Bring That Week Back: Students Protest Over Racially Insensitive Tweet

Don Lemon apologizes for controversial interview, plus more.

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Students Protest Assistant Principal's Racially Insensitive Tweet - Don Lemon apologizes for controversial interview with alleged Bill Cosby rape victim, plus more national news. —Natelege Whaley (@Natelege) A group of students at the Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk, Virginia, walked out of class Monday because their assistant principal tweeted something they found to be racially insensitive. Assistant Principal Amy Strickland re-tweeted a photo of Black male students at a prom with white female students as their dates that also read, “Every white girl’s father’s worst nightmare.” (Photo: WAVY TV)

Don Lemon Apologizes for Interview With Alleged Rape Victim  - Amid several rape allegations against Bill Cosby, CNN's Don Lemon interviewed one of Cosby's alleged rape victims, Joan Tarshis. He told her that she could have used her teeth as "a weapon" when she was forced to do oral sex on Cosby. Tarshis's responses seemed to be that of shame: "Um. I was kind of stoned at the time, and quite honestly, that didn't even enter my mind. Now I wish it would have," she said. Lemon later apologized, "If my question to her struck anyone as insensitive, I am sorry as that...was not my intention."   (Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images)

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Don Lemon Apologizes for Interview With Alleged Rape Victim  - Amid several rape allegations against Bill Cosby, CNN's Don Lemon interviewed one of Cosby's alleged rape victims, Joan Tarshis. He told her that she could have used her teeth as "a weapon" when she was forced to do oral sex on Cosby. Tarshis's responses seemed to be that of shame: "Um. I was kind of stoned at the time, and quite honestly, that didn't even enter my mind. Now I wish it would have," she said. Lemon later apologized, "If my question to her struck anyone as insensitive, I am sorry as that...was not my intention." (Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images)

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Social Media Blasts Teens Dressed in Blackface at Game - Another case of Blackface has surfaced on social media. This time six white students from the Sullivan High School in Missouri painted their faces black during a game last week. Apparently the school’s principal, Jennifer Schmidt, saw the students' faces before they began playing their powder-puff football match but denies there being racist intentions behind it. “I knew they didn’t mean anything by it, but, in hindsight, I should have made them wash it off and move on,” Schmidt told the St. Louis Dispatch. (Photo: Facebook) 

Girl’s Body Parts Will Not Be Donated - A father’s wish to not have his brain dead 2-year-old daughter’s body parts donated was honored by a Brooklyn, New York, Family Court on Tuesday, the New York Times reports. Thaiya Spruill-Smith’s father, Terrell Smith, disagreed with the girl’s mother, Teoka Spruill, on the donation. The toddler was assaulted by her stepfather David Adams, who shook her. Adams is being charged with assault and he may later be charged with murder.   (Photo: Thaiya Spruill-Smith Family)

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Girl’s Body Parts Will Not Be Donated - A father’s wish to not have his brain dead 2-year-old daughter’s body parts donated was honored by a Brooklyn, New York, Family Court on Tuesday, the New York Times reports. Thaiya Spruill-Smith’s father, Terrell Smith, disagreed with the girl’s mother, Teoka Spruill, on the donation. The toddler was assaulted by her stepfather David Adams, who shook her. Adams is being charged with assault and he may later be charged with murder. (Photo: Thaiya Spruill-Smith Family)

Police Kill Mentally Ill Ohio Woman - In a tragic scene, Tanesha Anderson, 37, a woman who had bi-polar disorder and schizophrenia, died at the hands of police in Cleveland, who slammed her to the ground in front of her family’s home. Her family says the cops handcuffed her and she resisted as they attempted to place her in the vehicle. "They killed my sister," Joell Anderson, her brother, told Cleveland.com. "I watched it."   (Photo: Tanesha Anderson Family)

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Police Kill Mentally Ill Ohio Woman - In a tragic scene, Tanesha Anderson, 37, a woman who had bi-polar disorder and schizophrenia, died at the hands of police in Cleveland, who slammed her to the ground in front of her family’s home. Her family says the cops handcuffed her and she resisted as they attempted to place her in the vehicle. "They killed my sister," Joell Anderson, her brother, told Cleveland.com. "I watched it." (Photo: Tanesha Anderson Family)

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"Bae" Is Runner Up for Word of the Year - “Bae,” the slang term for your “significant other” became so popular this year that it was considered for Oxford Dictionary’s annual Word of the Year superlative. “Vape,” the process of inhaling and exhaling smoke from an electronic cigarette, took the top spot instead.    (Photo: Rob Lewine/Getty Images)

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"Bae" Is Runner Up for Word of the Year - “Bae,” the slang term for your “significant other” became so popular this year that it was considered for Oxford Dictionary’s annual Word of the Year superlative. “Vape,” the process of inhaling and exhaling smoke from an electronic cigarette, took the top spot instead.  (Photo: Rob Lewine/Getty Images)

Investigation Discovery Reenacts Ruby McCollum Story - In a forthcoming episode of A Crime to Remember, the story of Ruby McCollum, an African-American woman who shot and killed a white doctor in Florida in 1952, is told. McCollum was raped and drugged by Dr. Leroy Adams during a time in the Jim Crow south when “paramour laws” allowed white men to have sexual dominance over Black women, married or not.     (Photo: Discovery Communications)

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Investigation Discovery Reenacts Ruby McCollum Story - In a forthcoming episode of A Crime to Remember, the story of Ruby McCollum, an African-American woman who shot and killed a white doctor in Florida in 1952, is told. McCollum was raped and drugged by Dr. Leroy Adams during a time in the Jim Crow south when “paramour laws” allowed white men to have sexual dominance over Black women, married or not.   (Photo: Discovery Communications)

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Tree Planted on Capitol Hill in Memory of Emmett Till - The lynching of Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955 will always be a tragic reminder of the racism in America during the Jim Crow Era. To honor the memory of the 14-year-old, Mississippi senators and Attorney General Eric Holder planted a sycamore tree on the north side of the capitol.    (Photo: Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times /Landov)

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Kevin Washington Becomes First Black CEO of National YMCA - Kevin Washington has made history as the first African-American CEO of the YMCA’s national office. He will take his post in February. He previously served as the first Black chief of the Greater Boston YMCA. “I tell everyone the YMCA found me at the age of 10 at the William S. Pierce elementary school,” the Philadelphia native told the Globe. “The Y can be a bridge from adolescence to adulthood. It was for me.”   (Photo: Courtesy of YMCA of Greater Boston)

$45 Million Awarded to Woman Trapped in Dungeon - In a gut-wrenching story, Tamara Breeden, a Philadelphia woman, who was locked in a dungeon for 10 years, beaten, starved and forced to drink urine, has won a $45 million lawsuit. Linda Ann Weston, her kidnapper, along with Gregory Thomas and Eddie Wright, held Breeden and three other mentally disabled victims in the basement of an apartment while collecting their government checks.    (Photo: Channel 6 News ABC)

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$45 Million Awarded to Woman Trapped in Dungeon - In a gut-wrenching story, Tamara Breeden, a Philadelphia woman, who was locked in a dungeon for 10 years, beaten, starved and forced to drink urine, has won a $45 million lawsuit. Linda Ann Weston, her kidnapper, along with Gregory Thomas and Eddie Wright, held Breeden and three other mentally disabled victims in the basement of an apartment while collecting their government checks.  (Photo: Channel 6 News ABC)