culture
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Tiffany & Co. Sued for Racial Bias
An employee at Tiffany & Co. has slammed the coveted luxury jewelry retailer with a lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Manhattan, accusing it of trying to get rid of him because he’s a black man, the New York Times reports. Michael McClure is a group director for Tiffany and, according to his suit,…
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Disabled Man’s Family Sent $11.67 Million Bill After He Died in State Care
Rasheen Rose was mentally disabled. His family placed him in a facility in Queens, N.Y., that was better equipped to handle the 33-year-old’s needs. According to reports, two years ago, Rose became unresponsive while being restrained at the Fineson Developmental Center and later was pronounced dead, New York’s Daily News reports. A year later, Rose’s sister,…
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4-Year-Old Boy Calls 911 After Mom Passes Out
A 4-year-old Georgia boy had been given a bath and dressed when his mother walked out of the room and collapsed. According to news station WALB, little Jaden Howe didn’t panic he just remembered what his mother taught him and called 911. Jaden told the dispatcher, “My mommy is passed out and she can’t talk.…
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Shelly Sterling to Sell LA Clippers to Ex-Microsoft CEO for Record Sum
According to Shelly Sterling, the Los Angeles Clippers will be sold to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for an NBA-record $2 billion. “I am delighted that we are selling the team to Steve, who will be a terrific owner,” Shelly Sterling said in a statement, ESPN reports. “We have worked for 33 years to build…
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Your Ex Has Moved On and Can’t Be Friends? Get Over It
I was actually helping my ex-boyfriend try to get his girlfriend back when somehow we ended up hooking up. Now he’s back with his girl and he tells me we can’t be friends anymore. I’m really hurt because he is also one of my best friends and I love his presence in my life. I…
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Why Google Should Call Some Black Friends
Google just did something few tech companies have shown interest in doing: It seriously confronted the issue of diversity—or, rather, its lack thereof. The company issued a report on its workforce diversity, and let’s just say, if it had wanted to, the report could have been summarized as follows: “When it comes to Latino and…
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Google Exposes Its Lack of Diversity
On Wednesday Google publicly revealed data that supported what many had speculated: White men run the Web giant. Earlier this month, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and members of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition attended eBay’s and Google’s shareholder meetings to challenge the tech giants on diversity. In response to Jackson’s challenge, Google released the data and…
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Texas Mom Drives Into Lake With 6-Month-Old in Backseat
Galveston police arrested an apparently inebriated Texas woman who allegedly critically injured the father of one of her children by driving over him and then driving into a lake, almost drowning her 6-month-old in the backseat, KHOU 11 reports. Latonya Kirven, 30, was charged with driving while intoxicated with a child and assault with a…
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NJ Father Who Drowned Toddler in Car Seat Gets Life Sentence
Arthur Morgan III was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for drowning his 2-year-old daughter, the New York Post reports. The New Jersey father was found guilty of throwing the toddler into a creek while she was still strapped into her car seat—with an irate judge telling him that he would have been placed…
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Va. 10th-Grader Brutally Murders Parents Over Punishments
A Norfolk, Va., 10th-grade honor student who had grown tired of his parents’ punishments, which included ” … taking away my iPod and stuff,” admitted in court Wednesday that he murdered both of them a week before Christmas. According to news station WTKR, Vincent Parker, 16, told police that he attacked his mother with pepper spray,…