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Influenced by The New Jim Crow and 13th, Art Collector Sells Painting for $150,000,000 to Start Criminal-Justice-Reform Fund
Agnes Gund is an art collector who sold her prized 1962 Roy Lichtenstein Masterpiece for $150 million, one of the 15 highest-known prices ever paid for artwork, in order to start a fund that supports criminal-justice reform and seeks to reduce mass incarceration in the United States. Gund, who is president emerita of New York…
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Golden State Warriors Win 2017 NBA Finals, Beat Cleveland Cavaliers 129-120 in Game 5
All those jokes about the Golden State Warriors blowing a 3-1 series lead to lose the 2016 championship can come to an end now. In a most beautiful and poetic finish, the Warriors, who came into Monday night’s game leading the NBA Finals series 3-1, pulled off a flawless victory and won the game with…
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6 Teenagers in Flint, Mich., Charged as Adults in Beating Recorded and Posted to Facebook
Six teenagers in Flint, Mich., have been charged as adults in connection with a Facebook video showing a 16-year-old being dragged from a home and beaten by multiple people on the front lawn of the house. MLive reports that Faith Trinae Richard, 16, and Rachael Nichole Hudson, 16, both from Flint, were arraigned in Genesee…
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Texas Governor Signs Bill to Help Shut Off School-to-Prison Pipeline
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 674 into law on Monday, banning out-of-school suspensions for students in prekindergarten through second grade throughout the state of Texas, except in cases involving drugs, weapons or extreme violence. Authored by Rep. Eric Johnson, who represents District 100 in Dallas, the law also encourages school districts to implement…
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#PhilandoCastile: Closing Arguments Complete, Jury Begins Deliberations in Trial of Jeronimo Yanez
Closing arguments for both sides concluded Monday in the trial of St. Anthony, Minn., Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez, who is charged in the shooting death last year of Philando Castile. Now a jury must decide if Yanez panicked and shot Castile, or if Castile caused his own death by ignoring Yanez’s commands. The Star Tribune…
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Republicans to Trump: Cut the Act and Release the Comey Tapes if You Have Them
Republicans are also getting tired of the president playing coy about whether he has recorded tapes of his private conversations with former FBI Director James Comey. If he has them, then they want him to give them to Congress. If he doesn’t provide the recorded tapes—tapes that no one is sure he even has—he could…
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NJ High School Teacher Suspended Over Photos Altered to Remove Trump References From Yearbook
A New Jersey school district has suspended a teacher after yearbook photos of two high school students were edited to remove Trump logos and slogans from their clothing. According to NBC Philadelphia, Wall Township School Superintendent Cheryl Dyer confirmed that the yearbook’s adviser was suspended Monday pending an investigation. It is still unclear as to…
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Bill Cosby’s Defense Rests After 6 Minutes
Bill Cosby did not take the stand Monday, and his defense closed their case after only six minutes, with testimony from one person, Detective Richard Schaffer. Schaffer said that Cosby’s accuser in the case, Andrea Constand, visited Cosby after the alleged sexual assault, according to CNN. Cosby’s defense attempted to convince jurors, quite fast, that…
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Why Was This Ga. State Senator Posing With Terrorists at a Hate Rally?
On Saturday a Georgia state senator who represents the district that committed one of the most racist atrocities in American history gave a speech at an anti-Muslim hate rally. But don’t worry—from the pictures he snapped with right-wing militia groups, apparently he was just doing it for the ’gram. The state senator is Michael Williams…