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Kobe Bryant on Trayvon Martin: Don’t Defend Someone Just Because He’s Black
Kobe Bryant wasn’t impressed by the Miami Heat’s 2012 hoodie photo, which was aimed at showing solidarity and support for slain unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, the International Business Times reports. According to the site, in the upcoming March 31 issue of the New Yorker, Bryant discusses the controversial topic that still ripples through the nation,…
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Charlotte Mayor Resigns After Corruption Arrest
Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon was arrested Wednesday on bribery and corruption charges in an FBI sting operation and resigned hours later from the post he had held for less than six months, the Associated Press reports. The 47-year-old Democratic politician is accused of taking more than $48,000 in bribes from undercover FBI agents posing as…
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Oprah Winfrey Launching Inspirational Tour
Oprah Winfrey is bringing out the big guns for her new venture—an eight-city inspirational tour that will encourage attendees to be their best, Variety reports. It has been dubbed “Oprah’s The Life You Want Weekend,” and the mogul’s magazine, cable network and Harpo production company, along with William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, will be leading the…
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Scandal Actor Columbus Short Arrested
Looks like Columbus Short may have taken the whole “gladiator” thing a little too far. The Scandal actor was arrested Wednesday on a felony battery charge. According to CNN, Short, 31, who plays Harrison Wright on the hit ABC series, allegedly gave a man a knockout punch at a West Los Angeles restaurant on March…
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Rather Than Paying College Athletes, Let’s Invest in Their Education
The campaign to generate salaries for college athletes is a standard rant that always accompanies the storied brackets of the annual NCAA March Madness basketball tournament—and the heat just got turned up on the issue, now that a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Northwestern University student-athletes can unionize. The…
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Redskins Owner Daniel Snyder Creates Charity but Misses the Mark
While the NFL set rules to issue fines over the use of the N-word, Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder still has no plans to lose the team name that many Native Americans have argued is a slur. Instead, Snyder is out to prove that the team moniker isn’t offensive by creating a charitable organization called…
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Ex-NFL Safety Darren Sharper to Remain in Jail
A Los Angeles judge has refused to release former NFL All-Pro safety Darren Sharper from jail. Sharper, who has pleaded not guilty to charges that he raped and drugged two women last year, is awaiting trial in Los Angeles, the Associated Press reports. He was released earlier on $1 million bail before being charged with…
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Which State Has the Most Segregated Public Schools? (Hint: It’s Not in the South)
New York state’s public school system is the most segregated in the country because most of the state’s schools have virtually no white students. The majority of the state’s school population is African American and Latino, adding to the growing concern that connects educational problems with lack of diversity. The schools are often poverty-concentrated and…
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Judge Joe Brown Doesn’t Think He Was Out of Line. He's Contesting Charges
Looks like Judge Joe Brown isn’t going to take his contempt charges lying down. In an interview with Good Morning America, Brown insisted that he hadn’t done anything wrong, and he would repeat the actions that got him sentenced to five days in prison, The Associated Press reports. According to him, he did something that…
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Fronting: We Need to Stop Living the ‘Fabulous and Broke’ Lifestyle
Last week, designer, A-list socialite and girlfriend to Mick Jagger L’Wren Scott committed suicide, hanging herself inside a $5.6 million New York City apartment. “Within hours,” according to the New York Post, “Scott’s life was revealed to have become an elaborate facade.” Her lifestyle—at least the one she showcased on Instagram—included fancy vacations arrived at…