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Black Judge Removed From Philando Castile Shooting Case
Lawyers representing St. Anthony, Minn., Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez in the shooting death of Philando Castile filed a notice to remove a black judge—Ramsey County, Minn.’s second-most-senior judge—from the case, the Star Tribune reports. According to the report, the notice to remove Ramsey County District Court Judge Edward Wilson was filed Thursday, citing a rule…
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UPDATE: Lana Sprayberry, Dallas Principal Under Fire After Her Fort Worth Post Went Viral, Resigns
Updated Saturday, Dec. 24, 7:01 p.m. EDT: Lana Sprayberry, principal of Inspired Vision Academy Elementary School in Dallas, has resigned amid calls for her to be fired. Good riddance. See the statement from A+Charter Schools Inc. below: Earlier: Lana Sprayberry, principal of Inspired Vision Academy Elementary School in Dallas, is under fire after her post…
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Black People in Colo. Arrested at 3 Times Their Percentage of Population
African Americans make up only 4.2 percent of Colorado’s population but account for 12.4 percent of arrests and criminal summonses in the state, Reuters reports. “Communities of color for a long time have felt that they are stopped and arrested more than others,” said Dense Maes, public policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union’s…
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Indianapolis Colts Cheerleader Forgives Teen Who Called Her N–ger
Indianapolis Colts cheerleader Leanna E. has met with and forgiven a Russiaville, Ind., high school student who used a racial slur to describe her in a photo he posted to Snapchat, the Indy Star reports. On Wednesday night, Leanna tweeted out a photo showing her next to the 17-year-old Western High School student during a…
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Bob Costas Wore a Fedora on Thursday Night Football and the Internet Had Jokes
I don’t know if Bob Costas was feeling himself when he decided to don a fedora for Thursday Night Football, but the internet wasn’t ready for it, and it unleashed a flurry of jokes at the famed announcer’s expense. Not everyone thought Costas looked like a smooth criminal:
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Trump's Winery Wants to Get Visas for Foreign Workers
Turns out President-elect Donald Trump does want immigrants to stay in this country and work—as long as he and his family reap the benefits. Having run for president on a platform that included building a wall to keep immigrants out, Trump’s Virginia vineyard, owned by his son Eric, has applied for temporary work visas for…
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Ex-NBA Coach George Karl Pens Bitter Tell-All Book Blasting Former Players
George Karl was once an NBA coach. He wasn’t a good NBA coach, even with top talent like Carmelo Anthony, so Karl was fired from every NBA coaching job he ever had. Now the sorry ex-NBA coach is releasing a tell-all book about his days of coaching players who were better served under better coaches.…
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4 Sentenced in Kidnapping, Torture of NY College Students
On Wednesday, four people were sentenced in the December 2015 abduction and torture of two University of Rochester students, the Washington Post reports. Nicholas Kollias and Ani Okeke Ewo, both 21-year-old students, were lured to a house several miles from campus for what they believed was a party. Ewo and a female acquaintance had been…
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Suspect Arrested in Shooting Death of 3-Year-Old in Ark. Road Rage Incident
Updated Friday, Dec. 23, 2016, 1:30 p.m. EST: A Little Rock, Ark., police affidavit reveals that the man who allegedly fatally shot a 3-year-old boy in a road rage incident fired his gun because he thought a car was following him too closely, CBS News reports. Gary Eugene Holmes, 33, was taken into custody late…
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Fort Worth, Texas, Protesters Rally Against Officer’s Treatment of Mother, 2 Daughters
Protesters gathered in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, on Thursday night in response to the now viral video of a Fort Worth police officer manhandling a woman who called for help when her son was assaulted. As previously reported on The Root, Jacqueline Craig, a 46-year-old black woman, called police after her son reported being choked…