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New Jersey Corrections Officer Seen Mocking George Floyd's Death on Track to be Fired
Earlier this month, a video went viral depicting a group of white counter-protesters during a rally against police brutality in New Jersey. During the video, two of the counter-protesters are seen on the ground, mocking the way in which George Floyd died. One the men seen in the video was identified as a New Jersey…
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‘If I Had a Gun, I Would Shoot All of You’: San Francisco Man Charged With Hate Crime for Threatening Black Family Over BLM T-Shirts
Most days I wake up to the petty satisfaction of knowing how mad white people are right now. The Black Lives Matter movement is more mainstream and widely celebrated than it’s ever been. It’s so big now that even white people living in some cave near some Amish community with no internet access will likely…
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Study Finds Black Lives Matter Protests Didn't Lead to Growth in Coronavirus Cases
When the massive Black Lives Matter demonstrations began in May, it was unclear how they might impact the country’s ongoing coronavirus pandemic. According to a new study published earlier this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the nationwide demonstrations don’t appear to be linked to spikes in coronavirus cases. In fact, there’s some…
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Upcoming Season Will Be Reworked in Wake of Police Brutality Protests
Terry Crews, one of the stars of NBC’s hit comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, revealed that four of the episodes for the show’s eighth season were entirely scrapped in the wake of police brutality and Black Lives Matter protests. In an interview with Access Hollywood, Crews, who plays Sgt. Terry Jeffords on the police-centered show, revealed…
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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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Government Spy Planes and Drones Were Surveilling Recent Black Lives Matter Protests
New reports have revealed that both the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security were using spy planes and other airborne surveillance technology to monitor the protests for black lives that have been taking place across the country. Despite saying it does not monitor activity protected by the First Amendment, the FBI used a Cessna…
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Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza on How to Organize and Stay Inspired During a Crisis
Doing “the work” is an oft-used phrase in social justice circles, arguably overused to the point that it can include everything from reading a poem to starting a movement. Alicia Garza knows what “the work” is. A co-founder of Black Lives Matter, the writer and activist now works as the Special Projects Director for the…
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Atlanta Officers Call in Sick After Former Cop Who Shot Rayshard Brooks Was Charged With Felony Murder
The Black Lives Matter movement sure seems to have brought the crybaby out of cops…the po’-little-tink-tink out of police…the “woe is me” out of wack-ass officers. You would think that black people were asking for something impractical like the public tarring and feathering of everyone who wears a badge. Yet, our request is simple: stop…
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Quaker Oats Will Remove Aunt Jemima Brand From Its Products in Favor of Something ‘Appropriate and Respectful’
It seems like the national spotlight that all these protests and demonstrations have put on systemic racism has all the corporations scrambling to show their “Black Lives Matter” solidarity and, if necessary, rebrand their own products to make sure they’re racism-origin free. Quaker Oats announced Wednesday that they will be changing the name and image…
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Atlanta Cop Who Killed Rayshard Brooks Was Previously Reprimanded for Use of Force Involving a Firearm
The Atlanta police officer who shot and killed 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks at a Wendy’s parking lot last week had received a written reprimand in 2017 for use of force involving a firearm, according to his disciplinary records. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution obtained the disciplinary histories of both officers involved in Brooks’ killing. Garrett Rolfe, the 27-year-old…