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Emmett Till Memorial Sign Discovered Riddled With Bullet Holes
A memorial sign that marks the location where Emmett Till’s brutalized body was discovered in a Mississippi river in 1955 was found riddled with bullet holes, the New York Daily News reports. According to the report, it is not the first time that the sign has been vandalized since it was put in place in…
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Infant Will Likely Never See, Hear Again After Babysitter Threw Him for Pulling PlayStation Cord
A Colorado babysitter is facing serious charges after allegedly throwing a 7-month-old baby over a video game, CBS8 reports. Caleb Collins, 24, is facing charges of attempted first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury. This week, unsealed documents revealed this week that the child will “likely never see, hear or have purposeful…
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Students Walk Out of Lecture After Professor Says Everyone Descends From Africa
Some students from Texas State University in San Marcos got up and left their lecture hall after their professor, Jon McGee, said that all people originated from Africa, The Tab reports. Apparently the day’s lesson was supposed to be on race. He began talking about the Black Lives Matter movement and how it had come about…
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University of Louisville Coach Rick Pitino Charged in Prostitution Scandal
The University of Louisville was rocked last year with claims that former players and recruits were lured to the school with sex from prostitutes hired by a former university employee. On Thursday the NCAA “formally charged current and former staff members in its men’s basketball program, including Coach Rick Pitino, with major rules violations related…
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Trump's 'Nasty Woman' Comment Backfires as 'Nasty Women' Rise Up for Clinton
Donald Trump turned his ratchet ridiculousness up to epic levels last night during the third and final presidential debate. Shortly after Trump boasted that “no one has more respect for women than me,” he called Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman.” During the debate, Clinton said: “My Social Security payroll contribution will go up, as will…
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NYC Man Shoots BB Rifle From Roof of Building, Hitting 10-Year-Old in Classroom
Anfernee Olivo, 19, shot a BB rifle from the rooftop of his Bronx, N.Y., apartment Wednesday afternoon, striking a 10-year-old girl who was sitting in her classroom at the school next door, the New York Daily News reports. Lia Urena, 10, was hit in the forearm while sitting in her classroom on the fifth floor of…
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Things Got Really Weird After Derrick Rose's Rape Trial
Shortly after a Los Angeles jury found Derrick Rose and two friends not liable for the rape of a California woman, things got strange. Before leaving the courtroom Wednesday, the judge cracked a joke with Rose, telling the newly acquired New York Knicks point guard, “Best wishes … except when the Knicks play the Lakers,”…
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Ga. Teen Has Leg Amputated After Being Repeatedly Slammed to the Ground by School Employee
A black Georgia teenager had to have his leg amputated five weeks after a behavioral specialist working at his school allegedly threw him to the floor several times and then denied him medical treatment, the Ledger-Enquirer reports. As Raw Story reports, the 13-year-old, identified as Montravious Thomas, underwent amputation Tuesday. Montravious was allegedly body-slammed repeatedly…
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Miss. Teacher Caught on Video Dragging Special-Needs Student by the Hair
A Mississippi special education teacher has been fired after video emerged of her dragging a special-needs student by the hair across a gymnasium floor, the Washington Post reports. In the video, the teacher at Greenville High School can be seen pinning the girl down by her hair while another student pokes her, before grabbing the…
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Veteran TV Reporter Confronts Man Who Called Him the N-Word
A Virginia man was arrested, charged with harassing a veteran Charlotte, N.C., TV reporter during a confrontation in Charleston, S.C., the Charlotte Observer reports. Brian Eybers, 21, is being held in the Charleston County Detention Center and is due in court Friday on charges of disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia in the form of a…