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In today’s current backwards climate, standing up for what’s right and taking a stand against unethical treatment can make you unable to get a job. That’s exactly the case for Erik Reid, who was the first to kneel alongside fellow NFL player Colin Kaepernick, and still remains unsigned to a team. https://twitter.com/Blavity/status/978440250975506433 Back in 2016, […]
As the heartbreaking details continue surrounding unarmed 23-year-old Stephon Clark’s death at the hands of local police, the Sacramento Police Chief has come forward to address the questions regarding why officers turned off the audio on their body cameras during the shooting. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/978413883361775618 In a recent interview with NBC News, Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn […]
Linda Brown, who as a little girl was central in the landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of Education case, has died. The matter made it all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, effectively ending racial segregation in schools nationwide. Brown was born February 20, 1942 in Topeka. She landed on the […]
Officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II are cleared in the shooting death of Alton Sterling.
Eleven-year-old Naomi Wadler has become a hashtag, a global meme and the object of praise by celebrities from Lupita Nyong’o to Janelle Monae to Eddie Griffin ever since her soaring March for Our Lives speech on Saturday in Washington. But the fifth grader has no idea of her global impact – because she’s not on social media. “I have been accustomed to not […]
A 28-year-old woman from Oregon has been accused of doing the unthinkable to her pet. PEOPLE reports Noelle Georgia Moor killed her dog by cooking it in an oven. Why? Well, the site reports she thought her 7-year-old pet was possessed by her ex-boyfriend. After police were called to her house twice “concerning a dispute at […]
Last week police in Sacramento, California killed yet another unarmed Black man, Stephon Clark, in his backyard after they mistook his cell phone for a gun. Protestors took to the streets of Sacramento demanding justice for the death of the 22-year-old and yesterday (March 25) members of the Sacramento Kings and Boston Celtics came together […]
More unseemly behavior from the NFL.
Why did the rapper and activist think he could trust the NRA?