black lives matter
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You Ain’t Got the Juice: Why Arrow Has No Business Addressing #BlackLivesMatter
In 2017 the TV landscape, despite the persistent whiteness of some networks like CBS, is looking a bit more … colorful. We certainly have heavy hitters like Shonda Rhimes and Ava DuVernay to thank for this, as their creations are sorely needed, especially as we dwell under the “leadership” (gag me) of the despotic Orange.…
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DC Protesters Remember Terrence Sterling, Unarmed Motorist Killed by Police, 1 Year Later
Before the sun came up Monday morning, protesters had gathered at Third and M streets in Northwest Washington, D.C., to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Terrence Sterling, an unarmed man who was shot and killed by police after his motorcycle hit a cruiser. The morning began with a candlelight vigil at 4:20…
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Philadelphia Police-Union Head Defends Nazi Cop, Calls BLM a ‘Pack of Rabid Animals’
For any significant change to American policing to occur, we have to deal with upend police unions, which wield extraordinary power and influence. Most times, police unions support their officers unconditionally, even when it’s more than obvious that police are in the wrong; they also tend to disparage victims of police brutality, as well as…
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19-Year-Old Calif. Woman, ‘Mistaken’ for Bald Black Man, Files Excessive-Force Claim Against City of Bakersfield
A Bakersfield, Calif., young woman, who said she was confronted by police at gunpoint after they somehow mistook her for a larger, bald black man suspected of threatening people with a machete at a nearby grocery store, has now filed a claim against the city, claiming that her civil rights were violated and that officers…
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So, What Was This White Dude Doing Writing ‘Black Lives Matter!’ All Over Charleston, W.Va.?
Is he an ally-hero like Heather Heyer, putting it down for the cause? Or is he an agent provocateur trying to pin some kind of crime on the Black Lives Matter movement? Either way, it’s all right with me. But let’s investigate. The facts are that Charleston, W.Va., police arrested Ray Hensley Jr. last week…
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Driver Runs Car Through Protesters Following Vigil in St. Louis
Three protesters were hit by a vehicle late Wednesday night in St. Louis while marching in honor of Kiwi Herring, a transgender woman who was shot dead by police earlier this week. However, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, how exactly the driver came to strike the protesters remains unclear because police and a witness…
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For White People Who Compare Black Lives Matter to White Supremacy
On Tuesday, Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-N.C.) appeared on a Fayetteville, N.C., radio show to talk about whatever Republicans talk about when they are asked to discuss the pile of lies in their nonsensical political agendas. The topic of conversation eventually reached Donald Trump’s public head nod to the white supremacist movement. According to the Charlotte…
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‘If I Were KKK, Would I Hold You Like This?’ Viral Picture Supposedly Shows Confederate-Monument Defender and Black Lives Matter Supporter
So, there’s apparently a viral photo circulating the interwebs that purportedly shows a Confederate-monument defender embracing a Black Lives Matter supporter … and I have some serious questions. On Friday the Virginia Flaggers, a group committed to defending Confederate monuments and memorials, stationed “Monument Guards” around a monument in Lynchburg, Va., in response to a…