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Golden Krust Owner Lowell Hawthorne Reportedly Owed Millions in Back Taxes
Many in the black and Caribbean communities reeled over news of the recent apparent suicide of Lowell Hawthorne, founder and CEO of Golden Krust Bakery & Grill, with commentary ranging from the proverbial “Money cannot buy happiness” to true befuddlement: “Why would he do it?” For those searching for an answer to explain his actions,…
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22-Year-Old Says He Connected With 81-Year-Old on Words With Friends After She Used the Word ‘Phat’
At any given moment, there are more than 57 million Words With Friends matches happening around the world. When two of its players recently connected in real life, the internet collectively swooned, and their story went viral. “It was a cool experience,” 22-year-old Spencer Sleyon told The Root after he was able to meet with…
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Trauma May Be Passed Through Generations From Mothers to Daughters
A new study reveals that the daughters of women exposed to childhood trauma are at increased risk for psychiatric disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder. However, the study also concluded that there was no effect among male children, and no effect among children of either sex born to fathers who participated in the analysis.…
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DMX Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud, Faces Up to 5 Years in Prison
DMX is the latest rapper who may be going to the pokey (see Fat Joe, Lauryn Hill) after pleading guilty to income tax evasion. X, whose real name is Earl Simmons, 46, appeared before a federal judge in New York on Thursday and admitted that he concealed millions of dollars from the government, according to…
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American Airlines Makes Anti-Racism Training Mandatory After NAACP Issues Travel Advisory
After a series of highly publicized racial incidents with American Airlines or its employees, the company recently announced that it will be instituting mandatory implicit-bias training for the company in 2018. “We are proud of the diversity and inclusion initiatives already in place at American, but we know we can do even better. So we…
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Email Reveals That Senior Trump Aide Wrote: Russia ‘Has Just Thrown the Election to Him’
As special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation heats up and the president continues to crack up, there’s yet more evidence that there’s something rotten in the Kremlin-backed cotton. The New York Times reported Saturday that it had obtained emails that show a high-level adviser to Donald Trump—who later worked under former national security adviser Michael Flynn,…
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Lowell Hawthorne, Founder of Golden Krust, Dead at 57 of Suspected Suicide
Lowell Hawthorne, the founder and CEO of the Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill, most famous for its Jamaican beef patties, has died of an apparent suicide, according to law enforcement. He was 57 years old. Hawthorne reportedly shot himself inside his Bronx, N.Y., factory about 5:30 p.m. Saturday, the New York Post reports. Many…
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Slightly Drunken Customer Makes His Own Meal at Waffle House After Finding Employees Asleep
I guess when you’re kinda drunk and have a hankering for home fries, you find a way to make it happen, cap’n. And that’s exactly what one man did when he arrived at a South Carolina Waffle House and found no one there (except, instead of fries, he made a sandwich). Alex Bowen said in…
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The 1 and Only Copy of Wu-Tang’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin Might End Up With the Feds Thanks to Martin Shkreli
Convicted “pharma bro” and supreme fuckboy Martin Shkreli may have to give the government the world’s only copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin if federal prosecutors have their way. On Thursday they asked U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto in New York to seize $7.4 million in assets from Shkreli, who was…
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McDonald’s Manager Receives $110,000 for Helping to Capture Suspected Florida Serial Killer
A McDonald’s manager who handed police a loaded gun that led to the arrest of a suspected Tampa, Fla.-area serial killer will get big money for her actions. Delonda Walker, a manager of McDonald’s, was given the gun by Howell Donaldson III, an employee at the same McDonald’s, for “safekeeping.” She said that Donaldson told…
