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Black NJ High Schooler Suspended for Submitting Yearbook Photo That Included Artwork With Racial Slur, Lynching Images
A black New Jersey high school student is upset that she was suspended after submitting a yearbook photo that featured artwork that had a racial slur and images of lynchings on it in the background. Jamaica Ponder, who attends Princeton High School, found herself sitting at home Monday after school administrators took issue with the…
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On the Run 2017: Justin Fairfax Wins Democratic Primary for Lieutenant Governor of Va.
Justin Fairfax is one of only a handful of African Americans seeking statewide office in the 2017 election cycle, but after Tuesday’s primary, he’s managed to leap over his first major hurdle. Fairfax trounced his primary competitor Susan Platt 49 percent to 39 percent to secure the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor of Virginia. It…
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The COVFEFE Act: Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Record Trump Tweets
An Illinois congressman wants to make the president’s tweets part of the presidential record and prevent Twitter Fingas from deleting tweets. The Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement (COVFEFE) Act (I see what he did there) was introduced Monday by Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) to amend the Presidential Records Act to “include social media,…
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Man Stabs Girlfriend’s 12-Year-Old Daughter to Death, Then Sends Text to Mother: ‘See Wat U Made Me Do,’ Prosecutors Say
A 31-year-old Chicago man is accused of stabbing his girlfriend’s 12-year-old daughter, leaving the child covered in blood and gasping for breath, before texting the child’s mother, “See wat u made me do…u gon pay fro this,” prosecutors say. On Tuesday, 31-year-old John Singleton was ordered held without bail on a first-degree murder charge in…
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Open-Heart Surgery Isn’t Going to Stop This 15-Year-Old From Dancing
It’s a beautiful sight to see: a 15-year-old dancing from his hospital bed, living life to the fullest. And the video was taken only six days after the young man had lifesaving open-heart surgery. According to CNN, Amari Hall, who hails from Capitol Heights, Md., was born with a heart defect that required him to…
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Wyo. College Student Caught Shoplifting Tells Investigators She Was Doing Research for Paper on Kleptomania: Report
Sometimes these (alleged) criminals say the darndest things. And one college student in Wyoming took the cake this past week after having the gall to tell police that she was doing research for a term paper on kleptomania after being caught in her sticky-fingered ways. According to the New York Daily News, Lydia Marie Cormaney…
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2 Accomplices Plead Guilty in Shooting of BLM Activists at Jamar Clark Protest
Two men who were with convicted shooter Allen “Lance” Scarsella on Nov. 23, 2015, when he shot five Black Lives Matter activists at the Minneapolis 4th Precinct police station during a protest decrying the death of Jamar Clark pleaded guilty Monday, and prosecutors say they will seek jail time for both. Nathan Wayne Gustavsson, 23,…
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Jeff Sessions Hearing: Kamala Harris Did Her Best Kyrie Irving Impression, but Senate Dems Still Got Stuffed by GOP
On Monday night, the Golden State Warriors won the NBA championship over the Cleveland Cavaliers in five noncompetitive games. After all the excitement and anticipation going into the series, it was a series of uninteresting blowouts. Cleveland lost because even though their big three mostly came to play, the rest of the team disappeared, and…
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Carlton Lee, Mike Brown Sr.’s Pastor, Dies From Heart Attack at 34
The Rev. Carlton Lee, 34, National Action Network’s Ferguson, Mo., chapter president, died Tuesday morning after suffering a heart attack, sources close to the family confirmed to The Root Tuesday afternoon after NAN’s founder and president, the Rev. Al Sharpton, shared the sad news on Twitter. Lee, the pastor of Flood Christian Church in Ferguson,…