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Cleveland Officials Blame Tamir Rice for His Own Shooting Death
Responding to a lawsuit filed by the family of Tamir Rice, Cleveland city officials blamed the 12-year-old youth for inciting a police officer to fatally shoot him as he played on a playground, according to Cleveland.com. The response came Friday to a lawsuit filed by the Rice family, stating that the child “died and his…
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How Black America Rallied to Stop the Racist Film The Birth of a Nation
A hundred years ago—on March 3, 1915, to be exact—as war consumed Europe, and the United States tried to steer clear of entanglements, some of the best minds and most passionate social-justice advocates had one goal: to stop the opening of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation at the Liberty Theater in New York City’s Times…
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Facebook Fight in Birmingham Ends With Gunfire and One Dead
A Facebook fight that started three weeks ago among high school girls in Birmingham, Ala., turned deadly Friday evening when the teenagers took the cyber quarrel to the park and gunfire erupted, police say. One of the girls, 14, died from gunshot wounds and two others are in the hospital, but expected to recover, authorities…
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Ex-NBA Player Anthony Mason Dies at 48
Anthony Mason, a onetime popular New York Knick who represented the city’s scrappy teams of the 1990s, died Saturday morning, according to the Washington Post. He was 48. Mason, who also played with the Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat, was hospitalized this month in Atlanta for treatment of congestive heart failure and underwent several procedures,…
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Dad Raising Quadruplets After Wife’s Death in Childbirth
A 29-year-old Phoenix man is raising his quadruplets after his wife died tragically last month after delivering the three girls and a boy she reportedly had worked hard to conceive, according to People magazine. Carlos Morales told his wife, Erica, 36, that he loved her just minutes before she gave birth to quadruplets who were…
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Man Celebrates 108th Birthday and 82 Years of Marriage to 104-Year-Old
Duranord Veillard knows a lot about longevity, but Saturday is a milestone for the record books. USA Today reports that not only is Veillard celebrating turning 108, but he will also celebrate 82 years of marriage to his wife, Jeanne, who is 104. The husband and wife are believed to be the oldest couple in…
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Congress Averts Partial Shutdown of Homeland Security
In a show of political gamesmanship, the U.S. House of Representatives late Friday approved a one-week spending measure to avert a partial shutdown of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Reuters reports. With just hours to spare before a midnight deadline, the news outlet writes, the House voted 357-60 to fund DHS, which is headed…
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Why Magazine Maven Mitzi Miller ‘Chooses Happy’ Over Everything Else
Six months after quitting an unfulfilling job as a sales and marketing assistant at a trade publication, and spurred on by a girlfriend, Mitzi Miller rolled up on Amy DuBois Barnett—who has served as a multititled editor at such glossies as Honey, Teen People and Ebony—exiting a club on New York City’s Lower East Side…
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Black Waiters Sue TGI Fridays for Hiring ‘Light-Skinned Workers’ and Hispanics
Ten former waiters at a New York TGI Fridays are accusing the franchise of racism and colorism, saying that when their location closed, the company hired “light-skinned workers” who were mostly Hispanic to replace them at the new location, according to the New York Daily News. The waitstaff at the closed Manhattan location was told to…
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Help! I Can’t Fill Out My Family Tree Because of Family Secrets
I am a sophomore at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. My older sister and I are currently taking a sociology class here at Clarion and we have a project due in March where we have to create a family tree. The only problem is that we do not know our family’s history. My father comes from…
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