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Former Presidential Candidate Herman Cain Dies After Battle With COVID-19
Former presidential candidate and ardent Trump supporter Herman Cain has died after a battle with COVID-19. The Georgia-born politician was 74. According to WSB-TV, Cain had been hospitalized for over a month in an Atlanta hospital after attending a Trump rally in which he was photographed without a mask. “We knew when he was first…
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Forever Mamba: The Life and Legacy of Kobe Bean Bryant
Los Angeles Lakers great and five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant was among nine killed in a deadly helicopter crash in California on Sunday. The smooth shooting guard and perennial NBA All-Star, who was one of the league’s most prolific scorers, was with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, when the copter crashed near Calabasas. He was 41.…
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New York Teen Collapsed and Died During Basketball Practice and a Family Is Left With Questions
Sixteen-year-old Lenny Pierre was practicing with the John Bowne High School basketball team in Queens, N.Y., on Wednesday, when he began feeling lightheaded and collapsed. School staff called 911 and he was rushed to a local hospital. “I’m in shock. I was at work and got a call saying that he was lightheaded and he…
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How Stan Lee, Creator of Black Panther, Taught a Generation of Black Nerds About Race, Art and Activism
When I was a kid, I didn’t live close enough to a comic book shop to get there on my bike. My parents would have to take me to Fair Oaks Mall in Fairfax, Va., and I’d get my comics off the old spinner racks at Waldenbooks. As the years went on and specialty comic…
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Va. Woman Killed in Charlottesville Car Attack: Report
The lone victim killed during a peaceful counterprotest against white supremacist hate during the Charlottesville, Va., rally Saturday has been identified as Heather Heyer. Although police have not officially identified the woman who died in the crash, family and friends of Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal with the Miller Law Group, have confirmed that she was…
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Pallbearer Dies in Car Crash on Way to Best Friend's Funeral
Malik Cooper, 20, was on his way home to Atlanta from Tuskegee University in Alabama, where he was a business student. Cooper was carrying sadness with him on the road because his trip home was being made so that he could be a pallbearer for his best friend, 15-year-old Marquez Montgomery, who was fatally shot…
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NJ Man Charged With Stabbing Death of Mother, Grandmother
A mother and grandmother were found dead with multiple stab wounds inside their New Jersey home Monday, and a family member has been arrested and charged with murder in their deaths. According to NBC New York, Kevin Hodges, 36, has been charged with murder in the deaths of his mother, Rebecca Hodges, 56, and his…
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The Love Affair Between Fidel Castro and You Is a Lie
Don’t romanticize the death of Fidel Castro, or the tales of his revolution, or the political asylum granted to Assata Shakur. Castro was a tyrannical dictator who kept the people of Cuba under his heel or at the end of his gun. From the time he took office in 1959 until his death Nov. 25,…
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Former Boxing Champ Aaron Pryor Dead at 60
Former junior welterweight boxing champion, and one-half of one of the most electrifying fights of all time, Aaron Pryor, has died after a long fight with heart disease. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, Pryor was surrounded by his family when he died Sunday. Pryor told friends when he was just a teen that he would…
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Md. Man, 21, Dies After Fight With Baltimore County Police
A 21-year-old Essex, Md., man who was hospitalized after a fight with Baltimore County Police has died. According to KTTS, police responded to 911 calls that included a man and a woman screaming around 3 a.m. Sunday. The woman told officers who arrived at the residence that her boyfriend, Tawon Boyd, was acting “crazy” and…