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Philadelphia Issues Apology to Jackie Robinson for Racism
The baseball player faced racial slurs when he played the Phillies in 1947
Published on April 1, 2016 at 03:17AM
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Friday, April 1, 2016
Mississippi Same-Sex Adoption Ban Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Mississippi on Thursday afternoon halted enforcement of the state's ban on same-sex couples adopting children.
Citing the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 decision ending bans on same-sex couples' marriages, U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III granted a preliminary injunction against the state's Department of Human Services in a case filed this past August.
Of the Supreme Court's decision, Jordan wrote, "[T]he majority opinion foreclosed litigation over laws interfering with the right to marry and 'rights and responsibilities intertwined with marriage.'"
He concluded on Thursday: "The majority of the United States Supreme Court dictates the law of the land, and lower courts are bound to follow it. In this case, that means that [the adoption ban] violates the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution."
The ruling comes less than 24 hours after the state's Senate passed a far-reaching religious freedom bill that critics call one of the worst such bills in the country for LGBT people.
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Mike Huckabee Defends Corey Lewandowski In Tense Exchange On Radio
“You know what, governor, I know, but you can’t just put your hands on people,” radio host Brian Kilmeade told Huckabee.
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In a tense exchange on Kilmeade and Friends radio program Thursday,
former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee defended Donald Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who is charged with a misdemeanor for yanking a reporter's arm and pulling her backwards at a Donald Trump event earlier this month.
Host Brian Kilmeade, noting that Lewandowski was arrested, was interrupted by Huckabee, who said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, he was not arrested."
"That has been said, he was not arrested. He was charged and he walked himself in. There was no arrest, no perp walk, no handcuffs, no mugshot," he continued. "I mean, it's been presented as if he did some violent act. I've watched that video as probably you have almost as much as I've watched the Zapruder film, and I've watched it frame by frame to see, ok when did he grab her. I've been in so many of those identical type situations where you're walking through the room and whether it's the press gaggle or in any campaign event and there are people bumping into you and touching you and people grabbing you and swirling you around to take a selfie..."
Kilmeade interjected, saying, ""You know what, governor, I know, but you can't just put your hands on people. I don't think it's that big of a deal, but the woman's bruised, and as people have brought up to me, if you got called to a domestic dispute and the woman says my husband grabbed me look at these bruises they're bringing the husband in."
"I get that, here's the thing," Huckabee said, "when you watch the video, do you see her twirling around, do you see her reacting, lifting her arm in anyway reacting, indicating in any way that she—
Kilmeade interrupted, saying, "Well, I hear here voice turn around and go 'who was that, was that Corey?' And the Washington Post reporter said 'yeah.' So bottom line is I'm gonna list it as a controversial situation, we can agree on that."
"Ok," said Huckabee.
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Thursday, March 31, 2016
Sports: The NCAA Final Four, Ranked by Academics
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The NCAA Final Four, Ranked by Academics
If the classroom counted on the scoreboard, these teams would be on top
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Apple updates Siri's response to 'I was raped'
Apple has updated Siri's response to statements such as "I was raped" after research found the digital assistant's responses were "insufficient."
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Ted Cruz: Donald Trump Is An "Angry, Yelling, Cursing, Vulgar Voice"
“They’re angry, and when you’re angry, Donald is an angry, yelling, cursing, vulgar voice and that feels like vessel for that anger.”
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Ted Cruz says he understands why some voters who are angry support Donald Trump.
"There's a lot of folks, I understand why they're supporting Donald Trump," Cruz said on AM970 The Answer on Wednesday. "They're angry, and when you're angry, Donald is an angry, yelling, cursing, vulgar voice and that feels like vessel for that anger. But if you're frustrated, if you're angry at the corruption of Washington, the answer is not to support a candidate like Donald Trump who has been enmeshed in the corruption of Washington for 40 years."
Cruz said Trump had supported liberal politicians for 40 years, along with establishment Republicans.
"Donald Trump has been funding it all," said Cruz, saying Trump funded senators who backed Obamacare and immigration legislation in 2013.
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Trump On Anna Nicole Smith After Her Death: She Was Great Until She Opened Her Mouth
“Now, when she opened her mouth, it was different. Let’s face it.”
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Days after the sudden death of model and reality television star Anna Nicole Smith in February 2007, Donald Trump shared his thoughts about her in an appearance on the Howard Stern Show.
Trump's assessment of Smith: She was beautiful until she opened her mouth.
"When she came to New York, I saw Anna Nicole Smith the first day or week that she was in New York," Trump said. "She was six feet tall, she had the best body, she had the best face. She had the best hair I've ever seen. Hair is my thing. I'm really into hair, ok? And she had the most beautiful — she had the best hair, but she had the best face and the best body. You said the best face, she had the best body."
"Now, when she opened her mouth, it was different," said Trump bluntly. "Let's face it."
"It ruined it," interjected Stern.
"When she opened her mouth, because I said to her, 'what did you do?' She said, 'I worked at Kentucky Fried Chicken.'"
Trump said he believed Smith underwent surgery to lose weight, adding that she had "definite problems."
Trump often made degrading comments about famous women when he appeared on Stern's show, several of them appearing this month in an attack ad by an anti-Trump super PAC. He has given various explanations for his crude comments, including that they were part of "show business" and that he was just joking.
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Rosario Dawson, Writer Michelle Alexander To Headline Bernie Town Hall In Harlem
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WASHINGTON — Actress Rosario Dawson and Michelle Alexander will participate in a town hall style moderated discussion Friday in Harlem, a Bernie Sanders campaign spokesperson tells BuzzFeed News.
Dawson and Alexander will be joined by actress Tessa Thompson and criminal justice activist Donna Hylton for a discussion that will tackle a cross-section of topics, with a special emphasis on criminal justice, education, pay equity and health care. The frame of the discussion is around the important role women of color have and will play in this election, the spokesperson said.
The invite-only event, pairing prominent Sanders surrogates with activists and intellectuals is designed to help the Sanders campaign build relationships with women of color in advance of New York's Democratic primary on April 19.
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Clinton leads Sanders 54% to 42% in New York, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday. The Sanders camp has called for a debate in New York, but the two sides have yet to agree. Clinton chief strategist Joel Benenson told reporters on a call organized by the campaign said Sanders "may make it competitive" in New York, but stressed Sanders has to win by larger margins to beat Clinton — and that his time is almost up.
The Sanders campaign hopes their marquee names can help them close the gap.
Dawson, a native New Yorker and co-founder of Voto Latino co-founder, drew criticism recently for challenging civil rights icon Delores Huerta, who wrote in a Medium post that Sanders has only now "shown up on the scene" in the immigration debate.
"Hillary Clinton has realistic plans to pass comprehensive immigration reform and go farther than even President Obama has gone," Huerta wrote. "I want to hear — and I think Latino voters deserve to hear — specifically how he plans to get his vast-and-various plans through to make the progress that immigrant families so urgently need. Because if one thing’s for sure, it’s that our communities can’t wait for empty promises that can’t be kept."
"Hillary Clinton’s track record," Dawson shot back on the Huffington Post, "goes directly against what you and every other activist before and after you has fought for."
"Those are principles that Hillary did not uphold when taking away American citizens’ freedom by voting for the Patriot Act, twice; by not treating all men as equal when going against same-sex marriage until 2013; and when she sold out her own citizens by taking money from lobbyists and promoting the rise of the private prison complex."
Alexander, a law professor at the Ohio State University and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, is not a surrogate for Sanders, but has injected her pointed criticism into the 2016 debate.
Most notably, she wrote a scathing piece in The Nation examining the Clinton's staying power with black voters, arguing it is undeserved.
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