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After Donald Trump’s Defense of Putin, Media Committee Weighs In on Russian President’s Record on Journalists
Trump Accepts Russian’s Praise, Says Guilt Not Proved “According to CPJ research, under the leadership of President Vladimir Putin, Russia has consistently held the dishonorable record of being the worst country in the region of Europe and Central Asia at prosecuting journalists’ killers,” Nina Ognianova, Europe and Central Asia program coordinator for the Committee to…
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Why Steve Harvey Crowning the Wrong Miss Universe Is the Best Thing to Happen to Miss Universe
So let’s get a couple things out of the way first: 1. Steve Harvey has too many jobs. Steve Harvey is the host of The Steve Harvey Morning Show. And Family Feud. And Steve Harvey the talk show. That’s three full-time jobs. Plus dozens of panels, talks and seminars. And, I’m assuming, a couple hundred…
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R. Kelly Walks Off HuffPost Live Set After Being Questioned About His Fondness for Underage Girls
Editor’s note: This post contains tweets that some may find offensive. In some corner of New York City, at this very moment R. Kelly is probably wishing he’d never dropped an album. Wishing he’d never put out a video asking for people to support his album. And wishing he had a better P.R. team that…
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NYC Woman Files Lawsuit Claiming Cop Called Her Gay Slur, Assaulted Her
A Brooklyn, N.Y., woman is suing for unspecified damages after she claims a police officer called her a homophobic slur before he attacked and falsely arrested her, the Huffington Post reports. Stephanie Dorceant, 29, and her ex-girlfriend Nandi Allman filed the lawsuit in a Brooklyn federal court Monday, just two weeks after Dorceant was cleared…
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Mistrial for Baltimore Officer Could Spell Trouble for Prosecutors Seeking Justice for Freddie Gray
On Wednesday, Judge Barry Williams declared a mistrial in the criminal case against Baltimore Police Officer William Porter. Porter was the first officer to face trial out of a total of six police officers who are charged in the death of Freddie Gray. Gray died from a broken neck and spinal cord injury while in police…
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How 2015 Was Drenched in White Tears
Abigail Fisher is the average-est white woman in the history of average white women. Her averageness is so average, it’s aggressive. Enthusiastic. Transformative. It boldly goes where no average has gone before. She’s unambiguously average. Obnoxiously average. Disruptively average. If she were a character in Star Wars, her name would be Darth Average. She’s to “average…
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Ouster of Black Faculty Member at Fla. School for Journalists Results in Backlash Among Community Members
Mentors, Mentees Follow Kenny Irby to New Program The Poynter Institute is facing a backlash after forcing out Kenny Irby, its only African American faculty member, last month amid financial challenges. Some black community members have objected so much to Poynter’s change in a mentorship program started and run by Irby that by Irby’s count,…
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NBA Ref Reveals He Is Gay Days After NBA Star Is Suspended for Reportedly Calling Him Gay Slur
On Dec. 3, Sacramento Kings point guard Rajon Rondo was ejected from a game by referee Bill Kennedy. Rondo refused to leave the court immediately after being ejected and instead followed Kennedy to the far sideline, where he reportedly called the 18-year veteran a gay slur. Rondo was quoted as saying, “You’re a motherf—king f—got.…
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Justice Scalia Questions Whether Blacks Ought to Be at Top-Tier Universities
On Wednesday, in Fisher v. University of Texas—a case about a white woman who believes she was denied admission to the University of Texas because less-qualified blacks were admitted instead via affirmative action—Antonin Scalia, a U.S. Supreme Court justice, challenged the attorneys defending the University of Texas by openly questioning whether blacks who are admitted to…