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Lupiita Nyong'o joins blacks in criticizing the Oscar

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Kenyan actress, Lupita Nyong'o, who won an Oscar in 2014 for Best Supporting Actress for saying a few lines in her very first movie (12 Years A Slave) is joining the few black actors who are criticizing the Academy this year for being 'so white'. Check out what she wrote:

Olubadan of Ibadan dies at age 101

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The Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade 1, has died. The exteem Yoruba monarch died yesterday evening after a brief illness. Reports said he suddenly lost consciousness. He was 101 years old. May his soul rest in peace...amen. Oba Odulana ascended the throne in 2007 as the 39th Olubadan of Ibadan land. He was the 17th Olubadan since the title was elevated from Baale Ibadan to the Olubadan in 1930.

3 year old girl trafficked for sex, duct taped in trash bag and covered in faeces

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Mesa police say a man has been arrested and accused of sex trafficking and child abuse after a 3-year-old girl was found in his apartment bound in duct tape. During a media briefing on Tuesday morning, Chief John Meza said the girl was the apparent victim of sex trafficking on behalf of the suspect, Fransisco Javier Rios-Covarrubias, 30. Police say the child was reported to police by a man who'd met Rios-Covarrubias online and arranged to have sex with him. The man claimed Rios-Covarrubias asked him if he wanted to have sex with the child. "This is one of those cases that just shocks the soul," Meza said. According to a police report, the man who contacted authorities told them he went to Rios-Covarrubias' apartment in the early morning hours Monday. The man said Rios-Covarrubias, who was dressed in a pink dress and a blond wig, performed oral sex on him before Rios-Covarrubias gave the man some methamphetamine, which he smoke...