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Fliers Urge Black Residents at Calif. Complex to Keep Quiet
Black residents at an Irvine, Calif., rental complex are up in arms over two fliers urging them to keep their noise level down at night, according to CBS Los Angeles. The fliers, which have gone viral on social media, were posted in two elevators at the Toscana Apartment Homes and bore what purported to be…
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Watch: Hoops Star Surprises Girlfriend With Epic Proposal During Pickup Game
A former guard at North Carolina State starred this week in his own version of the classic romantic movie Love & Basketball, according to Fox 8 TV. Alex “Superman” Johnson, a player for the Saint John Mill Rats of the National Basketball League of Canada, on Thursday was playing one-on-one with his girlfriend, Brey Dorsett, a…
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Watch: Ohio Judge Orders Assault Suspect to Be ‘Pepper-Sprayed’ by Victim
An Ohio judge this week ordered an assault victim to “pepper-spray” his alleged attacker in an open courtroom in his version of “eye for an eye” justice, according to New York’s WABC-TV. But relax; it wasn’t real pepper spray. It was saline solution—you know, like the mixture used for contact lenses. Here is what happened:…
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FIFA Officials Indicted by US for Receiving $150 Million in Bribes to Influence World Cup Games
An official who sits on the executive committee of FIFA—the body governing the World Cup international soccer competition—was allegedly given $10 million so that he would vote for South Africa to host the 2010 games. That is just one example, American officials say, of how FIFA and marketing executives have been scheming and bribing officials…
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Austin, Texas, Official Who Organized a Sexist Lecture on Women in Government Resigns
When more women than men were elected to the Austin, Texas, City Council this year, Anthony Snipes, a city official, decided to organize a training session for council members on how to deal with women in local government, the Associated Press reports. Jonathan Allen, the consultant Snipes hired, dished out recommendations on how to handle…
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How Do I Find a Missing Death Certificate?
I have a question about my grandmother Ola Mae Waters, who was born in September 1937 and passed in May 1977 in a Georgia nursing home or hospital. Her children went into foster care before her sister received custody of them. My mom and her siblings attended her funeral. However, the state has no death certificate. I…
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Parents’ Shaming of Children on Video Is No Different From Cyberbullying
There’s yet another viral video of a black parent publicly shaming her child. In this one, a 12-year-old boy named Terrence, who came home smelling like marijuana, got a “George Jefferson” haircut from his stepmom. To make matters worse, the stepmom, Aaliyah Hines, found out that he also failed the seventh grade and will have…
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Once Homeless, Chicago Teen Mom Is Now Valedictorian Who’s Been Awarded Over $600,000 in Scholarships
Trameka Pope, a Chicago high school senior, gave birth to a baby girl the summer after eighth grade and decided then that she wasn’t going to become a statistic. Now she has more than 26 college-acceptance letters and has been awarded more than $600,000 in scholarships, People magazine reports. “I was told that God don’t…
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US Marine Convicted of Displaying Bible Verse on Her Computer Appeals
A U.S. Marine who was brought before a court-martial and then convicted of refusing to take down a Bible verse displayed on her computer screen has filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, Fox News reports. Lance Cpl. Monifa Sterling was convicted in 2014 at Camp Lejune in North Carolina…
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