In response to the National Rifle Association’s recent release of a series of aggressive recruitment videos, including one that targets Women’s March Co-President Tamika Mallory, local Los Angeles organizations have released their own video demanding that the NRA remove theirs. See video here: “We know that we are not safe, but we are not scared either,” says...
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Cis Black Men: If Black Lives Matter, We Need to Support Our Trans Sisters
If Black Lives Matter is to mean anything, it must be that the whole range of black performativity and identities is welcomed, protected and supported. Chyna Gibson, Ciara McElveen and Jacquarrius Harris, three black trans women out of New Orleans, Louisiana, were killed within a two-week period last month. And not so much as a pin...
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Check Out the Trailer for BET’s “Charged,” With a New Slant on the Mass Incarceration Crisis
BET’s Charged: The DA vs. Black America explores the complicated problem of the role of attorneys in deepening the crisis of mass incarceration. Reforming the interconnected crises of mass incarceration and mass criminalization continues to be a major social justice task in this era of Black Lives Matter. The pursuit of this effort has required — demanded...
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Cold Cash Matters: Floyd Mayweather Slams Kaepernick’s Anthem Protest
To Floyd Mayweather, the only color that matters is green — the pigment of cold, hard cash. Boxer Floyd “Money” Mayweather — the retired fighter who was named the richest athlete by Forbes last year and who is reportedly worth $400 million dollars — has a message for Colin Kaepernick: the only color that matters in...
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White Lives Matter Is An Effing Joke
Get the eff out of here with that “white lives matter” B.S. #MicCheck Man, what hole do these dumbass Bubbas crawl from? See, when I first read about it, I thought it was a joke, or perhaps I’d entered, like, the Twilight Zone. After reading the stories, I concluded that, indeed, it is a joke...