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Pa. Mom Claims Teacher Put a Bar of Soap in 10-Year-Old's Mouth
A Pennsylvania mom is outraged after, she says, a teacher put a bar of soap in her son’s mouth as punishment, WHP-TV reports. “I was very upset, hurt, confused. I just didn’t understand why this even had to happen,” Ciara White said. White said that her 10-year-old son, Donald Thomas, got into an argument with…
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Olympic Sprinter Tyson Gay Speaks for the 1st Time Since His Daughter's Death
Speaking for the first time since his daughter’s death, Tyson Gay told a crowd of friends and family gathered at an emotional candlelight vigil in Lexington, Ky., Monday night that he wanted to see an end to “senseless” violence. “I don’t want to read in the paper next week about another senseless killing. It has…
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Student Offended After Okla. High School Teacher's Lecture: 'To Be White Is to Be Racist'
An Oklahoma high school student is speaking out after recording her teacher telling students that “to be white is to be racist,” while lecturing on how to “heal the racial divide,” KFOR reports. The Norman North High School student said that she was shocked by the lecture, and so she pulled out her phone and started…
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Former Ark. Judge Accused of Giving Lenient Sentences in Exchange for Sexual Favors
A former Arkansas judge has been arrested and accused of giving lenient sentences to male defendants in exchange for sexual favors he allegedly referred to as “community service,” the Washington Post reports. O. Joseph Boeckmann, 70, a former district court judge from Wayne, Ark., who was removed from his post earlier this year, was taken…
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Protesters Sue El Cajon, Calif., Its Police Over Arrests at Alfred Olango Vigil
Several protesters who were arrested at a vigil for Alfred Olango in El Cajon, Calif., on Oct. 1 have filed a lawsuit, accusing police of violating their civil rights by wrongfully ordering them to disperse, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Protesters insist that the protest was peaceful and that they were only ordered to leave…
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Report: Student Loan Debt Up 4 Percent
Undergraduate students are leaving school with an average of $30,000 in student loan debt, a new study shows. Consumerist reports that the latest annual student debt survey from the Institute for College Access & Success found that nearly 7 out of 10 seniors graduating from four-year public and nonprofit colleges in 2015 owed an average…
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Facial-Recognition Technology Affects African Americans More Often
A Georgetown University think tank and the American Civil Liberties Union, along with 52 other civil liberties organizations, are urging the U.S. Department of Justice to look into the way federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies use face-recognition technology, which they say is having a “disparate impact on communities of color.” On Tuesday the Georgetown…
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2 Inmates Have Died in ‘Preventable Deaths’ at Striking Prisons
Two prison inmates have died at two separate facilities where inmates were participating in a national prison strike, and organizers say the deaths were preventable. Charles Lee Johnson died Oct. 10 at Kinross Correctional Facility in Kincheloe, Mich., and his death is being investigated by police, BuzzFeed News reports. Last month, 400 Kinross inmates took…
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Police Shoot and Kill Man in Benton Harbor, Mich.
Officers responding to a 911 call shot and killed a man early Tuesday morning in Benton Harbor, Mich. The South Bend Tribune reports that four officers arrived at a house at 2:17 a.m. after receiving a report that someone was being held at gunpoint inside. Three of the officers approached the house, and one stayed…