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2-Year-Old Chicago Boy Fatally Shot While Riding in Car
A Chicago toddler and a 26-year-old man were both fatally shot Tuesday as they were riding in a car, the second deadly incident involving a child in the violence-ridden city in the past two days. According to CNN, the 2-year-old was sitting in a car that was being driven by his aunt when he was…
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Black 2nd-Graders at L.A. Elementary School Get Math Homework With a Word Problem About Slavery
Parents of students at Windsor Hills Elementary School in Los Angeles are outraged after second-graders at the school received a math homework assignment last week that contained a word problem with racial undertones. NBC News reports that students received the following word problem as part of their math homework: The master needed 192 slaves to…
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Chicago School Board Sues State of Ill. Over ‘Separate and Unequal Funding’
The Chicago school board sued Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, a Republican, and the Illinois State Board of Education Tuesday, alleging that the state employs “separate and unequal systems of funding for public education in Illinois.” The lawsuit was filed in the Cook County Chancery Division on behalf of five Chicago Public Schools families, and the…
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Secret Service Director Steps Down After a Little Over 3 Weeks Working for Trump
Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy is a career Secret Service agent and former presidential-detail leader who had left the agency for the private sector but was called by then-President Barack Obama in 2014 to come back to work as director amid a string of security breaches and employee misconduct. Now, after just three weeks…
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La. Judge Mike Erwin Denies Calling Black Bar Patron ‘N–ger’
After almost a week of silence, Judge Mike Erwin of Louisiana’s 19th Judicial District Court has released a statement denying that he called a black patron at Sammy’s Grill in Baton Rouge, La., a “nigger.” Of course he did. As previously reported by The Root, on Feb. 3 Kaneitra Johnson, a resident of Baton Rouge,…
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Ethics Office: Kellyanne Conway’s Commercial for Ivanka Trump’s Basic Clothes Needs to Be Investigated
I’m rooting for Kellyanne Conway, and here’s why: She’s great! She’s out front spouting foolishness for this low-budget, bootleg administration, and I believe two things about her that won’t change: She’s fearless and she clearly is overmatched on every television appearance she makes, and she won’t stop. Recently she was on Fox & Friends, arguably…
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Ex-ESPN Announcer Sues, Claims He Never Called Venus Williams ‘Gorilla’
So this one is a bit of a head-scratcher, and I think the initial villain may have a point. So, back in January, former ESPN tennis announcer Doug Adler used the term “gorilla effect” to describe Venus Williams’ domination over Switzerland’s Stefanie Voegele during the Australian Open. I, and many other journalists, hopped all over…
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Jeremy ‘Prison Bae’ Meeks Makes NYFW Runway Debut
Momma, he’s made it! Jeremy Meeks, the man dubbed #PrisonBae after his mug shot went viral, made his New York Fashion Week runway debut in Phillipp Plein’s show Monday. In 2014, Meeks caught the world’s attention after he was arrested in Stockton, Calif., and taken into custody and booked on five felony weapons charges and…
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Fix My Life, Starring Michael Jordan and the Knicks
Michael Jordan did his best Iyanla Vanzant on Monday. The Hall of Fame great was on the phone meeting with his buddy, and former Knick, Charles Oakley, New York Knicks owner James Dolan and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. The sit-down was an attempt to squash the beef between Oakley, who’s been highly critical of Dolan’s…
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Takiya Holmes, 11-Year-Old Shot in Chicago Over the Weekend, Has Died
Takiya Holmes, one of two young girls shot on the South Side of Chicago over the weekend, has died, family has confirmed. The 11-year-old was struck by a stray bullet around 8 p.m. Saturday while sitting in a parked car with family members. Doctors had told relatives that her prognosis was “not good.” “She was…