culture
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Nigerian Singer Offers Virginity in Exchange for Abducted Schoolgirls
One Nigerian pop star is taking the fate of the missing Chibok schoolgirls into her own hands, saying that she is willing to give her virginity to Boko Haram in exchange for the more than 200 who are still missing, the New York Daily News reports. “It is just unfair. They are too young. I…
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Woman Beats Mother in Front of 2-Year-Old Son
Police in New Jersey are looking for a 25-year-old woman who they believe beat and kicked a mother until she was bloody and disoriented in front of her 2-year-old son while several bystanders videotaped the attack, the New York Daily News reports. Authorities believe that Latia Harris attacked the 27-year-old mother Tuesday for allegedly spreading…
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Should I Tell My Husband Our Last Child Isn’t His?
I am the mother of two. I have an amazing husband and father to my children. The last child is not his, and he is unaware. His best friend and I had a one-night stand two years ago when my hubby was out of town. I can’t bring myself to come clean. I just started…
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DC Strip Club Built With HIV/AIDS Grant Money
A District of Columbia Superior Court jury found that nonprofit group Miracle Hands, Inc., misappropriated grant funds that were intended for a job-training center from the city’s HIV/AIDS program. After the four-day trial, the jury found that Miracle Hands and its executive director, Cornell Jones, owed a total of $329,653 in damages, according to Washington City…
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1994 Harvard Student: Nigeria’s Democratic President Was Overthrown. He Was My Dad. Here's Why the U.S. Did Nothing.
Hafsat Abiola was walking on campus one day in 1994 as a student at Harvard University when she was summoned by a group of students who were collecting signatures for a petition. “There’s an elected president in jail in Nigeria and we’re gathering signatures to demand his release,” one of them said to her.…
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NC Teen Against Gun Violence Killed in Gang Gunfight
Just last month, 19-year-old Ravon Jordan was standing before the Fayetteville, N.C., City Council, speaking about gun violence and calling for the senseless deaths to stop. “Since I’ve known about Cambridge Arms, there have been four murders all due to gun violence,” Jordan said before the council on May 12, the Fayetteville Observer reports. But…
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Comedian Kevin Hart Donates $50,000 to Texas Southern University Band
Comedian Kevin Hart is well-known for generating big laughs. However, he also has a pretty big heart, donating $50,000 to HBCU Texas Southern University’s band after hearing that the Tom Joyner Foundation was trying to send the members to go see Michael Strahan—a famed alumnus known for the most sacks in a single season—inducted into…
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Texas Father Who Overpaid Child Support Reports to Prison
Clifford Hall, the 43-year-old Texas father who made national news after he was sentenced to six months in jail for delinquent child support payments, has exhausted all appeals and reported to prison. What made Hall’s case so intriguing was that a Texas judge found Hall to be in contempt of court and ordered him to…
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McDonald’s Stabbed Man Was on Phone With Daughter Canceling Movie Date
Andrew Hardy has one cool head on his shoulders. The 53-year-old Queens, N.Y., resident became an Internet sensation when he strolled into a neighborhood McDonald’s with a knife literally stuck in the middle of his back, his phone to his ear. “Yo, we might not be going to the movies. I got a knife sticking…
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2 Ghana Players Suspended Indefinitely Hours Before Decisive World Cup Game
Ghana vs. Portugal is one of the deciding games of the World Cup, since only one of the playing teams will be in the last 16 for the series. However, things took an interesting turn when two star players for the Ghanaian team were indefinitely suspended and sent home by coach Kwesi Appiah, Yahoo Sports…