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Gymnast Gabby Douglas Clinches Gold at the American Cup
Gabby Douglas, the reigning Olympic all-around gold medalist, looks poised to make it to the top of the podium come the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. On Saturday the 20-year-old known as “the Flying Squirrel” won the American Cup at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., her first gold since winning the Olympic all-around in London…
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They’ve Done the Time but Are Still Paying for the Crime
Charles McKinney is a convicted felon, and he has horror stories to tell about his quest to find work once he got out of jail. “You drift from job to job so you don’t get the question asked, ‘Have you ever had a felony?’” McKinney says. “Once I came home … instead of being faced…
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Mavis Staples Tells Her Own Story in HBO Doc
Legendary singer and civil rights activist Mavis Staples has been in the business of making music and changing lives for over 60 years. The Chicago-born singer with the signature raspy voice launched her career in 1950 as part of the family gospel group the Staple Singers, consisting of her father (Pops) and three older sisters…
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Va. 7th-Grader Told to Cut His Locks if He Wanted to Stay in School
A seventh-grade student at a private school in central Virginia was told he must cut his dreadlocks if he wanted to remain in school, according to WTVR. Isaiah Freeman, 13, was pulled out of West End Christian School in Hopewell by his father after officials threatened to discipline Isaiah for the hairstyle by giving him…
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Did Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes Get Hitched?
Rumors began to swirl this week as actress Katie Holmes was spotted in New York City with a ring on her left-hand ring finger, and her long-rumored boyfriend, Jamie Foxx, was also photographed with a gold band on his ring finger, TMZ reported Friday. Holmes, 37, has allegedly been dating Foxx, 48, for at least…
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Police Sources: Knife Found on O.J. Simpson Property Inconsistent With Murders
A knife found on land where O.J. Simpson once lived appears to be inconsistent with the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, multiple law-enforcement sources told NBC News. What many hoped to be the “murder weapon” in the heinous 1994 double homicide apparently had only dirt and mud on it, according to…
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LAPD Disproportionately Shoots Blacks and the Mentally Ill: Report
According to a new report released by the Los Angeles Police Department, police disproportionately shoot at suspects who are black and/or mentally ill. The report, released last week, is the most comprehensive ever compiled by the LAPD, according to CBS News. The outlet notes that though although African Americans make up 9 percent of Los…
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Medgar Evers’ Brother Endorses Donald Trump for President
Charles Evers, the brother of murdered civil rights leader and icon Medgar Evers, has endorsed Donald Trump for president. “I believe in him first of all because he’s a businessman,” Evers said to the Clarion-Ledger. “I think jobs are badly needed in Mississippi.” Evers’ brother, Medgar Evers, was the first field secretary for the NAACP…
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Does a 19th-Century Census Record Prove My Interracial Ancestry?
I have been working on tracing my maternal grandfather’s line using Ancestry.com. I can say with confidence that I traced my great-grandfather George Biggs to the 1900 census, which also lists my grandfather “Levy” as his 10-year-old son. Going backward, I believe a white Biggs family (the patriarch named Morris), also from Pike County, Mo.,…
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner: Why Vitriol Toward Cosby, but Less Toward Woody Allen and Stephen Collins?
Malcolm-Jamal Warner made it clear that he’s “in no position to defend” Bill Cosby concerning the dozens and dozens of sexual assault allegations leveled against him by women. But Warner suggested during an interview with The Real that he does think there’s a double standard at play concerning white male celebrities who have endured similar…
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