On June 17, Fulton County district attorney charged the two cops responsible for the murder of Rayshard Brooks. Since then, 171 officers have called out sick. The sudden spike of officers calling off sick is being called the “blue flu.” According to Channel 2 Atlanta, most of the officers that called …
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Written by: @kristenshylin_ It is no secret that Donald Trump is not a fan of former President Barack Obama’s policies and achievements. Now Trump is calling for the removal of Obamacare. NBC News reported that the Trump administration referred to the mandate as “unconstitutional” and demanded that the rest of …
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America’s most beloved aminated family, The Simpsons, will no longer use white voice actors to voice characters of color, according to the show’s producers. A statement released on Friday by a Fox spokesperson, reads in part, “Moving forward, The Simpsons will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters.” The …
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Politics will be politics. According to CBS News, the House approved a police reform bill on Thursday, shortly after Senate Democrats blocked a more modest proposal from pushing through earlier that same day, citing it did not probe far enough into police brutality. The “George Floyd Justice in Police Act” …
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A Maryland woman and her three-year-old daughter were found murdered in a parked car over the weekend. According to People, the murder of Shiand Miller, 23, and her 3-year-old daughter Shaniya Gilmore, occurred shortly before noon on Friday. Miller’s grandfather shared that she was having problems with the father of …
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Hours after a video went viral of an NYPD cop using an illegal chokehold during an arrest, the cop was suspended without pay, according to authorities. In the video, three officers were seen pressing down on the man with one cop’s arm around the man’s neck as the other officers …
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As protests continue to take place nationwide in response to the death of #GeorgeFloyd who died at the hands of the police, hundreds of black entertainers are calling on cultural industries to cut ties with the police. In a newly released statement, numerous celebrities joined forces to urge arts organizations …
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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 …
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According to the New York Post, eight minority corrections officers have filed a discrimination suit with Minnesota’s Department of Human Rights claiming they were barred from guarding former police officer #DerekChauvin. Chauvin was detained at the Ramsey County Jail for the murder of #GeorgeFloyd days after video footage captured him …
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A Bellamy Middle School sixth-grade teacher was fired on Friday after making a racist post about what “privilege” is to her on Facebook. The statement highlights the writer’s ignorance as she outwardly criticizes those who protest and receive federal assistance. “Privilege is having most of your life paid for by …
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For Texan Opal Lee, making Juneteenth a national holiday has been a lifelong goal— literally. At 93-years-old, Ms. Lee shows no signs of slowing down in her efforts to get Juneteenth made into a national holiday. In 2016, at the age of 90, Ms. Lee organized a walking campaign to …
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Will Smith says his divorce from his first wife #ShereeZampino made him feel like a failure. As #FathersDay approaches, a special #RedTableTalk aired to celebrate fatherhood. During the sit-down, Smith opened about divorce being the “worst thing” in his adult life. “Divorce was the ultimate failure for me. I’ve been …
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According to newly released court documents, Aaron Glee Jr. waived his right to remain silent and has confessed to the shocking murders of Oluwatoyin Salau, 19, and Victoria Sims, 75. Salau and Sims met when Glee arranged for Sims to pick both him and Salau up at a bus stop after …
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In 2017, Nick Canon’s exit from the hit televised talent show “America’s Got Talent” made headlines after he made remarks that he felt the network NBC was planning to sanction him after making edgy jokes about the network and show in his Showtime comedy special “Stand up, Don’t’ Shoot.” Canon’s …
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Bruce Arena may be on to something. It’s 2020, and America still patriotically clinches on to “patriotic” symbols created in and tied to a period of history that failed to embrace “equality and justice for all.” It would seem as though by 2020, America would have distanced itself from anything …
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