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Watch: Mother of Former Duke Player Wendell Carter Jr. Compares NCAA Basketball to Slavery and Prison
Kylia Carter, mother of former Duke basketball star Wendell Carter Jr., didn’t mince words during an emotional speech to the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, in which she compared the current NCAA basketball system to slavery and prison. “When you remove all the bling and the bells and the sneakers and all that,” Carter said,…
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Former NFL Wide Receiver Rae Carruth Won’t Try for a Relationship With the Son He Tried to Have Killed
Former Carolina Panther wide receiver Rae Carruth is not a redeemable soul, and thankfully he’s starting to realize this, and won’t try to have a relationship with his 18-year-old son who suffers from cerebral palsy as a result of Carruth’s criminal actions. Let me be clear about this: I don’t hate many people; in fact,…
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How 1 Black Woman Goes Inside Fla.’s Toughest Prisons to Help Inmates Get ‘Free on the Inside’
Facing a decade and a half in prison couldn’t stop her. Losing a loved one to suicide didn’t destroy her. Battling loss and pain while raising three children was not enough to make her quit. “Black Girl Magic” is a beautiful phrase. It summons up the image of some supernatural divination that has been arbitrarily…
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Tupac’s Godfather, Jamal Joseph, on His Journey From Panther to Political Prisoner to Film Director
Writer, director and activist Jamal Joseph was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. At 16 years old, he was arrested in the Panther 21 case along with Afeni Shakur, the mother of rapper Tupac Shakur. The Panther 21 case was designed to wipe out the New York Black Panther…
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I'm Sorry To Disappoint Everyone, But Donald Trump Ain't Getting Impeached Or Going To Prison
The only redeeming stretch in Batman v Superman — a movie so aggressively shitty that The Wife Person and I watch it each time its on just to find new shit to hate about it — comes directly after the single worst scene in the movie. Batman is about to kill the shit out of…
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When Incarcerated People Die, Blame the Prison-Industrial Complex
Early Wednesday morning, Aaron Hernandez joined the long list of incarcerated people, including Sandra Bland and Kalief Browder, who allegedly committed suicide while in prison, or soon after being released. We should not be mistaken about who or what is to blame: prisons and jails. The prison-industrial complex and the various ways it promotes the…
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Ex-NFL Star Aaron Hernandez Kills Himself in Prison Cell
Updated Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 10:26 a.m. EDT: Jose Baez, the attorney who represented Hernandez in his double-homicide trial, has launched an investigation on behalf of Hernandez. Baez says he believes it’s possible his former client was murdered by either inmates or prison officials, according to TMZ Sports. Earlier: On the heels of being found…
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Wannabe Islamic State Fighters Sentenced to Prison
Guled Omar, 22, described as a leader of a group of nine who plotted to fight for the Islamic State group, or ISIS, was sentenced to 35 years in prison by a federal judge on Wednesday, CBS News reports. Omar, of Minnesota, was one of nine defendants found guilty of a plot involving travel to Syria…
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Ex-NFL Running Back Joseph Randle Rips TV Off Prison Wall, Faces More Charges
Former Dallas Cowboys running back Joseph Randle is a pretty sore loser. In February of this year, the 24-year-old was at a Wichita, Kansas, house party playing beer pong when an argument broke out over who won the game. Authorities say that Randle pushed the man he was playing against. The scuffle was defused quickly,…