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Chicago Backtracks on Naming School for Obama
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has canceled plans to name an elite new high school for his former boss, President Barack Obama, the Chicago Tribune reports. Emanuel, Obama’s first White House chief of staff, said Thursday that he would consider other names for the selective-enrollment high school set to be built near the site of the…
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Idris Elba and Taraji Henson’s No Good Deed Is a Box Office Hit
No Good Deed, starring Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson, topped the box office Friday and could beat earnings expectations by at least $7 million, according to Entertainment Weekly. The crime thriller from British director Sam Miller and producer (and The Root 100 honoree) Will Packer raked in an estimated $8.8 million Friday from 2,175 locations,…
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Tavis Smiley Knocks President Obama Again
Tavis Smiley, known for his unrelenting criticism of Barack Obama, recently told the Huffington Post that his commentary is rooted in holding the president accountable as the nation’s leader. “As Cornel West and I said many years ago; I respect the president; I will protect the president against white supremacist attacks or anything else he’s…
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Ray Rice Welcomed at HS Alma Mater Football Game
Ray Rice and his family made their first public appearance Saturday after a video was released last week of the Baltimore Ravens Star striking his then-fiancé in a hotel elevator in Atlantic City, N.J. last February, The Journal News reports. Rice, who was suspended from the Ravens and banned indefinitely from the NFL after the…
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LAPD Mistakes Black Actress for Prostitute
Actress Danièle Watts took to social media last week to condemn the Los Angeles Police Department after she was allegedly mistaken for a prostitute after kissing her white husband, Identites.mic reports. According to Facebook posts by Watts and her husband, Brian James Lucas, two police officers mistook the couple for a prostitute and client Thursday when they…
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Lawyer for Michael Brown’s Family Slams St. Louis Paper for ‘Racist Speculation’
Benjamin Crump, the lawyer for the family of slain Ferguson, Mo., teen Michael Brown, blasted the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Friday for reporting “gossip and racist speculation,” according to CNN. Crump accused the paper of failing to apply the same zeal to obtaining background information about Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who shot Brown, that…
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Death of Ex-Marine in Hot Jail Cell Ruled Accidental
The death of a mentally ill inmate in a 101-degree-Fahrenheit cell at New York City’s Rikers Island jail has been ruled accidental, the New York Daily News reports. Jerome Murdough, 56, a former U.S. Marine, died Feb. 15 of hyperthermia due to “environmental exposure to heat,” a spokeswoman for the city’s chief medical examiner said,…
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George Zimmerman Accused in Fla. Road Rage Incident
Police in Lake Mary, Fla., are investigating an allegation that George Zimmerman threatened to kill a motorist during a road rage incident, CBS Miami reports. A man who identified himself only as “Matt’ called police Tuesday to report that a truck pulled up alongside him and a passenger yelled, “Why are you pointing a finger…
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Vikings’ Peterson Booked and Released in Child-Injury Case
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was booked into jail and released on $15,000 bail early Saturday morning after he was indicted on a felony charge of reckless or negligent injury to a child, ESPN reports. Peterson reportedly beat his 4-year-old son earlier this year with a small tree branch as a form of punishment,…
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‘Offensive’ Email Prompts Atlanta Hawks Co-Owner to Sell Stake
Updated Sunday, Sept. 7, 4:18 p.m. EDT: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published the full text of the email that Bruce Levenson sent to Hawks General Manager Danny Ferry in August 2012. From: Bruce Levenson To: Ferry, Danny CC: Foreman, Todd (ucg.com); Peskowitz, Ed (ucg.com) Sent: 8/25/2012 11:47:02 PM Subject: Re: Business/Game ops 1. from day one…
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