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By DNAinfo Staff | July 26, 2016 2:24pm | Updated on July 26, 2016 3:04pm

 First lady Michelle Obama speaks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
First lady Michelle Obama speaks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
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Watch Michelle Obama’s Chills-Inducing Speech from the DNC

First lady Michelle Obama “stole the show” with a powerful, sometimes emotional speech at the Democratic National Convention Monday night.

“Don’t let anyone tell you that the country isn’t great,” she said. “We cannot afford to be tired or frustrated or cynical.” [Washington Post]

Sarah Silverman Tells Sanders Supporters at DNC They Are ‘Ridiculous’

Comedian Sarah Silverman, who once was one of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ most vocal supporters, also took the stage Monday night at the DNC to ask for party unity. She also told the crowd that she was planning to vote for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But when die-hard Sanders supporters kept chanting “Bernie,” Silverman said: “Can I just say: To the ‘Bernie or Bust’ people, you’re being ridiculous.” [New York Times & Rolling Stone]

Men Pledging Allegiance to ISIS Attack French Church, Kill Priest

France was hit again with another tragedy on Tuesday when two men, who said they were from the Islamic State, took four hostages and slit the throat of a priest in a northern France church. One of the attackers was known to police and tried to enter Syria last year, according to the BBC. [BBC]

Michael Jordan Speaks Up About the Shootings of African-Americans and Police Officers

Basketball great Michael Jordan has released a statement saying he can “no longer stay silent” about the killings of African-Americans by law enforcement officials and about the targeted killings of police officers. He has pledged to donate $1 million each to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and to the Institute for Community-Police Relations and said he spoke out “in the hope that we can come together as Americans, and through peaceful dialogue and education, achieve constructive change.” [The Undefeated]

How Fox News Fired and Silenced a Female Reporter Who Alleged Sexual Harassment

After Roger Aisles had been ousted from Fox News amid allegations of sexual harassment, Aisles’ lawyer reached out to former reporter Rudi Bakhtiar in an attempt to intimidate her for speaking out about her experience of harassment. Bakhtiar has nonetheless shared her experience of being fired after refusing the sexual advances of the station’s former Washington bureau chief. [New York Magazine]

Here are the Worst Leaked DNC Emails So Far, that Lead to Chairwoman’s Resignation

Thousands of leaked emails reveal the Democratic National Committee’s efforts to undermine Sanders’ campaign. A Wikileaks trove of 20,000 emails show efforts of the supposedly neutral DNC slanted against Sanders, including jabs at his Jewish heritage or atheism. Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned Monday as the party's convention got underway. The Washington Post rounded up some of the most troublesome emails thus far. [Washington Post]

What the Hacked DNC Emails Reveal About the Party

If there’s one thing that voters can take away from the Democratic National Committee emails released Friday it's that money talks and interns walk. From putting special convention packages for campaigners that contributed $200K to having interns organize a fake protest for TV coverage, the emails demonstrate a party pulling out all the stops to win in November — and as the New York Times put it “capture a world where seating charts are arranged with dollar totals in mind.”

More details have also emerged about officials inside the Trump campaign allegedly having connections to Russians. One DNC staffer, who was working on opposition research about Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, got her email apparently broken into. [Wikileaks}

A Look Inside Brooklyn’s Woodward Funeral Home

Sisters Vicki Thompson-Simmons and Lynda Thompson-Lindsay, manage the Lawrence H. Woodward Funeral Home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, finding ways to commemorate community members — many of whom have died in violent ways.

“Our society has become immune to death in the black community,” Ms. Thompson-Simmons told the New York Times. “We want people to understand we have history and our lives matter.” [New York Times]

Uber’s Opposition Research Against a Conservationist Crossed a Line, Judge Rules

Uber hired a research firm Ergo to look into the background of a Yale professor suing Uber for price fixing, and the investigator’s methods were unethical, a judge has ruled. Among other improprieties, the lead researcher misrepresented his motives while preparing a report to “highlight all derogatories” in the professor’s past. [New York Times]

The Case Against the Media (By: The Media)

New York Mag asks a wide swath of journalists to weigh in: why do people mistrust the media — which certainly is not one monolithic thing, but many in the public see it that way — and how can “the media” do better? The answer, as you might imagine, is complicated. [New York Magazine]

Brooklyn > For Sale > Dirty Laundry

What do you do when your idiotic ex-boyfriend sends you a fancy Vitamix blender, days after he dumps you (on the week of your birthday)? You get that trash out of your house — for cash — and write a delicious public goodbye note to him, for all the world to see. Enjoy some thoroughly satisfying Craigslist dirty laundry in this Ode to the Vitamix Ex. [Craigslist]

This column was compiled by DNAinfo reporters Camille Bautista, Noah Hurowitz, Gwynne Hogan, Rachel Holliday Smith, Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, Jeanmarie Evelly, Irene Plagianos, Eddie Small, Carolina Pichardo, Allegra Hobbs, Shaye Weaver and Danielle Tcholakian.

 

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