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Sam’s Club’s 1st Black CEO, Rosalind Brewer, Steps Down
Rosalind Brewer, the first woman and the first African American to head Sam’s Club, stepped down from her position Friday, reports Fortune. After five years at the helm of Sam’s Club, Brewer will be replaced by John Furner, Sam’s Club’s chief merchant. Although Brewer said she is leaving the $57 billion-a-year company because “she wants…
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Dylann Roof Wears Racist Symbols on Shoes in Court
Dylann Roof, who was convicted in December of killing nine black parishioners in Charleston, S.C.’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015, has been wearing shoes adorned with racist symbols to court as recently as Monday, the Daily Beast reports. Roof, who is representing himself in the murder trial and who testified that he has…
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Throwing Shade at Throwing Shade: How TV Land’s New Show Leeches Off Black Gay Culture
I imagine that Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi are lovely white people, but that doesn’t make the formal rollout of their new TV Land late-night show Throwing Shade any less grating. And before anyone else mentions it for the umpteenth time: Yes, plenty of us are well aware that these two have been using that…
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4 Suspects in Alleged Hate Crime Streamed Live on Facebook Ordered Held Without Bail
The four suspects arrested in the alleged hate crime in Chicago that was streamed live on Facebook were charged in court Friday and ordered held without bail. Jordan Hill, 18; Tesfaye Cooper, 18; and sisters Tanishia, 24, and Brittany Covington, 18, had their first court appearance at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Cook County.…
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NYPD Captain Says Department Is More Focused on Rape by Strangers, Not Acquaintances
A New York City police captain has blamed the lack of arrests in sexual assault reports on the fact that most of the reported cases were “acquaintance rape.” Sexual attacks in the Greenpoint neighborhood of New York City’s Brooklyn borough went up by 62 percent over the last year, and according to DNAinfo, police statistics…
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Lifetime Has Movie in the Works on Flint Water Crisis, Starring Cher
Lifetime has a movie in the works inspired by the Flint, Mich., water crisis, and singer-actress Cher is slated to be the star. Don’t roll your eyes yet; we haven’t gotten to the best part. This is Cher’s first movie in seven years. According to the Hollywood Reporter, she will portray a Flint resident whose…
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Mexico’s Former President to Trump: ‘I’m Not Paying for That F–king Wall’
Businessman Vicente Fox Quesada, former president of Mexico, took to Twitter to tell President-elect Donald Trump to f—k his couch and his wall. Trump spent the last year and a half saying that he was going to build a wall—a yuge wall—and Mexico was going to pay for it. Well, there’s a little caveat. Now…
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Gunman Behind Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting That Left 5 Dead ID'd as Esteban Santiago
Updated Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, 3:50 p.m. EST: The gunman behind the shooting at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida has been identified as Esteban Santiago, NBC News reports. Santiago is described as a 26-year-old New Jersey native. Senior law-enforcement sources told the network that Santiago had a military ID on him, although it…
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Pa. Pizza Deliveryman Shot Multiple Times by Police Gets $4,400,000 Settlement
A Philadelphia pizza deliveryman who was shot multiple times after plainclothes police officers fired 14 times at his vehicle has agreed to a $4.4 million settlement with the city, the Associated Press reports. Philippe Holland still has bullet fragments in his brain and suffers from a seizure disorder after being hit in the head, neck…
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Embattled Running Back Joe Mixon Is Leaving University of Okla. to Enter NFL Draft
University of Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon, who was caught on video punching a female student in the face in 2014, announced Thursday that he is leaving college to enter the 2017 NFL draft, NBC Sports reports. Mixon sat out the 2014 season after the university was informed about the incident, which left the female…