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Scandal Recap: 10 Life Lessons
In addition to causing emotional upheaval for #TeamFitz, #TeamJake and everyone in between, Thursday night’s episode also taught us 10 life lessons: 1. You win wars by deploying weapons that your opponent doesn’t possess. In this episode, Olivia, Papa Pope and Fitz battled it out over Jake’s fate. Even though Papa Pope initially convinced Fitz…
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Columnist Fired After He Calls Michael Brown an Animal That Had to Be Put Down
A Charleston, W.Va., columnist has lost his job after referring to Michael Brown as an animal. According to Mediaite, Don Surber, a 30-year veteran of the Charleston Daily Mail, took to his personal blog to say this: This summer I had an epiphany as I watched packs of racists riot in Ferguson, Missouri, in support…
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White Teacher Reportedly Tells Student That Killing All Black People Is on Her Bucket List
A student at Camden County High School in North Carolina was having lunch in the classroom when she began discussing with her teacher items on her bucket list. Cynthia Ramsey, who teaches math at the school, reportedly shocked the student with one of her items. “She conveyed to me that Mrs. Ramsey had indicated that…
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Maine Nurse: Stop Ebola Quarantine or I’ll Sue
They say the CIA ain’t got nothin’ on a woman with a plan. The nurse who returned from West Africa and was quarantined by the state of Maine because of concerns that she might have contracted Ebola while treating patients overseas defied her state’s orders to stay inside her home and went for a bike ride…
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Chef Carla Hall Uses Kickstarter to Open Restaurant
Carla Hall has hit her Kickstarter goal to open her new eatery, according to the Associated Press. Hall, of Top Chef fame and currently co-host of ABC’s The Chew, set out to raise funding for her Southern-style restaurant. She used the funding site Kickstarter to raise the $250,000 needed to open Carla Hall’s Southern Kitchen in…
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Leaving a Great Guy to Get Back With a Bad Ex Just Isn’t a Good Move
My boyfriend cheated and abandoned me and my kids. I didn’t even know he was leaving. I came home and his things were gone. I started dating a great guy, but after a year my ex has returned and wants to get married. The new guy has been there for that year, helping me with…
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Yes, the Harassment Video Has Its Problems—but Mostly, It Shows How Indefensible Street Harassment Is
By now you’ve seen the street-harassment video directed and produced by Rob Bliss and starring Shoshana B. Roberts for the nonprofit organization Hollaback that’s all over the Internet. The two-minute video is cut from 10 hours of footage of Roberts walking through New York City. Throughout her walk she’s harassed by more than 100 men,…
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Street Harassment Is a Problem—No Doubt—but Here’s Why That Video Didn’t Help the Debate
If the instantly notorious street-harassment video was intended to make men more sympathetic to the horrors women deal with on a daily basis, it didn’t succeed. Called simply, “10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman,” the video has now been viewed more than 15 million times on its original YouTube page, but it…
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Judge Offers Stunning Reversal of Sentence After Man Recants Double-Murder Confession
A prisoner who was instrumental in a case that led to the abolishment of the death penalty in Illinois was released Thursday after recanting his confession in that case. According to the Associated Press, Alstory Simon’s confession to murder led to the release of Anthony Porter in 1999. Porter, who spent 16 years on death row…
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Carmen de Lavallade Still Captivates Onstage at 83
Carmen de Lavallade calls herself a woman of her time. During her one-woman stage show, As I Remember It, the 83-year-old star dancer of stage and screen recounts growing up during the Great Depression and being raised by her father after her mother died in a sanatorium. She remembers listening to programs on the radio and…