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A 24-year-old woman was caught at Kennedy Airport in New York City hiding a half-pound of cocaine in her vagina, authorities say. According to the New York Daily News, Shekira Thompson of Queens, N.Y., was returning from a trip to her native Jamaica when she was pulled out of line by U.S. Customs officers for…

Take that, Charles Barkley. You know, Sir Charles who said that the Golden State Warriors’ Steph Curry “is just a great shooter, nothing more.” Well, he got one part right. Said shooting couldn’t have gotten greater than the def defying 3-point shot Curry sank from 32 feet out with seconds left in overtime last night,…

A teenager was reportedly shot by police in Salt Lake City on Saturday, sparking hostilities from bystanders and resulting in the deployment of about 100 police officers to the downtown area, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. Witnesses say that the incident occurred around 8 p.m. near a downtown homeless shelter, and there are some social…

A melee broke out near the site of a planned Ku Klux Klan rally as counterprotesters laid into Klan members, resulting in three stabbings, according to Reuters. The free-for-all went down between protesters and Klan members as members of the hate group exited their vehicle to set up for a Saturday march planned in Anaheim,…

As one may have surmised by the email heard round the (black) world Friday, MSNBC will sever ties with Melissa Harris-Perry, effectively canceling her show, according to a Washington Post report and confirmed by Richard Prince’s Journal-isms this weekend. Harris-Perry sent out the scathing email to her staff last week, and it was made public by…

We have all seen the video of the young black woman who was escorted from a private $500-a-plate Hillary Clinton fundraiser in South Carolina Wednesday.  Ashley Williams, who stood up and confronted the leading Democratic candidate with a sign containing the words from a 1996 speech supporting the now-debunked theory of “superpredators,” stood up and…

Tech giant Google announced Friday that its philanthropic arm would be donating $1 million to Bryan Stevenson’s Alabama-based nonprofit, Equal Justice Initiative. The Harvard-educated Stevenson is a lawyer who has for decades fought the good fight, winning major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent prisoners on death row, confronting abuse of the…

As Confederate flags and memorials are being taken down or moved from places of prominence across the country, the governor of Mississippi has dug in his heels and proclaimed April to be “Confederate Heritage Month” in the state. Gov. Phil Bryant issued the proclamation in response to a request from the Sons of Confederate Veterans,…

An ex-girlfriend of the man accused of killing three and wounding 14 others in a Kansas shooting spree has been charged with providing the ex-convict with the weapons, reports ABC News. A criminal charge filed Friday alleges that Sarah Hopkins, 28, gave Cedric Larry Ford an Zastava Serbia, which is an AK-47-type semi-automatic rifle, and…