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Photo: Christopher Penler (Shutterstock) A judge on New York’s Supreme Court has ordered a new investigation into the death of Eric Garner in 2014, a 43-year-old Black man who was killed after being put in a chokehold by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo on accusations of selling loose cigarettes. While a …
Read More »Hong Kongers, Don’t Idolize the U.K.
Read: Hong Kong is a colony once more The U.K. has not yet explained how it will accommodate mass migration amid struggles with Brexit negotiations, COVID-19, budget cuts, and a shrinking economy. Personally, I’m less focused on these logistical issues than the possibility that Hong Kongers have an overly romantic …
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There is a Mike Tyson biopic in the works but one person you will not see portrayed in the film is his former wife, actress Robin Givens. According to Page Six, Givens’ lawyer sent the former heavyweight champion and Jamie Foxx, who is portraying Tyson in the film, a cease-and-desist …
Read More »Black Woman Entrepreneur Owns Two 7-Eleven Stores Right Across the Street From Each Other
Meet Alyson Rae Lawson, the CEO and founder of RaeLawson Enterprise LLC, a franchisee/operator of two 7-Eleven convenience stores with gas stations that are located right across the street from each other in Arlington, Texas. She is the only African American in her city to have accomplished this. Originally from …
Read More »Black Girl Movie Magic: Yara Shahidi to Star as Tinker Bell in Disney's Live-Action Peter Pan and Wendy
Photo: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images) Yara Shahidi, star of ABC’s Grown-ish and a leader in the growing group of impressive and talented young Black women making waves in Hollywood, will be taking on the iconic role of Tinker Bell in Disney’s upcoming live-action film adaptation of Peter Pan. According to …
Read More »Large-Scale Political Unrest Is Unlikely, But Not Impossible
Anton’s warning of a color revolution has gone viral on the Trumpian right. But his analysis rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept. I’ve been looking at the history of color revolutions to see if conditions are actually ripe for one in the U.S. The term color revolution was …
Read More »Facebook Bans Employees From Supporting BLM In Profile Pics
While Mark Zuckerberg has been publicly supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and decried the Breonna Taylor decision in a company all-hands meeting this week, Facebook allegedly doesn’t want its employees to express their political views on its platform. According to Mother Jones, the company issued new rules this week …
Read More »Hulu Apologizes For Promoting Breonna Taylor Docuseries on Same Day of Grand Jury’s Announcement
0 Breonna Taylor (Photo Credit: Instagram/@keyanna.guifarro) Hulu is under fire for promoting a new docuseries about Breonna Taylor on the same day that it was revealed that the police officers responsible for her death would not be directly charged for the fatal shooting. On Wednesday, the streaming service started the …
Read More »Ex-Employee Says Whataburger Forced Her Out After a White Woman Complained About Her BLM Mask. She’s Calling for a Boycott.
Photo: Barre Kelley (Shutterstock) A 19-year-old Black woman is calling for the public to boycott Whataburger after she filed a discrimination complaint against the company this week, claiming the company forced her out of her job last month because she wore a “Black Lives Matter” mask. Ma’Kiya Congious, 19, was …
Read More »And Then Donald Trump Walked Into the RV
In her 2019 memoir, What Do We Need Men For?, E. Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of rape, in a Bergdorf’s dressing room in the mid-1990s. After the president denied ever meeting her and dismissed her story as a Democratic plot, she sued him for defamation. Carroll was not, of …
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