culture
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Man Breaks 3-Year-Old’s Leg for Eating Last Slice of Cheesecake
A Memphis, Tenn., mother and her boyfriend are both in jail after the boyfriend reportedly beat her 3-year-old son so badly that he broke his thighbone, dislocated a vertebra and bruised his lung, Eyewitness 3 News reports. According to the news station, Anthony Gulledge, 30, arrived home Saturday to find that the little boy had…
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Actress Karen Pittman’s Broadway Play Is a Little Dangerous
Karen Pittman is an actress whose star is on the rise. She is currently burning up the Broadway stage in Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced. The play examines the precariousness of power, identity, prestige and race relations in contemporary New York City. The brave narrative tackles subjects like Islamophobia, cultural appropriation, and interracial personal…
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Mike Huckabee Scolds Obamas for Letting Their Daughters Be Fans of Beyoncé
During an interview with People magazine, Mike Huckabee—the former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential-primary candidate—described how he is flabbergasted that President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama allow their daughters to be fans of Beyoncé, the New York Daily News reports. “I don’t understand how on one hand they can be such doting parents…
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Report: George Zimmerman a ‘Psycho,’ Ex-Girlfriend Says
In case you couldn’t get a feel for it, George Zimmerman is a “psycho,” or so his now-ex-girlfriend said, according to police documents, New York magazine reports. Over the weekend Zimmerman, who was infamously acquitted in the shooting death of unarmed Florida teen Trayvon Martin, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault after he allegedly…
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NYC School Therapist Sues City for Suspension Over Special Needs Fundraiser
When New York City occupational therapist Debra Fisher discovered that one of her special needs students, 13-year-old Aaron Philip, had a talent for video animation, Fisher coordinated a fundraiser to help Aaron create a multimedia project that would help other special needs kids. Fisher sent emails to other staffers at Public School 333 in Manhattan…
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Missouri 4-Year-Old Gets New Friend After Classmates Dismiss Her Because She’s Black
Four-year-old Londyn James was crying her eyes out to her shocked mother one day after school, telling how her classmates refused to be her friend because she was black. Tomeka Fisher, 35, could hardly believe what she was hearing, so she recorded it and put it on Facebook. “My 4yr old is crying her heart…
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Baltimore Man Fatally Shoots Neighbors Over Parking Space, Police Say
A North Baltimore man is facing 17 charges after he allegedly shot and killed two of his neighbors over a parking-space dispute, police said, according to the Baltimore Sun. Charges against Dennis Padgett, 34, include first-degree murder, assault and possessing a firearm with a felony conviction. He is currently being held at the Baltimore City…
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Wrongfully Convicted Brothers Win $17,000,000 Settlement From NYC
A Brooklyn, N.Y., family has finally received compensation from New York City for the two decades three brothers spent in prison for murders they did not commit, receiving a total of $17 million from the city, the city comptroller confirmed Monday, the New York Post reports. Robert Hill, Alvena Jennette and Daryl Austin—half-brothers who share…
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Obama Regrets Not Attending Unity March in Paris
On Monday the White House revealed that President Barack Obama regrets that he did not send a more senior U.S. official to the march in Paris on Sunday to denounce terrorism. Heads of state from a number of countries gathered to commemorate the shooting attacks against journalists, police officers and hostages that occurred in France…
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Muslim Man Hailed as Hero for Hiding Hostages During Paris Attack
When Amedy Coulibaly—one of the assailants responsible for the shooting attacks in France last week—threatened to kill hostages in a kosher supermarket in Paris, a young Muslim man led people to a walk-in freezer below the supermarket to shield them from harm, CNN reports. Lassana Bathily, an employee at the Hyper Cacher supermarket, is being…