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Bobby Brown’s Nephew: Whitney Houston Was Murdered, Bobbi Kristina Also Targeted
The saga continues surrounding Bobby Brown’s family and what some of them may believe happened to both Whitney Houston and Bobbi Kristina Brown, her daughter with Brown, the day that each woman was found unconscious in a bathtub. Houston died back in 2012, while Bobbi Kristina has been in a coma for more than a…
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Chris Brown Blasts ‘Ignorant’ Critics Who He Says Are a ‘Cancer to This Planet’
Chris Brown says he has had it with all the naysayers and “ignorant human beings” who get down and dirty in the comments section of his Instagram page, where they’ve been blasting the pop singer for his shambolic personal life. It’s probably not a pretty sight, especially since reports surfaced last week that Brown is…
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Naomi Campbell Reportedly Yells at and Shoves Model Because She Disrespected Rihanna
Naomi Campbell is not one to shy away from a fight, given her infamous rap sheet of getting it in with personal assistants and other minions who provoke her anger. That’s why it’s not much of a surprise that the New York Post is reporting that the 44-year-old supermodel got into a shoving match and weave-pulling…
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NYC Discount-Store Workers Sue for $2,000,000, Claim They Were Paid $2.27 an Hour
Fifteen people—most of them undocumented immigrants—who worked at a chain of discount stores in the Bronx and Queens in New York City filed a lawsuit against the owners, claiming that they were paid well below minimum wage at $2.27 an hour and routinely worked 11-hour days, six days a week, the New York Daily News…
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Wis. Police Chief Prayed With the Family of Unarmed Man Shot by Police
Having learned from the protests that engulfed Ferguson, Mo., after unarmed teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer in August 2014, the police chief of Madison, Wis., immediately reached out to Tony Robinson’s family to express his condolences after the unarmed 19-year-old was fatally shot by a white police officer late…
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Former NAACP President Ben Jealous May Run for Md.’s US Senate Seat
Benjamin T. Jealous, the former president of the NAACP, who is said to have taken the civil rights organization out of the red and restored its relevance at a time fraught with tensions between working-class communities and law enforcement, is reportedly thinking about tossing his hat into the ring for one of Maryland’s U.S. Senate…
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Poll: Half of Americans Say Criminal-Justice System Favors Whites Over Blacks
Four in 10 Americans believe that race relations have gotten worse since President Barack Obama was elected in 2008, a new CNN/ORC poll has found. The poll’s findings come at a special time in American history as Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” march in Selma, Ala., during which several hundred individuals attempted…
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Philadelphia Police Officer Shot Dead Trying to Prevent a Robbery
Philadelphia Police Officer Robert Wilson III was shot dead Thursday in a GameStop by assailants who were about to rob the video game store, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Wilson, 30, was in the store carrying out his patrol duties when the attempted burglary began. Wilson engaged the robbers and gunfire was exchanged. “Officer Wilson was…
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Ohio Substitute Teacher Sentenced to 90 Days for Showing ‘How to Die’ Film to Students
In an Ohio judge’s eyes, there were two offenses committed in a case involving a Columbus high school classroom. First, that a substitute teacher who couldn’t speak Spanish was brought in to be a long-term fill-in for a Spanish class. Second, that the teacher, Sheila Kearns, 48, showed the class an inappropriate film depicting 26…
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Miami Brothers Arrested on Charges of Kidnapping and Forcing Teenage Girl Into Prostitution
Brothers Bogacski Thomas and Tavarus Ballard, both 24, were arrested in South Miami Tuesday on charges they kidnapped a 16-year-old girl and forced her into prostitution. She was forced to have sex with approximately two dozen men every day, the New York Daily News reports. Thomas and Ballard are facing several charges, including human trafficking,…
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