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City of Biloxi, Miss., Renames MLK Day and Surely Regrets It Now
The city of Biloxi got serious flak last night when it announced on its Twitter account that city offices would be closed Monday in “observance of Great Americans Day.” Non-emergency municipal offices in Biloxi will be closed on Monday in observance of Great Americans Day.— City of Biloxi (@CityofBiloxi) January 13, 2017 Great Americans Day,…
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Former SC School Resource Officer Will Not Face Civil Rights Charges for Throwing Student Out of Her Desk
The former South Carolina school resource officer who violently grabbed a female student and threw her out of her desk in October 2015 will not face civil rights charges, the Justice Department announced Friday. Charleston’s Post and Courier reports that the DOJ said there is insufficient evidence to bring civil rights charges against former Richland…
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Rep. John Lewis Doesn’t See Trump as a Legitimate President
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) says he doesn’t see Donald Trump as a legitimate president, and he will not be attending next week’s inauguration. In an exclusive interview with NBC News’ Meet the Press, Lewis was asked by Chuck Todd if he would try to forge a relationship with the president-elect. “I believe in forgiveness; I…
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City of Cleveland Announces Administrative Charges Pending Against Officers Involved in Shooting Death of Tamir Rice
The city of Cleveland announced during a press conference late Friday afternoon that administrative charges are pending against three officers regarding the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014. As Cleveland.com reports, the press conference comes after a yearlong investigation into the actions of Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback, the two Cleveland police officers…
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Kamiyah Mobley, Kidnapped in 1998, Found Alive and Well 18 Years Later
In 1998 a woman posing as a hospital worker walked into the University Medical Center, now known as U.F. Health Jacksonville (Fla.), and told a new 16-year-old mother that her daughter, Kamiyah Mobley, who was just hours old, had a fever and needed to be treated. The woman left the mom’s recovery room and walked…
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How a Nosy Woman Got a Doctoral Candidate Beaten and Arrested
Lawrence Crosby, a black man and an engineering doctoral candidate at Northwestern University, was fixing his car in a suburb outside Chicago on Oct. 10, 2015, when a woman passing by called police. “Hi, somebody’s trying to break into, somebody’s trying to break into a car,” the woman told the dispatcher, according to Fox 32.…
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Feds Confirm: Chicago Police Department Is as Corrupt as You Thought It Was
The Chicago Police Department has always had a violent history plagued by corruption. On Friday a yearlong investigation by the U.S. Justice Department confirms that the CPD has continued to build on its bankrupt legacy. According to DOJ findings, the Chicago police “have violated the constitutional rights of residents for years, permitting racial bias against…
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Punter Marquette King Kicks Balls and Tickles the Ivories
Marquette King is a man of many talents. When he’s not kicking the shit out of a football, he’s making mediocre rap music sound better. Watch King kill this version of Post Malone’s “White Iverson”: He also nailed Anita Baker’s classic “Sweet Love”: And some Maroon 5 song, because apparently Maroon 5 is still…
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Talladega College Ballin’ After Appearance on Fox News
Want to know how you know you’re on the wrong side of history if you’re an HBCU president? First you agree for your school, Talladega College, to play at the incoming president’s inauguration—a gig so despised, the lineup includes a 16-year-old second-place reality-show contestant, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (because nothing says hotness like a tabernacle…
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The First Family’s Dog Sunny Is Not Here for Your Games
Four-year-old Sunny is on edge, and rightfully so. Donald Trump keeps tweeting about her dogfather, and her family is moving out of the only house she’s ever known, so when one of Malia Obama’s friends came through the crib and got too close to Sunny, a female Portuguese water dog, Sunny lost her shit and…