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In an ironic twist of events, the Pound Cake speech in which Bill Cosby famously (or, perhaps, infamously) criticized the black family and black neighborhood for what he deemed unsavory behavior was used to open the comedian to public scrutiny surrounding sexual assault allegations against him.

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hree good Samaritans saved a Missouri teenager from a would-be rapist when they yanked the nearly naked man off of her. Springfield police arrived at the scene and found the do-gooders pinning 22-year-old Christopher Muller — who was wearing nothing but his boxers — to the ground. He was arrested on attempted rape charges, the News-Leader reported. The three unidentified friends told police they were parking their car near a hiking trail Thursday night when they heard the girl’s screams. Using a cellphone flashlight to guide the way, the three hiked through the trail and followed the panicked cries. Eventually,...

Though long a symbol of responsible parenthood — model TV dad, doctor of education, proud supporter of Temple University — Bill Cosby etched his legacy in stone with a speech in 2004 that took black parents to task. It became famous as the “Pound Cake” speech for this passage: “Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake! Then we all run out and are outraged: ‘The cops shouldn’t have shot him.’ What the hell was he doing...