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Spanish-Speaking Mom and Kids Slaughtered: No One Translated Her NYPD Complaint
The Queens, N.Y., woman who was brutally murdered last month along with her two young daughters had filed a police report last May telling the NYPD that she feared for her life. But the warning she issued about her husband was overlooked because it was never translated from her native Spanish, the New York Post…
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Obama: Uganda Anti-Gay Bill Is a Step Backward
On Sunday, President Barack Obama warned Uganda that plans to further criminalize homosexuality would “complicate our valued relationship,” the Associated Press reports. Obama said that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s pledge to sign an anti-gay bill marks a “step backward” for all Ugandans. Obama added that the bill also reflects poorly on the country’s commitment to…
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Prosecutors: Ex-NFL Player Darren Sharper Drugged and Raped Women
Former NFL safety pro bowler and Super Bowl champ Darren Sharper has been charged with seven felony drug and rape counts in connection with two separate incidents, the New York Daily News reports. If convicted, Sharper faces 30 years in prison. The Daily News notes that Sharper, 38, is also under investigation in at least…
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I Won’t Let America Ignore How Dope Black Millennials Are
I believe in black millennials. This shouldn’t be noteworthy or unusual, but unfortunately, it is. I’m up against the recurring imagery that shows us shouting and fighting one another like untamed creatures (hey, thanks, WorldStarHipHop, The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Love and Hip Hop). Then, the moment we choose to evoke some sort of…
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Lolo Jones: Controversy Follows Her to Sochi Olympics
Olympic triumph may be the gold standard for exhilarating moments of unsurpassed athletic glory. But just as compelling are those heartrending moments—the slip off the balance beam, the wipeout around the last curve of the ice oval, the crash on the closing triple-toe loop or the final flight off a mogul—when it all goes terribly…
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Why Are White Men Like Michael Dunn So Angry?
Why are so many white men like Michael Dunn angry? Dunn, the man found guilty Saturday on three counts of attempted second-degree murder for shooting into a car full of black teenagers at a Jacksonville, Fla., gas station after an argument over loud rap music—but not convicted of the murder of Jordan Davis, the 17-year-old slain in…
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12 Years a Slave Wins Top Honors at BAFTA
Following a night of losses in key categories at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards ceremony Sunday, 12 Years a Slave was named best film of 2013, according to the Wrap. Steve McQueen’s poignant drama garnered the last-minute triumph after Chiwetel Ejiofor won for best actor at the ceremony at London’s Royal…
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Michael Dunn: A New Breed of Thug in Florida
Michael Dunn was strapped when he pulled into the gas station that night as Lil Reese’s “Beef” blared from the speakers of the red Dodge Durango already parked there. He let his lady know he wasn’t feeling the “thug music.” She left the car to get wine, and Dunn decided he was going to do…
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Michelle Obama Tops Hillary Clinton in First Lady Poll
It’s no secret that Michelle Obama is an outstanding first lady. Now there are poll numbers to prove it. The Chicago-native is ranked in the top five of first ladies, coming in fifth place, just ahead of Hillary Clinton, who is sixth, according to a survey of historians that was released Saturday, Reuters reports. Eleanor…
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Fla. State Attorney Angela Corey on Dunn Mistrial: ‘We Don’t Back Off’
Michael Dunn was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis, but a judge declared a mistrial late Saturday after the jury failed to reach an agreement on the charge. Dunn was found guilty on three counts of attempted murder and one for firing into an occupied vehicle. Florida State Attorney…