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Black College Basketball Player Denied Spot on Team Because She Wouldn’t Stand for Racism
Racism on college campuses is nothing new and not at all surprising, but it still brings with it a familiar feeling of disappointment when it interferes with students’ ability to enjoy the college experience and participate in activities they are good at. In the case of one black student from Virginia, racism led to her…
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Where ‘Get Your Shit and Go’ Is Still a Way of Life
When we were kids growing up in Los Angeles, our favorite thing to do on weekends was to walk around the corner from our mother’s Mid-City duplex and spend all our money on snacks and candy from three small stores all within blocks of one another on Pico Boulevard. Our first stop was always the…
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Kenneth Williams Is 4th Man to Be Executed by the State of Ark. in 7 Days
The state of Arkansas had a plan in place to kill eight men over 10 days, at some points killing two men in one day, in order to beat the clock on an expiring lethal-injection-drug supply. No inmate had been killed in the state for over a decade, and no double execution had been done…
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Fla. Teen Charged With Manslaughter After Accidentally Shooting and Killing His 13-Year-Old Sister: Report
A 17-year-old boy from Florida City, Fla., is facing a manslaughter charge after he accidentally shot and killed his younger sister on his birthday Tuesday night, police said. Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta told Local 10 that Martaevious Santiago called 911 to report that he had shot his 13-year-old sister, and when Florida City police…
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Calif. Father Gets 10 Days in Jail for Leaving His Baby in the Car While He Got Lap Dances at a Strip Club
This is one of those stories that make you roll your eyes, look at the person involved and, in your best Bill Duke voice, tell him he effed up and needs his ass whooped. A Southern California man who left his 9-month-old daughter in a parked car while he went inside a strip club to…
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I, a White, Rode the Train With Blacks 1 Day, and It Was Crazy: An Atlanta-Newspaper Reader Writes on Race
Melton Bennett is a resident of Cumming, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta. As a white man living in the metropolitan Atlanta area, Melton had some thoughts to share on the topic of race—specifically the ones he had as he rode the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, or MARTA, train from his mostly white neighborhood in…
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6-Year-Old Creates Coloring Book Series to Teach About Black Indigenous Cultures Around the World
A 6-year-old girl and her mother have created a coloring book that educates young children about black indigenous cultures around the world while exploring the histories of native-born black people in Africa and America. Vanae James-Bey and her mother, Veronica Bey, are originally from Florida but now live in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. They told…
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La. District Attorney’s Office Sends Fake Subpoenas to Coerce Witnesses to Talk in Criminal Cases
Prosecutors in the Office of Orleans Parish (La.) District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro Jr. have been engaging in the unethical and possibly illegal practice of sending fake subpoenas as a means of pressuring witnesses in criminal cases to come speak with them. Tiffany Lacroix received one such notice in November, ordering her to meet with a…
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Republican Health Care Proposal Would Exempt Congress and Staff From Pre-Existing Condition Clause
House Republicans introduced a health care amendment Tuesday night that would allow individual states to opt out of Obamacare’s provision prohibiting insurers from charging higher rates for those with pre-existing conditions, with one catch: Members of Congress and their staff would be exempt from the higher premiums. As Vox notes, in its current iteration, Obamacare…
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Aretha Franklin Still Upset With Dionne Warwick Over Something She Said at Whitney Houston’s Funeral
Your Auntie Ree Ree is apparently the champion of petty and the queen of holding a grudge in addition to being the Queen of Soul, because she lashed out at Dionne Warwick on Tuesday over something the Psychic Friend said five years ago at Whitney Houston’s funeral. The Associated Press reports that Franklin contacted the…
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