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Black Hollywood Prepares to Shine at Golden Globe Awards 2015
Black Hollywood is prepared to shine at tonight’s 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., where Kevin Hart is scheduled to be among several presenters. Ava DuVernay, who directed the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma and is the first black woman to be nominated for a best director…
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Watch: Ind. Couple Arrested After Filming 1-Year-Old Playing With Gun
A 22-year-old Evansville, Ind., mother has been charged with child neglect after a video surfaced of her 1-year-old daughter playing with a handgun and shouting “pow” to emulate the sound of gunfire, the Daily Mail reports. The mother, Toni Wilson, a former cashier at McDonald’s, and her partner, Michael Barnes, 19, were arrested after police discovered…
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Chicago Man Accused of Killing Mom for Telling Him to ‘Find a Girlfriend’
A 26-year-old Chicago man has been charged with fatally stabbing his 54-year-old mother after she reportedly put him down and told him to find a girlfriend, the Chicago Tribune reports. Andre Brown was charged with first-degree murder last Sunday in the death of his mother, Damita Collins, who was found dead by her husband, Brown’s…
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Top Cop Says NYPD Work ‘Slowdown’ Is Over
New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has declared that a work “slowdown” by officers that arose amid a rift with Mayor Bill de Blasio is over, New York magazine reports. “The slowdown is over in the sense that the numbers are starting to go back up again,” Bratton said, according to the magazine. “I…
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Watch: Anderson Cooper Corrects Colleague Who Called French Terrorist an African American
CNN’s Anderson Cooper corrected colleague Chris Cuomo’s incorrect description of a suspect as African American in one of two hostage situations that unfolded Friday in France, Mediaite reports, exhibiting an awareness that is rarely seen on television or cable news. Both men, who are white, were reporting on events from Paris about noon Eastern time,…
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Feds Offer $10,000 Reward in Blast Near NAACP Offices in Colo.
The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives late Friday announced a $10,000 reward for information about an explosion this week near the offices of the Colorado Springs, Colo., chapter of the NAACP, CBS News reports. Investigators also released a sketch of a person of interest in the Tuesday blast, which could…
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George Zimmerman Arrested in Domestic Violence Case
George Zimmerman, the former volunteer neighborhood watchman who was acquitted in the shooting death of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin, was arrested Friday in a domestic violence case, CNN reports. He was arrested about 10 p.m. in Lake Mary, Fla., near Orlando and charged with aggravated assault and domestic violence with a weapon, according to…
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Watch: Fox Reporter Suggests Color Helps Identify Bad Guys
In typical Fox News fashion, a correspondent essentially equated bad guys with, well, the color of their skin in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo this week. Washington, D.C.-based Fox News correspondent Shannon Bream, who covers the Supreme Court, made the comments Wednesday during an appearance on Outnumbered. She…
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Wish You Could Get That Text Back? There’s an App for That
We’ve all been there. Staring down in horror at our phones at a text we did not mean to send but did anyway for reasons ranging from carelessness to extreme anger to intoxication. Or maybe a friend thought it was funny to prank us and sent the unsendable message as a joke. Regardless of the…
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Former FAMU Student Sentenced to 6 Years for Marching-Band Hazing Death
Dante Martin—the former de facto student president of the hazing rituals conducted by Florida A&M University’s marching band—was sentenced to 77 months in prison (almost six-and-a-half years) for the 2011 hazing death of FAMU student and drum major Robert Champion, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Before Martin’s sentencing on manslaughter charges in Champion’s death, his family,…