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Slow Your Roll, Giuliani. By Your Own Standard, Obama’s More Conservative Than You
I suppose we’re almost to the point where there’s less than nothing to be gained by evaluating Republicans’ now yearslong running narrative about how un-American, unpatriotic and unlike anyone else we’ve ever seen President Barack Obama is. For convenience’s sake, let’s call it “the Othering.” But just in case we’re not quite to that point…
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Oakland, Calif., Mother Dies While Trying to Shield Her 2 Kids From Gunfire
Chyemil Pierce, 30, had just picked up her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son from a Bay Area, Calif., day care when she heard shots ring out in front of her home. Pierce rushed toward her children to protect them and told them to run. When police officers arrived on the street to investigate the shooting…
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Army Sergeant Sentenced to 2 Years for Organizing Prostitution Ring at Fort Hood Base
Sgt. Gregory McQueen’s role at an Army base in Fort Hood, Texas, was to support sexual assault survivors at the same time he was reportedly organizing a prostitution ring at the base. McQueen was sentenced to two years in prison for “pandering and conspiracy to solicit prostitution,” the Daily Mail reports. McQueen recruited female soldiers…
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American Crime: Parental Denial and Children Living Lies
The episode opens with Carter and Aubry in their respective jail cells, wearing jumpsuits so trendy they look like a United Colors of Benetton ad. At the arraignment, the couple see each other for the first time since being arrested, and Carter is eye-boning his girlfriend instead of listening to the charges against him. Tony…
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Spelman and Bennett College Choirs Organize Joint Concert for Women’s History Month
The only two historically black female colleges still up and running in the nation—Spelman College in Atlanta and Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C.—are commemorating Women’s History Month by having their choirs perform together at a joint concert March 16, WFMY News 2 reports. The gig—a first for both schools—is aptly called a “her-storic” event and will take…
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3 NYC Women, Wrongly Accused of Using Stolen Credit Card and Arrested, Will Sue
Instead of having a luxurious spa day to celebrate a birthday, three women had four police officers come into their private room at a Brooklyn, N.Y., spa Feb. 19 to ask if the credit card they had used to pay for the services was, in fact, stolen, the New York Daily News reports. And even…
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Fiance’s Questioning Your Sexuality Over a New Short, Natural Do Is Truly Hair-Raising
I did a big chop yesterday. I sent a picture to my live-in fiance, who is the father to my 2-year-old daughter. He responded that I looked crazy and that he doesn’t like short hair. When I got home, he asked me if I was going for the lesbian look. I asked him if I…
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How Do I Find Slaves Living on a Plantation During the Revolutionary War?
I am working on a research project for the Spartanburg County Historical Association. The directors at Walnut Grove Plantation in Moore, S.C., have never researched the descendants of the slaves who lived at Walnut Grove Plantation during the American Revolutionary War. They know plenty about the Moore and Barry families, but not about the slaves. We…
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Giuliani: Obama Is to Blame for Shooting of Ferguson Cops and Needs to Adopt Bill Cosby’s Views on Race
One would never know that Rudy Giuliani was once a fairly moderate mayor of a liberal Northeastern city like New York, judging by the string of controversial comments he’s made recently. A few weeks after saying that President Barack Obama doesn’t love America, during a radio interview Thursday he suggested that Obama is to blame…
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Here Are 3 Tech Companies Backing Up Diversity Efforts With Cash
Following this week’s unveiling of Apple’s long-awaited smart watch, the company has pledged a whopping $50 million toward creating job opportunities for women and people of color in tech—an industry that has lacked diversity. The smart-device innovator has stated its commitment to diversity, continuing momentum generated by Intel and Google earlier this year. Here’s a…
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