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Bruno Mars Donates $1,000,000 to Help Flint, Mich., During Water Crisis
On Saturday, Bruno Mars performed for a sold-out crowd at the Palace of Auburn Hills in Michigan, and after his show, the 24K Magic singer announced his donation of $1 million to help with the water crisis in Flint, Mich. Mars told the crowd that he and the show’s promoter, Live Nation, would be donating…
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GoDaddy Bans Nazi Website Daily Stormer After Charlottesville, Va., Victim Post
GoDaddy no longer wants to host the Daily Stormer on its servers. The known white supremacist site angered the hosting company after it posted a defamatory post mocking the death and appearance of Heather Heyer, the woman killed at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. On Sunday, GoDaddy posted on Twitter…
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Shonda Rhimes Takes ShondaLand to Netflix
Shonda Rhimes, probably the most prolific TV producer in the history of ABC, is moving on and taking her ShondaLand productions to Netflix. But don’t fret—some of your favorite shows, like Grey’s Anatomy, will continue to air on ABC while Rhimes’ new slate of shows head to Netflix. Rhimes said that.she was looking for an…
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Are These Some of the White Supremacists Who Assaulted Deandre Harris in Charlottesville, Va.?
Updated Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017, 7:12 p.m. EDT: It looks as though the internet has identified one of the assailants involved in the beating of Deandre Harris as Daniel (Dan) Borden from Mason, Ohio. Earlier: When it comes to sleuthing, nothing beats the keen eyes of people on the internet. And after this weekend’s neo-Nazi…
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Interview: 20-Year-Old Deandre Harris Speaks Out About Being Assaulted by White Supremacists in Charlottesville, Va.
Twenty-year-old aspiring hip-hop artist Deandre Harris moved to Charlottesville, Va., from Suffolk, Va., two years ago for a job opportunity as an instructional assistant in the special education program at a local high school. But nothing could prepare him for what he experienced Saturday afternoon, when he took part in a counterprotest against the Unite…
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White Supremacists Beat Black Man With Poles in Charlottesville, Va., Parking Garage
An unidentified group of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., attacked and beat a black man with poles in a parking garage. The photo above, which was taken and posted to Twitter by Zach D. Roberts, a writer and photographer with Nation of Change, captures the violence that occurred during Saturday’s “Unite the Right” white supremacist…
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James Alex Fields Jr. Identified as Alleged Terrorist Who Plowed Through Crowd in Charlottesville, Va., Anti-Racism Rally
On Saturday afternoon, a car plowed through a crowd of anti-racism protesters, killing one and injuring several others, in Charlottesville, Va. Several hours later, a suspect was arrested and is now being held at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. Twenty-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., of Maumee, Ohio, was charged with one count of second-degree murder, three…
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I’m Empty-Nesting … Now What?
Two weeks ago, I dropped my son off to college somewhere in Virginia. It wasn’t a tear-filled dropoff. You know the ones you see on television with parents sobbing as they walk away from their child’s college dorm? Yeah, that’s not how we roll. An hour before I dropped my son off, I asked him,…
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Fulton County, Ga., Chairman Calls for Full Criminal Investigation Into R. Kelly
Fulton County, Ga.’s Commission Chairman John Eaves is calling for a full investigation into R. Kelly and his alleged “sex cult.” In a press conference held Friday morning, Eaves said that new information has “severely raised the level of concern” and wants the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office to conduct a full investigation into Kelly.…
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NJ Hotel Employee Says Usher Did End Up at the Hotel With Quantasia Sharpton: Report
Last week, attorney Lisa Bloom held a news conference with a woman alleging that she had sex with Usher, but he didn’t disclose to her that he was infected with herpes. However, the moment Quantasia Sharpton appeared on-screen, jokes about her appearance and weight started rolling in. “How dare Quantasia, a plus-size black woman, spout…
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