culture
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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,…
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Dancer Claims She Was Asked to Leave African Festival Because She Is White
A woman claims that she wasn’t allowed to dance at the St. Louis African Arts Festival because she is white. Event organizers say they asked the woman to sit down and stop dancing because she was interrupting the show. Susan Stone claims that she has proof in the form of a secretly recorded video that…
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Rutgers University Beyoncé Class Is in Session
On Wednesday, students at Rutgers University took their Beyoncé obsession into the classroom, and are earning college credit thanks to a new summer course titled, Feminist Perspectives: Politicizing Beyoncé, in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. Spearheaded by doctoral student Kevin Allred, the class focuses on how ‘Yonce used her star status and female-empowerment…
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LeVar Burton Asked for Help Reviving Reading Rainbow, and the People Responded
Reading Rainbow is coming back, but this time the show will be more tech-based and will appear on multiple platforms to represent the new generation of learners. Actor LeVar Burton—also the longtime host and producer of Reading Rainbow—recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to revive and add new life to what was once a popular learning…