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Philadelphia Crane Operator Surrenders
The Philadelphia crane operator, who was wanted in connection with a building collapse that killed six people last week, has turned himself in to police, according to The Inquirer. Sean Benschop, 43, who surrendered on Saturday, refused to give a statement on his role in Wednesday’s collapse, according to The Inquirer. He is scheduled to…
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Report: Santa Monica Gunman's 1st Victims Were Family
Updated Sunday, June, 9, 11:15 a.m. EDT: The Santa Monica gunman’s first victims were family, according to USA Today. The man accused of killing four people during a rampage before being killed by police was identified by multiple media outlets on Sunday as John Zawahri, whose victims included his father and brother. Additional reports show…
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No One Does Victory Like Serena Williams
June 9, 2013: Serena Williams celebrates as she wins the French Open final against Russia’s Maria Sharapova at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. Sept. 9, 2012: Williams lifts the championship trophy after defeating Victoria Azarenka of Belarus to win the women’s-singles final match on day 14 of the U.S. Open at the USTA National…
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No One Does Victory Like Serena Williams
June 9, 2013: Serena Williams celebrates as she wins the French Open final against Russia’s Maria Sharapova at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. Sept. 9, 2012: Williams lifts the championship trophy after defeating Victoria Azarenka of Belarus to win the women’s-singles final match on day 14 of the U.S. Open at the USTA National…
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Missing Louisiana Teacher's Car Found, Body Inside
Police authorities say that the car of second-grade teacher Terrilynn Monette, who disappeared March 2 after a night out celebrating her Teacher of the Year nomination, was pulled from a New Orleans bayou on Saturday and that a decomposed body was inside, the Associated Press reports. Police couldn’t immediately say whether the body was that…
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Britain Apologizes to the Mau Mau; the Rest of the Empire Waits
In a piece at The Guardian, Harvard University scholar Caroline Elkins checks in on the Mau Mau’s stunning legal victory against the United Kingdom for the systematic violence it committed during the group’s struggle for independence. On Thursday nearly 200 elderly Kikuyu people travelled from their rural homesteads and sat before the British high commissioner…
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Why Are You Mad at Kanye West?
Kanye West’s popularity is the result of his fan base and album sales, writes the Huffington Post’s Kia Makarechi, who examines the uproar surrounding his forthcoming studio release, Yeezus, which includes the song “I Am a God.” He argues that any outrage over the artist’s soaring ego should be directed at his fans. “Yeezus,” Kanye West’s sixth…
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Quote of the Day: Mary Church Terrell
Read the full quote here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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Is Violence in America a Public Health Crisis?
Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman suggests in a piece at the Huffington Post that we look at violence in America as a public health crisis rather than a crime problem in light of the spate of recent mass shootings. … What if we look for promising practices and expanded the ones that work…
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Beyond Trayvon: Black and Unarmed
Last year’s killing of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood-watch captain who deemed him “suspicious” and who claims that he shot the 17-year-old in self-defense sparked a heartbreaking national conversation about race and justice. His story is all the more tragic because it follows a familiar pattern. As George Zimmerman’s second-degree-murder trial begins,…
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