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#DrivingWhileBlackWithLeavesOnTheWindshield: Kansas Man Detained for Having ‘Vegetation’ on Window
A man driving through Winfield, Kan., went live on Facebook during a traffic stop last Sunday after cops told him he was being pulled over for allegedly failing to signal a turn within 100 feet. But what should have been a citation or warning led to Rudy Samuel being detained because of “vegetation” on his…
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Detroit Street to Be Renamed After Michael Jackson
Next month, a Detroit street on which people will be easing on down will be renamed after the King of Pop. On Thursday, the Detroit City Council announced that Randolph Street between Gratiot Avenue and Madison Street in Detroit’s Theater District will be renamed Michael Jackson Avenue to honor the late superstar. The street-renaming ceremony…
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Mugshots.com Owners Arrested on Extortion Charges
They made profits from mug shots, but isn’t it ironic that the owners of Mugshots.com could end up on their own site? On Wednesday, Sahar Sarid, Thomas Keesee and Kishore Vidya Bhavnanie—three out of four alleged owners of Mugshots.com—were arrested and charged with extortion, money laundering and identity theft, according to the Washington Post. The infamous…
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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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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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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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#CommunityServiceWhileBlack: Cop Questions Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Members During Highway Cleaning, Says He Thought They Were Fighting
Several members of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority were doing their due diligence and cleaning up trash on Interstate Highway 83 in Harrisburg, Pa., when a state trooper pulled over and started questioning them. According to a now deleted Facebook post by Shawna Naomi but captured by writer Britni Danielle, the trooper said he was questioning…
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