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NYPD Cop Blames Hair Weave for Failed Drug Test
A New York City police sergeant blamed her hair weave for a failed drug test that took place in January of 2017, the New York Daily News reports. She tested positive for marijuana and was suspended for 30 days. “I was shocked. I do not do drugs,” said Tracy Gittens, who claims that she was…
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Innocent Man Awarded $1 Million After Spending 31 Years in Prison for Crime He Didn’t Commit
Lawrence McKinney, 61, was given $1 million in compensation Wednesday after DNA evidence cleared him of a wrongful 1978 conviction for rape and burglary. He spent nearly 32 years in prison before being freed in 2009, according to HuffPost. Nashville, Tenn., attorney David Raybin, who has represented McKinney for six years, called the compensation “bittersweet.”…
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Parkland, Fla., Student Says Media Didn’t Highlight Black Classmates’ Voices
During an Axios event Friday that focused on the national gun debate, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg was asked by Axios co-founder Mike Allen what the media’s biggest mistake was during the shooting at his school in Parkland, Fla. He responded that media outlets failed to highlight the voices of his black…
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Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Says He Has Disc Proving Alleged Affair With Trump
Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that he has a disc with evidence proving his client’s claim that she had an affair with Donald Trump before he was president. “I want to be really clear about this: It is a warning shot. And it’s a warning shot to Michael Cohen and anyone…
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#StephonClark: While Activists Take to the State Capitol, NBA Player Offers to Pay for Funeral
On Friday afternoon, about 100 activists gathered at the California state Capitol in Sacramento to protest the death of 22-year-old Stephon Clark, who was killed by police in his own backyard Sunday night. The Los Angeles Times reports that the activists gathered at the west steps of the Capitol just after 1 p.m. on Friday.…
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Say Their Names: The Father and the Musician Whose Lives Were Cut Short by the Austin, Texas, Bomber
Much of the headlines in the past week concerning the bombings in Austin, Texas, have focused on bomber Mark Conditt and the terror he inflicted. And rightly so—as Austin officials reckon with Conditt’s motivations and techniques, the rest of the country is having a much-needed conversation (though one too often repeated) about who gets to…
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Trump’s ‘Opioid Czar’ Kellyanne Conway Has Found the Solution to the Opioid Crisis: Ice Cream!
The reanimated skeletal remains of Kellyanne Conway were seen at the White House. Stephen, Kellyanne Conway didn’t die. But I clearly saw a skeleton speaking, which is what this story was going to be about. That was Kellyanne Conway. What? The broom with the 1980s weightlifter wig IS Kellyanne Conway … Kellyanne Conway, aka Skellyanne,…
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President Pump-Fake Throws Another Twitter Tantrum, Threatens to Veto Spending Bill, and No One Believes Him
On Friday, President Donald Trump, who this week alone has claimed that he would beat the daylights out of former Vice President Joe Biden, explained why he made a congratulatory call to a Russian gangster posing as a president, and typed “witch hunt” in all caps, has again gone to Twitter to claim that he’s…
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The 1st Museum Dedicated to America’s Historically Black Colleges Is Open in Washington, DC
A 638-square-foot storefront on Georgia Avenue in Washington, D.C., now houses the first museum in the world dedicated to HBCUs. Inside it, visitors will find historic photos and memorabilia from different HBCUs and prominent grads, as well as important artifacts from black American culture, like early issues of Ebony and Jet. The museum, which opened…