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Kaepernick Being Investigated Over ‘Incident’ in Miami
Two members of the San Francisco 49ers, including star quarterback Colin Kaepernick, and a Seattle Seahawks player have been named in a “suspicious incident” report by a woman who told police that she woke up in a hospital with no idea how she got there, CSN Bay Area News reports. “There’s no evidence of a…
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How Nikki Giovanni Linked Aretha Franklin to the Black Arts Movement
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal sits down with Emily Lordi to discuss her new book, Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature. Lordi is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In this excerpt, they focus on the connection between poet Nikki Giovanni and singer Aretha Franklin. Watch:…
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Dear Disgruntled Dater: We’re Sorry. Don’t Quit
It’s come to our attention that you might have had a less-than-stellar experience with a couple of our members. Specifically, upon meeting these young men on separate occasions, each asked you to buy him a drink. First, allow me to apologize on behalf of brothers everywhere for our members’ ghastly errors in judgment. This is…
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Study: White Americans Who Fear Minority Status More Likely to Shift Right
It’s commonly accepted that white Americans will no longer make up the majority of the population by 2050. However, what a new study published in the journal Psychological Science suggests is that the more fearful white Americans are of losing their majority status, the more conservative leaning they become, the Association for Psychological Science reports. Researchers…
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Detroit Teen Charged With Hate Crime in Brutal Mob Beating of Motorist
A 16-year-old Detroit boy was charged Thursday with assault and a hate crime in the brutal group beating of a 54-year-old man, Steve Utash, who stopped to check on a 10-year-old boy whom he had just struck with his pickup truck, the Associated Press reports. Yesterday Detroit police announced that they had arrested a fifth…
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The Latest From the National Action Network Convention
The National Action Network’s annual convention is under way this week in New York, featuring dozens of panel discussions tackling civil rights topics from voter repression to stop-and-frisk laws, as well as planned remarks by President Obama. The event’s primary goal, founder and president Al Sharpton told The Root, is to create an “action agenda”…
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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…