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Michael Dunn Takes Stand, Racist Letters Take Center Stage Online
Michael Dunn, the man who pumped nine shots into a parked Dodge Durango full of teenage boys, killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis after a dispute over the kids’ loud music, took the stand Tuesday in his defense, telling the jury, “I thought I was going to be killed.” Dunn, 47, claimed that he saw what he…
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It Should Be Called ‘The Real Homophobes of Atlanta’
As college football star and major NFL prospect Michael Sam trended on Twitter Sunday night for revealing that he is a proud gay man, The Real Housewives of Atlanta trended for opposite reasons. There is an unexplored theme in reality TV that features black women: the criminalization of black male sexuality, blatant homophobia and the…
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Starkly Different Stories Emerging From Michael Dunn Trial
Fact: Michael Dunn killed 17-year-old Jordan Davis. Everything else about the Florida case, however, appears to be up for debate. Dunn’s defense attorneys are certainly trying to poke holes and inject doubts into every argument the prosecution presents, CNN reports. The way Assistant State Attorney John Guy told the jury the prosecution’s side of the…
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High School Football Players Claim White Rivals Called Them ‘N–gers’
A heated rivalry between two high school football teams erupted in a huge sideline-clearing brawl, which five black high school football players from Long Island are claiming started after they were called the n-word by the players and coaches, the New York Daily News reports. The black players from Amityville High School, which would lose…
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AIDS Activist Michael Tikili: ‘I Saw My Reflection, I Saw the HIV Infection’
Five years ago, Michael Tikili had a hard time looking at himself in the mirror because every time he saw his reflection, he saw “the infection.” Hearing, in 2009, that he had contracted HIV had shaken him to his core. The 23-year-old African-American Duke University graduate racked his brain to figure out how this could…
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George Zimmerman to Fight Rapper DMX in Celebrity Match
Looks like X gon’ give it to him. Rapper DMX has been chosen to be George Zimmerman’s opponent in a celebrity boxing match, which has gained attention nationwide. The details of the fight are yet to be determined, but will be announced at a news conference next Wednesday, according to CNN. Earlier Wednesday morning, owner…
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Dolphins Lift Incognito’s Suspension as Texts Shed Light on Relationship
On Tuesday, the Miami Dolphins lifted the three-month suspension of guard Richie Incognito, days before NFL investigator Ted Wells is set to release his findings into allegations that Incognito bullied and tormented offensive lineman, Jonathan Martin, ESPN reports. “I would to thank my family and friends for their continued love and support. It’s official,” Incognito…
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George Zimmerman Wants to Box With Kanye West
George Zimmerman wants to teach Kanye West a lesson and have a go at him in the boxing ring, because of the rapper’s supposed history of attacking “defenseless people,” the Huffington Post reports. This is not a joke. According to the Huffington Post, promoters for the upcoming boxing match between Zimmerman and a still-unknown opponent…
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12 O’Clock Boys: Freedom Riding With Baltimore’s Biker Boys
The black screen breaks, and Pug’s brown face appears, slim and unfazed, his cornrows hidden behind a black baseball hat cocked backward, his black T-shirt drunk around the neck. His eyes say: “I have seen more than my decade of life.” A nameless radio voice comes in offscreen like a low rumble. “I want to…
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Arrest of ‘Black’ Man in Beating of Gay Journalist
Police Sought “Hispanic” but Arrested a “Black Male” Police arrested a Queens, N.Y., man Tuesday in the beating of Randy Gener, an openly gay arts journalist who remained in critical condition after undergoing brain surgery as a result of the attack, New York news media reported. The suspect, Leighton Jennings, was described by police Wednesday…