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Sacramento Kings‘ Harrison Barnes and Philadelphia Eagles‘ Malik Jackson have offered to pay for the funeral of Atatiana Jefferson, the 28-year-old black woman who was shot and killed by a Texas police officer in her mother’s home last week. According to the Dallas Morning News, Barnes will cover more than half of the service costs, and Jackson will pay […]
Gunfire erupted on the streets of the Mexican city of Culiacán on Thursday as word got out that authorities had captured Ovidio Guzmán López, son of El Chapo. The city of Culiacán, home of the El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel, was filled with the sound of sniper rifles and the sight of masked men on trucks […]
A black security guard at a Wisconsin high school said he was fired after saying the N-word in front of a student and the school’s assistant principal. According to Madison365, the Madison Metropolitan School District has a zero-tolerance for employees using racial slurs; however, the former guard, Marlon Anderson, said he repeated the slur in an effort to defend […]
Rep. Elijah Cummings of Baltimore is dead at the age of 68. Cummings died early Thursday at Johns Hopkins Hospital due to “complications concerning longstanding health challenges,” per CBS News. In a statement, Maryland Democratic Party chairperson (and Cummings’ wife) Maya Rockeymoore Cummings recalled the Democratic leader’s decades-long work toward a stronger and more viable democracy for all. “Congressman […]
The Cherry Hill school district in New Jersey passed a new policy Tuesday that will allow principals to ban a student from purchasing tickets for school dances, prom included, if their lunch debt exceeds $75, NBC News reports. The punishments that can be levied through this policy, which includes both high school and middle school, […]
After announcing his decision to pull US troops from northeastern Syria, Donald Trump issued a warning to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: “Don’t be a tough guy.” According to a letter obtained by Fox Business’ Trish Regan, Trump urged Erdogan to excercise military restraint and reach a peaceful resolution with Kurdish General Mazloum Kobani. The letter was dated […]
There are a ton of things that can get political ads removed from Facebook. Outright lying isn’t one of them, however. A new report from BuzzFeed News found that over 150 ads had been removed for employing fake button graphics, leading to bad landing pages or containing profanity. “Facebook has removed more than 160 ads […]
A Dutch family of six that was reportedly “waiting for the end of time” has been found in a cellar after the oldest child escaped and told his story to a local pub owner. The group of young adults were between the ages of 18 and 25 and were found by authorities in the Netherlands. The […]
Rolling Loud Hong Kong, which was scheduled to go down October 19-20, has been canceled due to security concerns, Pollstar reports. “After consulting with security experts, it has been determined that it is not possible to organize the upcoming Rolling Loud Hong Kong edition as we had hoped without endangering the safety and well-being of […]
A Pennsylvania teacher is placed on unpaid leave after video surfaces of her subjecting a black parent to a racist rant. Per the Upper Darby School District Superintendent, Daniel McGarry, the incident took place in the Drexel Hill Middle School parking lot. The unnamed teacher and parent, Rasheed Noel, were involved in a minor car accident while he was dropping […]
