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Cyntoia Brown Will Have to Serve 51 Years Before She’s Eligible For Release, Tennessee Supreme Court Rules [Corrected]
From the beginning, Cyntoia Brown’s life story has been heartbreaking. She was put up for adoption at the age of 2, and her life after that was a traumatic spiral of verbal abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and substance abuse. At the age of 16, she was sold as a sex-slave to a 43-year-old Nashville…
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Kevin Hart Wants You to Stop Being ‘Negative’ About His Homophobic Tweets, But He’s Deleting Some of Them Anyway
After the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that comedian Kevin Hart would be hosting the 91st Oscars ceremony on Feb. 24, it was only a matter of time before Twitter detectives dug through his tweets to find something offensive. What they came up with were a bunch of homophobic jokes Hart has…
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Crazy Teacher Arrested For Forcibly Cutting a Student’s Hair While Singing the National Anthem
This story is qwhite bizarre. A teacher in Visalia, Calif., was arrested Thursday on suspicion of felony child endangerment after she allegedly forcibly cut a student’s hair in front the class while loudly singing the national anthem. According to NBC News, Margaret Gieszinger is a teacher at University Preparatory High School, located on the campus…
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Top Aide to Sen. Kamala Harris Resigns After Reports of Settlement in Gender Harassment and Discrimination Case
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) accepted the resignation of one of her top aides Wednesday after it was revealed the California Department of Justice paid $400,000 to his former executive assistant to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit on his behalf last year. Larry Wallace was a senior advisor in Harris’ Sacramento, Calif., office. Prior…
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Merry Christmas: Tyler Perry Pays Off All Layaway Accounts at 2 Atlanta Walmarts
Playwright, actor, director and producer Tyler Perry just added one more title to his already long list of accolades: Secret Santa. In a move meant to make Christmas a little bit brighter for some Atlanta families this year, Perry paid off all the layaway accounts at two Atlanta area Walmart stores, to the tune of…
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GOP Lawmakers in Wisconsin Rig the Game Against Incoming Elected Democrats Who Won Fair and Square
What’s happening in Wisconsin right now should be criminal. Republican lawmakers in the state passed legislation Wednesday that limits the power of the incoming Democrats who won their elected positions in November. The New York Times reports that after Scott Walker lost his bid for re-election and Republicans lost their stronghold on state government last…
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Cardi B Just Shared a Picture of Baby Kulture. She’s Gorgeous
You guys! On the heels of announcing her separation from husband Offset, Cardi has shocked the internet by posting a photo of her daughter Kulture. Kulture is gorgeous! Cardi posted the little beauty’s picture with the caption “My heart.” Does separating from Offset have anything to do with the big photographic reveal? The couple had…
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Is Mueller’s Sentencing Memo for Michael Flynn a Veiled Warning for Donald Trump?
Robert Mueller is still doing his job. Despite all the criticism from the “president” and his cronies, Mueller has continued to press forward with his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. On Tuesday, the special counsel’s office released a court sentencing memo (pdf) in which Muellersaid because of former national security…
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Surviving R. Kelly Screening Evacuated Following Phoned in Gun Threat
Guests gathered at NeueHouse Madison Square in New York Tuesday night for a screening of the upcoming Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly were evacuated when a gun threat against the venue was reportedly phoned in. #MeToo founder Tarana Burke, writer and cultural critic Jamilah Lemieux, journalist Kierna Mayo, author and social worker Feminista Jones, a…
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In Whitest Tweet Ever, PETA Compares ‘Anti-Animal’ Language to Racism
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants you to know that if you say things like “Don’t beat a dead horse,” it’s the exact same thing as calling a black person the n-word. In the whitest, dumbest, most clueless and socially irresponsible tweet ever, PETA likened what they call “speciesism” or “anti-animal” language to…