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Remember the adorable seven-year-old student from Deborah Brown Community School in Tulsa, Oklahoma who was forced to change schools because of her “distracting” dreds? Well Tiana Parker just may be sparking the change that her Oklahoma school needs. The state legislature is looking into changing the policy that bans “dredlocks, afros, mohawks and other faddish […]
So listen, you guys know sometimes how things can be right in your face and you don’t know about it, right? I was trying to…
Update: 9/10/13- 2:00 The 911 call Shellie Zimmerman placed to the cops was released, portraying a panicked and concerned Shellie for her life and family’s. “He’s going to shoot us,” she frantically described to the dispatcher. Shellie began crying on the phone and the dispatcher comforted her until police arrived. 7:01pm: George Zimmerman will not […]
While the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” last week, few people knew that the family of the late civil rights leader were in a legal dispute over his estate. According to reports, Dr.King’s sons Dexter King and Martin Luther King III recently filed a lawsuit […]
Feminist and human rights activist Aminata Touré is making history in Senegal! According to reports, the 51-year-old former justice minister was named Prime Minister last Sunday, only the second woman in the country’s history. (Mame Madior Boye served between 2001 and 2002) Known as Senegal’s Iron Lady, Touré named her cabinet, which includes four other […]
We are in the midst of witnessing one of the most disastrous humanitarian issues of our time and most of us don’t even know it. While the world was searching for memes of Miley Cyrus’ dancing bones on the MTV VMAs, Syria has been in the middle of a civil war and refugee crisis that […]
Just when you thought there weren’t enough insulting sites in the world, there’s a new one! GhettoTracker.com was designed to help you avoid the “ghetto” parts of town, where your pristine White family (pictured above) can feel safe while wandering around various towns. Clutching your bag will be no more when you vacation in an […]
A 7-year-old girl was forced to change schools this week after her elementary school sent her home for having the wrong hairstyle. According to KOKI, Tiana Parker was pulled out of classes at Deborah Brown Community School in Tulsa, Oklahoma for having dreadlocks. Officials from the charter school declined to speak on the matter but […]
Ariel Castro, the 53-year-old man who kidnapped three young women, Amanda Berry (27), Gina Dejesus (23) and Michelle Knight (32) was found dead in his prison cell in the Correction Reception Center in Orient, Ohio. His death is being reported as a hanging suicide. Immediately, my heart fell. My emotions were a mix of, “well damn,” […]
