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Woman on FBI’s Most Wanted List Captured After Killing 9-Months-Pregnant Woman
A Mississippi native on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list has been captured in North Carolina, according to a tweet from the Milwaukee FBI on Friday. Shanika S. Minor, 24, was captured in Fayetteville, N.C., on Friday morning. Minor was arrested by a Cumberland County sheriff’s deputy shortly after 2 a.m. at the Airport…
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#RenewDocMcStuffins! Parents Outraged That Disney’s Doc McStuffins May Be Canceled
Doc McStuffins, the lovely Disney Junior show about a nurturing 6-year-old girl who can talk to the stuffed animals that she cares for in her “clinic” may not be back on air. This is surprising because two years ago the New York Times reported that Doc McStuffins merchandise clocked $500 million in sales and that…
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Read Alice Walker’s Powerful Poem Inspired by Jesse Williams’ BET Speech
One of our most wondrous and prolific living authors and activists, Alice Walker, wrote a poem inspired by actor Jesse Williams’ brilliant BET Humanitarian Award acceptance speech. The poem, published on Walker’s website the day after the awards aired, gives “three deep bows to a beautiful son” and hilariously critiques the fact that the video, courtesy…
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Usain Bolt Withdraws From Olympic Trials Because of Hamstring Injury
The “fastest man in the world,” Usain Bolt, withdrew from the Olympic trials on Friday because of a torn hamstring, reports USA Today. The Jamaican sprinter says he still hopes to compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. On Thursday, Bolt, 29, complained of a tight hamstring after a preliminary race, and the…
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Congresswoman Mia Love Ditches GOP Convention Next Month
In what surely is a check against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (though she will not admit it), Utah Rep. Mia Love said she will not be attending the party’s convention next month, and will instead visit Israel with a congressional delegation. Love, the very first African-American Republican woman ever elected to Congress, and who was…
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President Obama: 12,000 Inmates to Receive Pell Grants for College Study
Even though Congress banned providing financial aid to prisoners in 1994, as many as 12,000 prison inmates will be able to use federal Pell Grants to finance college classes next month, the White House announced Friday. The $30 million Second Chance Pell Grant pilot program, announced by President Barack Obama, will be available to inmates…
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Jack Daniel’s Whiskey Most Likely Created by a Slave
For 150 years, the story of how Jack Daniel’s whiskey came to be is that a man named Dan Call taught young Jack how to run his still. But the truth, like the truth of America, is a bit more complicated. And as is often true in America, that complication involves that most peculiar institution.…
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Wannabe Tulsa, Okla., Deputy Who Killed Unarmed Black Man: ‘I’ve Been Condemned’
The volunteer Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy who killed an unarmed black man last year said he’d “pretty much been condemned,” and says he doesn’t expect to survive his four-year jail sentence. Robert Bates, 74, told NBC News from jail that shooting Eric Harris during an April 2, 2015, sting operation in Tulsa, Okla., was a “horrible…
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Philadelphia Mother Charged With Murder in Shooting Death of 4-Year-Old
The mother of a 4-year-old girl who shot and killed herself inside her home has been charged with third-degree murder, according to ABC 6 Philadelphia. Shakeia Holmes, 25, of North Philadelphia is now in jail, and an arrest warrant for her boyfriend, Demetrius Williams, has been issued. He is facing involuntary manslaughter charges. Police say the…
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72-Year-Old NH Woman Drops Defamation Lawsuit Against Bill Cosby
A 72-year-old New Hampshire woman who said that Bill Cosby raped her in 1965 when she worked as a secretary at a Los Angeles talent agency withdrew her defamation lawsuit against the comedian Friday, reports NBC 10 News Philadelphia. Kristina Ruehli withdrew her civil motion a day after a federal judge allowed that the case…
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