Bring That Week Back: May 23

Eight people shot after NBA playoff game, plus more.

May 21, 2012 - Following the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 106-90 playoff win over the Los Angeles Lakers, eight people were shot, one critically as fans poured out from the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City. Police haven’t yet made any arrests, but did detain two people for questioning.   (Photo: AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Sarah Phipps)

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Eight People Shot Following NBA Playoff Game - Eight people shot following NBA playoff game, a report finds half of Black defendants are wrongly convicted of crimes, NAACP backs marriage equality, plus more. —Britt Middleton Following the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 106-90 playoff win over the Los Angeles Lakers, eight people were shot, one critically injured, as fans poured out from the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City. Police have detained two people for questioning. The Thunder now advances to the Western Conference finals.(Photo: AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Sarah Phipps)

Orlando Magic Coach and GM Fired - The Orlando Magic parted ways with head coach Stan Van Gundy and general manager Otis Smith on Monday, again sparking rumors that contention between Van Gundy and Magic center Dwight Howard had reached a breaking point. In April, Van Gundy said team officials told him that Howard had asked management to fire Van Gundy as a condition of the basketball player signing a long-term contract beyond 2013. Howard has denied those claims.(Photo: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

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Orlando Magic Coach and GM Fired - The Orlando Magic parted ways with head coach Stan Van Gundy and general manager Otis Smith on Monday, again sparking rumors that contention between Van Gundy and Magic center Dwight Howard had reached a breaking point. In April, Van Gundy said team officials told him that Howard had asked management to fire Van Gundy as a condition of the basketball player signing a long-term contract beyond 2013. Howard has denied those claims.(Photo: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

Cory Booker - "It's nauseating to the American public," said Newark Mayor Cory Booker in May on NBC News' Meet the Press, criticizing the Obama campaign for attacking Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital.  (Photo: MSNBC)

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Cory Booker Bashed for Obama Comments - In an interview on Sunday’s Meet the Press, Newark Mayor Cory Booker said he’s “very uncomfortable” with the ad campaign that President Obama’s re-election team launched last week attacking the private equity firm Republican rival Mitt Romney once led, Bain Capital. Booker, who has served as an Obama campaign surrogate spokesman, said he has been used by Republicans as propaganda to advance the GOP agenda. He took to Twitter and recorded a four-minute video in an effort to quell doubts about his support for Obama. (Photo: Courtesy MSNBC)

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Oprah Winfrey Gives Road Advice to Spelman Graduates  - Graduates of Spelman College were treated to a heart-to-heart from the one-and-only Oprah Winfrey on Sunday. The guest speaker delivered the commencement address, telling the graduates they "must have some vision for your life. Even if you don't know the plan, you have to have a direction in which you choose to go." (Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

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Report Finds More Than Half of Falsely Convicted Prisoners Are Black - Confirming years of criticism from the African-American community that Blacks are disproportionately imprisoned and wrongly convicted, groundbreaking data compiled by the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law reported that half the 873 exonerated defendants in their study were African-American, and nine out of 10 were men. Researchers estimated the defendants spent more than 11 years each in prison for crimes they did not commit.  (Photo: LUCY NICHOLSON/Landov)

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What is Proposition 8? - California voters approved Proposition 8 in 2008. The ballot referendum redefined marriage as between a man and a woman, therefore overturning a previous ruling by California's Supreme Court allowing same-sex unions to be recognized in the state.  (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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NAACP Backs Marriage Equality - Following President Obama’s recent endorsement of same-sex marriage last week, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) officially expressed its support, passing a resolution on Saturday endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right. “The NAACP's support for marriage equality is deeply rooted in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and equal protection of all people,” NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous told the Associated Press. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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George Zimmerman Accused of Bullying, Hate Speech - A former co-worker of George Zimmerman claims Zimmerman targeted him regularly because of his Middle Eastern heritage, imitating the voice of a fictitious character called “Achmed the terrorist” to address him and making jokes about the man involving “bombings,” among other ethnically charged comments. The man’s statements were part of an extensive evidence report released last week in the second degree murder case of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who Zimmerman fatally shot in February.(Photo: Gary Green/The Orlando Sentinel-Pool/Getty Images)

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Trayvon Martin’s Autopsy Shows THC in His System - The evidence report included Trayvon Martin’s autopsy report, which confirmed traces of the drug THC — the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana — in his blood and urine the night he was killed. George Zimmerman claims he shot the unarmed teen in self-defense.   (Photo: UPI/HO/Landov)

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Donna Summer Passes Away at 63 - Disco icon Donna Summer lost her fight with lung cancer on Thursday. The singer, who was 63, was best known for her string of hits in the 1970s, including “Last Dance” and “Bad Girls.” (Photo: AP Photo/John McConnico, File)

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Jay-Z Gives Obama Props - In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Jay-Z said President Obama deserved more credit for the country’s improving economy. “Reversing the direction of the [economic] decline was a full-time job in itself, so I think it’s stabilizing a bit now as some of the numbers show,” he said. The star also pledged his support of same-sex marriage (click here to see other stars who support marriage equality).(Photo: Courtesy CNN)