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Local Non-Profit Helps Los Angeles High School Students ‘Get Lit’
A Los Angeles-based nonprofit is helping local high school students to learn to love and appreciate poetry, and recently turned a group of them into published poets. Get Lit, founded in 2006 by Diane Luby Lane, is an organization that brings poetry into schools and “fuses classic and spoken word poetry to increase teen literacy…
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Judge Rules Cosby Civil Deposition Testimony Can Be Used in Criminal Trial
Prosecutors in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial next year will be able to use testimony he gave during depositions for an accuser’s lawsuit, a judge ruled Monday. Attorneys for Cosby, 78, claim that he only agreed to testify in the 2005 lawsuit brought by Andrea Constand because a prior prosecutor had promised him that he…
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Muslim NYPD Officer Speaks Out About Being Target of Weekend Hate Attack
A Muslim New York City police officer who was allegedly a victim of a hate crime over the weekend spoke with reporters Monday about her experience. Officer Aml Elsokary said in the press conference, covered by CBS New York, that crimes like this will not be tolerated. “I have faith that Allah is going to…
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#NoDAPL: Number of People at Resistance Camp Increasing Despite Evacuation Order
Groups of U.S. military veterans have already begun arriving at the protest against the Standing Rock oil pipeline to make good on their promise to act as “human shields” for the water protectors. Despite a mandatory evacuation order issued by North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple citing the harsh weather that has already arrived at the…
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District Attorney Says LAPD Officers Who Fatally Shot Homeless Man Were Justified
Three officers with the Los Angeles Police Department will not be charged in the videotaped fatal shooting of a homeless man last year. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office found that Sgt. Chand Syed, Officer Francisco Martinez and Officer Daniel Torres reasonably believed that Charly Leundeu Keunang posed a lethal threat during the March…
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#WalterScott: Lone Juror Appears to Be Holdout in Guilty Verdict
Updated, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, 2 p.m. EST: One juror in the Walter Scott murder trial apparently refuses to vote for a guilty verdict, thereby deadlocking the jury in the high-profile murder case. The juror, identified only as a 50-year-old male, told the judge Friday that he could not “with good conscience approve a guilty verdict” against…
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The Hamilton Mixtape Is Out Today Featuring All Your Favorite Musicians
The popularity of the musical Hamilton continues to grow daily. The show is the hottest ticket in town, and those who have been able to obtain tickets and pony up the $100-$1,000 per ticket to see it cannot stop raving about it to those who haven’t (or won’t). Now a bunch of your favorite artists…
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Suspected Pharmacy Burglars Nabbed for Stealing Cough Syrup With GPS Tracker
Two men suspected of a series of pharmacy burglaries this year were recently caught by police after allegedly stealing a bottle of cough syrup that had a GPS tracker inside it. Police in Tustin, Calif., had been trying to figure out who was behind a half-dozen pharmacy burglaries this year. Lt. Robert Wright of the…
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City of Flint Joins State of Mich. in Fight Against Mandatory Water Delivery
The city of Flint has joined the state of Michigan in the fight against a federal court order requiring door-to-door delivery of bottled water to residents. Lawyers for the city filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday saying the preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge David M. Lawson is “overbroad,”…
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Duke Fan Holds Sign Mocking Flint, Mich., Water Crisis at Basketball Game Against MSU
Sports fans are notorious for making signs to mock their opponents during games, but a Duke fan took the tradition too far Tuesday night. The Blue Devils hosted the Michigan State Spartans in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge at Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C., and a student sitting in the Cameron Crazies student section…
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