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Nigerian Scammers Are Now Pretending to Be Rachel Dolezal and All Is Right in the World
In a stunning twist of events that can only be described as kismet, it seems as if some savvy Nigerian scammers are now masquerading as Rachel Dolezal in some of their emails designed to extort money from hapless people. On Tuesday afternoon, comics writer Alex DeCampi took to Twitter with a screenshot of what appeared…
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NJ Teen Accepted Into All 8 Ivies and Stanford
Black girl magic strikes again, and this time our shining star is a New Jersey high school student who just did a clean sweep of her college applications, racking up acceptances from all eight Ivy League schools as well as Stanford, just for good measure. Ifeoma White-Thrope, who attends Morris Hills High School in Denville,…
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Students Suspended for ‘Picking Cotton’ Promposal That Family Says Was ‘Inside Joke’
Two white South Florida high school students have been suspended after a photo of a racist promposal went viral. You know the one, where they’re standing on either side of a black student with a sign that read, “You may be picking cotton but we’re picking you to go to prom with us.” The girls…
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Watch: Floyd Mayweather Jr. Goes Full Cheerleader Mom After His Daughter’s Team Takes 2nd Place
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has retired from boxing, at least for now, but that doesn’t mean youth-cheerleading judges can’t catch these hands. It all went down like this: Mayweather was attending the Jamz Cheer and Dance competition in Irvine, Calif., on Sunday, according to TMZ Sports, to watch his 12-year-old daughter’s team compete. When he learned…
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Kansas City, Mo., Man Sets Up GoFundMe to Surprise Popeyes Employee With Tuition for Nursing Course
I live for all this good news. Humanity might just be OK after all, if we can keep being kind to one another. All it took to change one Popeyes employee’s life was a kindhearted man who took a few seconds to set up a GoFundMe campaign to help her get together the tuition to…
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Life Comes at You Fast: Trump Voters Mad That Border Wall Would Put Their Homes on Mexican Side
When you live under the rule of a dictator, even one that you helped vote into office, you can forget that you live in a dictatorship. I know it’s cool as long as all the weight of his office falls on people who don’t look like you, but what about when you get swept up…
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‘You Wanna Ride the Lightning?’ NYC Cops Heard in Video Threatening Students With Taser
Recently surfaced video shows two New York City police officers apparently taunting students from a Brooklyn high school, threatening them with a Taser as they walk down the street. The video, recorded in mid-March, appears to show one officer with his baton out in his hand as he and his partner walk down the street,…
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2nd Boy, 15, Arrested in Connection With Facebook Live Gang Rape of Chicago Girl
A 15-year-old boy wanted in connection with the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl that was broadcast on Facebook Live has turned himself in, police confirmed Monday, making him the second juvenile to be arrested in the case. According to USA Today, the boy was accompanied by his mother when he turned himself in and…