black lives matter
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FBI Finds No Hate Crime Committed In Bubba Wallace's Garage
Controversy ensued last weekend when NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace reported finding a noose in his garage stall. Wallace was partially responsible for NASCAR banning the Confederate flag from its events and the noose was initially believed to be a response to that event. According to The Washington Post, an investigation conducted by the FBI has…
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San Francisco 49ers Debut Black Lives Matter Flag at Levi Stadium
All it took was for police to murder yet another unarmed black man and all of a sudden we’re in the midst of a full-fledged White Renaissance, in which white people inexplicably are crippled with guilt, suddenly empathize with our plight and rock Black Lives Matter t-shirts like they bought them at a Pink Floyd…
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To the Suprise of Nobody, Some Asshole Just Flew a 'White Lives Matter' Banner Over a Soccer Stadium
One of my biggest pet peeves in life is when somebody goes out of their way to explain something I already know. If you’ve spent more than two minutes on planet Earth, you’re acutely aware that white people have made themselves the center of the fucking universe for several centuries now at the expense of…
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Black Woman Repeatedly Called N-Word and ‘Ape’ by Racist White Woman in NYC
Black people in America expect racism. We expect it like white women expect the police to be their personal “Black people I find annoying” exterminators. But that doesn’t change the blend of shock, rage and sadness that unsuspecting Black folk feel when we’re randomly met with racist encounters while we’re just out here trying to…
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Rudy Guiliani: Black Lives Matter Wants to Take Your Beautiful Caucasian Homes
A racist dog whistle had unprotected, drunken sex with fear-mongering and the result was former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani is the teeth of hatred. He really sinks his gums into racism by stoking the flames of fear. During an appearance on the president’s favorite on-demand channel, Fox News, Giuliani claimed that the…
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A Noble Art: This Fine Photography Sale Helps Support Black Trans Lives and More
With all the time we’ve spent staring at the walls these past few months, it’s no wonder we’ve had art on the brain…not to mention it’s a welcome escape from what has felt like an unceasing stream of bad news. Call it art therapy, but the desire to beautify our lives is more than aesthetic—it’s…
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California Sheriff's Office Employee Caught Vandalizing a Black Lives Matters Sign
Law enforcement is a sensitive bunch. Apparently being told “Hey, don’t kill us,” just gets them in their feelings, so much so that an employee at the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office in California was arrested for vandalizing a Black Lives Matter sign. NBC News reports that a homeowner in Thousand Oaks, Calif, has repeatedly had…
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#SayTheirNames: Angel McCoughtry Petitions WNBA to Allow Players to Wear the Names of Police Brutality Victims on Their Jerseys
After tearing ligaments in her knee and missing the entire 2019 WNBA season, Las Vegas Aces star Angel McCoughtry took to Instagram to announce that she’ll finally be returning to the court this upcoming season. But that wasn’t her only announcement, as she intends to use her platform to address the police brutality and racial…
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‘Everybody’s Life Matters’: Muhammad Ali Jr. Emerges From the Sunken Place to Say His Father Wouldn’t Have Supported Black Lives Matter
The Sunken Place has apparently claimed an unlikely victim—the son of iconic heavyweight boxer and renowned civil rights activist Muhammad Ali. 47-year-old Muhammad Ali Jr. must have been too busy attending house negro support groups to read up on what his father stood for regarding the mattering of Black lives, because he’s out here telling…
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Supermodel Joan Smalls Commits Half Her Salary to Racial Justice—and Urges Others to Do Their Part Through Donate My Wage
The fashion industry has long prided itself on making statements, but its recent response to outcries for racial justice has left much to be desired in the eyes of some of its most luminous members. The black boxes splashed across social media on #BlackoutTuesday (June 20) have been followed by a similarly echoing silence on…