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New York Teen Collapsed and Died During Basketball Practice and a Family Is Left With Questions
Sixteen-year-old Lenny Pierre was practicing with the John Bowne High School basketball team in Queens, N.Y., on Wednesday, when he began feeling lightheaded and collapsed. School staff called 911 and he was rushed to a local hospital. “I’m in shock. I was at work and got a call saying that he was lightheaded and he…
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Cardi B Ran Up on Who and Did What? Rapper to Turn Herself in to Police After Strip Club Brawl in Queens
Police confirm Cardi B will turn herself in to authorities Monday in connection with a fight at a Queens strip club in August. According to WPIX 11 TV, the Bronx rapper—who delighted thousands in Central Park on Sunday for the annual Global Citizen Festival—will be in quite a different venue today, turning herself in to…
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I Am Queen Mary, Denmark’s 1st Public Monument Honoring a Black Woman, Recalls a Fierce Rebel
Denmark just got its first public monument to a black woman, and what a phenomenal woman she was. On Saturday, two artists revealed a 23-foot statue inspired by Mary Thomas, a Caribbean woman who led a fiery 19th-century revolt against Danish colonial rule. Seated on a wicker throne, the statue stares solemnly ahead, her head…
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Family Searching for Answers After Young, Aspiring NYC Model Is Killed in the Country of Jamaica
The mother of a 26-year-old aspiring model is searching for answers after her daughter was found brutally killed in the country of Jamaica. According to CBS New York, Desiree Gibbon, whose father is from Jamaica, had traveled in October from the Hollis section of New York City’s Queens borough to Montego Bay, where she was…
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Man Convicted in Infamous ’80s Racial Slaying in NYC Commits Suicide: Report
The perpetrator in one of the most notorious race-related killings in New York City—a case that many say catapulted Al Sharpton to national fame and made the neighborhood of Howard Beach in the city’s Queens borough go down in infamy—has died at age 48. More than 30 years ago, 17-year-old Jon Lester was convicted of…
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Prodigy Memorial Taken Down After Being Vandalized a 2nd Time
Not sure what the deal in Queensbridge is, but someone or someones may have gotten their wish to destroy a mural of recently deceased rapper Prodigy of Mobb Deep. As reported by The Root, a mural of the rapper was vandalized with white paint over the weekend, less than 24 hours after the piece went…
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Rapper Prodigy’s Mural Defaced a Day After Going Up
A mural for recently deceased rap pioneer Prodigy of Mobb Deep was defaced less than 24 hours after it went up in New York City’s Queens borough. Someone appeared to have thrown white paint over the two-story mural of the rapper, born Albert Johnson, who died June 20 in Las Vegas of complications from sickle…
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NYC Man Indicted on Rape, Murder of Jogger
A Brooklyn, N.Y., man, who is accused of rape and murder in the death of 30-year-old jogger Karina Vetrano was formally indicted by a Queens, N.Y., grand jury Wednesday on four counts of first-degree murder, five counts of second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree aggravated sexual abuse and two counts of first-degree sexual abuse. Chanel…
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Thief Pleads Guilty to Robbing 40 Fast-Food Stores in NY
Khalif House, 24, reportedly robbed 40 fast-food stores at knifepoint, stealing over $18,000 throughout Long Island, N.Y., and the Queens borough of New York City, according to the New York Post. He pleaded guilty to the crimes Tuesday. House, from the Long Island town of Hempstead, committed the crimes with another person between February 2015…
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21-Year-Old Charged With Murder in Death of NYC Man
Jonathan Chan, 21, is one of four suspects in the fatal shooting of Eric Assanah, 21, over a dispute about stolen money, the New York Daily News reports. According to authorities, the slaying occurred in Assanah’s girlfriend’s apartment in New York City’s borough of Queens, following an argument over $1,200 in stolen money. Chan was…