culture
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Instagram Photos of Fast-Food Heist Lead to Arrests
Turns out Instagram photos of food aren’t all boring, especially when they lead to multiple arrests. Three men and one juvenile have been arrested after they used a stolen credit card to purchase $120 worth of fast food and then posted photos of the feast on Instagram, the New York Daily News reports. Rocklin, Calif.,…
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Nelson Mandela's Granddaughter Bares All in New Book
It is safe to say that Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter, Zoleka Mandela, didn’t have a normal childhood. “By the time I was born, on 9 April 1980, my mother (Zindzi Mandela) knew how to strip and assemble an AK-47 in exactly thirty-eight seconds. She was twenty years old, trained in guerrilla warfare and already a full-fledged…
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Charges Dropped for 1 Suspect in Houston House-Party Shooting
On Monday, police announced that two young men had been charged in a shooting at a Houston house party that left two teenagers dead. On Tuesday, charges against one of the young men were dropped, and a community activist says the man is a hero. Harris County authorities dropped a deadly conduct charge against Willie…
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Why I Hate Being a Black Man
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the Guardian newspaper. It appears with the writer’s permission. Every time I sit on a crowded street car, bus or subway train in Toronto, I know I will have an empty seat next to me. It’s like a broken record. Sometimes I don’t mind having the extra space, but…
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Ex-Girlfriend Sues for a Share of $338 Million
My fiancé calls my female best friend “Cut the Check.” Months ago we were at a lounge discussing the breakup of Dwyane Wade and his now ex-wife, who was accusing him of everything from giving her herpes to leaving her homeless. My bestie pointed out that not all celebrities have this problem—only the ones who…
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White Dad Wonders How to Raise His Biracial Kids
“My wife and I have been married one month (to the day) and been together for about four years before that, so naturally the subject of kids has come up. She is mostly black, and one-quarter Cherokee, while I’m as white as Wonderbread, with mostly Scottish and German ancestry. We’re excited to introduce our future…
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Texas Teacher Knocks Out 7th-Grade Student
Reginald Wells was chatting in the hallway of his Texas middle school last Friday, when he made a wisecrack about a teacher’s favorite football team. That’s when all hell broke loose. According to 12 News, the 12-year-old 7th grader was blindsided by the teacher, to the point where he lost consciousness. “All of a sudden…
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New Details Emerge in Renisha McBride Shooting
The autopsy for a 19-year-old Detroit woman who was shot after, her family believes, she went looking for help because of a car accident has revealed in gruesome detail how she died. According to the Detroit Free Press, which received a copy of the autopsy report, Renisha McBride was shot in the face and not…
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Kerry Washington Looks Weird on the Cover of Lucky Magazine
And once again someone has botched Kerry Washington’s appearance on a magazine cover by lightening her skin a wee bit too much (or a lot). In the December/January issue of Lucky magazine we see an overedited, nearly unrecognizable Washington, with lighter, frosty-looking skin and narrower, thinner features. Twitter didn’t take long to jump on the…
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Angela Lansbury Doesn’t Want a Murder, She Wrote Remake
As it turns out, not everyone is excited about Octavia Spencer’s new gig as Jessica Fletcher in NBC’s remake of Murder, She Wrote. Revered actress Angela Lansbury, who was the original Jessica Fletcher, thinks “it’s a mistake” to refer to the new series by the old name. “I think it’s a mistake to call it…