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LA Clippers Owner Apologizes After Backlash
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling issued an apology Saturday for a racist rant that is being attributed to him, TMZ Sports reports. The move follows a backlash over the comments from civil rights leaders, social media users, and current and former NBA players. In a statement released by the Clippers to TMZ, Sterling says…
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LA Clippers Owner Allegedly on Tape in Racist Rant
Updated Saturday, April 26, 4:30 p.m. EDT: The NBA announced Saturday that it is conducting a “full investigation” into Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling after TMZ released a recording of a man alleged to be him going on a racist rant, Buzzfeed reports. Updated Saturday, April 26, 12:20 p.m. EDT: Civil rights leaders Saturday…
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Holder to Stay in Office Through Midterms
Attorney General Eric Holder—one of President Barack Obama’s closest advisers—plans to remain in office through November’s midterm elections, a Justice Department official told Reuters. Beyond the elections, the official could not confirm any plans that Holder, 63, might have, the news site reports. Holder has been attorney general since shortly after President Obama took office…
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New Date for First Lady’s Kansas Graduation Speech
After an uproar by students and parents in Topeka, Kan., over seating arrangements, Michelle Obama will now address a high school graduation class a day earlier, according to the Associated Press. As The Root reported last week, the Topeka Public School District had invited the first lady to speak May 17 at a combined ceremony…
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Teacher Accused of Performing Lap Dance for 15-Year-old Student
A 42-year-old middle school teacher in Houston, Texas, was arrested last week for allegedly performing a seductive lap dance for a 15-year-old boy in front of a class two months ago, KHOU 11 reports. The teacher, Felicia Smith, 42, was charged with improper relationship with a student, according to a statement from the Aldine Independent…
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Black CEO: Do More Than Save if You Want to Be Wealthy
Editor’s note: This is part 4 in a five-part series on growing and maintaining wealth. Read part 1, part 2 and part 3. Most people think the road to wealth involves just saving. But 62-year-old Kermit Payne, the successful founder and chief executive officer of a strategic communications, marketing and association management company, says that…
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How to Make Sure a Helping Hand Doesn’t Make You Go Broke
Editor’s note: This is part 1 in a five-part series on growing and maintaining wealth. When a university failed recently to award Marlon D. Cousin’s nephew thousands of dollars in anticipated financial aid, the managing partner of an Atlanta-based recruiting firm was happy to step in and close the financial gap. In fact, he had…
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Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter Dies at 76
Prizefighter Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, whose career was cut short by a wrongful murder conviction in New Jersey, died Sunday at his home in Toronto, Canada, the New York Times reports. He was 76. The cause of death was prostate cancer, his friend and onetime co-defendant, John Artis, told the New York Times. He was being…
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KKK Leader Condemns Kansas City Hate-Crime Shooting
A Ku Klux Klan Imperial Grand Wizard called last Sunday’s shooting spree by white supremacist Frazier Glenn Cross a setback for the organization, CNN reports. Frank Ancona, who leads the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and other self-professed hate group leaders, denounced the shootings at two Jewish institutions in suburban Kansas City,…
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Watch: ‘I Can’t Spend my Life in Prison,’ Gang Member Sobs at Sentencing
A 21-year-old man, convicted of attempted murder for firing shots at a rival gang member at a University of Southern California campus party, sobbed and pleaded for leniency during his sentencing Friday, the Los Angeles Times reports. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Edmund W. Clarke Jr. sentenced Brandon Spencer to 40 years to life…
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