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Tone Loc Collapses Onstage in Iowa
Rapper Tone Loc collapsed onstage on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa, during a concert, reports USA Today. The seriousness of the incident was not immediately apparent. It happened at the Bridge Bash, being held at the Court Avenue bridge over the Des Moines River. Three Des Moines Register employees said Tone Loc finished a song,…
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2 Steubenville Teens Found Guilty of Rape
High school football stars Ma’lik Richmond and Trent Mays were found guilty in the highly publicized rape case of a teen girl in Steubenville, Ohio, reports CNN. Judge Thomas Lipps announced his decision after reviewing evidence presented over four days of testimony in the case against 17-year-old Trent Mays and 16-year-old Ma’lik Richmond, who were…
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How the NYPD Muslim Watch Crippled a Community
Living life always looking over your shoulder has become a way of life for many New York Muslims, writes Seth Freed Wessler at Colorlines. Police officials have denied the human impact of the surveillance, claiming that because it was conducted in secret, it didn’t affect people’s day-to-day activities. But many of the Muslims quoted in…
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Have Blacks Forgiven Justin Timberlake?
(The Root) — With his appearance on Saturday Night Live last weekend, Justin Timberlake joined an elite club. Only a handful of others have hosted the legendary sketch-comedy program five times, among them such Hollywood icons such as Tom Hanks and Steve Martin. Of course, unlike most of them, Timberlake served as that evening’s musical…
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I Was a Teen Mom, and I'm Just Fine
In response to Mayor Bloomberg’s newest, and often offensive, billboards shaming kids against teen pregnancy, one young mother, Gloria Malone, shared her personal experience in the New York Times. Some people argue that these ads are a fresh approach to dealing with the problem of teenage pregnancy. But I can tell you that there’s nothing…
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Be Careful Discouraging Kimani Gray Protesters
When protesters hit the streets of East Flatbush, Brooklyn, N.Y., earlier this week to speak out against the death of 16-year-old Kimani Gray at the hands of two New York City police officers, local Councilman Jumaane Williams told media that much of the ruckus was caused by “outsiders.” However, in Black Star News Milton Allimadi…
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Kimani Gray's Principal Supports Teen's Character
Last Saturday, two New York police officers fatally shot 16-year-old Kimani Gray in Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Flatbush neighborhood. Some witnesses say Gray was adjusting his waistband, while police say he was wielding a gun and was also a member of the Bloods gang. Today, Matt Willoughby, the late teen’s principal at Manhattan’s Urban Assembly School of Design…
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Sarah Palin Mocks President Obama at CPAC
On Saturday, former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin brought her folksy charm to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland with a speech in which she made fun of President Obama for his support of gun control and background checks, reports USA Today. During her address to the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC,…
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14 People 'Functionally Cured' of HIV
The medical world is inching closer to a cure for HIV/AIDS. ABC News reports that 14 people in France have been “functionally cured” of the virus. Fourteen patients who were treated within the first two months of infection were later able to stop combination antiretroviral therapy without an HIV rebound, according to Asier Sáez-Cirión of…
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Kimani Gray's NYPD Shooters Have 5 Lawsuits Between Them
Sgt. Mourad Mourad and Officer Jovaniel Cordova, the two New York City police officers who shot 16-year-old Kimani Gray, have had a number of civil rights lawsuits filed against them, reports the New York Daily News. Sgt. Mourad Mourad racked up three suits while he was a plainclothes cop on Staten Island, and Officer Jovaniel…
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