Michael Jackson’s life showed us the journey from abused to abuser | Hadley Freeman

The maltreatment he suffered was devastating but not sexual. Did that help fans believe in his harmless, ‘lost boy’ persona?, says Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman

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Why 'In Living Color' Ended And Won't Return - Here’s Why

https://comedyhype.com/ - In Living Color's final episode happened just four years after it's launch. Here's why the show created by Keenen Ivory Wayans came...

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Zambia And Zimbabwe Offer Land To African Union For First SADC Multi-Billion Dollar Wakanda One Village Project - Africa.com

Zimbabwe and Zambia have offered 2,000 and 132 hectares of land respectively around the Victoria Falls area── which borders the two countries── for the construction of the Wakanda One Village.

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Apple just confirmed the stock market's biggest fear

Apple gave investors bad news about the global economy in a shocking announcement on Wednesday. It will do little to calm fears about where the global economy stands and how big of a negative impact trade is having.

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Master social media marketing with this extensive $20 training bundle

This social media marketing bundle walks you through the most important and time-tested strategies that are driving unprecedented amounts of revenue online.

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Jack Klugman dies at 90; star of TV's 'The Odd Couple,' 'Quincy'

Klugman, a three-time Emmy winner, portrayed the slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison opposite Tony Randall on the 'The Odd Couple' and later played a crime-solving medical examiner on 'Quincy.'

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Former Death Row Prisoner Moreese Bickham Dies at 98: He Served 37 Years for Killing Klansmen Cops

We spend the hour with Dave Isay, the founder of StoryCorps, the award-winning national oral history project. In a 1989 radio documentary, “Tossing Away the Keys,” he chronicled the case of Moreese Bickham, a former death row prisoner who recently died at the age of 98. In 1958, Bickham, an African American, was sentenced to death for shooting and killing two police officers in Mandeville, Louisiana, even though Bickham said the officers were Klansmen who had come to kill him and shot him on the front porch of his own home. Many other people in the community also said the officers worked with the Ku Klux Klan, which was a common practice in small Southern towns. Moreese Bickham served 37 years at Angola State Penitentiary, in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. He won seven stays of execution, but Louisiana’s governors repeatedly denied him clemency until, under enormous pressure, he was finally released in 1996. Days after he was released, he traveled to New York, where he was interviewed on WBAI’s “Wake-Up Call” by Amy Goodman, Bernard White and others. “Wake-Up Call” had closely followed Bickham’s case and helped give it national attention. We play an excerpt from the interview for Isay and discuss Bickham’s life and legacy.

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Trump Makes Surprise Visit to American Troops in Iraq

President Trump’s first visit to forces in a combat zone came after criticism that he had not made such a trip — and days after his defense secretary resigned.

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Who Are Luniz? Hip-Hop Group Behind 'Us' Trailer Song 'I Got 5 on It'

Hip-hop fans from the mid-1990s who caught the new trailer for Jordan Peele's upcoming horror flick "Us" on Christmas Day (Dec. 25) probably felt a wave of nostalgia wash over when they heard the Luniz classic "I Got 5 On It" playing in the opening sequence.

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The electric scooter wars of 2018

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2018

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Tariq Nasheed: Modern Day Buck Breaking

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Congolese Boy Who Traveled to L.A. to Remove Tumor Dies During Surgery, Foundation Says

An 8-year-old boy from the Democratic Republic of Congo died during a surgery to remove a facial tumor in Los Angeles, the group who sponsored him announced Saturday. The Dikembe Mutombo Foundation said Matadi Sela Petit suffered a rare reaction to anesthesia and died Friday night. The group, founded by retired NBA player Dikembe Mutombo, who is Congolese-American, said it sponsored the child along with other partners so that he could travel to L.A. and  undergo surgery.

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Mexican-American Woman Pushes Trump Agenda In Tijuana

Tijuana residents remain divided about the migrant caravan, hundreds of whom must now stay in Mexico while their asylum proceedings unfold in the U.S.

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Galt MacDermot, Legendary Composer Sampled by J Dilla, MF DOOM and Madlib, Dead at 89

The legendary "Hair" composer served as a longtime inspiration to hip-hop artists across generations.

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After $130M+ in funding, AR startup Blippar collapses

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Dollar stores planning for a permanent American underclass, selling more groceries than Whole Foods

While dollar stores sell no fresh vegetables, fruits or meat, they are quickly becoming one of the primary ways lower-income Americans eat.

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World's first crypto-based fund to be listed on the NSE - Business Today Kenya

World's first crypto-based fund to be listed on the NSE - Business Today Kenya

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Criminal justice bill passes Senate; House approval expected

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a sweeping criminal justice bill Tuesday that addresses concerns that the nation's war on drugs had led to the imprisonment of too many Americans for non-violent crimes without adequately preparing them for their return to society.

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'To Sir, With Love' author E.R. Braithwaite has died. He was 104

E.R. Braithwaite, whose years teaching in the slums of London's East End inspired "To Sir, With Love", has died at age 104.

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Physicists have discovered what makes neural networks so extraordinarily powerful

Nobody understands why deep neural networks are so good at solving complex problems. Now physicists say the secret is buried in the laws of physics.

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Fintech startup Plaid raises $250M at a $2.65B valuation

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How Did the Delivery Service Federal Express Become FedEx?

FedEx, previously known as Federal Express, is a major worldwide player in the package delivery market and a direct competitor to global leader UPS.

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Uncertainty affects economy on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Uncertainty over closures at the U.S.-Mexico Border south of San Diego has taken its toll on tourism to the southern side according to one business owner as Customs and Border Protection reinforces…

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Anyone can use NVIDIA's physics simulation engine

NVIDIA has made PhysX open source, letting anyone implement its hardware-accelerated physics.

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Lopez Obrador takes office as Mexican president, vowing to fight corruption

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador takes office as Mexico's president, vowing to do away with corruption and to transform Mexican society.

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