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MSU Fan Lacey Holsworth Dies of Cancer at Age 8
Lacey Holsworth met Michigan State player Adreian Payne while she was in the hospital, and the two became fast friends. Lacey Holsworth would attend all the games, cheering on Payne and the other members of the team. All would come to “adopt” her as their sister. On senior night, the 6-foot-10-inch center found the 8-year-old,…
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Mother, 2 Others Arrested in Boy’s Beating Posted as Facebook Video
An 11-year-old whose family was upset with his alleged thuggish behavior and possible gang involvement decided to teach him a lesson that included a videotaped whipping that was posted on Facebook. That lesson has led to three people being charged with assault, CBS Detroit reports. Demitria Latrion Powell, the child’s 28-year-old mother, Uteas Michelle Taylor,…
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Sir Mix-a-Lot to Perform With Seattle Symphony
Talk about mix-and-match. Rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot is set to perform with a symphony orchestra—the Seattle Symphony, to be precise—for a classical rendition of “Baby Got Back,” UPI reports. The piece was put together by composer and DJ Gabriel Prokofiev (he is the grandson of the renowned Sergei Prokofiev), who wrote the unusual piece for the…
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Determined Young Men Refused to Stop Looking for Missing 9-Year-Old
Local officials stopped looking, calling off the search for little Patrauna Hudson about 6 p.m. on Monday night, a day after the girl was swept away by floodwaters in Yazoo City, Miss. However, 14 young men refused to stop looking, MSNewsNow reports. About an hour later, they found her in a drainage canal. Unfortunately, Patrauna…
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Writer Pearl Cleage Tells the Messy Stories of Her Life
By her 20s, Pearl Cleage was on a completely different trajectory, living the kind of life for which a Spelman College degree presumably prepped one: power career as press secretary-speechwriter to Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first black mayor; power marriage to up-and-coming politico Michael Lomax (now president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund); powerful friends occupying powerful…
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Barack Obama's Aunt, Zeituni Onyango, Dies at 61
Zeituni Onyango, the aunt of President Obama, became ill in January and passed away on Tuesday at the age of 61. According to NPR, Onyango had been receiving treatment for respiratory problems and cancer within recent months. She died at a Boston rehabilitation center in her sleep. Onyango moved to the United States in 2000.…
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Petition Wants Michael Vick Banned From Jets Practice Site
The New York Jets are realizing that their newly acquired quarterback comes with more baggage than they may have bargained for. With training camps not even under way, students at SUNY Cortland’s campus, where the Jets hold practice, don’t want Michael Vick there and have started a petition to get him banned. The petition, which…
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UMass Basketball Player Becomes 1st Openly Gay NCAA Division I Athlete
Derrick Gordon, a sophomore guard for the University of Massachusetts men’s basketball team, decided that he had carried his secret too long, so after speaking with his family, coaches and teammates privately, he told ESPN on Wednesday that he is gay. “I just didn’t want to hide anymore, in any way,” Gordon told ESPN. “I didn’t want…
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Body Pulled From Indiana Lake Positively Identified as Teleka Patrick
Authorities have positively identified the body pulled from Lake Charles in Indiana as missing Michigan doctor Teleka Patrick, USA Today reports. It is believed that the Kalamazoo, Mich., doctor drowned, and to date, investigators do not believe that foul play was involved, since no trauma was found on her body, the news site notes. Toxicology reports,…
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Baseball Legend Hank Aaron Likens GOP to KKK
Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron isn’t impressed with the advances in race relations in the United States, comparing members of the GOP who stall President Obama’s initiatives to the Ku Klux Klan, USA Today Sports reports. “Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is…