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Wal-Mart Driver in Tracy Morgan Crash Takes to Twitter to Claim Innocence
Kevin Roper, the Wal-Mart truck driver who has been charged in a crash that left one person dead, and comedian Tracy Morgan and three others hospitalized, apparently isn’t sitting back and waiting for his trial to proclaim his innocence. On Tuesday, a series of tweets emerged from an account linked to the 35-year-old who was…
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Ice Cube’s Son to Play Him in N.W.A Biopic
Ice Cube and director F. Gary Gray have cast the rapper’s son O’Shea Jackson Jr. to play the original N.W.A member in Universal’s biopic Straight Outta Compton, according to The Wrap. Although the studio has not confirmed the casting, Ice Cube has been championing for his son to play the role since earlier this year. In…
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Teacher Allegedly Tells Black Student to Say ‘Yes, Sir, Master’
When Jabre White’s teacher told the class to go downstairs to take their economics final, Jabre says he politely responded with a “Yes, sir.” That was when the Roosevelt High School senior from Des Moines, Iowa, was met with, “You meant to say, ‘Yes, sir, master,’ ” from the teacher, Shawn McCurtain, the Des Moines…
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In Brazil: ‘White People Running Are Athletes; Black People Running Are Thieves’
Whether it’s a mural in Salvador, Brazil’s Barra neighborhood with the message “– copa + educacao” (less cup, more education); street art in Sao Paulo that reads “A Copa Pra Quem” (The Cup for Who?); or a message on Rio de Janeiro’s main highway, scrawled in black spray paint, that says simply, “Foder-se FIFA” (F—k…
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NYC Cops Raid Harlem Housing Projects, Make Some 100 Arrests
Dozens of police from across New York City stormed two Harlem housing projects, arresting some 100 people they believe have been at the center of a deadly gang feud that included the 2011 killing of an 18-year-old woman destined for basketball greatness. According to the New York Daily News, police dressed in full combat gear…
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Watch: NY Man Records Racial Confrontation in Parking Lot
Editor’s note: Tweets that were previously attributed to the woman in this video were not genuine. “You’re a n—ger!” This is allegedly what the woman said, pointedly and vehemently, to the man recording her from his car window as she called her husband to tell him to come and deal with him. Apparently the confrontation…
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50 Cent Recounts the Time Beyoncé ‘Bonnie and Clyde’d’ Him
Could it be that Beyoncé and Solange Knowles have a lot in common when it comes to being “ride or die?” Apparently there’s a good reason why Jay Z and Beyoncé refer to themselves as “Bonnie and Clyde.” At least there is according to rapper 50 Cent. During a recent interview with New York’s Power 105.1,…
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Maya Angelou: A Phenomenal Woman Passes On
One of the United States’ most prolific and beloved authors and poets has died at the age of 86. Maya Angelou was a Renaissance woman whose life inspired six autobiographies, including her internationally celebrated first memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Angelou was found unresponsive in her Winston-Salem, N.C., home. Her death comes…
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The Black Roots of Memorial Day
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 81: What was “Freedom’s Fort,”…
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What Were Tupac Shakur's Dying Words?
According to a police officer who was among the first on the scene of the fatal drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas in 1996, the poet and rapper’s last words were, “F—k you.” Officer Chris Carroll told the british newspaper The Independent that he was one of the first to respond to the shooting,…