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Shabazz Napier is one of the bet college basketball players in the country. He recently took home the NCAA championship title, but the University of Connecticut point guard recently told reporters that he goes to bed “starving.” 

Legislators in Mississippi have passed a bill that would allow people to use their religion to justify discrimination. The “religious liberty” bill stalled last month, with the House voting to send it to a study committee instead of passing it. However both bodies of Congress have approved a conference report on the bill, advancing it to Gov. […]

Residents in Albuquerque are taking to the streets in protest of what they call “ongoing slayings of citizens” by their local police department. Tuesday’s shooting of an unarmed man marked the third unarmed shooting in just three weeks by cops. 

Keanon has the chance of a lifetime at his fingertips. The Chicago-based musician has been selected to perform in Northern Italy’s Trentino Music Festival per Mezzano Romantica. He beat out hundreds of other talented singers from all over the country for the spot and was selected for the productions of Giulio Cesare – Cunning Little Vixen- Le Nozze […]

The American Civil Liberties Union is defending a New Jersey student who was suspended for hanging a Confederate battle flag on his car in the school’s parking lot. Gregory Vied was suspended from Steinert High School after refusing to remove the flag. After a series of complaints, the school’s principal repeatedly asked Vied to take […]

Nearly six months after Lauryn Hill finished serving prison time for tax evasion, the IRS is back on the singer’s case. The Fugees star was recently hit with yet another batch of bills from the IRS. 

A New Jersey woman’s vehicle was vandalized and spray-painted with racial epithets, including the N-word earlier this week. Marcella Seachrist walked out of her home Monday morning to see the offensive language painted across her 1996 Jeep. The culprits also slashed the woman’s tires. 

  A group of black firefighters that sued New York City for discrimination has been awarded millions for the incidents. The ruling means that minority fire department applicants will be eligible to receive back pay totaling $98 million. 

An explosion that leveled two New York City apartment buildings has killed at least two people and injured 17 others. The NYPD says two females died in the East Harlem blast. 

Police in Texas are defending a drunk driving arrest of a man whose Breathalyzer and blood test showed zero evidence of intoxication. Larry Davis was arrested Jan. 13, 2013 by Austin police after running a stop sign. 

  For the third time, Venus Williams took home the WTA title at the Dubai Championships in an impressive 6-3, 6-0 victory over France’s Alize Cornet. The win is Williams’ 45th career WTA title. 

Hundreds of University of Missouri students, administrators and Columbia residents gathered along Faurot Field Saturday in support of former MU Football player Michael Sam on Saturday. Sam recently came out last week, and a group from Kansas was scheduled to protest the move.