Bring That Week Back: Nas Donates to Start-Up Helping Recent College Grads
Plus, man charged with exposing child to the AIDS virus.
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Nas Donates to Start-Up Helping Recent College Grads - Man charged with exposing child to the AIDS virus; Tiffany & Co. hit with racial discrimination lawsuit; plus more national news. — Natelege Whaley (@Natelege_)Nasir Jones is back at it again in his string of donations to the wider community. This time he has donated $100,000 to Koru, a nonprofit that will help smooth the transition for recent college graduates into the real world. The donated funds will go toward scholarships for students in financial need. (Photo: Mats Andersson/WENN.com)
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Man Charged With Intentionally Exposing Student to AIDS - Derrick Nesby, 37, of Louisiana, has allegedly intentionally exposed a student to the AIDS virus through sex. The 16-year-old victim was on the track team for which Nesby is the coach. He originally denied the accusations, but police have found enough evidence against him to make an arrest. Nesby is charged with intentional exposure of AIDS and felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile. (Photo: Courtesy of Terrebonne Parish Police Department)
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Tiffany & Co. Hit With Lawsuit - Michael McClure, an African-American manager at Tiffany & Company in Texas, has filed a lawsuit against the jeweler for its “systematic, nationwide pattern and practice of racial discrimination.” He said he was given a warning of termination, despite successful sales increases in his store locations. (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Tiffany & Co.)
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Bride Attached Her Month-Old Baby to Dress - Social media was in an uproar over a Tennessee bride, Shona Carter-Brooks, who attached her month-old baby to the train of her wedding dress to wear as she walked down the aisle. Responding to the frenzy, she wrote on her Facebook page, “We do what we want when we want long as Jesus on our side everything worked out fine and gone continue to be fine.” (Photo: Shona Carter-Brooks via Facebook)
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NY Teen Commits Suicide After She Was Caught Cheating on Test - Omotayo Adeoye, 17, allegedly drowned herself in the Hudson River after she was caught cheating on an exam. The girl was using her cellphone to look at her answers during her German test and was scolded by her teacher. Adeoye wrote on the back of her exam, “I just want to go away forever on the bottom of the river,” according to the New York Post. (Photo: PA Photos /Landov)
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Georgia Police Officer Shot Dead by Drunkard at Waffle House - Police officer Kevin Jordan, 43, was fatally shot by Michael D. Bowman, 30, early Saturday morning at a Waffle House in Georgia. Jordan approached Bowman and two other suspects and asked them to leave the restaurant because they were drunk. They instead disobeyed and called Jordan racial slurs. Jordan was shot as he was trying to arrest Chantell Mixon, 28. (Photo: Griffin Police Department)
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Bi-racial Filmmaker Confronts KKK Documentary - Mo Asumang, the daughter of a Black Ghanaian father and a white German mother, takes on racism in her documentary by confronting members of the American Ku Klux Klan and the German neo-Nazis. "I think it totally confuses them because I'm not like they want me to be,” Asumang said in an interview with BBC News. (Photo: BBC NEWS)
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Male Student Crowned Prom Queen at High School - Nasir Fleming, a gay teen, was voted as prom queen at Danbury High School in Connecticut. Fleming isn’t transgender, but wanted the crowning to send a message against trans-phobia in society. “As gay people, more or less, are becoming accepted in society, transgendered people are still discriminated against severely,” wrote Fleming on YouTube. (Photo: Nasir Fleming via YouTube.com)