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Bill Cosby won a major legal victory on Tuesday (June 23), after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court court decided the disgraced television icon can appeal is 2018 sexual assault conviction, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.  Cosby, 82, is currently serving a three-to-ten year sentence after a jury convicted him of drugging and …

A 9-year-old girl is using her incredible talent as a figure skater to promote the Black Lives Matter movement. Kaitlyn Saunders, a fourth-grader, took to Black Lives Matter Plaza in her hometown of Washington D.C. and performed a routine to Andra Day’s “Rise Up.” “I felt like I was floating …

Photo: Cliff Hawkins (Getty Images) All it took was for police to murder yet another unarmed black man and all of a sudden we’re in the midst of a full-fledged White Renaissance, in which white people inexplicably are crippled with guilt, suddenly empathize with our plight and rock Black Lives …

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Photo: Chris Graythen (Getty Images ) Controversy ensued last weekend when NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace reported finding a noose in his garage stall. Wallace was partially responsible for NASCAR banning the Confederate flag from its events and the noose was initially believed to be a response to that event. According …

The woman suspected of setting fire to the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed by an Atlanta police officer earlier this month has been arrested. The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a tweet Tuesday afternoon (Jun. 23) that 29-year-old Natalie Hanna White was in custody and being booked …

Last Friday night, Barr claimed, falsely, that Berman had resigned. Jay Clayton, a golfing buddy of Trump’s who is the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, would be the nominee to replace Berman, Barr said; in the interim, the job would go to Craig Carpenito, the U.S. attorney for …

A Charlotte woman has gone viral on social media after she murdered her girlfriend and then joked about the crime on Facebook just hours later. According to authorities, 21-year-old Aviana Carter was shot and killed by 22-year-old Dashae McCain Monday morning (Jun. 22) at an apartment complex on Montague …

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