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Mo. Gov. Commutes Man’s Death Sentence After Ex-Wife’s Killer Confesses to Acting Alone
For years Kimber Edwards, sentenced to death in his ex-wife’s murder in 2000, proclaimed that he did not hire anyone to carry out a killing. Now someone has finally listened. Democratic Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Friday commuted Edwards’ death sentence to life in prison after a newspaper reported that the man convicted of carrying…
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Venus Williams Defeats Vinci to Avenge Serena’s US Open Loss
Venus Williams triumphed over Roberta Vinci Friday in a hard-won three-set match to reach the Wuhan Open finals, news agency Agence France-Presse reports. The win appears to settle the score for her younger sister, Serena, who fell to Italy’s Vinci last month at the U.S. Open, upending her historic bid to complete a calendar-year grand slam.…
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James Bell, Retired Boeing CFO, Joins Apple Board
James A. Bell, former chief financial officer and corporate president of the Boeing Co., has been elected to Apple’s board of directors, according to a statement from Apple. During his 38-year tenure at Boeing, he also oversaw Boeing Capital Corp. and Boeing Shared Services, and he was interim CEO of the Boeing Co. in 2005,…
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Terrence Howard Owed Petey Pablo $200—so He Helped Him Land a $15,000 Gig on Empire
Better late than never. That’s the moral of the story behind rapper Petey Pablo landing a cameo role in an episode of Empire. Pablo told Raleigh, N.C.’s WRAL that it was payback for a small loan of sorts that he gave Terrence Howard way back when. Pablo said that he and Howard bumped into each…
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My Ex Won’t Move On, and Now He’s Sending Me Texts With a Nude Photo of Me
I broke up with my boyfriend of three years more than six months ago. There was a deal breaker, so I packed my things and moved into an apartment. He’s been persistent about getting back with me, and I’ve been just as persistent in letting him know that I’m done. At this point I don’t…
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Grace Jones Flashed Her Breasts at Book Signing
Grace Jones flashed reporters, baring her breasts, at a book signing in New York City Thursday for her new book, I’ll Never Write My Memoirs, the Daily Mail reports. Some may see it as a desperate move to sell copies. Jones’ book captured news headlines several weeks ago because in it, she chastises contemporary pop stars—Rihanna,…
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Jesse Williams Discusses Biracial Privileges and Social Justice: ‘Black Americans Are Not Angry. They Are Hurting’
It has always been a pet peeve of mine when biracial people seem to ignore their white side and act as if the world perceives them as black through and through. I always felt that in their determination to identify solely and sternly as black, they were missing out on an opportunity to share some…
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Were My ‘Free Mulatto’ Ancestors Ever Enslaved?
My third-great-grandfather Hypolite LaFargue Jr. (born 1819) shows up in the 1850 census in New Orleans as a mulatto tailor with his family. It also appears that his father, Hypolite LaFargue Sr., fought in the War of 1812 in the 2nd Battalion of the Louisiana Infantry led by d’Aquin. How do I find out when…
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Is This the End of the 2nd Reconstruction?
This has been a bruising time for the African-American community—as bruising as any in recent memory. The tragic deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney and the other eight victims in Charleston, S.C.—as well as others too numerous to name, but whose lives and…
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#TBT: Nigerians on Twitter Reminisce and Celebrate Their Country’s 55 Years of Independence
Nigeria turns 55 today. Africa’s most populous nation gained its independence from the United Kingdom Oct. 1, 1960. Nigerians on Twitter commemorated their independence day with a variety of celebratory tweets and insightful comments about how far the nation has come. The country has produced some of the world’s richest oil entrepreneurs. https://twitter.com/AfricaFactsZone/status/649664918585802753 Despite its…
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