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Video Shows L.A. County Deputies Forcibly Removing 76-Year-Old Woman From Reserved Seating in Union Station
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies are under scrutiny after video surfaced of them forcibly removing an elderly woman from her seat in a reserved area in a downtown train station. According to CBS Los Angeles, a witness said that the 76-year-old, whom she identified as a friend, often comes to Los Angeles’ Union Station to…
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Minorities Who ‘Whiten’ Résumés More Likely to Get Interview
Black and Asian students who find ways to erase evidence of their race from their résumés are more likely to find jobs, according to a new study reported by Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, and a lesser-known report authored by the entirety of black America entitled, “We’ve been saying this shit for years!” Katherine DeCelles,…
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Kobe Bryant Retweets Kid’s Request and Gets a Whole Class Out of Final Exam
Kobe Bryant just gave kids at one Indiana high school a nice assist; that’s because Black Mamba just got an entire class out of taking a final exam. William Pate, a high school senior at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, reached out to Bryant via Twitter with a full-court heave: If the Black Mamba…
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Ex-FBI Director James Comey Hid Among Curtains to Avoid Trump: Report
Because the president of the United States doesn’t understand how government works, he kept trying to make James Comey his friend when Comey was FBI director. Donald Trump didn’t seem to understand that while the person who heads the FBI serves the president, he isn’t the president’s servant. Now news has emerged that the former…
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Chicago Police Department Investigating After Video Shows Cop Repeatedly Striking Black Man in the Face
The Chicago Police Department has launched an investigation into a video shared on social media that shows a plainclothes policer repeatedly hitting a black man in his face while subduing him on the ground. According to NBC Chicago, family members shared the video, which they said was taken around 7:30 p.m. on Monday in the…
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Creepy Anthony Weiner to Plead Guilty in Latest Sexting Scandal
Disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner is expected to plead guilty Friday in federal court to an official charge of transferring obscene material to a minor, related to his sexting a teen. The former New York Democratic congressman will enter the plea in a federal courtroom in Manhattan in his latest sexting scandal, involving a 15-year-old…
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Nev. May Become the 2nd State to Require Law Enforcement to Wear Body Cameras
Police officers in Nevada may soon have a new piece of equipment that they are required to clip on after a measure regarding body cameras was sent to Gov. Brian Sandoval for his signature Thursday. According to Reuters, the proposal, which has already been approved by the state Legislature, would make Nevada the second state…
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Superior, Wis., Police Department Swears in 1st African-American Officer
We still have a long way to go if police departments across the country are still just beginning to swear in their first African-American officers. In Superior, Wis., that is just what was celebrated Thursday as, for the first time in the 133-year history of the city’s Police Department, an African-American recruit was hired the…
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#Flint: City Council Votes to Stop Issuing Tax Liens to Residents for Unpaid Water Bills
When news broke that more than 8,000 residents of the city of Flint, Mich., were threatened with the loss of their homes over unpaid water bills, the public outcry was loud and swift. Penalizing residents who didn’t pay a bill for water they couldn’t use was indeed ridiculous, and on Wednesday, the City Council voted…
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Kingston Frazier, 6, Kidnapped in Jackson, Miss., Car Theft, Found Dead; Suspect in Custody
Updated Thursday, May 18, 2017, 9:14 p.m. EDT: Three suspects have been taken into custody in the shooting death of 6-year-old Kingston Frazier. They will be charged with capital murder, says Madison County, Miss., District Attorney Michael Guest. Updated Thursday, May 18, 2017, 12:41 p.m. EDT: Dwan Wakefield, a person of interest in the killing…