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Snook, Texas, Independent School District Behavior Specialist Fired After Pushing Pre-K Student
A Snook, Texas, Independent School District behavior specialist was fired after video footage showing him pushing a young black student went viral, KVUE reports. According to the report, the Burleson County Sheriff’s Office has also launched an investigation into the incident. The employee, identified as Troy Vann, can be seen in the video pushing the…
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GOP Candidate Who Offered KFC, Kool-Aid and Watermelons Arrested in Connection WIth Alleged Rental Scam
Jon Girodes, a Republican New York state Senate candidate who made headlines after apparently planning to offer Kool-Aid, KFC and watermelons at a campaign event in historically black Harlem, has been arrested in connection to an alleged rental scam, NBC 4 New York reports. Girodes, who is vying for the 30th Senatorial District seat in the…
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Chibok Girls Released by Boko Haram Reunited With Families
The 21 Chibok schoolgirls who were released to the Nigerian government last week after being kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram more than two years ago have been reunited with their families, USA Today reports. The girls were among the more than 200 students who were taken from their school in April 2014, bringing…
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Sprinter Tyson Gay’s Teen Daughter Killed in Ky. Crossfire
The teen daughter of Olympian Tyson Gay was tragically killed early Sunday morning after a shooting outside a Lexington, Ky., restaurant, according to USA Today High School Sports. Trinity Gay, 15, a talented sprinter in her own right, was taken to a University of Kentucky hospital with a gunshot wound to her neck around 3:30 am.…
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Mich. Woman Who Lied, Saying 4 Black Men Kidnapped, Raped Her, Gets Year in Jail
A Michigan woman who said that four black men kidnapped, raped and beat her for two days will spend a year behind bars for making the incident up, MLive.com reports. Leiha Ann-Sue Artman, 25, pleaded guilty to making a false report of a felony, a crime punishable by up to four years. MLive reports that…
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Feds Charge Kan. Men With Domestic Terrorism for Plot Against Somali Muslims
Three Kansas men who dubbed themselves “the Crusaders” plotted for months to bomb a mosque and an apartment complex that is home to Somali immigrants, according to the Department of Justice, reports the New York Daily News. Curtis Allen, 49, Gavin Wright, 49, and Patrick Stein, 47, were charged Friday with conspiring to use a…
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#WhatADoctorLooksLike: Black Female Doctors Support Dr. Tamika Cross After Delta Fiasco
In response to the crazy (but unfortunately not so uncommon) situation of white folks straining to believe that black professionals exist—this time in the case of Dr. Tamika Cross—scores of black female doctors took to Twitter to post photos of themselves under the hashtag #WhatADoctorLooksLike. Cross, a Houston OB-GYN, last Sunday posted on Facebook her…
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US Bans All Samsung Galaxy Note7 Phones From Airplanes
Effective Oct. 15 at noon ET, Samsung Galaxy Note7 phones are banned from all air transportation in the United States, the U.S. Department of Transportation says. In a statement released Friday, the DOT, along with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, announced an emergency order banning the phone on…
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Regrets Criticizing Colin Kaepernick
After previously saying that Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protests were “dumb” and “disrespectful,” Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has had a change of heart. On Friday afternoon, the liberal justice said in a released statement that she should not have denounced the NFL quarterback’s silent protests, the Los Angeles Times reports. “Barely aware of…