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You give people an inch and they sure enough will try to take the whole damn mile. Since the legalization of marijuana is becoming an…
Half of all Black males in the United States have been behind bars by age 23, according to a new study published by academic journal…
The Boys and Girls Clubs of America is endorsed by so many celebrities like Denzel Washington, Jennifer Lopez and more for good reason. It’s a place that many of those celebs learned life, sports, and social skills as young people. Olympian Jackie Joyner Kersee is no exception. The gold medalist in the pentathlon was a […]
CINCINNATI (AP) — Macy’s Inc. is cutting 2,500 jobs as part of a reorganization to sustain its profitability. The announcement comes on the heels of a strong holiday shopping season for the department store chain. Macy’s said Wednesday that it will reassign or transfer some workers and add some positions, leaving its workforce level at […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Marco Rubio says the nation needs a new reform agenda to help the poorest Americans find work and help their families climb out of poverty. The Florida Republican says in a speech Wednesday that money from the federal government to address poverty should be shifted to the states and Congress should […]
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Police believe former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez was in an SUV when someone inside shot two people to death in Boston in 2012, according to a search warrant filed in Connecticut. The warrant does not indicate who investigators believe pulled the trigger or suggest a motive in the shooting of […]
A 13-year-old Chicago boy was arrested Sunday and charged as a juvenile with first-degree murder for allegedly shooting his 16-year-old sleeping cousin, Raymond Galloway in…
CeCe McDonald (pictured), a transgender woman whose murder case received national attention, will be released from prison next week, according to MSNBC. SEE ALSO: Obama: Yellen…
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Emails and text messages released Wednesday link a top aide to Gov. Chris Christie to traffic jams in a New Jersey town in September that appear to have been engineered as political payback against its mayor. “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” Christie aide Bridget Anne Kelly wrote in […]
A daycare in DeKalb County, Ga., was burglarized on Friday and the owner, Latorsha Morgan’s (pictured), says she is still waiting for the cops to…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is urging schools to abandon overly zealous discipline policies that civil rights advocates have long said lead to a school-to-prison pipeline that discriminates against minority students. The wide-ranging series of guidelines issued Wednesday in essence tells schools that they must adhere to the principle of fairness and equity in […]
According to the Omaha Police Officers Association (POA), there is a “terrible cycle of violence and thuggery” that is rampant throughout the city. The union’s…
