family
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Wife of Ku Klux Klan Leader Admits to Murder of Her Husband, Sentenced to Life in Prison
Malissa Ancona, 46, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in St. Francois County Court in Farmington, Mo., according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She’s charged in connection to the death of her husband, 51-year-old Frank Ancona Jr., imperial wizards of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which boasts dozens of members nationwide. The…
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Otto Warmbier's Family and Even Republican Senators are Fuming Over Trump's Remarks Over Student's Death
Otto Warmbier’s family has come out to publicly shame President Donald Trump for siding with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who claimed he didn’t know their son was being mistreated during his incarceration. “We have been respectful during this summit process. Now we must speak out. Kim and his evil regime are responsible for…
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Family Matters: This Family Sing-Along Is All the Holiday Spirit We Need This Year
Here at The Glow Up, we believe that the family that slays together stays together. But not all of us have been able to be with our families or get into the holiday spirit this year. (For reasons.) That’s why we have the Thompson family to thank for a much-needed dose of adorable to get…
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Celebrating, Celebrity-Style: What Did the Famous Do This Christmas?
So…assuming you celebrate, what did you do for Christmas? Was it filled with family and food, celebrated with your chosen “framily,” or spent binge-watching and bingeing on Chinese food *raises hand*? Whatever your holiday looked like this year, we hope it was everything you wished it to be, because ‘tis the season to do whatever…
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The Perpetual Stoner's Guide to Surviving Christmas Day
If you’re reading this, you made it to Christmas, the day your inner child wakes you up ahead of your alarm for a day full of joyful, healthy interactions with family and friends. You’ve spent the previous few days stressing over gift sizes, jockeying for position in your nearby grocery store, and avoiding the requisite…
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Good Samaritan Fatally Stabbed After Giving Money to Homeless Woman
Jacquelyn Smith, 52, was a passenger in a car with her family when she saw a homeless woman reportedly holding a cardboard sign in one hand stating: “Please Help me feed my Baby” on a Baltimore street. The homeless woman was holding what appeared to be a baby wrapped in a blanket with the other…
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Random-Ass White Woman Rolls Up on Spanish Speaking Family and Demands to See Their Passports
Emboldened by the support of her cousins, a.k.a. the police, and deputized by no one, some random-ass white woman decided to roll up on a Spanish-speaking family who was minding their own damn business in a Virginia restaurant last week and declared: “Show me your passports!” No one knows who this random-ass is but from…
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Queen Sugar Continues to Make Beautiful Television. I Hope It Never Ends
In the ending of “Copper Sun,” the second to last episode of Queen Sugar’s second season, the song “Fall Into My Arms” by Ngaiire plays as Ralph Angel stares at and walks into Blue’s room. Blue is his son; he’s largely raised him alone but with the help of his family, particularly Aunt Vi, but…
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I've Been Family-Free for a Whole Week and I've Discovered How Boring That Can Be
Becoming a parent is a life-changing event. Nothing is the same after your child is born and I mean literally the moment they’re born. Everyday from that moment forward starts to look different and gradually separates it from even the life that existed the day before their birth. My daughter was born in 2009. I…
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How the Book of Ryan Became My Therapy and Helped Me Understand Fatherhood
When I’m in the studio, I sometimes have these visions of conversations I’d like to have with my father. It leads me to think what it would be like if he and I could communicate on a higher level because there’s always been this barrier between us. Not even just us—everybody in our family. In…