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Go for ‘Peak Blackness’ This Holiday With These Dishes From the Diaspora
How was your first helping of the holiday meals? Did you go in on all of your favorites when you went home for the holidays, as if mini marshmallows only exist within a 1-mile radius of your parents’ home … for three days of the year? Did you try the corn-pudding recipe from the founder…
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Mo. Appeals Court Overturns Conviction of Man Who Failed to Disclose HIV-Positive Status
Michael L. Johnson, a former student-athlete who was found guilty and was serving time for infecting a sexual partner with HIV, among other crimes, has had his conviction overturned by a panel of appeals court judges, the Washington Post reports. Johnson, who was a wrestler at Lindenwood University near St. Louis, was arrested in 2013…
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Thief Pleads Guilty to Robbing 40 Fast-Food Stores in NY
Khalif House, 24, reportedly robbed 40 fast-food stores at knifepoint, stealing over $18,000 throughout Long Island, N.Y., and the Queens borough of New York City, according to the New York Post. He pleaded guilty to the crimes Tuesday. House, from the Long Island town of Hempstead, committed the crimes with another person between February 2015…
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Inmate Punches Guard for Taking Away Contraband Laptop: Report
Jimmie Smith, 41, was caught on a body camera punching a female corrections officer in the face after she took his laptop away, the New York Post reports. The incident took place Dec. 5 in Division 9 of the Cook County Jail in Chicago. Smith faces a new charge of aggravated battery to a correctional…
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Safety Pin Box: White People Can Now Pay for Those 'How Not to Be Racist' Lessons
During the Election Cycle That Shall Not Be Named, white liberals experienced feelings—so many feelings. White liberal women in particular really had a rough go of it, what with Pantsuit Nation and the ghost of Susan B. Anthony failing to bring it home for Hillary Rodham Clinton. But something beautiful did emerge from the rubble…
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Mich.’s Attorney General Charges Former Emergency Managers Over Flint Water Crisis
Two former state-appointed emergency managers, Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose, were charged Tuesday by Michigan’s attorney general, Bill Schuette, over the tainted-water scandal in Flint, Mich., according to Talking Points Memo. The two were charged with four crimes, including conspiracy. Schuette said that Earley and Ambrose committed Flint to $85 million in bonds to help…
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The Cast of Dreamgirls: Where Are They Now?
It’s been 10 years since audiences were mesmerized by Jennifer Hudson’s Academy Award-winning performance as Effie White in Dreamgirls. Based on the Broadway production of the same name, the film adaptation also featured the characters Deena Jones (Beyoncé) and Lorrell Robinson (Anika Noni Rose) as the Dreams, an R&B trio out of Detroit who are managed by Curtis…
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Glendon Scott Crawford: White Supremacist Receives 30-Year Sentence for Plot Against President Obama, Muslims
Glendon Scott Crawford, 52, a Navy veteran and Ku Klux Klan member, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gary Sharpe in Albany, N.Y., on Monday to 30 years in prison for his plot to assassinate President Barack Obama and kill Muslim Americans, The Guardian reports. Crawford was found guilty in 2015 of conspiring with Eric Feight, 58,…
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NJ Man Accused of Killing College Student Faces Charges in Murder of 2nd Woman
Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, 20, of Orange, N.J., has been charged with killing another woman after being charged with murder in the death of a New Jersey college student, CBS News reports. Acting Essex County, N.J., Prosecutor Carolyn Murray said Sunday that Wheeler-Weaver had been charged with murder in the death of 33-year-old Joanne Brown. Brown was…
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National African American Museum Tickets Sell Out in 4 Minutes When Website Goes Live
The free, same-day passes that went live on the National Museum of African American History and Culture website Monday sold out in four minutes, the Washington Post reports. The passes were grouped in 30-minute time slots between 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. They became available at 6:30 a.m. Monday and were unavailable by 6:34 a.m.…
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