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Teacher Tells 10-Year-Old He’ll Only Be Able to Blame Himself When He’s 16 and Shot by Police: Report
A Lenexa, Kan., mother is outraged after, she says, a teacher at Rosehill Elementary School told her 10-year-old son he’ll only be able to blame himself when he’s shot by police when he’s 16. The family says the incident occurred last week when 10-year-old Malachi Pearson was playing with some friends in the cafeteria line…
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Star Wars Writer Confirms Lando Calrissian Is Pansexual
Growing up watching Star Wars, I was always in awe of Billy Dee Williams’ character, Lando Calrissian. Hell, I was in awe of Williams in just about anything, including the malt liquor commercials. This week, with the opening of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Donald Glover is stepping into Williams’ perfectly coiffed and conked hair…
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Ohio 4th-Grader to Receive Kidney From Teacher
A teacher in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, is giving a student at her school a gift that could save her life. Tanya Thomas, a fourth-grade teacher at Slate Ridge Elementary, came across a Facebook post about a student who was looking for a kidney donor. Little did she know that the student, 10-year-old Eva Brown, was a…
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Black Teen Rower Says White Teens Called Her Rosa Parks and N-Word After Competition
Myasia Joga, a high school student at Absegami High School in Galloway, N.J., says that after a recent rowing competition, she became the victim of racial slurs from a group of white male teen rowers on the opposing team. Myasia says that after a Mother’s Day rowing competition, she had to sit on a separate…
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Leaked Jail Video Shows T.I. Questioning Cop About Arrest
Although cops allege that rapper T.I. was drunk and disorderly during his recent arrest, in a newly leaked jail video it appears that the rapper was quite lucid when he was questioning a police officer as to why he was arrested in the first place. On Wednesday morning, T.I. (real name Clifford Harris) was arrested…
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Whitney Houston Documentary Reveals She Was Molested by Cousin Dee Dee Warwick
Singer Dionne Warwick’s sister, Dee Dee Warwick, has been named as a person who molested Whitney Houston in a new documentary that premiered at Cannes on Thursday. In the documentary Whitney, the singer’s longtime assistant, Mary Jones, says that Houston confided in her and told her about the molestation, which happened when she was a…
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Bronx, NY, Man Wants to Stay Anonymous After Winning $5 Million Scratch Off Game; Gaming Commission Says Nah
Imagine forgetting that you’d purchased a scratch off ticket and only noticing it as you were sitting on a toilet. You then proceed to scratch the ticket and your life literally changes before your eyes after you win $5 million. And now you’re fighting to remain anonymous because, damn, you know people are going to…
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Michael B. Jordan Talks Fake News, Internet Culture and Fahrenheit 451
Not even 24 hours after making his appearance at the Met Gala, Michael B. Jordan walked into the room I was sitting in with a huge smile on his face, a voice that sounded like it could use a throat lozenge, and a cologne that wasn’t too overwhelming and lingered nicely after he gave me…
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#GoingHomeWhileBlack: Rapper T.I. Arrested Outside His Gated Community After Misplacing Keys
After a Tuesday night out, Atlanta-based rapper T.I. attempted to re-enter his gated community home but realized that he’d misplaced his keys. Apparently the security guard wasn’t interested in letting him into his home, and an altercation occurred, which ended up with T.I. being arrested at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. According to the Associated Press, T.I.…
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Solo: A Star Wars Story: A Promising Prequel With an Even More Promising Lando
The trouble with prequels is that it’s hard to raise the stakes when you already know certain characters are going to live. And in the same vein, you can predict who’s going to die, but Solo: A Star Wars Story was able to capture the exploration of a pre-New Hope universe with fun dialogue and…
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