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https://twitter.com/brownblaze/status/599603567880634369 Today marks five years since seven year-old, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was shot by police. To refresh your memory, Aiyana, whose home was on the east side of Detroit, Michigan was shot in a raid gone wrong by the Detroit Police. Notably, she was shot while she was asleep. Specifically, Officer Joseph Weekly was charged with involuntary manslaughter […]
I'm not sure which is worse—dying as a victim of police brutality, or living through police brutality only to watch other black people die at the hands of the police in the black lives matter movement.
WNBA stars Brittney Griner and Glory Johnson may be trying to put the past behind them after getting married only weeks after they were both arrested for a domestic violence dispute. But the WNBA is not going to let them go unpunished for their actions. The WNBA President Laurel Richie announced that the two players will receive a […]
An internal investigation has found that more than a dozen Miami Beach officers have sent hundreds of racist and pornographic emails. In all, 16 cops were tagged for sending the offensive messages, and Police Chief Daniel Oates told reporters that two of them were high-ranking officers in the MBPD. According to the Associated Press, one […]
tea consent from Blue Seat Studios on Vimeo. There’s a new campaign that’s explaining all the nuances of consent in less than three minutes…using stick figures. We’re taught early on that we all need to keep our hands to ourselves. Sadly many people forget that important lesson as they When you think about, the whole […]
Andrea Irwin, the mother of recently unarmed slain teenager Tony Robinson, announced on CNN that she plans to sue the Madison, Wisconsin police department. Tony Robinson, who is bi-racial, was shot and killed by Officer Matt Kenny inside an apartment on March 6, 2015. According to the police, Kenny was allegedly responding to calls that […]
Rude advisors at Kennesaw . Smh pic.twitter.com/ugcX4gnIsp — KB (@IamKB_) May 14, 2015 Video showing a Kennesaw State University employee telling a Black student he…
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A young woman from Chicago has conquered the challenge of earning a master’s degree, and now she’s going for her doctorate. You might want to re-evaluate some of your life choices after hearing about 16-year-old Thessalonika Arzu-Embry. MUST READ: BEAUTIFUL NEWS: This Man Went From Homeless On Skid Row To College Grad [VIDEO] While most […]
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The Georgia principal who chastised “all the Black people” after a handful of individuals prematurely left a graduation ceremony has been terminated, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. After her…
Racial oppression (particularly suffered by blacks) will not come to an end until we erase the stigmas of pathological deviance that is constantly being attributed to black bodies.
