn’t Stop Me From Being Great’: Nicki Minaj Claps Back at Critics

    Nicki Minaj shut down a Twitter user on Friday who credited her booty for her success.  People magazine writes that the spat started after a gossip site noted the dearth of female rappers on Twitter and then retweeted a user’s comment: “Yep, men are visual creatures they don’t care if you can sing … That’s why Nicki…

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  • This Happened When Giants Star Odell Beckham Handed Out Beats Headphones to Teammates

    Was it another teammate’s greed that prompted New York Giants’ Damontre Moore to tackle him during an otherwise festive occasion? Or did Moore see the writing on the wall? Whatever the reason, Moore, a defensive end, was released by the team Friday after getting into a fight with defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins on Thursday over…

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  • Ted Cruz Is New Iowa GOP Presidential Front-Runner

    Republican presidential candidate and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has blown past Donald Trump and Ben Carson in the critical primary state of Iowa to reach the coveted top spot, according to new poll results released Saturday. A new Bloomberg Politics/DesMoines Register poll shows that Cruz is favored by 31 percent of those likely to attend the Iowa…

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  • University of Alabama’s Derrick Henry Wins Heisman

    Roll tide! So goes the rallying calling for the University of Alabama’s Crimson Tide athletic teams. Derrick Henry, the school’s 6-foot-3-inch, 242-pound running back, won the Heisman Trophy Saturday night, reports the Associated Press. “I’m just so thankful to have this trophy,” Henry said, according to the news outlet. “It’s just a blessing and an…

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  • Russian Supermarket Apologizes for Selling Cutting Board With Racist Image of Obama 

    The Bakhetle supermarket in Moscow issued an apology Thursday saying it was unaware that President Barack Obama’s image was superimposed over a monkey’s face on a cutting board, according to Agence France-Presse. The apology came after protests from the U.S. Embassy over the offensive cutting board that had an image of a family of monkeys,…

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  • Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against Black Renters, Study Says

    A working paper (pdf) from Harvard Business School released Wednesday found “widespread discrimination” by hosts against people with black-sounding names seeking home rentals, reports the New York Times. The Times writes that fictional guests set up by three researchers “with names like Lakisha or Rasheed were roughly 16 percent less likely to be accepted than identical…

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  • ‘Are You Going to Shoot Me?’: Rape Victims Speak Out About Convicted Ex-Okla. Cop

    After a jury found a former Oklahoma City police officer guilty of multiple charges of raping black women, two of those women spoke out about the pain and suffering they endured at the hands of a man who was supposed to protect them from criminals. Instead, he was the very man from whom they needed…

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