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Reported by Andrew Scot Bolsinger Police in Charlotte, N.C. are looking for 31-year-old Bianca Tanner, a teacher and mother of a three-year old son who has gone missing since June 7. According to a report by the Daily Mail, Tanner recently moved in with her boyfriend, Angelo Smith. Police interviewed her three-year-old son, who detailed [â¦]
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Reported by April V. Taylor Dr. Umar Johnson has long been considered an expert on how the American educational system uses learning disabilities to label black children, particularly black boys. He holds a Doctor of Clinical Psychology degree and is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist. He has also worked as a trainer, teaching educators and [â¦]
Most people know just how troubled Richard Pryor was during his life. But there are always other stories beneath the surface that you donât hear about until many decades later. Drugs are big trouble, not just for the user, for but also those who are around that person. Because of Pryorâs decision to dig into [â¦]
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Reported by Andrew Scot Bolsinger The Los Angeles County Child Protective Services Department has cleared actors Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith following an investigation about their daughter Willowâs well-being. The investigation was launched after a picture of the teen and her shirtless, 20-year-old male friend were photographed in a bed together. The photo, [â¦]
 Thereâs this thing called âwhite privilegeâ that they speak about at universities, but no one believes that it exists. They donât discuss it in mainstream media very much, since the media is owned by white people. So, maybe a big part of white privilege means not having to discuss white privilege. This article from Yvette [â¦]
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 On the one hand, Republicans tend to speak of a colorblind America, but on the other, theyâre quick to call out minorities as somehow less than authentically American. Talking Points Memo unearthed a video of Republican U.S. Senate candidate from North Carolina, Thom Tillis, complaining that, unlike Hispanics and blacks, âtraditional populationsâ werenât growing. During [â¦]
Reported by Andrew Scot Bolsinger A father and son in the Chicago area were charged Saturday after they allegedly tried to lure a teen girl into a van, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune. Two adults who came to assist the 15-year-old girl were then involved in a physical altercation with the the [â¦]
 Often times when you hear people in Hollywood discuss why more black films arenât put into production, they point to the risk of producing and financing an African-American movie. What if it doesnât sell? Writer and director John Singleton told a mostly black audience at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Saturday that they shouldnât [â¦]
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 Rapper turned actor Ice Cube thinks President Obama is doing the best job he can under the circumstances, but the analogy he used to describe Obama is sure to raise some eyebrows. When TIME magazineâs Belinda Luscombe posed 10 questions to Cube for an upcoming issue, she asked about everything from his children to the [â¦]
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 On the issue of foreign affairs, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has been wrong far more often than heâs been right. While appearing on CNN last week, McCain called for most of Pres. Obamaâs national security staff to be fired and for the U.S. to increase its presence in Iraq now that the country has descended [â¦]
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Florida police got quite the surprise when they pulled over a 450 pound man for not wearing his seatbelt. When Volusia police pulled over Christopher Mitchell and Keithian Roberts on State Road 415 in Florida, Mitchell told them he was too large to fit his seat belt. Deputies probably couldâve discerned that Mitchell, who goes [â¦]
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 by Barry Burch Jr. When it comes to begging for money, some people believe only those who are too lazy to work do it, but according to Brenda Johnson, if only that were true. Johnson says if she did not have to beg, she would not. She also says that if there are any tricks [â¦]
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 Research shows that people who are in a position of power at work and home handle rejection better than everyone else. âPowerful people appear to be better at dealing with the slings and arrows of social life, theyâre more buffered from the negative feelings that rejection typically elicits,â says lead author of the study, Maya [â¦]
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 When you hear about things like this, you can only ask yourself, âwhat were they thinking?â Can grown people settle a dispute while still respecting the wishes of their children to act like theyâve got some sense? The saddest part of this fight that took place at a graduation is that young people had to [â¦]
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 Reported by Nigel Boys According to Bill Crowley, Director of Public Affairs for the State Liquor Authority (SLA) in New York, a new slushy drink called âPhrostiesâ that is being sold in the city has authorities worried. One of the reasons being is that no one knows whatâs in these high alcoholic beverages and another [â¦]
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