::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

buzzz worthy. . . By Mona Austin pla·gia·rism ˈplājəˌrizəm/ noun the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. Parts of Melania Trump's well rehearsed RNC speech sounded too familiar Monday  night. In fact, it sounded eerily similar to the woman whose shoes she would like to fill.  With a little research many viewers soon discovered why.  As journalist Jarrett Hill pointed out on Twitter, passages of the speech were lifted from First Lady Michelle Obama's 2008 DNC speech. Like Hill, I noticed the copycatting right away.  In 2008 I stood on the DNC convention floor in Denver feet away from the then prospective first lady as she made a case for her husband to become the POTUS, albeit the first Black president in America.  Such a historic speech remained in my memory bank.  Realizing I had heard a few of the lines before, right after the delivery of the speech where over 30 million people tuned in I t...