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Teen Whom Kanye West Allegedly Beat Up Seeks Out-of-Court Settlement
The 18-year-old whom Kanye West allegedly pummeled last week in a chiropractor’s waiting room for supposedly hurling racist slurs at West’s fiancee wants to settle out of court for a few hundred thousand dollars, TMZ reports. According to TMZ, sources connected with the 18-year-old tell the news site that his lawyer has contacted West’s people…
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A Mother Loses 2 Sons to Violence Only 19 Days Apart
On New Year’s Eve, Dinyal New lost her 13-year-old son, Lee Weathersby III, to gun violence in East Oakland, Calif. Three weeks later her 19-year-old son, Lamar Broussard, has also been killed. Two funerals for her two babies in under a month. “I have no more kids,” New told the San Francisco Chronicle, adding that…
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I Don’t Want to Be ‘That White Guy’ When Talking About Racism
“I’m a white guy. One morning I was at the gym, changing at my locker, when two black guys next to me got into a discussion. I don’t know either of them well, but previously I’ve had a lot of casual conversation with one of them and a little bit with the other. One says our city is…
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How a Runner’s Mentality Can Motivate Business Owners
I have decided that fitness and health need to be moved up on my list of priorities. It’s better for my business and my life if I am in tip-top form. So I made the decision to become a runner. I’d always believed that running wasn’t for me because of my own self-limitations; I even…
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Remains Confirmed as Missing Autistic NYC Teen
The human remains found last week along the Queens, N.Y., shoreline were confirmed as being Avonte Oquendo, the medical examiner’s office reported on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. The missing autistic teen, who was nonverbal, walked out of his school three months ago and was never heard from again. The remains discovered along the East…
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The Root’s Keli Goff Named New Emerging Playwright
Keli Goff, special correspondent for The Root, was named one of 10 new playwrights for the Public Theater’s 2014-2015 Emerging Writers Group. The Public Theater announced on Tuesday that Goff, along with nine other playwrights, was selected out of some 475 applicants to participate in the fifth cycle of the program, which cultivates talent “at…
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HIV-Positive Student Filmed Sex Tapes With More Than 30 Unsuspecting Victims
Prosecutors are confirming that more than 30 people could have contracted HIV from a former student at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Miss., who is accused of purposefully spreading the disease, KMOV reports. Michael Johnson, a 22-year-old former wrestler, was charged with exposing his partners to the deadly disease, before the authorities later uncovered 32…
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Amazing but Totally Racist Art: Garage Magazine Editor-in-Chief Sits on ‘Black Woman’ Chair
Updated Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1:30 p.m. EST: Dasha Zhukova, the Garage magazine editor-in-chief who came under fire for sitting on a very realistic “black woman chair,” has issued an apology for the photo, saying that it was taken out of context, according to the London Evening Standard. “This photograph, which has been published completely out…
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Seahawks’ Richard Sherman Is Not a Thug. Stop Calling Him One
There was a moment in the NFL version of the Hatfields and McCoys that could have ended the blood feud. It came at the end of the game Sunday, after Seattle’s Richard Sherman batted a pass intended for San Francisco 49er Michael Crabtree into the arms of a teammate, causing an interception that would seal…
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Florida House Candidate Calls for Hanging of President
On the national day of reflection for Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, an African-American Republican candidate for Florida House District 68 took to Twitter to demand that the president be hanged for war crimes, the Tampa Bay Times reports. “I’m past impeachment,” Joshua Black wrote on Twitter. “It’s time to arrest and hang him high.”…