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NY College Mistakes Black Student Carrying a Glue Gun for an ‘Active Shooter’
Colgate University, an upstate New York college, went into a lockdown Monday night after reports of an “active shooter” on campus. That “active shooter” turned out to be a black student who was carrying a glue gun for an art project. Well, that’s not suspicious at all. At any rate, the New York Daily News…
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Judge Abdus-Salaam Did Not Commit Suicide, Says Husband
The husband of America’s first female Muslim judge—whose body was found floating in the Hudson River off New York City last week—does not believe she committed suicide. According to the New York Daily News, Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam’s husband dismisses the idea that his wife took her own life. “Those of us who loved [the judge]…
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Could Someone Tell Tropicana Jong-il Jr. He Won’t Fare as Well in Politics as His Terrible Father?
Donald Trump Jr. is an asshole. He has the intellectual curiosity of a dead sewer rat, the political sensibilities of a racist Twitter egg and the charm of a spider bite. He comes across as the kind of person Richie Rich punched in eighth grade. The sort of prick who, when hearing “Niggas in Paris”…
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NY Becomes 1st State to OK Free Tuition at Public Colleges for Eligible Students
You get a degree! Everybody gets a degree! New York just cleared the way to become the first state in the United States to make tuition free for middle- and low-income students at two- and four-year public colleges. Gov. Andrew Cuomo first introduced the plan in January, with lawmakers agreeing to include it in the…
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NYC Rollerblader With Dreams of Becoming Doctor Killed in Hit-and-Run
A Brooklyn, N.Y., 21-year-old who had dreams of becoming a doctor was killed Saturday by an alleged hit-and-run driver in the New York City borough. Michael Joefield was a premed student at Medgar Evers College and worked as a florist in his spare time, his girlfriend said, according to the New York Post. “He was…
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Whites Need to Understand That White Supremacy Hurts Them, Too
Two weeks ago, I logged into my email to read a note written by the headmaster of my daughters’ school about the white supremacist terrorist who traveled to New York from Baltimore—one of the blackest cities on the East Coast—to find a black man to kill. The note said this terrorist had graduated from my…
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NYC Cops Accused of Using Choke Hold on Black Teen Who Seemed to Be Having Seizure: Report
The New York City Police Department is under fire after residents at Brooklyn’s Pink Houses accused officers of using a banned choke hold Monday on a teen who seemed to be having some type of seizure during the encounter. Witnesses identified the teen as 17-year-old Zavon Hodges. According to the New York Daily News, a…
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White Supremacist Who Stabbed Black Man to Death Regrets Victim Wasn’t ‘Young Thug’ or ‘Successful Older Black Man’
The self-proclaimed white supremacist charged with fatally stabbing a New York City man to death last week voiced regret that the victim was not a young black man, or else a more successful older black man. The New York Daily News secured an exclusive Rikers Island jail interview with 28-year-old James Harris Jackson, who is accused of…
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Arrest Warrant Issued for Azealia Banks After She Misses Court Date for Paris Fashion Week
What’s more important than getting the dates correct for a Manhattan Criminal Court appearance? Paris Fashion Week, of course, if you’re Azealia Banks. Banks was scheduled for a court appearance Monday for a 2015 incident at a New York City nightclub where she was accused of attacking a female security guard and biting her breast.…