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‘El Chapo’ Allegedly Captured Because He Wanted to Make a Biopic
Possibly in hopes of getting Narcos-type fame, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was captured because he wanted to have a biopic made about him, according to The Guardian. The outlet reports that Guzmán was so serious about a movie that he attempted to contact producers and actresses, and those attempts came to the attention of authorities,…
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Muslim Woman in ‘Peace’ T-Shirt Kicked Out of Trump Rally
A Muslim woman was escorted from a Donald Trump campaign rally in Rock Hill, S.C., after standing in silent protest, donning a white hijab and T-shirt that read, “Salam. I Come In Peace.” The New York Daily News reports that Rose Hamid, a 56-year-old flight attendant, stood up in opposition to the Republican front-runner’s comments…
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Drake Violates NCAA Rules, Again, by Posing With Kentucky Wildcat Player
Rapper Drake—who clearly is a major sports fan—might want to back up off the young pups, since his presence has apparently violated NCAA rules, not once, but twice, according to the Bleacher Report. The No. 9-ranked Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball team had to self-report a minor rules violation involving the rapper for the second time…
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Md. Cop Sentenced to 5 Years for Putting Gun to Man’s Head Says Victim Should Apologize to Him
Five days after he was convicted of putting a gun to a man’s head outside his home for no apparent reason, a former Prince George’s County, Md., police officer was recorded saying that the victim should apologize to him, reports the Washington Post. “If anything, they should be saying sorry to me, because all he…
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How a Racist System Has Poisoned the Water in Flint, Mich.
Tainted water is poisoning thousands of children in the predominantly African-American city of Flint, Mich. The high levels of lead in Flint’s water may create a plethora of serious, long-term health problems including brain damage, behavioral troubles, anemia and kidney problems. On Wednesday, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder declared a state of emergency in Flint and…
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A Story of Perseverance: Hadiyah-Nicole Green Shares Her Path to a Million-Dollar Research Grant
Hadiyah-Nicole Green likens her story to that of The Little Engine That Could. The 34-year-old assistant professor is the first in her family to go to college, let alone earn a doctorate. She’s also broken ground at her alma mater as the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Alabama at…
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Beyoncé’s Creative Director, Frank Gatson, Says LaTavia and LeToya ‘Messed Up’ Destiny’s Child
Beyoncé’s longtime choreographer and creative director, Frank Gatson, is stirring up trouble among the chil’ren of Destiny. He and Kelly Rowland are on a press run promoting their reality show, Chasing Destiny, which will have contestants competing for spots in an all-girl group. In an interview during the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, Rowland was saying…
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Amandla Stenberg: ‘As a Black Bisexual Woman, I’ve Been Through It, and It Hurts’
In a series of bite-size videos posted to Teen Vogue’s Snapchat account, 17-year-old Hunger Games actress Amandla Stenberg revealed that she is a “black bisexual woman” who is on a mission to encourage young girls and women everywhere to embrace their true identity, “no matter what you’re being told.” “As someone who identifies as a…
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Christine Beatty Hopes Reality-TV Show Will Help Her Escape Shadow of Scandalous Affair With Detroit Mayor
Before 2008, Christine Beatty, as the chief of staff to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, was a celebrated strategist with a promising future in politics. That changed the morning the Detroit Free Press published the private, intimate text messages that Beatty and Kilpatrick exchanged on their government-issued phones during their six-year extramarital affair. The fallout was…
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Were My Ancestors in an Interracial Love Triangle?
My research into my family origins reveals that in the 1680s, Maudlin Magdelen Magee, an Irish woman who was married to a white man, George Magee, had a baby girl by an enslaved African man, Sambo Game. The Magees had come to Somerset, Md., from Ireland, and had two sons of their own when Maudlin…
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