https://twitter.com/UDCLaw/status/655133994065989632 Jason Goolsby is suing the city of D.C. for assault, battery and failing to prevent false imprisonment by Metropolitan Police Department officers. After footage surfaced of the black college student being forcibly detained by D.C. police in Eastern Market went viral last year, many flooded the streets to protest the injustice. According to reports, the […]
Add University of North Dakota to the list of colleges to never send your black sons and daughters to EVER… According to Star Tribune reports : University of North Dakota officials announced late Wednesday that they concluded an investigation into two racially charged Snapchat photos and that they have decided not to punish the students involved. “After a full review of the information, the Code of Student Life and the laws pertaining to each incident, and after consulting with general counsel, [the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities] has concluded that neither incident constitutes a violation of the UND Code of Student Life,” the school wrote in a statement. The outcome was “driven by the Constitutional protection of free speech,” but officials wouldn’t disclose details of their findings. SMH… Free Speech? And not a violation of the UND Code of Student Life? So we guess there are no rules in the Code of Student Life about not being a racist bigots who treat innocent people with zero regard. Both incidents happened on Snapchat in September, just days apart. The first involved three students who allegedly locked a black student out of a dorm and took a picture on her phone with the caption, “locked the black b**ch out.” And the second showed four students posing in blackface with the caption “Black lives matter.” “As part of the conversation with student leaders, we talked about the concept of zero tolerance,” UND President Mark Kennedy said in a statement released following the investigation. “While I appreciate the desire for such a policy, it is unachievable under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.” Kennedy said that he was aware that students and other members of the community were hurt by the incidents and that he personally was “appalled” by the photos. At least somebody is appalled at that school. We don’t understand how the damn school President can be APPALLED and want a zero tolerance policy. Pretty sure plenty of other schools don’t let Free Speech get in the way of acting a damn fool. Snapchat
Tiffany Pollard (aka New York from Flavor Of Love) has never been one to bite her tongue. But did Flavor Flav‘s ex-boo go too hard on her Next Fifteen co-star Laura Govan for these off-color comments? https://twitter.com/taegabbana/status/775806723076546561 It all started when Govan, formerly of Basketball Wives, joked with Jennifer Williams about the skin tones of the show’s […]
https://twitter.com/benandjerrys/status/784062366577225728 Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream just announced their support of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in an essay on their website. “Black lives matter. They matter because they are children, brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers. They matter because the injustices they face steal from all of us — white people and people of color alike. They steal our […]
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Black Lives Matter was founded as a way of bringing to light the ill treatment and unjust killing of Black people. So this Clown Lives Matter rally that’s going down is tacky and classless, and Twitter is dragging the concept for filth. Continue
Judge Faith stopped by with Yung Joc to discuss his recent civil case filmed on her show. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! We also got Joc’s perspective on the current protests for police brutality and excessive force against blacks by Colin Kaepernick as well as the recent shooting death of Terance Crutcher. Joc shares his thoughts on how the […]
Via HotSpotATL.com: Several high school students and teachers are protesting at North Springs Charter High School after a white Assistant Principal demanded a black female student to remove her “Black Lives Matter” t-shirt, citing that the organization is a terrorist […]
Another day, another black celebrity that has jumped on “all lives matter” train, this time it’s NFL player Cam Newton who has caused a social media uproar after an interview he did with ESPN was released. In the interview, Newton didn’t explicitly say that “all lives matter,” but he went a step further and proclaimed […]
It’s not uncommon for someone to voice their disgust and general disbelief for the things said by those on the Fox News network, but the point is driven home further when that someone happens to be a celebrity. Actor, comedian and activist D.L. Hughley was a guest on news anchor Megyn Kelly’s show and things […]
