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California Store Clerk Calls Cops on Black Man Who Asked for Refund; Black Man Gets Beaten Bloody
The Merced, Calif., Police Department has launched an internal investigation after a black man was brutally beaten and injured while in custody. William Colbert’s arrest photo shows the 39-year-old’s face bloodied and bruised and one of his eyes swollen shut. “I have spoken with Mr. Colbert and collected all the statements about what he said…
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No Criminal Charges in Prince’s Overdose Death
Prince didn’t know he was taking fentanyl, a painkiller 30-50 times stronger than heroin, at the time of his death. Still, citing a lack of evidence, Carver County (Minn.) Attorney Mark Metz announced in a news conference on Thursday that there will be no criminal charges filed in relation to Prince’s overdose death. As CNN…
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WNBA Star Candace Parker Has to Pay Her NBA-Flameout Ex-Husband $400,000 in Alimony: Report
Candace Parker is a legit WNBA star with endorsement deals and a name that rings outside of WNBA circles. Her ex-husband, Shelden Williams, was an NBA bust who basically rode the bench of several NBA teams for six years before the basketball gods realized that the NBA was no place for Shelden Williams. So now,…
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Former Playboy Playmate Is Free to Talk About Her Affair With the President; This Should Be Good
Former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal has reached a settlement with American Media Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, and this only matters for one reason: McDougal can now speak freely about her alleged affair with President Donald Trump. Is this messy? Of course it is. But most important, the story of McDougal’s reportedly monthslong…
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Trump’s Personal Fixer Michael Cohen Is Going to Flip Like a Gymnast and Sing Like 1985 Prince
In an article in Vanity Fair, Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, proclaimed, “I’m the guy who would take a bullet for the president.” Well, Mikey boy, it looks like now might be the time to take that bullet. It looks as if Mikey is pulling out his best Matrix-style moves as several…
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‘When You Know That You Did Nothing Wrong, How Do You Really React?’: Men Arrested in Philly Starbucks Speak Out
The two men who were arrested for merely existing in a Philadelphia Starbucks are finally speaking out about their ordeal and how it left them in fear for their lives as they were forced to interact with the police over a nonissue. Rashon Nelson told the Associated Press that he originally thought nothing of it…
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Mississippi Teen Honors Her Late Father With Prom Dress
Kedrian Woodruff lost her father nearly five years ago, just a few days after she turned 13. The Canton, Miss., teen, whom her mother, Tiffany Woodruff, calls “truly a daddy’s girl,” was without her father for most of high school. Still, Kedrian wanted prom to be different. So she found a way to take him…
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LA Fitness Fires 3 Employees for Going Full Starbucks on Black Customer in Viral Video
Updated Thursday, April 19, 2018, 9:19 a.m. EDT: LA Fitness has fired the manager and two other employees at its Secaucus, N.J., location after staff members suggested that a black customer’s fitness routine should include at least one set of getting the fuck out their gym. In a statement to NJ.com on Wednesday, LA Fitness…
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Tennessee Lawmakers Punish City of Memphis for Removing Confederate Statues
You think you know petty, but do you know Tennessee Legislature petty? Tennessee state lawmakers are still big mad about the removal of a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest—a Confederate general best known for his brutal massacre of black Union soldiers and for being the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard—from a Memphis public park.…
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Syracuse University Suspends Frat Over Videos Showing ‘Extremely Racist’ Behavior
It’s a day ending in “y,” so there’s yet another fraternity that is showing its whole entire (racist) ass to the universe, this time in video form. On Wednesday, Syracuse University decided to suspend its chapter of Theta Tau after online videos showed members of the frat engaged in behaviors that school Chancellor Kent Syverud…