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On Friday night, an unidentified black man was tased and shot by Lafayette Police Officers after responding to a disturbance call around 8 pm at a Circle K gas station on Northeast Evangeline Thruway near the intersection of Castille Avenue, said Louisiana State Police spokesman Trooper Derek Senegal. According to …

If the WNBA’s support for Black Lives Matter is going to cost them fans, then so be it. Georgia Republican Senator, Kelly Loeffler who co-owns the Atlanta Dream franchise has expressed her fears that the league’s support for BLM could drive fans always, ESPN reports. “I think a lot of …

On Wednesday, Oklahoma City Thunder guard Chris Paul announced that he is partnering with Portland Trail Blazers forward Carmelo Anthony and former NBA player Dwayne Wade to form the Social Change Fund. The three have come together to invest and support organizations that are focused on empowering communities of color …

Like most people, Lil Baby felt compelled to do something to push the culture forward amid nationwide protests, demanding justice for George Floyd and so many others. While most took to the streets, the Atlanta rapper took to the studio. In his track “The Bigger Picture,” he pens his thoughts …

Written by @kristenshylin_ Next Saturday will mark two months since the tragic police killing of George Floyd. Following Floyd’s death, millions of people gathered in unity to protest against police brutality. According to Vox, public records from the Crowd Counting Consortium revealed that Americans across all 50 states and multiple …

A white couple has been arrested after a video showed them attacking a Black woman who worked at a Connecticut hotel. The attack was caught on video that’s since gone viral, showing Crystal Caldwell, 59, being beaten by the couple. Caldwell was working at the front desk on June 26 …

OneUnited Bank, which is known as the largest Black-owned bank in the United States, is rising in numbers alongside the Black Lives Matter movement. When talking to TMZ, the bank’s CEO, Kevin Choee, said that just in the month of June alone, the company saw a 50% increase in customer …

George Floyd’s death rightfully ignited protests all across the country. Four recent polls revealed that 15 million to 26 million people in 550 places across the United States partook in #BLM protests. According to scholars and crowd-counting experts and reported by The New York Times, “these figures would make the …

Written by: @kristenshylin_ Donald Trump caught another case of twitter fingers early Wednesday morning when New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his plans to paint a Black Lives Matter mural outside the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. Trump referred to the mural as “a symbol of hate,” and …

On Tuesday morning, actor Terry Crews made a tweet that did not sit well with many people. In his tweet, he suggested that the Black Lives Matter movement would lead to Black supremacy. ”We must ensure #blacklivesmatter doesn’t morph into #blacklivesbetter,” Crews tweeted. The television personality received responses from multiple …

Written by: @kristenshylin_ On Thursday, CNN reported that the Houston Association of Realtors announced its decision to retire the word “master” to describe bedrooms and bathrooms in its listings. As the Black Lives Matter movement progresses and demands to remove symbols of racism within corporate America, erasing “master” from real …

In 2013, after George Zimmerman was acquitted for the murder of Trayvon Martin, Los Angeles based activist Alicia Garza made a heartfelt post on Facebook telling the Black community, “Our lives matter.” Within days, fellow activist Patrisse Cullors turned it into the now-famous hashtag and created the first BLM chapter …

Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali was a vocal activist against racism during his reign, but according to his biological son Muhammad Ali, Jr., 47, his father would not have supported the Black Lives Matter movement. Ali, Jr. told the New York Post his father would have considered the movement “racist” and …

We get it, everyone’s mad about something. Kobe died, the “Rona” made everyone sit in the house, sports are cancelled, jobs were lost, and cops are still killing black people for sport. To top it off, in the middle of what’s soon to become a race war, the “Karen’s” won’t …

Another black male has been found dead by hanging. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office reports that a black teenager’s body was found hanging in the parking lot of Ehrhardt Elementary School in Spring, Texas. “Based on security video, witnesses and other evidence, preliminary indications are the male hanged himself,” the …

The donations that are made to the #BlackLivesMatter movement do, in fact, go to the #BLM organization, not the Democratic Party. There has been a slew of online rumors going around that donations to the Black Lives Matter movement get sent to the Democratic Party because the group uses ActBlue …

Pro-police counter-protesters and Black Lives Matter demonstrators joined forces to chase off a small group of men that were wearing the white hoods of the Ku Klux Klan and carrying Trump flags who tried to interrupt their peaceful rallies in Nevada. The video has emerged, showing the exact moment protestors …

It looks like corporations have come to their senses by choosing to distance themselves from far-right winged thinkers. Tucker Carlson is one of those far-right wing thinkers. His primetime show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, appears on the Fox News Channel and has lost two big advertisers, Disney and T-Mobile. But it’s …

According to BuzzFeed News, an internal memo received by Starbucks employees last week explained that wearing any attire that referenced the Black Lives Matter movement, was a violation of company policy. The dress code policy prohibits any religious, political, or personal accessories. Employees who spoke with Buzzfeed, all pointed out …

Remember when Donald Trump took a walk from the White House to St. John’s Episcopal Church to pose for a picture with a Bible? Well, to get to the church, he dispersed protesters from the area with tear gas and projectiles. Now, as a result, his little stunt has gotten …