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Freddie Gray Died 1 Year Ago; Here Is What We Know About His Case
It’s been a year since Freddie Gray died. On April 12, 2015, Baltimore police dragged the 25-year-old into a police van like a broken tree branch. His legs weren’t working. They trailed behind him like kite tails. Inside the van, he would fall into a coma. He was taken to a trauma center, where he…
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Man Pleads Guilty to Making Terrorist Threat Against Black Mizzou Students
A Missouri man has pleaded guilty to making a terrorist threat on social media against black people at the University of Missouri after the university’s president was ousted because of complaints over his handling of racial abuse, Reuters reports. Hunter Park, 20, pleaded guilty to the charge Monday and is scheduled to be sentenced June…
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Women Kicked Off Napa Valley Wine Train for Being ‘Too Loud’ Settle Lawsuit
The 11 members of a book club who were kicked off the Napa Valley Wine Train after being “too loud” have settled their racial-discrimination lawsuit, their attorney confirmed Monday, the Mercury News reports. The book club, the Sistahs on the Reading Edge, is based in the San Francisco Bay Area’s East Bay. The women, 10 of…
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‘Bored’ NYC Teen Who Allegedly Caused Housing Project Fire That Killed Officer Rejects Plea Deal
A New York City teen accused of starting a fire at a housing project in the city’s Brooklyn borough that killed an officer has rejected a plea deal of 22 years in prison, going against his lawyer’s advice to take the deal, the New York Post reports. Marcell Dockery, now 18, reportedly told authorities that…
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Trump Watch: The Donald Confuses 9/11 With 7-Eleven on Eve of NY Primary
Maybe Donald Trump should have stopped by a 7-Eleven to grab a cup of coffee before his Buffalo, N.Y., rally Monday. That way he would have been alert enough not to confuse the convenience store with 9/11. CNN obtained video of the blunder in which the GOP front-runner accidentally refers to “9/11” as “7-Eleven” on…
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Texas Pastor Says Whole Foods Employee Wrote Homophobic Slur on Cake
An openly gay pastor says he ordered a cake from a Whole Foods store in Austin, Texas, that was only to have the phrase “Love Wins” written on it. When he returned to pick up the dessert, he says, he didn’t notice that the words written on the cake were actually, “Love Wins [F—].” In…
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Mich. Police Arrest Cross-Dressing Bank Robber: Report
Police have arrested a 33-year-old Michigan man and charged him with bank robbery after he reportedly dressed up as a woman and robbed a bank. According to the Detroit Free Press, around 9:20 a.m. April 4, a man dressed as a woman entered a PNC Bank in Genoa Township, Mich., and announced the robbery. The…
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Washington Post Series on Police Shootings, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton Win Pulitzers
The Washington Post series “Fatal Force,” which took a hard look at the number of deadly police shootings throughout the country last year, and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit Hamilton were two of the big winners when the 100th annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday around 3 p.m. EDT. Wesley Lowery, national reporter for the Post, who…
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Rashan Gary, Top Football Recruit of Class of 2016, Received Voicemail Threat Before Clemson Visit
Paramus Catholic High School’s Rashan Gary, widely regarded as the top high school athlete in the country, was the target of a threat left on the voicemail of the New Jersey school’s athletic department by someone identifying himself as a fan of Clemson University, a school Rashan had been looking into, NorthJersey.com reports. The 58-second message…
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Tenn. Parents, Community Outraged After Elementary School Students Arrested for Not Stopping Off-Campus Fight
Angry parents and other community members flocked to the First Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tenn., on Sunday, demanding action after at least five students, ages 6 to 10, at Hobgood Elementary School were handcuffed and detained Friday, the Daily News Journal reports. The students, the report notes, were accused of not stopping a fight that…