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  • You Can Now Own a Gabby Douglas Barbie

    Gabby Douglas’ Barbie is officially available for purchase as part of Mattel’s Shero collection, which highlights women who break boundaries. Douglas’ doll wears a red-white-and-blue leotard, and according to Mattel, Douglas was involved in the design process. “It looks exactly like me,” said Douglas in a press release. “It was a really fun process.” Douglas…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • Restaurant Apologizes After Staff Sings ‘F–k the Police’ to Cops 

    The owners of a North Carolina restaurant quickly apologized after a police union took to social media to complain that employees of the eatery sang “F—k the Police” to dining officers. According to the News & Observer, when a few of Raleigh’s finest decided to have a bite to eat at Smithfield’s Chicken-n-Barbecue in Garner,…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • La. Teachers Accused of Bullying and Starting Elementary School Fight Club

    Anne Shelvin, 44, and Tracy Gallow, 50, two teachers at Washington Elementary School, in Opelousas, La., were arrested last week after starting what school officials are referring to as a “fight club.” St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz said that a student’s mother complained that Shelvin bullied her 11-year-old child, told the student to “go…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • TrumPutin on Trumpcare: You Want to Know What Sucks? Obamacare

    As a candidate, Vladimir TrumPutin swore that he was going to make a 100-day contract with the American public. He swore that he was going to “drain the swamp” and repeal and replace Obamacare. At this point, TrumPutin is the divorced dad who swears he’s coming to pick up the kids on his weekends, and…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • White Reporter Resigns After Using N-Word in Twitter Direct-Messaging Convo

    Valerie Hoff, a veteran reporter with Atlanta’s 11Alive news, resigned over the weekend after trying to get the scoop on a video of a white cop punching a black man turned into her using the n-word in conversation with the man who posted the video to social media. On April 13, Curtis Rivers posted a…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • Police Capture Man Charged as Shooter in Death of Chicago Judge Raymond Myles

    A second man has been charged in the death of Chicago Judge Raymond Myles, who was killed outside his home last month. ABC News reports that Earl Wilson, 45, has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of the 66-year-old Cook County Circuit Court judge. Police allege that Wilson was the one who…

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    Angela Helm

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  • Cleveland Mom Pulls Gun on Barber for Taking Too Long to Cut Son’s Hair: ‘I’ll Pop You!’

    There are times when your mama embarrasses you in the street. Maybe by cussing your little brother out in Forever 21; maybe she’s country loud and makes conversation with every single person she meets. But some mamas take the cake, ice cream and chips. Police in Cleveland are looking for a woman who pointed a…

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    Angela Helm

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  • Aaron Hernandez Toxicology Report Comes Back: No Drugs

    The death of former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez, who was jailed for the 2013 murder of associate Odin Lloyd, has been beset by rumor, innuendo and more than a few shocks. Hernandez hanged himself last week, and one of the narratives surrounding his surprise suicide was that he might have been high on synthetic…

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    Angela Helm

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  • Delta Pilot Punches Woman to ‘De-Escalate’ a Fight 

    Flying the friendly skies seems quite passé nowadays. From crying passengers being dragged off planes to others not being able to pee when they have to, it was only a matter of time before those friendly skies turned into the fight club. And on April 21, that’s exactly what happened on a Delta Airlines flight…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • Man Gets 15 Years for Shooting 5 BLM Activists Protesting Police Shooting Death of Jamar Clark

    A Minnesota man who shot five Black Lives Matter protesters has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. CBS News reports that Allen Scarsella, 25, and his crew got into an argument with some protesters who were demonstrating outside a Minneapolis police station after the 2015 shooting death of 24-year-old Jamar Clark by police. Eyewitnesses…

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    Angela Helm

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