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College Student Who Crossed Up Philly Cops in a Pickup Game Is Later Arrested by Same Cops
According to college junior Samir Hill, the only reason he was taken down to a police station and handcuffed to a chair for nearly two hours while police officers searched his car is that a video went viral showing Hill, 21, and his ankle-breaking moves on the police officers during a pickup basketball game days…
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Were My Ancestors British Soldiers in Jamaica?
I am British-born to Jamaican parents and now residing in Miami. I have been working on my family tree for the last couple of years and have hit several brick walls. My mother’s paternal grandfather, David Emmanuel Molloy, was baptized in Newcastle (British military camp), St. Andrew, Jamaica, in 1885, according to the Catholic records.…
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Former Hooters Waitress Awarded $250,000 in ‘Blond Hair Streaks’ Lawsuit
Someone should have sent the manager at a Baltimore Hooters these photos of chocolate-complexioned natives in Australia with naturally blond hair, because that might have saved the restaurant chain over $250,000. That’s the amount of money Farryn Johnson, a former waitress, was awarded in a lawsuit she filed in 2013 after she said she was…
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An Artistic Feast: Jacob Lawrence’s 60-Piece Migration Series on Display in NYC
“If at times my artworks do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man’s continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being.” —Jacob Lawrence, 1970 The opening of the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibit “One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration…
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Minn. Teen Gets Into All 8 Ivy League Schools
College acceptance letters are pouring in, and Munira Khalif, a high school senior from Minnesota, has gained admission to all eight Ivy League schools, KARE 11 reports. Khalif also got into Stanford and Georgetown—two of the nation’s most highly selective universities. “I was very surprised. The best part for me was being able to call…
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5 Times Police Officers Blatantly Lied About the Arrests or Shootings of Black Men
Sometimes police officers lie. It’s a scary thought when you consider how much prosecutors, defense attorneys, juries and judges—hell, everyone who works in the criminal-justice system—rely on the testimonies of police officers, and the information they put in police reports, to determine whether a person ought to be indicted for, charged with, tried for or…
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How Do We Fix a System That Thrives on Racial Oppression?
The killing of Walter Scott, an unarmed 50-year-old black man fleeing the police after a traffic stop, is the latest example of what appears to be a national assault on black bodies. We are living a national nightmare. The names and faces may change, but the bad dream remains the same. An unarmed black man,…
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Being Mary Jane Recap: ‘You’re Crazy; That’s Probably Why the Sex Was So Good’
Mary Jane Paul does not want to win. I’m all for women dating multiple men so as not to put all the proverbial eggs in one basket, but M.J. has Sheldon, who is damn near perfect. Why she’s watching movies and sipping wine with Mr. Cutty Buddy baffles the hell out of me. A woman…
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Traveling in Kenya, Where Signs of Security Battle the Realities of Terrorism
I knew maybe three things about Kenya when my plane landed in Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in late February: The traffic was awful in Nairobi; it was a “party city,” with the good times rolling as late—or, er, as early—as 9 a.m.; and in 2013, the city’s most upscale mall, Westgate, suffered a four-day…
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Postal Service Releases New Maya Angelou Stamp, but the Quote Isn’t Hers
The U.S. Postal Service released a stamp Tuesday to commemorate Maya Angelou’s life and work. First lady Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Ambassador Andrew Young and The Root co-founder Henry Louis Gates Jr. (who appeared via video) introduced the “forever” stamp to the mailing community. Attendees and the public were encouraged to share news about the…
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