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Black Republican Claims Cliven Bundy Not ‘Racist at All’
Niger Innis, the national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality doesn’t believe that Cliven Bundy—yes, the Cliven Bundy who was taped saying, “Blacks were better off as slaves”—is racist and said as much at an event this past weekend, Mediaite.com reports. Innis, who’s running for Nevada’s 4th Congressional District—which the website reports is also…
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Report: Shelly Sterling Close to Selling LA Clippers
The NBA’s wish to have the Los Angeles Clippers owned by anyone not named Sterling is getting closer to becoming reality as reports have Shelly Sterling close to signing a deal presumably as early as this week, the New York Daily News reports. Shelly Sterling is now facilitating the deal after her “estranged” husband, disgraced…
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Watch: Cops Blast KRS-One’s ‘Sound of Da Police’
Looks like a few British police officers have a love for old-school hip-hop: Two officers in Chelmsford, Essex, were busted for blasting KRS-One’s “Sound of Da Police” out of their patrol car after footage was uploaded to social networking sites. According to New York’s Daily News, the officers were disciplined after video was uploaded to YouTube…
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Georgia Teen Killed and 2 Injured in Hit-and-Run
A 15-year-old Georgia teen was fatally injured and two other teens were hospitalized after two men involved in a high-speed chase hit the three teens as they were walking to see a movie. According to WSB-TV, the girls have been identified as Reina As-Salaam, 15, and Juliana Ferrell and Monica Epps, both 16. Reina died…
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Report: Miss. Judge Smacks Mentally Disabled Black Man, Tells Him ‘Run, N–ger, Run’
A white Mississippi Justice Court judge is accused of slapping a 20-year-old mentally disabled African-American man and yelling, “Run, n—ger, run,” after he fled. “This is 2014,” said former Canton Mayor William Truly, president of the Canton branch of the NAACP, “not 1960, where someone could slap a young man and call out, ‘Run, n—ger,…
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Brothers’ Fight Over Clothes Leads to Murder-Suicide
A fight between two brothers over sharing clothes turned deadly after Steven Odeus shot and killed his older brother Stanley Blanc and then took his own life. “Started off as a small petty argument over clothes that escalated into a fight,” Marc Blanc, a third brother told CBS4 News. “Right before my eyes my brother…
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Nigerian Official: Kidnapped Girls Located but Not Rescued
Nigerian officials believe that they have located the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped last month by an Islamist militant group but are hesitant to implement a forceful rescue due to worries that doing so may endanger them, CNN reports. “We want our girls back. I can tell you that our military can and will do…
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What Were Tupac Shakur's Dying Words?
According to a police officer who was among the first on the scene of the fatal drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas in 1996, the poet and rapper’s last words were, “F—k you.” Officer Chris Carroll told the british newspaper The Independent that he was one of the first to respond to the shooting,…
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Half of Senate Demands Redskins Change Name
While the NBA is battling the backlash from LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racially charged comments to a friend, the commissioner of the National Football League has received letters from some 50 senators asking for the Washington Redskins team name to be changed, the New York Daily News reports. “The NFL can no longer ignore…
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Mark Cuban Says Sorry for ‘Black Kid’ Remark
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban found himself at the center of a social media beat-down Thursday after telling an interviewer at a conference a day earlier, “If I see a black kid in a hoodie on my side of the street, I’ll move to the other side of the street.” Later Thursday, Cuban issued an…
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