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Detroit 11-Year-Old Takes Bullet to Save 5-Year-Old Friend - A 4-year-old girl joins a genius society, Don Lemon under fire for controversial comments about African-Americans, plus more headlines. — LaToya Bowlah and Natelege Whaley After a dispute on his neighbor’s porch, Dovonta Andrews made a split second life-saving move to save his friend’s life. A man began shooting and Andrews pushed his 5-year-old friend out of the way, taking a bullet through his arm. (Photo: Courtesy of WDIV Detroit)

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Cheryl Boone Isaacs Is First Black President of Academy - Cheryl Boone Isaacs has become the first African-American president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Isaacs was elected to the position Tuesday evening, according to the Associated Press. (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

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4-Year-Old Girl Joins Genius Society - Anala Beevers is a 4-year-old genius who was invited to join MENSA, an international organization for geniuses. At four months old, Anala learned the alphabet, at 18 months mastered counting in Spanish and today, she knows the location and capital of every state in the U.S. (Photo: Courtesy of WGNO-ABC)

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Don Lemon Under Fire for Controversial Comments About African-Americans - On Saturday, CNN anchor Don Lemon introduced his five “solutions” to fix the African-American community. This included not having children out of wedlock, finishing school, stop sagging pants, clean up one’s neighborhood and stop using the N-word. “Stop it with the ‘it’s your approach’ bull. Viewers aren’t children. I don’t have to coddle them. As I said, tough love,” he wrote on Twitter in response to the criticism. (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Black Men Use White Face Masks to Rob Check-Cashing Business - Three Black men are currently on trial for robbing  a Queens, New York, check cashing business in February 2012. The transforming trio used life-like masks of white men’s faces during the heist as they dressed up as NYPD officers wearing a uniform and badges. The robbers bought the disguises for $2,000 from a Hollywood special-effects firm. (Photos: NYPD; Courtesy of Compositeeffects.com)

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Tennessee Lawmaker Dies - Senior lawmaker Lois DeBerry, 68, who served as a Tennessee representative, died on Sunday after almost five years of battling pancreatic cancer. Initially elected in 1972, DeBerry was the longest-serving member of the state House of Representatives and is the second African-American woman to serve in Tennessee’s General Assembly. (Photo: AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

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Michael Eric Dyson Condemns Tim Allen's N-Word Rant - Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson criticized actor Tim Allen for saying that a white comic not being able to use the n-word is a step back. On MSNBC, Dyson said Allen was attempting "to re-assume the appropriate privilege of whiteness, which is to dictate the terms of the debate." He continued, “Here’s a general rule of thumb to follow when using the n-word for white people. Never.” (Photo: Kris Connor/Getty Images)

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10-Year-Old Girl Catches Baby Dropped From Burning Apartment - Zna Gresham, 10, caught a one-month-old baby that was dropped from the window of a second-floor apartment in Decatur, Georgia. The apartment was on fire and the mother dropped her three children out of the window to save them, according to the DeKalb County Fire Battalion Chief Christopher Morrison. (Photo: Courtesy of WSB-TV)

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Philadelphia Will Host the 2015 NAACP Convention - The city of brotherly love has been chosen to host the 2015 NAACP Convention. Philadelphia beat out St. Louis and Milwaukee in the competitive bid. The event will be held at the Philadelphia Convention Center. (Photo: Tim Boyles/Getty Images)

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Florida Man Shot in Front of His Home - Roy Middleton, a 60-year-old African-American man in Warrington, Florida, is recovering after being shot by police in front of his house last Saturday. Middleton was reaching inside of his mother’s parked car, when police opened fire on him. They reportedly thought he had stolen the vehicle. (Photo: Courtesy of the Pensacola News Journal)

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Victims of Forced Sterilization to Receive $10 Million - North Carolina lawmakers passed a budget Wednesday that included $10 million to compensate victims who were forced to be sterilized from 1929 to 1974. The state conducted the eugenics with belief that poverty, promiscuity and alcoholism were inherited traits, and that they could improve the gene pool through sterilization. (Photo: AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds, file)

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Suspect Confesses to Killing Missing Louisiana Baby - Matthew Flugence, 20, was arrested for killing 6-year-old Ahlittia North on Saturday morning. When he was apprehended by Westwego police, he was carrying a knife, which he later admitted was the murder weapon. (Photo: Courtesy of Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Department)