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Ill. High School Apologizes for Slave Auction Skit
Barrington High School in Illinois is apologizing after two students performed a skit on Friday at the 2016 Illinois Junior Classical Convention, depicting a slave auction, NBC Chicago reports. The two students at Barrington performed the skit during the “roll call,” in which each school participating in the competition displayed their knowledge of Greek and…
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How Did a Calif. Couple on a Date End Up Fatally Shot by Police?
On Sunday, Feb. 21, Kisha Michael, 31, and Marquintan Sandlin, 32, had finished their date, according to family, and pulled off the road to take a nap. Inglewood, Calif., police responded to a call about a suspicious vehicle around 3 a.m. Very little information has been released as to what happened next, but according to…
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Ohio Pastor Shot Dead in Church; Brother Arrested in Slaying
Around 12:30 p.m. Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, as the St. Peters Missionary Baptist Church choir was singing, the Rev. William Schooler’s younger brother walked into his office and shot and killed him, police believe. According to WDTN, police arrested Daniel Gregory Schooler, who is now being held at the Montgomery County Jail, where he is…
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NYC Woman Busted Trying to Smuggle Half-Pound of Cocaine in Her Vagina: Report
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…
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Steph Curry’s Shot Is All the NBA Could Talk About Last Night
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,…
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Teen Holding Broomstick Is Shot by Police in Salt Lake City, Sparks Protests
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…
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3 Stabbed at Calif. KKK March
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,…
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MSNBC and Melissa Harris-Perry to Officially Part Ways: Report
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…
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Watch: The Black Lives Matter Activist Who Interrupted Hillary Clinton Explains Why
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…
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Google Gives $1,000,000 to Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative
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…