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Cyntoia Brown, Sex Trafficking Victim Serving Life for Killing John, Granted Clemency Hearing
For the last 13 years, Cyntoia Brown, a sex trafficking victim, has been serving a life sentence in a Tennessee jail for killing her john. Brown, who was tried as an adult when she was 16 years old, caught the media’s attention when activists and celebrities rallied for a new trial for her to be…
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Cinco de Mayo Is More Than Margaritas and Sombreros, and Cut It Out With the Sombreros if You’re Not Mexican
Contrary to popular belief, there’s more to Cinco de Mayo than margaritas and eating foods covered in guacamole. Cinco de Mayo is also not a celebration of Mexico’s independence; that’s actually Sept. 16. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican army’s victory over the French forces of Napoleon III on May 5, 1862, at the Battle…
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Author Junot Díaz Responds to Accusations of Sexual Misconduct and Verbal Abuse: ‘I Take Responsibility for My Past’
Updated Friday, May 4, 2018, 4:12 p.m. EDT: Junot Díaz has responded to the allegations from several female writers who came forward Friday with accusations of sexual misconduct and verbal abuse. Author Zinzi Clemmons actually confronted Díaz on Friday in Australia during a literature panel about the incident she alleged happened. And in a statement…
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New York’s Long Island Rail Road Investigating Racist White Man’s Rant
Another day, another racist white man kirking out in public. This time it happened on New York’s Long Island Rail Road commuter train, and the unidentified white man had a few unkind words for a black passenger. Although the incident happened April 19, video of the encounter only made its way to social media this…
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DJ Khaled Doesn’t Eat the Box but Expects Oral Sex From Wife Because He’s the King
I’m pretty sure you woke up this morning asking yourself, “I wonder if DJ Khaled likes performing oral sex?” You didn’t? Well, too bad, because today I’m here to tell you that he doesn’t. Happy Friday! Imagine being married to DJ Klaled and having to deal with him screaming, “DJ Khaledddddddd”around the house all day…
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Black Woman Says Air Canada Treated Her Like an Animal, Forced Her Off Flight Because of Noncontagious Shingles
A black woman from Edmonton, Canada, says that she was treated like an animal and removed from an Air Canada flight from Halifax because they thought she had a contagious disease. But according to Jeanne Lehman, after she received medication for the shingles she’d been diagnosed with days before, her doctor said she wasn’t contagious.…
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IHOP Customer Called the N-Word on Receipt Receives $10 Gift Card as Apology
Nineteen-year-old Maya Thomas got a little more than what she bargained for recently when she picked up her to-go order from an IHOP in Grandview, Mo. After Thomas looked at her receipt, she noticed it was labeled “nigga.” The incident took place in April, according to the Kansas City Star, but what further upset Thomas…
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Miami Police Officer Suspended After Kicking Suspect in the Head
A Miami police officer has been suspended with pay after a Miami resident filmed him kicking a man who was already in handcuffs in the head. The incident, video of which was posted on Facebook, took place at the Culmer Place Apartments in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood. The officer, identified as Mario Figueroa, is a two-year…
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Alex Michael Ramos Found Guilty of Malicious Wounding in Charlottesville, Va., Parking Garage Beating of DeAndre Harris
White supremacist Alex Michael Ramos has been found guilty of malicious wounding in the August parking lot beating of DeAndre Harris in Charlottesville, Va. According to WVIR-TV, Ramos, who now faces five to 20 years in prison, was one of several men who were identified thanks to social media during the Unite the Right rally…
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Camille Cosby Calls Husband’s Verdict ‘Mob Justice’
Last week, Bill Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault during his retrial on sexual assault and drugging charges in Pennsylvania, and the 80-year-old now faces up to 10 years in jail. But in today’s standing-by-her-man news, his wife, Camille Cosby, wrote a three-page statement about the guilty verdict her Quaalude-dropping…
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