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Forget Microsoft and Google! Student Turns Down Full-Time Job Offers to Focus on Black Dating App ‘Bae’
Online dating stats show a clear racial bias in how black men and black women are viewed as romantic partners. In general, those two groups are the lowest rated in terms of attraction, as a 2014 OkCupid study demonstrated. Concerned about this obvious inequity, Jordan Kunzika, Brian Gerrard and Justin Gerrard created the mobile app Bae: Before Anyone Else…
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Lead Levels in Flint, Mich., Kids’ Blood Could Rise in Summer Because of Soil
The children of Flint, Mich., are expected to be exposed to even more lead contamination over the next few months—not because of the city’s drinking water but because of the high levels of lead in the soil that they will inhale during the dry summer months, the Detroit Free Press reports. Richard Sadler, an assistant…
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Chicago Police Union Hires Officer Charged With Murder in Laquan McDonald’s Shooting Death
The Chicago police union has hired the officer charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of black teen Laquan McDonald, the Associated Press reports. Jason Van Dyke, the report notes, was hired by the Fraternal Order of Police to work as a janitor about three weeks ago. Dean Angelo, president of the union, told…
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Pittsburgh TV Anchor Fired After Racist Facebook Post
A Pittsburgh-area news anchor was fired Wednesday after engaging in racial profiling of the worst kind on her official Facebook page, saying that the killers in a brutal area murder were “young black men,” reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. After a horrific mass shooting in early March in Wilkinsburg, Pa., near Pittsburgh, WTAE-TV news anchor Wendy…
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Coca-Cola Divests Significant Support From Republican National Convention
Coca-Cola, a longtime sponsor of the Republican National Convention, has declined to match the $660,000 it provided for the 2012 Republican National Convention, dropping its donation to $75,000 for this year’s gathering. At this point, most bets are on businessman Donald Trump as the presumptive nominee, and the New York Times reports that many companies…
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Texas Woman Hides Tape Recorder in Her Hair During Surgery, Records Surgery Staff Making Rude Comments About Her: Report
Ethel Easter of Houston was suffering from a hernia when she went to see a doctor about scheduling a surgery. She broke down crying when she learned that the earliest appointment would not be until two months later. “I was like, ‘I can’t wait for two months. I’m terribly ill,’ and he said, ‘Listen.’ He…
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Former Texas Cop Facing Murder Charge Accused of Excluding Details About Employment History
The former Texas police officer who is facing a murder charge for the shooting death of a teen is now accused of excluding details about his employment history when he applied for his position with the Farmers Branch, Texas, Police Department, WFAA-TV reports. According to the report, Officer Ken Johnson later said that he thought…
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Prosecutor: Minn. Officers Who Fatally Shot Jamar Clark Will Not Face Criminal Charges
Two Minneapolis police officers will not face charges in the fatal shooting in November of an unarmed black man, CNN reports. Police claim that Jamar Clark, 24, was shot by Officer Dustin Schwarze after Clark’s altercation with another officer, Mike Ringgenberg, just steps away from the precinct headquarters. Clark was transported to a local hospital, where…
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NYPD Commissioner William Bratton Has ‘Strong Concerns’ About Controversial Arrest of Brooklyn Mail Carrier
New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton has voiced “strong concerns” about a black mailman’s arrest after a brief confrontation with four plainclothes police officers, the New York Times reports. Bratton acknowledged Tuesday that the officers involved in the arrest belonged to the Police Department’s Conditions Unit, which functions as a neighborhood-based troubleshooting division. Members…