culture
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Bill Cosby Files Lawsuit Against Judith Huth for Sexual Assault Allegations
Bill Cosby is addressing at least one of the allegations of sexual assault launched against him by countersuing Judith Huth, the woman who alleged that she was assaulted by the comedian when she was 15, CBS News reports. Cosby’s lawyer is claiming that Huth and her attorney attempted to extort money from Cosby by demanding…
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SC Has Indicted 3 Cops in 4 Months for Shooting Unarmed Black Men
While the nation reels from the lack of indictments in the recent cases of Ohio’s John Crawford III, Missouri’s Michael Brown and New York’s Eric Garner, all of whom were killed by on-duty police officers, South Carolina is reportedly taking a different approach, having indicted three white officers in the past four months for the…
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Transgender Woman Killed While Pounding on Door for Help
Deshawnda Sanchez, a 21-year-old transgender woman known to many as “Tata,” was gunned down on Wednesday in front of a house in South Los Angeles that police believe she had run to seeking help. “She was definitely at that door, pounding on that door seeking help,” Los Angeles police Detective Christopher Barling told KTLA 5.…
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Eric Garner’s Mom: His Death Wasn’t About Race, It Was a ‘Thrill Kill’
Officer Daniel Pantaleo’s part in Eric Garner’s death may not have been a race issue as much as a size issue, the Garner family said in interviews with CNN. Erica Garner, the daughter of the deceased Staten Island father of six who was killed, in part, by a banned choke hold, said that it was…
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Biggest Loser’s Damien Gurganious Dead at Age 38
Season 7 Biggest Loser star Damien Gurganious has died suddenly at age 38, the Daily Mail reports. According to the news site, Gurganious died Nov. 24 because of a brain bleed caused by a rare autoimmune disorder called idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. “As most of you know, I never post on social media. So, it is…
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Protesters March in Phoenix After Unarmed Man Fatally Shot by Police
As many African Americans struggle to absorb the shocking deaths of Michael Brown, 18, and Eric Garner, 43, and subsequent decisions by separate grand juries not to indict officers involved in those killings, details are emerging in Phoenix that an unarmed black man taking food to his family was gunned down by a white police…
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Ben Carson’s ‘Women’s Lib’ Rant Was a Barely Veiled Shot at Black Women
Known for being the beloved darling of the Grand Old Party, Dr. Ben Carson has a penchant for pathologizing blackness that dovetailed last week with his blatant misogyny, causing the good doc to blame the extrajudicial killing of African-American boys and men on—wait for it—the “women’s lib movement.” “Certainly in a lot of our inner…
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What the Eric Garner Case Says About Staten Island Politics
You can learn a lot about Staten Island if you catch Method Man flowing on a classic Wu Tang album. Another way to capture the New York City borough’s vibe is by watching Eric Garner get choked to death by an overzealous Gotham cop and then watching a grand jury in Richmond County—the jurisdiction that…
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If Your Bestie Wants to Be Close Friends With Your Husband, You Might Have a Problem
My best friend and I grew up with my now-husband of five years. Their relationship, as far as I know, has never been substantial. It’s the hi-and-bye type. The first two years of our marriage, she lived with us. An incident occurred during that first year when he was showering and she went in for…
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The US Injustice System—or How Caribbean Optimism Became Black Rage
The New York City grand jury decision not to charge the cop responsible for Eric Garner’s death has snatched away a lot of the hope that I’ve held on to about race relations here—my birth country—that I now see is still clinging tightly, in many places, to its white supremacist ways. Reading that, you may…