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Miya 'Soho Karen' Ponsetto Charged With Hate Crime for NYC Hotel Incident
At this point, I just enjoy thinking about how much this woman must wish she would’ve just left Black people TF alone that day.
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Jazz, Cocktails, and Conversation Abound for This Week's Round of Virtual Events
Alright, alright, alriiiiight. April is here and what better way to commemorate yet another month in this pandemic (booo) than by attending some fun (online) events! Though the seemingly unending nature of this panoramic continues to relegate our good times indoors, if there’s anything we’ve learned over this past year— it’s that just because it’s…
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Family Sues Miya Ponsetto and Arlo Hotel for Racial Profiling in Attack on Black Teen for Lost iPhone
The parents of Keyon Harrold Jr., the Black teen who Miya Ponsetto was seen on video in December physically attacking over a falsely stolen iPhone, are now suing the woman and the hotel they say enabled her behavior. On Wednesday, Keyon Harrold Sr. and Kat Rodriguez announced that they have filed a lawsuit against 22-year-old…
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The Black Messiah (aka D’Angelo) Made His Verzuz Debut to Close Out Black History Month and I’m Still Not Over It
Y’all. I’m still not over it. No, seriously—I’m not. It’s been nearly 48 hours since the ever-elusive artist D’Angelo blessed us all with his “D’Angelo and Friends” Verzuz battle at the legendary Apollo Theater and I have yet to come down from that high (not a literal high, but you know what I’m saying). The…
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Gayle King Interviews America
In a story reported by The Root staff writer Ishena Robinson, Gayle King interviewed the exhausting Miya Ponsetto, a woman who is also— Ishena can explain it better than I can: Interview maven Gayle King found out exactly how exhausting when she spoke to Ponsetto for CBS This Morning, hours before the 22-year-old was nabbed…
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Police Say They’ve Identified and Will File Charges Against Karen Who Attacked Black Teen on False Accusations of Phone Theft
The NYPD is planning to lay assault charges against the woman captured on camera over the holiday weekend aggressively going after the 14-year-old son of jazz musician Keyon Harrold at a hotel in New York on the false accusation that he stole her phone. That is if the police are able to locate her. The…
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Woman Falsely Accuses Black 14-Year-Old of Stealing Her Phone, Gets Support From Hotel Manager, and Then It Turns up in an Uber
Despite all that has happened this year, from Amy Cooper calling the cops on a Black man who asked her to leash her dog, to the many protests against racial injustice, things haven’t changed all that much in terms of everyday racism in America. Jazz musician Keyon Harrold and his 14-year-old son unfortunately had to…
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Urbanworld Celebrates 20 Years of Showcasing Black Films While Hollywood Plays Catch-Up
Long before Hollywood entertained modern-day diversity or inclusion conversations, Urbanworld, founded by onetime Motown Records and Miramax Films executive Stacy Spikes in 1997, was already expanding the “urban” landscape in film, pushing beyond racial, geographic and other limits, and freely mixing music and other aspects of urban culture. It’s a mission the festival, in its…