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April is the time of year that high school students start receiving college acceptance letters in hopes of gaining entrance into their school of choice. Students are happy if they get 8 or 10 acceptance letters but one school in New Orléans has students receiving over 20 acceptance letters, according to WGNO News. Including one student getting a grand […]
MACON, Ga. (AP) — A 71-year-old white woman has been charged with battery after she and her son argued with two black female service members over a parking spot outside a restaurant. A Bibb County Sheriff’s report says Judy James Tucker told deputies it all started because she’s white and it was a race issue. […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Starbucks wants to add training for store managers on “unconscious bias,” CEO Kevin Johnson said Monday, as activists held more protests at a Philadelphia store where two black men were arrested after employees said they were trespassing. Johnson, who has called the arrests “reprehensible,” arrived in Philadelphia this weekend after video of […]
A Georgia family is grieving the loss of their son who lost his life a month from graduation and a week away from his 19th birthday. Nicholas Glasco was shot and killed by his best friend Dean Dunkley according to Fox 5 in Atlanta. On Saturday, April 14 Glasco was inside Dunkley home when the two seemed to have a disagreement. “From what was said it happened inside […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby‘s lawyer opened the comedian’s sexual assault retrial last week with a blistering attack on accuser Andrea Constand, telling jurors that evidence would show she’s nothing more than a con artist who framed the comedian and cashed in with a $3.4 million civil settlement. Now with Constand on the witness […]
Three employees at a Stop & Shop store in Brooklyn, NY tackled and sat on top of a shoplifter until he died. According to the NY Post, Ralph Nimmons, 51, was caught shoplifting on April 14. Witnesses say he was stealing items and storing them in a cake box. When employees were notified, shoppers stared in shock as the three […]
NEW YORK (AP) — They were honoring stars of Hollywood, the media and literature, but it was longtime activist and MeToo founder Tarana Burke — a name unknown to most people until six months ago — who got the biggest ovation at Variety’s annual Power of Women event on Friday. Burke, who founded the MeToo […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Starbucks sells itself as a community gathering spot as much as a coffeehouse, a welcoming place with comfortable chairs for lingering, trendy music and Wi-Fi. That’s one reason the arrest of two black men who were sitting in a Starbucks struck a nerve for so many: They were doing exactly what people […]
Rannita Williams, a 27-year-old Shreveport, Louisiana resident, was shot and killed by her ex-boyfriend while on Facebook Live last Thursday. According to the Shreveport Times, Robinson was holding Williams hostage in her home. The disturbing video (WARNING GRAPHIC VIOLENCE) begins with the suspected shooter, 36-year-old Johnathan Robinson pacing back and forth as Williams speaks to the camera […]
Marjory Stoneman High School teacher, Sean Simpson, faces criminal charges after he left his loaded 9 mm Glock gun in a public restroom. Florida Local News 10 reports Simpson left his gun in a public bathroom that was found by a drunk homeless man who fired a shot according to the Broward Sheriff’s Department. Simpson, 43, is a science […]