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Jerry Rice Is Sorry, Y’all; He Didn’t Realize That All Lives Matter Wasn’t Our Fight
Hall of Fame wide receiver Jerry Rice admits that he dropped the ball. As it turns out, Rice wasn’t well-versed in social happenings surrounding police killings of unarmed African-American men, women and children when he spouted off, “All Lives Matter” in a recent tweet. But after being dragged on Twitter for his ill-timed tweet, the…
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Baseball Player Tweets Racist Message, Then Pulls Apology Out of the 'I'm Not a Racist' Handbook: Examined
Updated Friday, Sept. 23, 2016, 2:42 p.m. EDT: The Seattle Mariners have suspended Steve Clevenger for the remainder of the 2016 season without pay. Clevenger spent Thursday tweeting out vile messages about Keith Lamont Scott, who was gunned down by Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., police, and those who have been protesting his death. In theory, the suspension sounds…
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49ers and Rams Continue Protest; Redskins and Steelers Opt Out
On Monday, protest against the over-policing of black communities continued around the NFL as San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick and teammate Eric Reid knelt during the national anthem while teammates Antoine Bethea and Eli Harold raised their fists. After the anthem, several players from the 49ers walked over and hugged Kaepernick, who has vowed…
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How Black Lives Matter Saved Colin Kaepernick’s Career
America has a history of taking black athletes who stand up for black rights and blackballing them. See 1968 Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos, whose black-gloved fists set off a butterfly effect of good ole down-home racism and death threats against both of their families. See former NBA players Craig Hodges and Mahmoud Abdul…
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New York Life Insurance Co. Fires Director for Calling BLM Activist 'Racist Pig Whore' on Facebook
Editor’s note: This article contains social media posts that some may find offensive. A racist antagonizer of the Black Lives Matter movement has been fired after his words wrote a check that his ass couldn’t cash. Shanelle Matthews, director of communications with the Black Lives Matter organization, was verbally attacked on Facebook by Corey Multer, a managing…
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1 Year Later: BLM Protester Who Interrupted Bernie Sanders’ Rally Discusses the Moment and the Movement
It’s been a year since Mara Willaford and I jumped up onstage with presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in what would become one of the most controversial Black Lives Matter actions to date. Filled with naivete about the impact we would make and conviction around the urgency of the fight for black lives, we did the…
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Black Lives Matter Movement Recruits Other People of Color: Report
From the beginning, Black Lives Matter supporters have included protesters and activists of all races. In a recent campaign, people of color are turning to their own communities and recruiting them to the BLM fight as well, the Associated Press reports. Like the rest of the country, the especially explicit deaths of Philando Castile and Alton…
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A$AP Rocky Is Right; He Should Stick to Fashion and Drugs. Police Brutality and Racism Are Not His Forte
Like many celebrities who wrongly employ the phrase as a means of evading responsibility for their actions, A$AP Rocky doesn’t seem to know exactly what “taken out of context” means. There are not many ways to interpret, “What the f—k am I, Al Sharpton now? I’m A$AP Rocky. I did not sign up to be…
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Wis. Sheriff to RNC Crowd: Black Lives Matter Is ‘Anarchy’
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke continued his ongoing notoriety as an outspoken black cop against the Black Lives Movement at the Republican National Convention. On Monday he drew raucous applause after he celebrated the acquittal of one of the officers accused in Freddie Gray’s death. “There is some good news out of Baltimore, Maryland, as…
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Post-Dallas, Could White Fear Turn Tide for Trump?
The political climate had already incubated into the most racially flammable presidential election cycle in recent memory (perhaps more so than when the first black president ran). Throw a lit match of tragic police assassinations by a heavily armed vengeful black man onto it, and it may have just exploded into a summer-surprise inflection point…