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Tennessee Mom Furious After Video Shows Teacher Dragging 7-Year-Old Boy Off School Bus by His Feet
A Memphis, Tenn., mom is demanding answers after horrifying video shows her 7-year-old son being dragged off a school bus by his feet … by a teacher who should know way better. In fact, Kimberly Hardin, the child’s mother, didn’t know what her son had gone through at the hands of the educator until another…
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Syracuse Fraternity Suspended Over Racist Videos Claims Horrific Behavior Was Just a ‘Satirical Sketch’
The Chads are really trying it. The brothers of the suspended Theta Tau chapter at Syracuse University have issued an apology for their racist videos but still insist that the behavior depicted was not meant to be racist, but instead was part of a “satirical sketch” showing an uneducated, intolerant person. “Each semester our new…
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Watch: Boxer Adrien Broner Proves Once Again That His Press Conferences Are Better Than His Fights
Four-time world champion boxer Adrien “the Problem” Broner has all the moxie of Floyd Mayweather Jr. but only one-third the talent. Maybe Broner has more of the moxie, who knows. The problem with the Problem is that he focuses entirely too much on cussing out his opponents instead of actually training hard to out-box them.…
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James Comey’s Memos: Putin Told Trump That Russia Had Some of the ‘Most Beautiful Hookers in the World’
Because the news cycle never stops with the Trump administration, former FBI Director James Comey’s memos detailing conversations he had with the president were handed over to Congress on Thursday. As news sites are still combing through Comey’s notes, the most damning and arguably believable news to hit the interwebs is that Comey wrote that…
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Stephon Clark’s Brother Stevante Arrested on Suspicion of Threats; Meanwhile, the Cops Who Killed His Brother Are Back on Duty
Stevante Clark, the older brother of Stephon Clark, the unarmed man shot and killed by Sacramento, Calif., police, was arrested in that city Thursday on charges of suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and making death threats. The older Clark brother, 25, was taken into police custody around 10 a.m. and is currently ineligible…
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‘Ain’t Nobody Got Time for This’: Former Houston 911 Operator Jailed for Hanging Up on Emergency Callers
A former 911 operator in Houston received jail time this week after being found guilty of hanging up on thousands of emergency calls, including ones for homicides and robberies, during her time as a dispatcher. On Wednesday, a jury found 44-year-old Crenshanda Williams guilty of interfering with emergency telephone calls, a misdemeanor charge. As a…
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3 Kansas Men Found Guilty of Plot to Bomb Muslims, Kill Obama
After a four-week trial, it took a Wichita, Kan., jury one day to convict three white dudes who watched too many episodes of The A-Team of hatching a convoluted plan to kill government officials and bomb a Garden City, Kan., apartment complex where Somali Muslims lived. A federal jury found Curtis Allen, 50; Gavin Wright,…
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Either Donald Trump Doesn’t Know Slavery Existed or He Doesn’t Think Black People Are Human Beings
It takes a real man to stand up and admit when he is wrong, so I’d like to take this opportunity and apologize for every time I’ve called Donald Trump a racist idiot. I was wrong. Now I understand that when he talks about Mexicans streaming over the border, either he is invoking white supremacist…
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No, Personal Responsibility Won’t Solve Inequality: New Study Dispels Common Myths Behind Racial Wealth Gap
Much has been reported about the racial wealth gap—but much is still misunderstood. A new report on the wealth gap focuses on the stubborn, pervasive myths that inform people’s understanding of America’s racial wealth disparity—and points readers in the direction of real solutions. The report, “What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap”…