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Calling it “the heist of the century,” Donald Trump sharply criticized the city for agreeing to a $40 million settlement with the five men wrongfully convicted in the notorious Central Park jogger assault of the 1980s, according to the Daily News. “The recipients must be laughing out loud at the stupidity of the city,” Donald…

The fatal shooting of a 33-year-old Florida woman by her 2-year-old son in 2011 was a tragic accident, prosecutors said, according to the Sun Sentinel.  In April 2011, Julia Bennett reportedly was struck in the left side of the back after her son found a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun wedged between sofa cushions in their…

A federal judge in Pennsylvania dismissed a lawsuit against former Sesame Street puppeteer Kevin Clash on Thursday, saying it had not been filed before the statute of limitations expired, Reuters reports. U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner in Harrisburg, Pa., dismissed the suit filed last year by a man “who accused Clash, 53, of engaging in…

It is impossible to deny soccer’s growing popularity among U.S. fans. An ESPN Sports Poll Annual Report revealed that Major League Soccer is now as popular with American children as Major League Baseball. And according to FIFA, U.S. fans are second to Brazil in the purchase of tickets to this year’s World Cup. As the…

It’s telling that Samuel Bazawule—aka Blitz the Ambassador—was introduced to hip-hop as a child in Ghana via the music of Public Enemy. While “Niggas in Paris” like Kanye West and Jay Z are most often recalled in fantasies and nightmares of hip-hop’s global expansion, rappers have been in the vanguard of a black cosmopolitan identity…

Five men, four black and one Hispanic, widely known as the Central Park Five whose charges—in the 1989 ruthless beating and sexual assault of 28-year-old investment banker Trisha Meili during her routine jog through Central Park—were later overturned, have reached a $40 million settlement with New York City, reports the New York Times. The proposed deal…

“If you’re going to arrest me, then just arrest me now, ‘cause next time I am going to kill him.” Those are reportedly the fighting words Edward Holley, 60, told police when he was arrested and taken into custody Wednesday from an Orlando, Fla., home after allegedly dousing his neighbor Darryl Blacknell with a pan…

It was something of a given that Think Like a Man was going to get a sequel. The film, inspired by the advice in Steve Harvey’s best-selling advice book and featuring an all-star black cast, grossed more than $33 million during its opening weekend and went on to clear nearly $96 million at the box…

Four-year-old Myls Dobson lost his life in the cruelest way. His bruised, emaciated tiny body was found Jan. 8 inside the bathroom of his babysitter Kryzie King’s luxury New York City apartment. Before succumbing to “child abuse syndrome, including dehydration,” according to the autopsy report and as reported in the New York Times, the 4-year-old…