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NYC Rollerblader With Dreams of Becoming Doctor Killed in Hit-and-Run
A Brooklyn, N.Y., 21-year-old who had dreams of becoming a doctor was killed Saturday by an alleged hit-and-run driver in the New York City borough. Michael Joefield was a premed student at Medgar Evers College and worked as a florist in his spare time, his girlfriend said, according to the New York Post. “He was…
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Gunman Opens Fire at Fla. Fitness Center After Being Fired for ‘Workplace Violence’
A Florida fitness instructor opened fire at the Equinox fitness club in Coral Gables on Saturday afternoon, killing two managers before killing himself, shortly after being fired for “workplace violence.” The Miami Herald reports that Abeku Wilson, 33, had been escorted off the premises after he was dismissed Saturday, only to return shortly afterward with…
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Watch Amazing Man With Autism Draw an Entire City—From Just 1 Glance
Because April is Autism Awareness Month, The Root is highlighting a black British artist on the spectrum whose work will amaze you. Stephen Wiltshire was diagnosed with autism at age 3 and today is one of Britain’s most celebrated artists. After a cursory glance, he can draw entire landscapes of cities from memory with amazing…
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Dead Bat Found in Fresh Express Mix; Packaged Salads Recalled in the South
First it was e-coli; now it’s dead bats. Is salad low-key dangerous? On Saturday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that two people get postexposure rabies shots after one of them reported finding a dead bat in a Fresh Express packaged salad mix. CNN reports that the bat was sent to the CDC…
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NRA Staffer Accidentally Shoots Himself at Gun Organization’s Va. Museum
According to the National Rifle Association, “Guns don’t kill people.” But, as one of its staffers can attest, they sure do shoot people. Which is what happened Friday when an employee of a museum representing the nation’s largest gun-rights organization accidentally shot himself. USA Today reports that an unnamed staffer at the National Firearms Museum,…
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These Are the 8 Men the State of Ark. Is Rushing to Kill
The state of Arkansas is on a mission to complete eight executions over a period of 10 days during the month of April in order to beat the clock on the expiration date for one of the three drugs involved in its lethal-injection protocol. The rushed executions have been decried for a number of reasons,…
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Black Lives Matter Activists at 2 Colleges Disrupt Speech by BLM Critic Heather Mac Donald
Black Lives Matter activists on two Southern California college campuses shut down scheduled appearances by anti-BLM critic, pro-police advocate and author of the book The War on Cops Heather Mac Donald. Mac Donald, a Manhattan Institute scholar, was scheduled to give a “Blue Lives Matter” talk at UCLA on Wednesday to discuss her 2016 book…
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Morehouse Completely Dismantles Leadership Following Board Controversy
Little more than a week after The Root’s investigative piece “The War at Morehouse” revealed the yearslong tension at the famed historically black institution, Morehouse College’s board of trustees announced that the chairman of the board, all of its officers and the college’s president will step down. In a letter to the entire Morehouse community…
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Md. Becomes 1st State to Fund Planned Parenthood if Feds Cut Funding
Without the support of its governor, Maryland has become the first state to decide to make up the funds should there be any federal cuts to Planned Parenthood. Republican Gov. Larry Hogan did not sign the bill, but nor did he veto it, and so the bill, which would allow women to have comprehensive health…