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The Atlanta-based Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNaP Co.) wants people to go deeper than visibility. In a new report, “Deeper Than Visibility,” SNaP Co. challenges policymakers and allies to consider many perspectives in pursuing public safety policies.
The report’s release coincided with the 13th annual Trans Day of Visibility. In the report’s introduction, SNaP Co. Executive Director Toni-Michelle Williams said that everyone deserves to feel safe.
“To be transformed by grace and mercy in a way that snowballs into more safety for each of us because safety cannot exist for some and not all,” Williams wrote.
Williams told NewsOne the new report arose from coalition organizing over the past few years in a city that claims it’s “too busy to hate.”
“Our commitment was just to talk to the people and pull the stories that we knew were true, and to be open and curious about the stories that we didn’t know,” Williams said. “We wanted to do a project that focused directly on Black, queer and trans issues, which is why we developed ‘Deeper Than Visibility.’”
Even before the killing of Rayshard Brooks in June 2020, SNap Co has worked with coalition partners to reimagine public safety. But after an Atlanta police officer killed Brooks, SNaP Co took its organizing to a new level. The organization hired 14 trans and queer organizers, including two youth organizers, to launch a community survey on what it means to have a safer Atlanta.
Equipped with PPE and proper safety protocols, the SNaP Co. organizers spoke with people across four counties in the Metro-Atlanta area: DeKalb, Clayton, Fulton, and Cobb. The group worked with allied Atlanta-based organizations like Women on the Rise, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, and the Southern Center for Human Rights. The Movement for Black Lives also provided support for the organizing effort.
“As an abolitionist organization, we knew that there were different kinds of conversations that Black people were having about police,” she said. “And there were more conversations that needed to happen.”
From that organizing work, the “Deeper Than Visibility” report emerged. By interweaving narrative spotlights called “Tale From the Trenches” sharing individual experiences and reflections, the report provides expansive rarely explored in conversations of safety or visibility. But as Williams explains, it isn’t either/or, the two concepts are intertwined.
“The premise of the report is about how there is a small group of people in Atlanta who are Black, trans and queer fighting for everybody,” Williams explained. “And this report is an invitation for everybody to jump into the work with us. Especially as we are leading into another election.”
Grounded in a Black trans feminist framework, the “Deeper Than Visibility” report also shares the results of community surveys that engaged people in four Metro-Atlanta counties about Black community experiences with law enforcement. As part of a broader “mixed-methods” study, the survey engaged 565 respondents. Over 76 percent of respondents said they could call someone other than law enforcement.
When asked what the top five issues impacting their communities were, respondents named homelessness, poverty, gentrification, lack of addiction and mental health services, and police misconduct/abuse and police-involved shootings. The report noted that even though homelessness was a concern, respondents had little awareness of the greater risk for unemployment and poverty facing transgender community members.
A part of the coalition that worked to address marijuana decriminalization in Atlanta and closing the Atlanta City Detention Center, SNaP Co. has remained in campaign mode over the past few years.
“We wanted more than anything to lead campaigns that truly center trans people,” Williams shared. “And we know that when we center trans people, that would liberate everyone. A lot of our other campaigns were centered around the experiences of Black cis heterosexual men, and then also the experiences of Black cis women.”
This point stood out as she also reflected on the recent murders of two Black trans women in Chicago. Elise Malary and Tatiana Labelle were both in their early 30s at the time of their murders.
Black trans and queer folks are often front and center in fights for justice. We must hold them down year-round and not just on commemorative days or designated weeks of action.
“At the bottom line, we have to connect when it involves our safety,” Williams said. “We have to hear what people need to be safe and act on it. We have to interrupt violence when it’s happening. We have to show up for trans people and for people when homophobia and transphobia is happening.”
This year’s day of recognition comes as many states are taking action to limit the rights and privacy afforded transgender people. Last year attorney Chase Strangio and writer and activist launched a Trans Week of Visibility and Action to spread awareness about the legislative attacks happening to trans people of all ages and help allies understand how to support efforts to fight back.
All of the work to raise awareness and build new understandings of what it means to keep each other safe must include Black trans folks at the outset and not as an afterthought. Williams said it is important to listen to what people feel they need to be safe and act on it.
“It is imperative that we have a culture shift in how we receive each other’s truths,” Williams said. “We are the embodiment of what it means to love and interrupt time in a real way.”
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'Deeper Than Visibility' Centers Trans Experiences With Safety was originally published on newsone.com
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America is the “land of the free” and nothing says “freedom” like forcing children and teenagers to pledge their allegiance to a thing, amirite?
Seriously though, how is it that in the 21st century, there are “educators” that still haven’t gotten it in their heads that forcing students to stand and participate in the Pledge of Allegiance doesn’t fly like it used to. Really, it was always weird. For all of conservatives’ pretentious and racist grandstanding about critical race theory indoctrination—a thing that isn’t happening in K-12 schools or anywhere, really—they seem to be ignoring that for generations, the traditional American education system was forcibly indoctrinating students into repeating the lie that “liberty and justice for all” has ever been a reality in this country and then forcing students, of various religions or lack thereof, to declare that lie “under God.”
And apparently, there are school faculty members who are still engaging in the practice—but not without getting themselves sued.
According to CHRON., the Texas Association of School Boards has agreed to resolve a lawsuit by paying $90,000 to a Black Houston area student who said she was harassed and bullied by her teachers for refusing to stand for the janky-a** pledge.
The whole thing reportedly began in 2017 at Klein Oak High School. The now-former student, who, according to Click2Houston, has only been identified in court records as M.O., objected to the words “under God” and said, “I also believe that we live in a country where there isn’t justice and freedom for all and so I’m not going to stand for a pledge that says there is when there really isn’t.”
The student is demonstrably correct.
Even if you’re of the belief that we live in a post-racial America now—which we sure as hell don’t—the Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892, early on in the lynch-happy reconstruction era that came after roughly two and a half centuries of slavery and proceeded Jim Crow.
But boooy, the whites sure do get butthurt when folks, especially Black folks, don’t want to stand up and cosign their lies. (Colin Kaepernick, anyone?)
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Despite knowing that the student was exempt from the pledge, the teacher, identified in the suit as Benjie Arnold, singled out the student and threatened to fail her for not observing the pledge. According to the release, Arnold told the student that what she did left him “no option but to give you a zero, and you can have all the beliefs and resentment and animosity that you want.”
Arnold also offered to pay students to move students to Europe if they didn’t like living in America, as evidenced by an audio recording of the incident.
Europe, huh? I guess we should all just be glad Arnold didn’t do what was likely his first instinct and tell the student to go back to Africa.
The lawsuit, which was filed by the student’s mother and includes the school district as a defendant, also initially included several other staffers at the school. But during the years-long legal battle, the staffers were all dismissed from the suit except Arnold.
Geoffrey T. Blackwell, litigation counsel at American Atheists, which handled the student’s case, said the settlement serves as a reminder that students still have their First Amendment rights when they’re at school. So they ain’t gotta pledge their allegiance to sh**
“The classroom is not a pulpit,” he said. “It is a place of education, not indoctrination.”
Exactly.
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Student Wins Settlement In Pledge Of Allegiance Lawsuit was originally published on newsone.com
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The housewives of Atlanta are back and they’re fighting in season 14’s trailer. There are many new changes with Porsha Williams and Cynthia Bailey leaving the franchise and Marlo Hampton finally getting her peach. In addition to those changes, Shereé Whitfield returns and Sanya Richards-Ross, a four-time Gold Medal Olympian, mother, wife, and businesswoman joins the cast. Though the cast has many changes, the girls are still bringing the drama.
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In the trailer, there are moments from the season where we will see the launch of SHE By Shereè, a Kandi versus Marlo fight, Marlo’s relationship with her nephews, and cameos from familiar faces like Apollo Nida, Phaedra Parks’ ex-husband. Bravo says that Monyetta Shaw will also appear as a friend of the show.
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On March 19, Jada Davis made history after she was crowned “Miss Milwaukee.” The bustling law student and business owner became the first Black woman in the state to be honored with the prestigious title.
“It was an incredible moment,” Davis shared of the big accolade to Wisconsin’s Afternoon News. “To have a piece of history be a part of my life, during Women’s History Month, is one of the most special things about this experience,” she added.
Due to the pandemic, the state held its first virtual Miss Milwaukee Competition. Davis competed against eight other beautiful contenders for the title. According to Fox 6, the 23-year-old was awarded a $700 scholarship and earned an additional $100 upon winning “the top talent award.” Davis performed a contemporary dance piece to a spoken word poem called “Dear Black Girl” by Candice Nicholas. Now, Davis is preparing to advance to the Miss Wisconsin Competition in Oshkosh in June, which is a state preliminary to the Miss America Competition
The Magna Cum Laude graduate of UW-Green Bay is well known among community members in Milwaukee, working hard as a law clerk. The former Boys & Girls Club dance instructor has volunteered with several organizations including the Milwaukee Justice Center, Marquette Volunteer Law Clinic, YWCA, Black Youth Alliance, and Unity Gospel House of Prayer. Currently, Davis attends the Marquette University Law School, where she’s working to fulfill her dream of becoming an entertainment lawyer. Davis has dubbed herself “The Dancing Lawyer,” a sweet poke at her passion for the arts and law.
“During her year of service as Miss Milwaukee, Davis will make appearances throughout the community and promote her personal social impact initiative – “What’s Wrong With Being Confident?”— which is focused on building self-confidence and positive body image among youth,” Miss Wisconsin Organization said in a statement, according to TMJ4 News. “She will continue her work to bridge the gap between generations to create a space for people to share their own confidence-building experiences,” the organization added.
The talented young woman shared more about her future plans to TMJ4 News, telling the publication:
“Essentially I want to bring different generations together and have conversations about how we can build our confidence.”
Davis added that she hoped her big win will be a source of inspiration for young girls.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Pastor Bishop Lambert W. Gates, Sr., says he’s practicing what he preaches and focusing on “ministry beyond the sanctuary” by giving away free gas fill-ups.
The Indianapolis pastor will pay to fill drivers’ tanks at the Marathon gas station located at 5060 E. 38th St. on Saturday morning, according to a news release from the Kingdom Apostolic Ministries.
Members of the ministry and Bishop Gates will start pumping gas for drivers at 10 a.m. and will continue until 11:30 a.m., or until supplies last.
The gas will be given out on a first-come-first-served basis.
“These are particularly challenging times for everyone, in the aftermath of a global health crisis. In the midst of an economy that leaves many in our east side community struggling, we at Kingdom Apostolic Ministries understand the burden placed on people with rising gas prices and inflation,” Bishop Gates stated in the news release.
The free gas offer comes after a similar gesture was made by millionaire Willie Wilson in Chicago where he first gave away $200,000 in gas. He then followed up with a $1 million gas giveaway.
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MASON, Ohio (WCPO) — The Beast is back, and it has broken its own world record.
Kings Island is taking the wraps off its legendary wooden coaster after crews spent the winter re-tracking and reworking the popular roller coaster.
It’s all part of Kings Island’s 50th anniversary, which will include the repainting of several other coasters. The Beast is the highlight.
It was 43 years ago when riders first experienced the world’s longest wooden coaster with a thrilling 1.5-mile route through the woods including two lift hills and multiple tunnels.
After all these decades, the ride still holds that record, but now it will be even better, after a major re-tracking project.
“When you have something like that, it’s a national treasure,” said Chad Showalter, park spokesman. “You have to take care of it. And that’s what we are doing in this off-season.”
Showalter gave WCPO 9 News a behind-the-scenes tour of the revamped ride, including the first drop into a tunnel, that has been smoothed out and made even steeper.
“It’s increased to a 53-degree drop, and that lets it go lower into the tunnel,” Showalter said.
Cincinnati-based coaster manufacturers The Gravity Group engineered the improvements, which include 2,000 feet of brand new track and a new entry to the final double helix turns, which had gotten a bit rough over the years.
A bonus from the revamp: as a result of the new tracking, The Beast got a few feet longer.
“It’s beating its own record,” Showalter said. “It is going from 7,359 feet long, to 7,361 feet long.”
Coaster enthusiasts like Josh Tyler of the YouTube page FYE Coasters said they cannot wait to try out the new, smooth ride.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Drivers will have to contend with new road closures starting early next week as construction crews continue their work on IndyGo’s new Purple Line.
As soon as Monday, 38th Street will be partially closed between Fall Creek Parkway to Keystone Avenue, according to a news release from the transportation corporation.
The closure includes all eastbound lanes and all except one westbound lane. It’s expected to last for about 130 days.
Meanwhile, eastbound traffic will be detoured via Fall Creek Parkway and Keystone Avenue and access to southbound Sutherland Avenue will stay open via the intersection of 38th Street and Fall Creek Parkway. Local access to all residences and businesses will be kept in place, IndyGo said.
This is the second phase of construction for the Purple Line, which will run from downtown Indianapolis to Lawrence once complete. Earlier this month, 38th Street was closed in both directions from Fall Creek Parkway to Orchard Avenue.
IndyGo says construction will take roughly two years, with an anticipated opening in 2024. The line will run for 15 miles.
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It’s been nearly a week since Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on the 94th annual Academy Awards stage, sending shockwaves across the entertainment world. While there is some controversy surrounding if Smith was asked to leave and his apology, the real victim in this may be Rock.
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D.L. Hughley gives his final thoughts on the incident on his show. While Smith may be forgiven or understood” in the public eye, Rock will have to live with this for life through videotape, memes, and public conversation. Hell, in Berlin, Germany, someone painted a mural of the slap!
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Chris Rock reveals to his sold-out crowd that he’s “still kind of processing what happened” after the Oscars slap.
While the world is on day 4 of discussing Will Smith’s Oscar’s slap of Chris Rock, both parties involved are trying to move on from the situation the best way they know-how.
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Will Smith took to social media and apologized to Chris Rock the day after the Oscars. Chris Rock has remained silent in the aftermath, but many of us assumed he would address the whole situation at his upcoming shows in Boston.
During Rock’s first of three back-to-back shows in the city, the comedian took to the stage and received a standing ovation. He then immediately addressed the elephant in the room.
“How was your weekend?” he began “I don’t have a bunch of s**t about what happened, so if you came to hear that, I have a whole show I wrote before this weekend. I’m still kind of processing what happened. So, at some point, I’ll talk about that s**t. And it will be serious and funny.”
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“I’m going to tell some jokes,” he said. “It’s nice to just be out.”
It’s clear that the comedian is taking his time and making sure any response is calculated and meets his brand standard. The only drama of the night was a heckler that was immediately thrown out by security. If we want to know how he truly feels, it looks like we will have to catch him on his Ego Death World Tour later this year.
This article was originally posted on Bossip.com.
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Will Parker On Good Morning America
It literally feels like Day 151 of Oscar-Gate or ‘The Slap’—whichever one you prefer. Will Packer, film director and producer of the Oscars, was on Good Morning America and said Will Smith has called him. Source: https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1509852066147098629
Eddie Murphy Prepping To Play George Clinton
Eddie Murphy will play George Clinton in an upcoming biopic. Currently George and Eddie’s teams are finalizing the rights. Once all parties are able to move forward the script will be done. The biopic will focus on Clinton’s youth in North Carolina all the way to his legendary musical journey.
Erica Campbell Had a Bad Experience with Lipo
Erica Campbell was on The Tamron Hall Show where she shared a bad experience she had with liposuction many years ago. Have you seen Erica lately? She looks great! She worked out during the pandemic and shared the videos online.
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DL Hughley Apologizes to Chris Rock
Our afternoon man, DL Hughley has issued an apology to Chris Rock for not taking more time and giving more discussion to how he must feel after the Oscars. You can catch DL Hughley today at 3pm right here on 106.7 WTLC.
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Yung Miami chose fashion violence in a recent Instagram post as she slayed in an $11,000 black leather-embroidered Chanel jacket to promote The City Girls’ new single, with Fivio Foreign, Top Notch.
Yung Miami didn’t hold back with her current outfit choice as she confidently posed in a luxurious ensemble for her 5 million Instagram followers. Fresh off of releasing her latest single Top Notch with fellow group member JT featuring Fivio Foreign, Yung Miami is showing her fans that she is just that – top notch.
To go with the extravagant, designer jacket, Yung Miami (styled by @thekcexperience_) sported a LaPerla lace bra, fitted leather shorts, and Christian Louboutin thigh-high boots accompanied by a mini Chanel bag belt strapped around her right thigh.
Yung Miami captioned her jazzy photo, “Not nann b!tch in the world look like this!!! Top notch b!tch.
#Topnotch Out now!” And of course her followers went berserk soon after the photos were uploaded.
Celebrities like LaLa commented under her picture with, “Let’s goooooo.”
Rapper Latto quoted one of Yung Miami’s verses from her latest single while reality television star, Erica Mena declared that Yung Miami’s photo caption will be the “CAPTIONs for the wholeeeee summaaa.” Her followers were feeling her look while simultaneously showing excitement for her latest single.
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So—maybe Republicans are just racist. Maybe the people who act like critical race theory is Black supremacy and white slavery are just tired of seeing Black representation everywhere.
I just can’t think of another viable reason for why, in Florida, GOP legislators overwhelmingly voted against naming the federal courthouse in Tallahassee after Judge Joseph Hatchett, “the first Black judge since reconstruction to win a contested statewide race in Florida, defending his seat on the Florida Supreme Court–where he had been the first Black man to sit as a judge,” according to the Tallahassee Democrat.
The wild thing is it was damn near already a done deal. Six months ago, all 29 members of the Florida Congressional delegation supported a proposal by Congressman Al Lawson (D-Tallahassee) to honor Hatchett, who died last April at age 88, by designating a courthouse on Adams Street as the “Joseph Woodrow Hatchett U.S. Courthouse Federal Building.” It was a bipartisan effort that was even sponsored by Republican U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott. It had already passed the Senate unanimously. But on Wednesday, when the measure was presented on the House floor, 10 Florida House members including Republican Panama City Rep. Neal Dunn voted it down.
“To witness, on the House floor, Republican vote changes (against) the bill during the final seconds of roll call was abhorrent,” Lawson said Thursday.
So what reasons did opponents of the measure give for blocking it?
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Georgia Republican Congressman Andrew Clyde rallied opposition to the Hatchett designation because of a 1999 opinion Hatchett authored that prohibited prayer at public school graduations.
“I let (that) be known,” Clyde said, according to Axios.
Lawson lashed out Clyde for working against the bill: “Clyde is also one of the three members who opposed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act,” which now makes lynching a federal hate crime.
So, Hatchett, who was not only the first Black judge on the state Supreme Court but was named by President Jimmy Carter as the first Black judge to serve on a federal appeals court in the South, wasn’t worthy of the honor because—he didn’t think public school graduations should host what would likely be exclusively Christian prayer circles? Are we sure that Clyde, who also is apparently against anti-lynching laws, isn’t just f**** racist?
Anyway, because of the sudden GOP 180 on the measure, the bill fell 45 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to designate the building in Hatchett’s honor.
“All but one of the 220 House Democrats who voted on the bill supported it,” the Democrat reported. “Just 19 of 205 Republicans, including six Floridians, voted yes.”
“Judge Hatchett was a true social justice pioneer and public servant,” Lawson said. “(He) was dedicated to his home state of Florida, where he served in many positions in the military and the federal and local justice systems. It would’ve been an honor to recognize such a leader.”
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Black Man Spent Years In Prison–No Conviction
If anyone ever wondered why Black people avoid non-Black spaces, this is why.
We all know that being the only Black person in a predominately white space can put one in the spotlight and with a target on their back if anything goes wrong. In the case of Emanuel Fair, it was that reality that cost a Black man more than eight years of his life—which he spent in lockup without a single conviction. Fair is now suing everyone involved with his imprisonment.
According to Rolling Stone, Fair attended a Halloween party at the Valley View Apartments in Redmond, Washington, in 2008. It was essentially a small block party where numerous residents had their apartment doors open to party-goers. But Fair was not a resident. Fair had been staying with a friend, Leslie Potts. Fair didn’t know anyone else at the party, which he had no idea was taking place as he had just begun his stay in Potts’ apartment. So a few of Potts’ neighbors helped him pull together a “construction worker” costume to celebrate the festivities. Rolling Stone’s report noted that others who attended the party said he was relatively quiet—which makes sense if he knew next to no one—but mostly, he was referred to as “the Black guy,” as he was apparently the only Black man there.
And that’s exactly what made him the one and only suspect arrested when 24-year-old software engineer Arpana Jinaga, one of the party’s hosts, was found beaten, sexually assaulted, and strangled to death in her apartment on November 1 of that year.
The lead detective in the case, Brian Coat, reportedly looked through photos of the party when he noticed Fair, who he referred to as “the only African American male at the party,” which led Coat to feel he looked like an “outsider.” And that’s what racial profiling is all about. Being Black makes one hypervisible when a crime has been committed. All that has to happen is white people seeing a Black person and deciding they don’t belong—that’s enough to make us suspicious.
Now, it turned out Fair did have a criminal record—mostly juvenile offenses, but also a third-degree rape charge he spent three years in prison for. In that case, Fair had entered an Alford plea, which Rolling Stone noted “meant that he accepted the plea agreement while still maintaining his innocence — a common tactic when you can’t afford to go to trial. He spent three years in prison for the charge.”
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Rolling Stone’s account of Fair’s case and the investigation into Jinaga’s murder is based on more than a thousand pages of case files and legal documents. They show that there was persuasive evidence against at least six other suspects that the detectives were investigating — none of whom were Black, and none of whom spent a day in jail for Jinaga’s murder. Fair’s lawsuit claims the detectives on the case “ignored and failed to gather evidence that did not align with their theory of the case.” It also alleges they treated Fair so differently than the white suspects that “the treatment can only be viewed as racial discrimination.”
The case files show breaches of protocol that span from careless errors — such as not training their detectives to change gloves between DNA samples and not securing key locations of the crime scene — to calling in a famous psychic medium to weigh in on the case. Those protocol failures, the suit alleges, in concert with the detectives’ apparent racial discrimination, deprived Emanuel Fair of his civil rights, and denied Arpana Jinaga any chance at justice.
“I’ve never seen a worse case,” says Corinne Sebren, one of Fair’s lawyers, who specializes in civil rights cases. “There’s very little justice left to salvage.” There is, however, a person trying to salvage a life interrupted, trying to return to life after a decade in purgatory, thanks to a legal system that still won’t concede it’s done anything wrong.
These people really called in a psychic.
Investigators found Fair’s DNA in Jinaga’s apartment, but dozens of people had been in and out of her apartment so that didn’t mean much. But investigators also found a match on Jinaga’s robe and a roll of duct tape reportedly used to gag her.
But DNA that didn’t match Fair was found on a bruise on Jinga’s wrist and on a tampon that had been removed from her body before her death. Police files “show that there are multiple other men in Jinaga’s life that had as much, if not more, evidence against them,” Rolling Stone reported, but only one man was arrested—the Black guy who didn’t belong.
While Fair, who had been charged with first-degree murder, was being held in King County Jail on a seven-figure bail his family couldn’t afford, he had his first trial in 2017. The jury deadlocked and he was tried again in 2019 when a jury found him not guilty.
It was a crime in which there were no witnesses, no confessions, and, ultimately, no justice for Jinga.
And now Fair wants everyone involved in his imprisonment to say “I’m sorry” with their wallets.
If anyone ever wondered why Black people avoid non-Black spaces, this is why.
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124 Black Men And Boys Killed By Police
124 Black Men And Boys Killed By Police
1. Thelonious “RaRa” McKnight
1 of 122Plain clothes police in Paterson, New Jersey shot and killed 25 year-old #TheloniusMcKnight.
— zellie (@zellieimani) January 2, 2022
Multiple Paterson police have been indicted for lying on police reports.
Help us demand transparency by signing our petition. #blm @communityxapp https://t.co/iUVpdsfPyS pic.twitter.com/BKUNDLgyz4
2. Kokou Christopher Fiafonou
Source:Kossi Adayi 2 of 1223. Alhaji M. Sow
Source:iOne Digital 3 of 1224. Anthony Harden
4 of 122Family of Anthony Harden sharing this photo of the 30-year-old who was shot and killed by Fall River Police yesterday, according to @BristolDA. Family says the incident should have been handled differently and that Harden should still be alive #WCVB https://t.co/p4H2TSpF10 pic.twitter.com/rZR3AXpEXO
— Matt Reed (@MattReedNews) November 23, 2021
5. Andra Murphy
5 of 122NEWS ALERT: @AttorneyCrump has released a statement and been retained by the family of Andra Murphy, a Black man who was shot and killed by Bolivar police officers outside of the Hardeman County Justice Complex on the morning of Oct. 6. pic.twitter.com/YegHc56xhn
— Ben Crump Law, PLLC (@BenCrumpLaw) October 20, 2021
6. George Watson
6 of 1227. Antwan Gilmore
7 of 122This is 27 year old Antwan Gilmore. He was killed YESTERDAY by DC police. The cop found him asleep in his car, tapped on the window, and immediately fired multiple shots and killed him. pic.twitter.com/cYUgNuR47m
— Olayemi Olurin (@msolurin) August 27, 2021
8. Robert Anderson, 38
8 of 12238 YEAR OLD DETROIT BLACK MAN SHOT IN BACK 8X AND KILLED IN CRESCENT CITY CA. OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING?
— JudiWoolworthDonahue (@Gldneaple) August 27, 2021
38YR OLD ROBERT ANDERSON FROM DETROIT, MICHIGAN.
Man killed in officer-involved shooting #newsroom #community #news #ca…https://t.co/6O4kSFS7il https://t.co/ujKUbfxHzX
9. Tory Brown, 22
9 of 122#BlackLivesMatter: 22-year-old Tory Brown was gunned down by officers who said he had a warrant out of Clayton County for violation of probation, and that he refused to comply.https://t.co/l5SWDJqQcl pic.twitter.com/ccoimuy9W9
— NewsOne (@newsone) August 25, 2021
10. Ryan LeRoux, 21
10 of 12211. Leneal Frazier, 40
Source:Getty 11 of 12212. Demetrius Stanley, 31
12 of 122Demetrius Stanley was murdered by plain clothes police officers two nights ago. They came in an unmarked van and were stalking the outside of Demetrius’ family home. He went outside to check and they shot him from inside their car. They never ID themselves. #ripmeech#blackpower pic.twitter.com/qYL1GHNsho
— B.L.A.C.K. Outreach (@blackoutreachsj) June 2, 2021
13. Ashton Pinke, 27
13 of 12227-year old Ashton Pinke was shot-and-killed by Mesquite Police Department officers, today. Investigators report he charged with a “knife and a club” following a 911 hang-up call by a screaming woman. Family members question the report. Our full story airs on @FOX4 at 9/10. pic.twitter.com/SD2AAK76p3
— David Sentendrey (@DavidSFOX4) May 5, 2021
14. Andrew Brown, 42
14 of 122BREAKING: The man fatally shot by a deputy today in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, was Andrew Brown.
— WAVY TV 10 (@WAVY_News) April 21, 2021
Deputies were serving a search warrant when Brown was shot while driving away, witnesses say.
Neighbors say they heard anywhere from 6 to 8 shots. https://t.co/w7dyIQ5zdX
15. Matthew Williams, 35
15 of 122At 5 @wsbtv: the family of 35 year old Matthew Williams are demanding that body camera footage of his shooting death be released. Dekalb police shot & killed Williams at his home Monday. They say he lunged at officers with a knife. Family say he was running away from officers pic.twitter.com/Ky4ssoYTFp
— Justin Gray (@JustinGrayWSB) April 14, 2021
16. Daunte Wright, 20
Source:Twitter/@MeritLaw 16 of 12217. Marvin D. Scott III, 26
Source:GoFundMe 17 of 12218. Kurt Reinhold, 42
Source:Getty 18 of 12219. McHale Rose, 19
19 of 122JUSTICE FOR MCHALE ROSE!
— Hustle House (@hustlehousellc) August 6, 2020
Mchale was killed by 4 officers within hours of the killing of Dreasjon Reed. Because of this, his story has gotten clouded and we need awareness! Mchale was a personal friend of mine and the sweetest boy ever. He & his family deserve justice! pic.twitter.com/SutjQn4fjy
20. Xzavier Hill, 18
Source:Change.org 20 of 122Xzavier Hill's family deserves justice. Virginia laws do not require the VSP to release footage, nor to wear body cameras. He was 18, and his whole life was ahead of him.
— melanie (@smellllanie) January 19, 2021
NAACP: Justice For Xzavier - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/a30fgNP9mk via @Change
21. Frederick Cox, 18
Source:Facebook/Tenicka Shannon 21 of 12222. Patrick Warren Sr.
Source:Patrick Warren Jr. 22 of 12223. Carl Dorsey III, 39
23 of 122Man shot to death in Police involved shooting in Newark is identified as 39 year old Carl Dorsey III. https://t.co/hdtmb6w0Il
— The Tornado News (@TheTornadoNews) January 6, 2021
24. Dolal Idd, 23
Source:GoFundMe 24 of 12225. Andre' Hill, 47
25 of 122An attorney who has represented the families of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor says he is now working for the family of Andre' Hill, the man killed by a Columbus police officer early Tuesday.https://t.co/9yXaqYKHfu
— NBC4 Columbus (@nbc4i) December 24, 2020
26. Joshua Feast
26 of 122Joshua Feast was fatally shot in the BACK by La Marque PD officer Jose Santos as he was running away, posing no threat. Witnesses report Santos refused to render aid to Joshua after shooting him AND then kicked his body, already debilitated by the bullet. #JusticeForJoshuaFeast pic.twitter.com/zO46PCsGzO
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) December 12, 2020
27. Maurice Gordon
Source:Mercury LLC 27 of 12228. Casey Goodson Jr.
Source:Walton + Brown, LLP 28 of 12229. Rodney Applewhite
Source:Ben Crump 29 of 12230. A.J. Crooms
30 of 122A Florida sheriff's officer shot and killed two Black teens, A.J. Crooms and Sincere Pierce.
— AJ+ (@ajplus) November 19, 2020
Here's what we know so far: pic.twitter.com/A8FRNS93L6
31. Sincere Pierce
31 of 122MOTHER SPEAKS: Cynthia Green of #Cocoa speaks out about her son 18 yr old Sincere Pierce, shot and killed in deputy involved double shooting last Friday. Says she isn’t getting answers and still hasn’t seen her son’s body. @MyNews13 #News13Brevard pic.twitter.com/hYFxZEOqz6
— Greg Pallone (@gpallone13) November 17, 2020
32. Walter Wallace Jr.
32 of 122Then they murdered Walter Wallace JR. #justiceforwalterwallace pic.twitter.com/JdCBgmMVl3
— BLM Philly (@BLMPhilly) November 13, 2020
33. Marcellis Stinnette, teen killed by police in Waukegan, Illinois
Source:Twitter 33 of 12234. Jonathan Price
34 of 122The Texas police officer who fatally shot Jonathan Price has been arrested and charged with murder. His bail has been set at 1 million dollars. I'm glad. RIP Jonathan, rest in power. pic.twitter.com/Mw5GMQX0Eb
— ~𝓣𝓮𝓷𝓪𝓬𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓣𝓮𝓪𝓱~ (@TeahCartel) October 6, 2020
35. Deon Kay
35 of 122Say his name #deonkay
— All Out DC (@All_Out_DC) September 3, 2020
Say his name #deonkay
Say his name #deonkay
Say his name #deonkay
Say his name #deonkay
He just turned 18 and @DCPoliceDept murdered him pic.twitter.com/NjyGxYB8ar
36. Daniel Prude
36 of 122The killing of Daniel Prude by Rochester police officers is unacceptable, and we need real answers for why this happened and why it took so long to come out.
— Jeremy Cooney (@JeremyCooneyROC) September 2, 2020
Trained medical professionals should respond to mental health crises, not armed officers. pic.twitter.com/EPhH9inn1x
37. Damian Daniels
37 of 122Yesterday in SA cops killed Sergeant Damian Lamar Daniels in front of his home. His family asked the Red Cross to get him to the VA.
— Lee Merritt (@MerrittForTexas) August 27, 2020
He had a legal gun on his hip that he never removed. He didn’t want to go and he struggled when they tried to force him.
So they killed him. pic.twitter.com/q6U7OSXb6D
38. Dijon Kizzee
38 of 122This is #DijonKizzee, 29 yrs old and shot and killed by LA Sheriffs after being stopped for a bike violation. Cops handcuffed his lifeless body. While police investigations can drag on for months/years, cops have already claimed he ran away, and dropped clothes and a gun. #BLM pic.twitter.com/pM6mQfWLeQ
— Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) September 1, 2020
39. Trayford Pellerin
Source:GoFundMe 39 of 12240. David McAtee
40 of 122in an attempt to disperse crowds, #DavidMcAtee, a louisville bbq chef known for serving cops free meals, was shot and killed by the police last night. he was unarmed. not only were the officers’ bodycams off, but they also left his body on the street for 12 hours.
— adaliah 🇹🇬 (@adxlls) June 2, 2020
say his name. pic.twitter.com/kqOPku8iuQ
41. Natosha “Tony” McDade
41 of 12242. George Floyd
42 of 122This is #GeorgeFloyd speaking to the youth before he died. pic.twitter.com/sMV8YOoTlQ
— Dr Boyce Watkins (@drboycewatkins1) May 27, 2020
43. Yassin Mohamed
43 of 122The GBI is investigating an OIS involving the Evans County Sheriff's Office and Yassin Mohamed. Mohamed is deceased. https://t.co/KwJi3e1YDc pic.twitter.com/2LQNnEhWOE
— GA Bureau of Investigation (@GBI_GA) May 9, 2020
44. Finan H. Berhe
44 of 122Montgomery County Police Tweet Video Of Cop Shooting Finan H. Berhe In Maryland https://t.co/HzNV24ZpZB
— The Bishop Speaks (@JMcCorrySpeaks) May 9, 2020
45. Sean Reed
Source:Twitter 45 of 12246. Steven Demarco Taylor
Source:S. Lee Merritt 46 of 12247. Ariane McCree
Source:The Herald/YouTube 47 of 12248. Terrance Franklin
48 of 122The City of Minneapolis has reached a $795,000 settlement with the family of Terrance Franklin, fatally shot by officers in 2013.https://t.co/ewKclYB2Pg pic.twitter.com/JzMIl7USoh
— KARE 11 (@kare11) February 14, 2020
49. Miles Hall
Source:KRON4 49 of 12250. Darius Tarver
Source:S. Lee Merritt 50 of 12251. William Green
51 of 122They murdered my cousin. How do you have someone in handcuffs and in a seat belt and shoot them multilpe times.All cops aren't bad but those were. I will fight with the last breath in me for justice. William Green was a family man, a working man. Funny. Loving. Love and miss you. pic.twitter.com/PhM3a6C7uj
— Liv 👸🏾 (@liv__03) January 28, 2020
52. Samuel David Mallard, 19
52 of 122This is a 2019 mugshot of the murder suspect Cobb police shot & killed today. Samuel Mallard, 19, was previously arrested for impersonating officers a half dozen times. In the 2020 case, the GBI says he’s involved in a murder/robbery. CCPD says there are other suspects. @wsbtv https://t.co/7EfuVQLmNB pic.twitter.com/ttWg5HjFkj
— Chris Jose (@ChrisJoseWSB) January 17, 2020
53. Kwame "KK" Jones, 17
Source:facebook 53 of 12254. De’von Bailey, 19
54 of 122Grand jury rules fatal officers' shooting of Devon Bailey was justified. https://t.co/MHXYQn87aH
— Scott Kilbury (@SKilburyFOX21) November 14, 2019
55. Christopher Whitfield, 31
55 of 122Cop Shoots, Kills Mentally Ill Black Man #ChristopherWhitfield As He Ran Away With Foodhttps://t.co/40a5i5QnEZ pic.twitter.com/nqsIRK6JZe
— Benjamin Young Savage (ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ) (@benjancewicz) October 16, 2019
56. Anthony Hill, 26
56 of 122Former Officer Robert Olsen killed Anthony Hill over four years ago and was finally convicted (not of murder). Will get get the Amber Guyger treatment? #AnthonyHillhttps://t.co/HZVf3tOEOL
— NewsOne (@newsone) October 25, 2019
57. De'Von Bailey, 19
57 of 12258. Eric Logan, 54
58 of 122BREAKING NEWS OUT OF SOUTH BEND:
— Joshua Short (@JoshuaShortTV) June 27, 2019
Two lawyers representing the estate of 54-year-old Eric Logan, who was shot and killed by a South Bend police officer, have sued that officer, Sgt. Ryan O'Neill and Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
The suit was filed in federal court today.
(READ THREAD) pic.twitter.com/frOpKFQIAV
59. Jamarion Robinson, 26
59 of 122Please join the family of Jamarion Robinson and community organizations on 8/5 to demand #justiceforjam #justiceforjamarion #76shots pic.twitter.com/wpVAoqmiQA
— Tiff Roberts (@shedefendsit) July 27, 2017
60. Gregory Hill Jr., 30
60 of 122Gregory Hill, Jr. - the family of Greg Hill grants permission to use these photos to honor Greg or tell his story. pic.twitter.com/uhn1RbEQBv
— John M. Phillips (@JohnPhillips) June 1, 2018
61. JaQuavion Slaton, 20
61 of 122This is Jaquavion Slaton, the 20-year-old who was was shot & killed by Fort Worth Police on Sunday. Community demanding release of body camera video, but FWPD hasn’t said when/if that will happen. #WFAA pic.twitter.com/iakQyWrRCl
— Teresa Woodard (@twoodard8) June 10, 2019
62. Ryan Twyman, 24
62 of 12263. Brandon Webber, 20
63 of 12264. Jimmy Atchison, 21
64 of 122
65. Willie McCoy, 20
65 of 122One of six officers who fired at Willie McCoy had killed unarmed man in 2018 || Via: Guardian https://t.co/CjrSIa8r1Z
— SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) February 23, 2019
66. Emantic "EJ" Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., 21
66 of 12267. D’ettrick Griffin, 18
67 of 122Family of D’Ettrick Griffin, man fatally shot by police while trying to steal an unmarked cruiser, is suing City of Atlanta and officer involved https://t.co/4oBbxFAvoF pic.twitter.com/0KMeVwST9I
— CBS46 (@cbs46) February 8, 2019
68. Jemel Roberson, 26
Source:false 68 of 122Security guard Jemel Roberson was holding down a shooting suspect when police burst in and shot Roberson instead. pic.twitter.com/zNsYvQMRg8
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) November 14, 2018
69. DeAndre Ballard, 23
Source:false 69 of 122#NCCU remembers Fallen Eagle, Mr. DeAndre Ballard. A vigil will be held on Sun., 9/23, 11 a.m., in the A.E. Student Union lobby. https://t.co/4rnPAX1wlG #SoarInPeace pic.twitter.com/RZZxKJaivh
— N.C. Central University (@NCCU) September 21, 2018
70. Botham Shem Jean, 26
Source:false 70 of 122The young man who was killed by a Dallas police officer in his own apartment this morning has been identified as 26-year-old Botham Jean. He worked at the PwC firm in Downtown Dallas. https://t.co/oyjHMdMXVv pic.twitter.com/uSvJWJ062e
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) September 7, 2018
71. Antwon Rose Jr., 17
Source:false 71 of 12272. Robert Lawrence White, 41
Source:false 72 of 12273. Anthony Lamar Smith, 24
Source:Getty 73 of 12274. Ramarley Graham, 18
Source:Getty 74 of 12275. Manuel Loggins Jr., 31
Source:Getty 75 of 12276. Trayvon Martin, 17
Source:Getty 76 of 12277. Wendell Allen, 20
Source:Getty 77 of 12278. Kendrec McDade, 19
Source:Getty 78 of 12279. Larry Jackson Jr., 32
Source:Getty 79 of 12280. Jonathan Ferrell, 24
Source:Getty 80 of 12281. Jordan Baker, 26
Source:Getty 81 of 12282. Victor White lll, 22
Source:Getty 82 of 12283. Dontre Hamilton, 31
Source:Getty 83 of 12284. Eric Garner, 43
Source:Getty 84 of 12285. John Crawford lll, 22
Source:Getty 85 of 12286. Michael Brown, 18
Source:Getty 86 of 12287. Ezell Ford, 25
Source:Getty 87 of 12288. Dante Parker, 36
Source:Getty 88 of 12289. Kajieme Powell, 25
Source:Getty 89 of 12290. Laquan McDonald, 17
Source:Getty 90 of 12291. Akai Gurley, 28
Source:Getty 91 of 12292. Tamir Rice, 12
Source:Getty 92 of 12293. Rumain Brisbon, 34
Source:Getty 93 of 12294. Jerame Reid, 36
Source:Getty 94 of 12295. Charly Keunang, 43
Source:Getty 95 of 12296. Tony Robinson, 19
Source:Getty 96 of 12297. Walter Scott, 50
Source:Getty 97 of 12298. Freddie Gray, 25
Source:Getty 98 of 12299. Brendon Glenn, 29
Source:Getty 99 of 122100. Samuel DuBose, 43
Source:Getty 100 of 122101. Christian Taylor, 19
Source:Getty 101 of 122102. Jamar Clark, 24
Source:Getty 102 of 122103. Mario Woods, 26
Source:Getty 103 of 122104. Quintonio LeGrier, 19
Source:Getty 104 of 122105. Gregory Gunn, 58
Source:Getty 105 of 122106. Akiel Denkins, 24
Source:Getty 106 of 122107. Alton Sterling, 37
Source:Getty 107 of 122108. Philando Castile, 32
Source:Getty 108 of 122109. Terrence Sterling, 31
Source:Getty 109 of 122110. Terence Crutcher, 40
Source:Getty 110 of 122111. Keith Lamont Scott, 43
Source:Getty 111 of 122112. Alfred Olango, 38
Source:Getty 112 of 122113. Jordan Edwards, 15
Source:Getty 113 of 122114. Stephon Clark, 22
Source:false 114 of 122Please, do not forget #BlackLivesMatter #StephonClark pic.twitter.com/474DSVBGLm
— Zendaya (@Zendaya) March 27, 2018
115. Danny Ray Thomas, 34
Source:false 115 of 122
116. DeJuan Guillory, 27
Source:false 116 of 122DeJuan Guillory #TakeAKnee4Me pic.twitter.com/SrSaweU6dY
— Faces Of Injustice (@takeaknee4me) October 12, 2017
117. Patrick Harmon, 50
117 of 122Patrick Harmon was shot and killed by police in Salt Lake City, Utah. The district attorney says the shooting was "legally justified." pic.twitter.com/zYBOwlTzRb
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 7, 2017
118. Jonathan Hart, 21
118 of 122Friends and family of Jonathan Heart aka Sky Young, a young #homeless man killed last Sunday at a Walgreens in #Hollywood for allegedly shoplifting, gather tonight to remember the 20-year-old. pic.twitter.com/uiMRiFnutq
— Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) December 9, 2018
119. Maurice Granton, 24
119 of 122Dash cam footage of police killing Maurice Granton Jr. has been released. His family says it proves that he was unarmed pic.twitter.com/YLAM7my1ny
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 26, 2018
120. Julius Johnson, 23
120 of 122
121. Jamee Johnson, 22
Source:S. Lee Merritt 121 of 122122. Michael Dean, 28
Source:S. Lee Merritt 122 of 122124 Black Men And Boys Killed By Police
UPDATED: 11:30 a.m. ET, Mar. 24, 2022 -- The centuries-old American tradition of police shooting and killing Black males suffered an untraditional jolt in April when former cop Derek Chauvin was found guilty and convicted on all counts for murdering George Floyd by kneeling on the unarmed, handcuffed man's neck for more than nine minutes. But it has been a quick resumption to police normalcy with multiple killings of Black people by law enforcement since the day of Chauvin's verdict. MORE: #SayHerName: Black Women And Girls Killed By Police On March 19, Irvin D. Moorer Charley was shot and killed by Richland County police in Columbia, South Carolina. Moorer Charley suffered from mental health issues. According to officials, deputies, John Anderson and Zachary Hentz were responding to a domestic violence call at the house of Connie Craig, the mother of the victim. When they arrived on the scene, Moorer Charley came outside and approached officers with a piece of wood in hand. Officers believed it to be a knife. His brother pleaded with the deputies not to shoot because Moorer Charley didn’t have a gun and had a history of mental illness. According to the body cam footage, which was edited and shared with the family, Moorer Charley slowly approached a deputy, the officer pointed his gun at him yelling for him to drop the knife. Another officer then tased Moorer Charley, but the taser had little affect on him. The deputy who yelled at Moorer Charley to drop his weapon then shoots him seven times until Moorer Charley falls to the ground. Moorer Charley’s family has demanded the full video be released to the public, but Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott believes the shooting isn’t something everyone needs to see. https://twitter.com/MakaylaEvans21/status/1506689894244134927?s=20&t=__i5SQuqNE0E0ErCvCo_FQ Lott also defended the actions of his deputies basically stating they did what they had to do. “We can’t expect these deputies to go out here and be killed,” said Lott in a statement to the AP. “They have to protect themselves. And that’s what this deputy did yesterday. He protected himself.” But the family’s attorney Shaquana Cuttino believes deputies had no right to kill Moorer Charley. “We believe officers could have disarmed Mr. Charley easily and without the use of deadly force,” said Cuttin. “Yet they came in with guns blazing.” The Richland County Sheriff’s Department will be investing the incident with an internal investigation, then a prosecutor will decide if the shooting was justified. Moorer Charley's name joins a long list of too many other Black men and boys killed by the police, including people who have become household names for all the wrong reasons like Tamir Rice, Botham Jean, E.J. Bradford, and Michael Brown. But there are plenty of others whose police killings never went "viral," including people like Michael Dean, a 28-year-old father who police shot in the head on Dec. 3, 2019, and Jamee Johnson, a 22-year-old HBCU student who police shot to death after a questionable traffic stop on Dec. 14, 2019. One of the most distressing parts of this seemingly nonstop string of police killings of Black people is the fact that more times than not, the officer involved in the shooting can hide behind the claim that they feared for their lives -- even if the victim was shot in the back, as has become the case for so many deadly episodes involving law enforcement. In a handful of those cases -- such as Antwon Rose, a 13-year-old boy killed in Pittsburgh, and Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old killed in Sacramento, both of whom were unarmed -- the officers either avoided being criminally charged altogether or were acquitted despite damning evidence that the cops' lives were not threatened and there was no cause for them to resort to lethal force or any violence for that matter. Crump, who has been retained in so many of these cases, described the above scenarios in his book, "Open Season," as the "genocide" of Black people. As NewsOne continues covering these shootings that so often go ignored by mainstream media, the below running list (in no certain order) of Black men and boys who have been shot and killed by police under suspicious circumstances can serve as a tragic reminder of the dangers Black and brown citizens face upon being born into a world of hate that has branded them as suspects since birth. Scroll down to learn more about the Black men and boys who have lost their lives to police violence.
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So why did Thompson feel so threatened that he felt the need to shoot?
Police brutality has cost the state of Georgia nearly $5 million—all because a cop couldn’t put his fragile blue ego aside and understand that a short car chase doesn’t warrant the execution of a Black man.
According to 11 Alive, on Aug. 7, 2020, Julian Lewis was shot dead by Georgia state trooper Jacob Thompson following a chase in Screven County. Now, attorneys for Lewis’ widow, Betty Lewis, said Thompson had pulled Julian over for a broken taillight that wasn’t actually broken. The attorneys also said Lewis wasn’t attempting to run from the police, he was simply waiting until he felt safe enough to pull over.
“It is believed that Lewis was attempting to drive toward a more familiar area where he knew other people would be present—a practice commonly taught to people who may feel vulnerable in isolated areas where there is nobody else present to witness events,” lawyers with Hall & Lampros, LLP said in a statement. “Lewis activated his turn signals in both directions, which is often a sign of acknowledgment to an officer.”
Unfortunately, Black motorists often aren’t afforded the recognition of basic humanity that says we too get nervous, feel unsafe, and don’t immediately pull over for cops, not because we intend to flee, but because we’re waiting for surroundings that make us less anxious.
What we know for certain, according to a report by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, is that Thompson followed Lewis down several county roads before performing a PIT maneuver to stop Lewis’ vehicle. Thompson then “fired one round” and Lewis was pronounced dead at the scene. The GBI also said that “less than two seconds passed from the time the trooper opened the door” to the time he fired the shot that killed Lewis. Less. Than. Two. Seconds.
So why did Thompson feel so threatened that he felt the need to shoot? Well, according to the GBI report reviewed by Betty’s lawyers, he said he heard Lewis’ engine “revving at a high rate of speed” making him fear for his life.
For all these “blue lives matter” advocates talk about how brave and heroic police officers are, cops sure do seem to scare easy. An engine allegedly revs and Thompson’s first inclination was alleged murder. (Thompson is currently facing murder charges related to the incident, according to 11 Alive.)
Then there’s the question of why TF lewis was pulled over in the first place, because, according to the attorneys, the GBI investigation “proved that neither taillight on Lewis’s car was in a condition to justify probable cause for a stop and that the PIT maneuver caused Lewis’s battery cable and air filter to disengage—which completely disabled the engine in his Nissan Sentra, making it impossible to rev as the trooper stated in the incident report.”
Never take a cop’s word at face value. This can’t be emphasized enough.
The attorneys said there was no body camera footage and that they never received dashcam footage from the stop.
Betty has still yet to receive justice for her husband’s killing, but she has received what her attorneys called “the largest in Georgia history in state records dating back to 1990”—$4.8 million.
“Our hearts grieve for Betty Lewis, who lost her Golden Years with her husband because of unwarranted and unnecessary deadly force during what should have been a routine traffic stop,” Hall & Lampros co-founder Andrew Lampros said in a statement.
So, now we wait to see if Thompson is brought to justice.
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124 Black Men And Boys Killed By Police
124 Black Men And Boys Killed By Police
1. Thelonious “RaRa” McKnight
1 of 122Plain clothes police in Paterson, New Jersey shot and killed 25 year-old #TheloniusMcKnight.
— zellie (@zellieimani) January 2, 2022
Multiple Paterson police have been indicted for lying on police reports.
Help us demand transparency by signing our petition. #blm @communityxapp https://t.co/iUVpdsfPyS pic.twitter.com/BKUNDLgyz4
2. Kokou Christopher Fiafonou
Source:Kossi Adayi 2 of 1223. Alhaji M. Sow
Source:iOne Digital 3 of 1224. Anthony Harden
4 of 122Family of Anthony Harden sharing this photo of the 30-year-old who was shot and killed by Fall River Police yesterday, according to @BristolDA. Family says the incident should have been handled differently and that Harden should still be alive #WCVB https://t.co/p4H2TSpF10 pic.twitter.com/rZR3AXpEXO
— Matt Reed (@MattReedNews) November 23, 2021
5. Andra Murphy
5 of 122NEWS ALERT: @AttorneyCrump has released a statement and been retained by the family of Andra Murphy, a Black man who was shot and killed by Bolivar police officers outside of the Hardeman County Justice Complex on the morning of Oct. 6. pic.twitter.com/YegHc56xhn
— Ben Crump Law, PLLC (@BenCrumpLaw) October 20, 2021
6. George Watson
6 of 1227. Antwan Gilmore
7 of 122This is 27 year old Antwan Gilmore. He was killed YESTERDAY by DC police. The cop found him asleep in his car, tapped on the window, and immediately fired multiple shots and killed him. pic.twitter.com/cYUgNuR47m
— Olayemi Olurin (@msolurin) August 27, 2021
8. Robert Anderson, 38
8 of 12238 YEAR OLD DETROIT BLACK MAN SHOT IN BACK 8X AND KILLED IN CRESCENT CITY CA. OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING?
— JudiWoolworthDonahue (@Gldneaple) August 27, 2021
38YR OLD ROBERT ANDERSON FROM DETROIT, MICHIGAN.
Man killed in officer-involved shooting #newsroom #community #news #ca…https://t.co/6O4kSFS7il https://t.co/ujKUbfxHzX
9. Tory Brown, 22
9 of 122#BlackLivesMatter: 22-year-old Tory Brown was gunned down by officers who said he had a warrant out of Clayton County for violation of probation, and that he refused to comply.https://t.co/l5SWDJqQcl pic.twitter.com/ccoimuy9W9
— NewsOne (@newsone) August 25, 2021
10. Ryan LeRoux, 21
10 of 12211. Leneal Frazier, 40
Source:Getty 11 of 12212. Demetrius Stanley, 31
12 of 122Demetrius Stanley was murdered by plain clothes police officers two nights ago. They came in an unmarked van and were stalking the outside of Demetrius’ family home. He went outside to check and they shot him from inside their car. They never ID themselves. #ripmeech#blackpower pic.twitter.com/qYL1GHNsho
— B.L.A.C.K. Outreach (@blackoutreachsj) June 2, 2021
13. Ashton Pinke, 27
13 of 12227-year old Ashton Pinke was shot-and-killed by Mesquite Police Department officers, today. Investigators report he charged with a “knife and a club” following a 911 hang-up call by a screaming woman. Family members question the report. Our full story airs on @FOX4 at 9/10. pic.twitter.com/SD2AAK76p3
— David Sentendrey (@DavidSFOX4) May 5, 2021
14. Andrew Brown, 42
14 of 122BREAKING: The man fatally shot by a deputy today in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, was Andrew Brown.
— WAVY TV 10 (@WAVY_News) April 21, 2021
Deputies were serving a search warrant when Brown was shot while driving away, witnesses say.
Neighbors say they heard anywhere from 6 to 8 shots. https://t.co/w7dyIQ5zdX
15. Matthew Williams, 35
15 of 122At 5 @wsbtv: the family of 35 year old Matthew Williams are demanding that body camera footage of his shooting death be released. Dekalb police shot & killed Williams at his home Monday. They say he lunged at officers with a knife. Family say he was running away from officers pic.twitter.com/Ky4ssoYTFp
— Justin Gray (@JustinGrayWSB) April 14, 2021
16. Daunte Wright, 20
Source:Twitter/@MeritLaw 16 of 12217. Marvin D. Scott III, 26
Source:GoFundMe 17 of 12218. Kurt Reinhold, 42
Source:Getty 18 of 12219. McHale Rose, 19
19 of 122JUSTICE FOR MCHALE ROSE!
— Hustle House (@hustlehousellc) August 6, 2020
Mchale was killed by 4 officers within hours of the killing of Dreasjon Reed. Because of this, his story has gotten clouded and we need awareness! Mchale was a personal friend of mine and the sweetest boy ever. He & his family deserve justice! pic.twitter.com/SutjQn4fjy
20. Xzavier Hill, 18
Source:Change.org 20 of 122Xzavier Hill's family deserves justice. Virginia laws do not require the VSP to release footage, nor to wear body cameras. He was 18, and his whole life was ahead of him.
— melanie (@smellllanie) January 19, 2021
NAACP: Justice For Xzavier - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/a30fgNP9mk via @Change
21. Frederick Cox, 18
Source:Facebook/Tenicka Shannon 21 of 12222. Patrick Warren Sr.
Source:Patrick Warren Jr. 22 of 12223. Carl Dorsey III, 39
23 of 122Man shot to death in Police involved shooting in Newark is identified as 39 year old Carl Dorsey III. https://t.co/hdtmb6w0Il
— The Tornado News (@TheTornadoNews) January 6, 2021
24. Dolal Idd, 23
Source:GoFundMe 24 of 12225. Andre' Hill, 47
25 of 122An attorney who has represented the families of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor says he is now working for the family of Andre' Hill, the man killed by a Columbus police officer early Tuesday.https://t.co/9yXaqYKHfu
— NBC4 Columbus (@nbc4i) December 24, 2020
26. Joshua Feast
26 of 122Joshua Feast was fatally shot in the BACK by La Marque PD officer Jose Santos as he was running away, posing no threat. Witnesses report Santos refused to render aid to Joshua after shooting him AND then kicked his body, already debilitated by the bullet. #JusticeForJoshuaFeast pic.twitter.com/zO46PCsGzO
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) December 12, 2020
27. Maurice Gordon
Source:Mercury LLC 27 of 12228. Casey Goodson Jr.
Source:Walton + Brown, LLP 28 of 12229. Rodney Applewhite
Source:Ben Crump 29 of 12230. A.J. Crooms
30 of 122A Florida sheriff's officer shot and killed two Black teens, A.J. Crooms and Sincere Pierce.
— AJ+ (@ajplus) November 19, 2020
Here's what we know so far: pic.twitter.com/A8FRNS93L6
31. Sincere Pierce
31 of 122MOTHER SPEAKS: Cynthia Green of #Cocoa speaks out about her son 18 yr old Sincere Pierce, shot and killed in deputy involved double shooting last Friday. Says she isn’t getting answers and still hasn’t seen her son’s body. @MyNews13 #News13Brevard pic.twitter.com/hYFxZEOqz6
— Greg Pallone (@gpallone13) November 17, 2020
32. Walter Wallace Jr.
32 of 122Then they murdered Walter Wallace JR. #justiceforwalterwallace pic.twitter.com/JdCBgmMVl3
— BLM Philly (@BLMPhilly) November 13, 2020
33. Marcellis Stinnette, teen killed by police in Waukegan, Illinois
Source:Twitter 33 of 12234. Jonathan Price
34 of 122The Texas police officer who fatally shot Jonathan Price has been arrested and charged with murder. His bail has been set at 1 million dollars. I'm glad. RIP Jonathan, rest in power. pic.twitter.com/Mw5GMQX0Eb
— ~𝓣𝓮𝓷𝓪𝓬𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓣𝓮𝓪𝓱~ (@TeahCartel) October 6, 2020
35. Deon Kay
35 of 122Say his name #deonkay
— All Out DC (@All_Out_DC) September 3, 2020
Say his name #deonkay
Say his name #deonkay
Say his name #deonkay
Say his name #deonkay
He just turned 18 and @DCPoliceDept murdered him pic.twitter.com/NjyGxYB8ar
36. Daniel Prude
36 of 122The killing of Daniel Prude by Rochester police officers is unacceptable, and we need real answers for why this happened and why it took so long to come out.
— Jeremy Cooney (@JeremyCooneyROC) September 2, 2020
Trained medical professionals should respond to mental health crises, not armed officers. pic.twitter.com/EPhH9inn1x
37. Damian Daniels
37 of 122Yesterday in SA cops killed Sergeant Damian Lamar Daniels in front of his home. His family asked the Red Cross to get him to the VA.
— Lee Merritt (@MerrittForTexas) August 27, 2020
He had a legal gun on his hip that he never removed. He didn’t want to go and he struggled when they tried to force him.
So they killed him. pic.twitter.com/q6U7OSXb6D
38. Dijon Kizzee
38 of 122This is #DijonKizzee, 29 yrs old and shot and killed by LA Sheriffs after being stopped for a bike violation. Cops handcuffed his lifeless body. While police investigations can drag on for months/years, cops have already claimed he ran away, and dropped clothes and a gun. #BLM pic.twitter.com/pM6mQfWLeQ
— Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) September 1, 2020
39. Trayford Pellerin
Source:GoFundMe 39 of 12240. David McAtee
40 of 122in an attempt to disperse crowds, #DavidMcAtee, a louisville bbq chef known for serving cops free meals, was shot and killed by the police last night. he was unarmed. not only were the officers’ bodycams off, but they also left his body on the street for 12 hours.
— adaliah 🇹🇬 (@adxlls) June 2, 2020
say his name. pic.twitter.com/kqOPku8iuQ
41. Natosha “Tony” McDade
41 of 12242. George Floyd
42 of 122This is #GeorgeFloyd speaking to the youth before he died. pic.twitter.com/sMV8YOoTlQ
— Dr Boyce Watkins (@drboycewatkins1) May 27, 2020
43. Yassin Mohamed
43 of 122The GBI is investigating an OIS involving the Evans County Sheriff's Office and Yassin Mohamed. Mohamed is deceased. https://t.co/KwJi3e1YDc pic.twitter.com/2LQNnEhWOE
— GA Bureau of Investigation (@GBI_GA) May 9, 2020
44. Finan H. Berhe
44 of 122Montgomery County Police Tweet Video Of Cop Shooting Finan H. Berhe In Maryland https://t.co/HzNV24ZpZB
— The Bishop Speaks (@JMcCorrySpeaks) May 9, 2020
45. Sean Reed
Source:Twitter 45 of 12246. Steven Demarco Taylor
Source:S. Lee Merritt 46 of 12247. Ariane McCree
Source:The Herald/YouTube 47 of 12248. Terrance Franklin
48 of 122The City of Minneapolis has reached a $795,000 settlement with the family of Terrance Franklin, fatally shot by officers in 2013.https://t.co/ewKclYB2Pg pic.twitter.com/JzMIl7USoh
— KARE 11 (@kare11) February 14, 2020
49. Miles Hall
Source:KRON4 49 of 12250. Darius Tarver
Source:S. Lee Merritt 50 of 12251. William Green
51 of 122They murdered my cousin. How do you have someone in handcuffs and in a seat belt and shoot them multilpe times.All cops aren't bad but those were. I will fight with the last breath in me for justice. William Green was a family man, a working man. Funny. Loving. Love and miss you. pic.twitter.com/PhM3a6C7uj
— Liv 👸🏾 (@liv__03) January 28, 2020
52. Samuel David Mallard, 19
52 of 122This is a 2019 mugshot of the murder suspect Cobb police shot & killed today. Samuel Mallard, 19, was previously arrested for impersonating officers a half dozen times. In the 2020 case, the GBI says he’s involved in a murder/robbery. CCPD says there are other suspects. @wsbtv https://t.co/7EfuVQLmNB pic.twitter.com/ttWg5HjFkj
— Chris Jose (@ChrisJoseWSB) January 17, 2020
53. Kwame "KK" Jones, 17
Source:facebook 53 of 12254. De’von Bailey, 19
54 of 122Grand jury rules fatal officers' shooting of Devon Bailey was justified. https://t.co/MHXYQn87aH
— Scott Kilbury (@SKilburyFOX21) November 14, 2019
55. Christopher Whitfield, 31
55 of 122Cop Shoots, Kills Mentally Ill Black Man #ChristopherWhitfield As He Ran Away With Foodhttps://t.co/40a5i5QnEZ pic.twitter.com/nqsIRK6JZe
— Benjamin Young Savage (ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ) (@benjancewicz) October 16, 2019
56. Anthony Hill, 26
56 of 122Former Officer Robert Olsen killed Anthony Hill over four years ago and was finally convicted (not of murder). Will get get the Amber Guyger treatment? #AnthonyHillhttps://t.co/HZVf3tOEOL
— NewsOne (@newsone) October 25, 2019
57. De'Von Bailey, 19
57 of 12258. Eric Logan, 54
58 of 122BREAKING NEWS OUT OF SOUTH BEND:
— Joshua Short (@JoshuaShortTV) June 27, 2019
Two lawyers representing the estate of 54-year-old Eric Logan, who was shot and killed by a South Bend police officer, have sued that officer, Sgt. Ryan O'Neill and Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
The suit was filed in federal court today.
(READ THREAD) pic.twitter.com/frOpKFQIAV
59. Jamarion Robinson, 26
59 of 122Please join the family of Jamarion Robinson and community organizations on 8/5 to demand #justiceforjam #justiceforjamarion #76shots pic.twitter.com/wpVAoqmiQA
— Tiff Roberts (@shedefendsit) July 27, 2017
60. Gregory Hill Jr., 30
60 of 122Gregory Hill, Jr. - the family of Greg Hill grants permission to use these photos to honor Greg or tell his story. pic.twitter.com/uhn1RbEQBv
— John M. Phillips (@JohnPhillips) June 1, 2018
61. JaQuavion Slaton, 20
61 of 122This is Jaquavion Slaton, the 20-year-old who was was shot & killed by Fort Worth Police on Sunday. Community demanding release of body camera video, but FWPD hasn’t said when/if that will happen. #WFAA pic.twitter.com/iakQyWrRCl
— Teresa Woodard (@twoodard8) June 10, 2019
62. Ryan Twyman, 24
62 of 12263. Brandon Webber, 20
63 of 12264. Jimmy Atchison, 21
64 of 122
65. Willie McCoy, 20
65 of 122One of six officers who fired at Willie McCoy had killed unarmed man in 2018 || Via: Guardian https://t.co/CjrSIa8r1Z
— SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) February 23, 2019
66. Emantic "EJ" Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., 21
66 of 12267. D’ettrick Griffin, 18
67 of 122Family of D’Ettrick Griffin, man fatally shot by police while trying to steal an unmarked cruiser, is suing City of Atlanta and officer involved https://t.co/4oBbxFAvoF pic.twitter.com/0KMeVwST9I
— CBS46 (@cbs46) February 8, 2019
68. Jemel Roberson, 26
Source:false 68 of 122Security guard Jemel Roberson was holding down a shooting suspect when police burst in and shot Roberson instead. pic.twitter.com/zNsYvQMRg8
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) November 14, 2018
69. DeAndre Ballard, 23
Source:false 69 of 122#NCCU remembers Fallen Eagle, Mr. DeAndre Ballard. A vigil will be held on Sun., 9/23, 11 a.m., in the A.E. Student Union lobby. https://t.co/4rnPAX1wlG #SoarInPeace pic.twitter.com/RZZxKJaivh
— N.C. Central University (@NCCU) September 21, 2018
70. Botham Shem Jean, 26
Source:false 70 of 122The young man who was killed by a Dallas police officer in his own apartment this morning has been identified as 26-year-old Botham Jean. He worked at the PwC firm in Downtown Dallas. https://t.co/oyjHMdMXVv pic.twitter.com/uSvJWJ062e
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) September 7, 2018
71. Antwon Rose Jr., 17
Source:false 71 of 12272. Robert Lawrence White, 41
Source:false 72 of 12273. Anthony Lamar Smith, 24
Source:Getty 73 of 12274. Ramarley Graham, 18
Source:Getty 74 of 12275. Manuel Loggins Jr., 31
Source:Getty 75 of 12276. Trayvon Martin, 17
Source:Getty 76 of 12277. Wendell Allen, 20
Source:Getty 77 of 12278. Kendrec McDade, 19
Source:Getty 78 of 12279. Larry Jackson Jr., 32
Source:Getty 79 of 12280. Jonathan Ferrell, 24
Source:Getty 80 of 12281. Jordan Baker, 26
Source:Getty 81 of 12282. Victor White lll, 22
Source:Getty 82 of 12283. Dontre Hamilton, 31
Source:Getty 83 of 12284. Eric Garner, 43
Source:Getty 84 of 12285. John Crawford lll, 22
Source:Getty 85 of 12286. Michael Brown, 18
Source:Getty 86 of 12287. Ezell Ford, 25
Source:Getty 87 of 12288. Dante Parker, 36
Source:Getty 88 of 12289. Kajieme Powell, 25
Source:Getty 89 of 12290. Laquan McDonald, 17
Source:Getty 90 of 12291. Akai Gurley, 28
Source:Getty 91 of 12292. Tamir Rice, 12
Source:Getty 92 of 12293. Rumain Brisbon, 34
Source:Getty 93 of 12294. Jerame Reid, 36
Source:Getty 94 of 12295. Charly Keunang, 43
Source:Getty 95 of 12296. Tony Robinson, 19
Source:Getty 96 of 12297. Walter Scott, 50
Source:Getty 97 of 12298. Freddie Gray, 25
Source:Getty 98 of 12299. Brendon Glenn, 29
Source:Getty 99 of 122100. Samuel DuBose, 43
Source:Getty 100 of 122101. Christian Taylor, 19
Source:Getty 101 of 122102. Jamar Clark, 24
Source:Getty 102 of 122103. Mario Woods, 26
Source:Getty 103 of 122104. Quintonio LeGrier, 19
Source:Getty 104 of 122105. Gregory Gunn, 58
Source:Getty 105 of 122106. Akiel Denkins, 24
Source:Getty 106 of 122107. Alton Sterling, 37
Source:Getty 107 of 122108. Philando Castile, 32
Source:Getty 108 of 122109. Terrence Sterling, 31
Source:Getty 109 of 122110. Terence Crutcher, 40
Source:Getty 110 of 122111. Keith Lamont Scott, 43
Source:Getty 111 of 122112. Alfred Olango, 38
Source:Getty 112 of 122113. Jordan Edwards, 15
Source:Getty 113 of 122114. Stephon Clark, 22
Source:false 114 of 122Please, do not forget #BlackLivesMatter #StephonClark pic.twitter.com/474DSVBGLm
— Zendaya (@Zendaya) March 27, 2018
115. Danny Ray Thomas, 34
Source:false 115 of 122
116. DeJuan Guillory, 27
Source:false 116 of 122DeJuan Guillory #TakeAKnee4Me pic.twitter.com/SrSaweU6dY
— Faces Of Injustice (@takeaknee4me) October 12, 2017
117. Patrick Harmon, 50
117 of 122Patrick Harmon was shot and killed by police in Salt Lake City, Utah. The district attorney says the shooting was "legally justified." pic.twitter.com/zYBOwlTzRb
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 7, 2017
118. Jonathan Hart, 21
118 of 122Friends and family of Jonathan Heart aka Sky Young, a young #homeless man killed last Sunday at a Walgreens in #Hollywood for allegedly shoplifting, gather tonight to remember the 20-year-old. pic.twitter.com/uiMRiFnutq
— Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) December 9, 2018
119. Maurice Granton, 24
119 of 122Dash cam footage of police killing Maurice Granton Jr. has been released. His family says it proves that he was unarmed pic.twitter.com/YLAM7my1ny
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 26, 2018
120. Julius Johnson, 23
120 of 122
121. Jamee Johnson, 22
Source:S. Lee Merritt 121 of 122122. Michael Dean, 28
Source:S. Lee Merritt 122 of 122124 Black Men And Boys Killed By Police
UPDATED: 11:30 a.m. ET, Mar. 24, 2022 -- The centuries-old American tradition of police shooting and killing Black males suffered an untraditional jolt in April when former cop Derek Chauvin was found guilty and convicted on all counts for murdering George Floyd by kneeling on the unarmed, handcuffed man's neck for more than nine minutes. But it has been a quick resumption to police normalcy with multiple killings of Black people by law enforcement since the day of Chauvin's verdict. MORE: #SayHerName: Black Women And Girls Killed By Police On March 19, Irvin D. Moorer Charley was shot and killed by Richland County police in Columbia, South Carolina. Moorer Charley suffered from mental health issues. According to officials, deputies, John Anderson and Zachary Hentz were responding to a domestic violence call at the house of Connie Craig, the mother of the victim. When they arrived on the scene, Moorer Charley came outside and approached officers with a piece of wood in hand. Officers believed it to be a knife. His brother pleaded with the deputies not to shoot because Moorer Charley didn’t have a gun and had a history of mental illness. According to the body cam footage, which was edited and shared with the family, Moorer Charley slowly approached a deputy, the officer pointed his gun at him yelling for him to drop the knife. Another officer then tased Moorer Charley, but the taser had little affect on him. The deputy who yelled at Moorer Charley to drop his weapon then shoots him seven times until Moorer Charley falls to the ground. Moorer Charley’s family has demanded the full video be released to the public, but Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott believes the shooting isn’t something everyone needs to see. https://twitter.com/MakaylaEvans21/status/1506689894244134927?s=20&t=__i5SQuqNE0E0ErCvCo_FQ Lott also defended the actions of his deputies basically stating they did what they had to do. “We can’t expect these deputies to go out here and be killed,” said Lott in a statement to the AP. “They have to protect themselves. And that’s what this deputy did yesterday. He protected himself.” But the family’s attorney Shaquana Cuttino believes deputies had no right to kill Moorer Charley. “We believe officers could have disarmed Mr. Charley easily and without the use of deadly force,” said Cuttin. “Yet they came in with guns blazing.” The Richland County Sheriff’s Department will be investing the incident with an internal investigation, then a prosecutor will decide if the shooting was justified. Moorer Charley's name joins a long list of too many other Black men and boys killed by the police, including people who have become household names for all the wrong reasons like Tamir Rice, Botham Jean, E.J. Bradford, and Michael Brown. But there are plenty of others whose police killings never went "viral," including people like Michael Dean, a 28-year-old father who police shot in the head on Dec. 3, 2019, and Jamee Johnson, a 22-year-old HBCU student who police shot to death after a questionable traffic stop on Dec. 14, 2019. One of the most distressing parts of this seemingly nonstop string of police killings of Black people is the fact that more times than not, the officer involved in the shooting can hide behind the claim that they feared for their lives -- even if the victim was shot in the back, as has become the case for so many deadly episodes involving law enforcement. In a handful of those cases -- such as Antwon Rose, a 13-year-old boy killed in Pittsburgh, and Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old killed in Sacramento, both of whom were unarmed -- the officers either avoided being criminally charged altogether or were acquitted despite damning evidence that the cops' lives were not threatened and there was no cause for them to resort to lethal force or any violence for that matter. Crump, who has been retained in so many of these cases, described the above scenarios in his book, "Open Season," as the "genocide" of Black people. As NewsOne continues covering these shootings that so often go ignored by mainstream media, the below running list (in no certain order) of Black men and boys who have been shot and killed by police under suspicious circumstances can serve as a tragic reminder of the dangers Black and brown citizens face upon being born into a world of hate that has branded them as suspects since birth. Scroll down to learn more about the Black men and boys who have lost their lives to police violence.
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It’s been a long, long week of news updates following ‘The Slap’ seen & heard around the world, otherwise known as Will Smith slapping the ‘sugar-honey-iced-tea’ out of Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards last Sunday.
The latest comes by way of The Fresh Prince himself, who has surprisingly decided to accept fault for his actions by resigning from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences altogether.
Smith followed up on the original apology that he posted to social media a day after the attack (seen above) by writing his letter of resignation directly to the Academy’s disciplinary committee. TMZ was able to obtain portions of the letter, which reads, “I will fully accept any and all consequences for my conduct. My actions at the 94th Academy Awards presentation were shocking, painful, and inexcusable.” Will continued to express his remorse by adding, “The list of those I have hurt is long and includes Chris, his family, many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance, and global audiences at home. I betrayed the trust of the Academy. I deprived other nominees and winners of their opportunity to celebrate and be celebrated for their extraordinary work. I am heartbroken.”
The veteran Hollywood star made no excuses for his actions and completely put mercy in the hands of the Academy, also writing, “I want to put the focus back on those who deserve attention for their achievements and allow the Academy to get back to the incredible work it does to support creativity and artistry in film. So, I am resigning from membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and will accept any further consequences the board deems appropriate.”
The note ends with more regret on the King Richard star’s behalf, with Smith concluding, “Change takes time and I am committed to doing the work to ensure that I never again allow violence to overtake reason.”
While we doubt this is the end of ‘The Slap’ Saga by a long shot, it’s great to see a grown Black man taking responsibility for exhibiting violence on such a public scale. Even though some believe he might’ve been valid in defending his wife against a crass joke, we can all agree that he could’ve settled this in a more private manner.
The Academy will issue a formal disciplinary decision within a few weeks.
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Maria More always does her best to look out for us on all levels, and today in “Mind Body Business” she shares some key advice on how to make sure your kids are at optimal health.
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From adequate sleep and proper nutrition to making sure hygiene is in check — no Philly cheesesteak armpits in Maria’s household! — these five tips are guaranteed to give your kids the necessities they’ll need in order to grow into full-functioning adults.
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It’s been a rough few weeks on R&B fans and loyal viewers of Braxton Family Values after the death of Traci Braxton following a lengthy battle with cancer.
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On the eve of what would be Traci’s 51st birthday, we had the delight of having her little sister, R&B legend Toni Braxton, call in to share some fond family memories and her plans to honor Traci with a starring role in Lifetime’s latest film, Fallen Angels Murder Club: Friends to Die For.
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Congress moved one step closer to decriminalizing marijuana as the House of Representatives passed the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE Act). Led by members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the MORE Act would remove marijuana from the schedule of controlled substances.
The bill does not legalize marijuana but is seen as a step toward legalization by many. It passed mostly along party lines, with three Republicans joining Democrats in voting in favor of the legislation.
According to a recent Vox explainer addressing the various issues related to marijuana production, sale and consumption could involve multiple pieces of legislation. But the MORE Act addresses many of the concerns and seems to represent the most comprehensive approach if only one piece of legislation were to move forward.
The caucus called the bill’s passage a “key racial, economic and criminal justice” victory.
“Studies show a Black person is 3.64 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than a white person, even though Black and white people use marijuana at similar rates,” read the statement. “Not only does the MORE Act decriminalize marijuana, but it also takes on mass incarceration by eliminating criminal penalties for an individual who manufactures, distributes, or possesses marijuana, and establishing a process to expunge marijuana-related convictions.”
Rep. Barbara Lee echoed the statement in remarks urging her House colleagues to vote for the legislation.
“Make no mistake: Yes, it IS a racial justice bill…We must end this failed policy of marijuana prohibition, which has led to the shattering of so many lives – primarily Black and Brown people,” Lees said.
Rep. Nikema Williams, who represents the Fifth Congressional District in Georgia covering a majority of Atlanta, challenged those who don’t see cannabis equity as racial justice.
“Black, Latino, and Indigenous people have carried the brunt of marijuana criminalization while being shut out of the legal cannabis market,” Williams tweeted. “Don’t tell me cannabis equity isn’t a racial justice issue. #WeNeedMORE.”
Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, praised the House and urged the Senate to take up the bill quickly. Hewitt said the act’s provisions correcting harm caused by people’s entanglement in the federal criminal legal system could impact many Americans.
“The war on drugs drove the disturbing rise of mass incarceration nationwide, disrupting families and derailing the lives of millions of Americans,” Hewitt said.
This is the second time the House has passed the MORE Act. It matters that the House continues to push forward legislation that represents the people’s will and moves the country forward. While it is expected that the MORE Act will not pass the Senate, it is another example of why expanding the majority is essential for Democrats looking to move important legislation forward.
A Gallup poll showed that 68 percent of Americans support legalizing marijuana. It’s estimated that half of Republican voters also support legalization.
Sydney Richardson-Gorski, a policy associate with the Lawyers’ Committee, said the war on drugs was a devastating policy effort that destabilized Black and other communities of color.
“The criminalization of marijuana has had a devastating effect on our communities, and the solutions to the problem need to have a focus on those most impacted, Richardson-Gorski said. “The MORE Act does just that. With comprehensive reforms like retroactive decriminalization, a new Office of Cannabis Justice, and targeted tax applications, the MORE Act takes a vital step toward repair.”
SEE ALSO:
Senate Candidate Gary Chambers Smokes A Blunt While Blasting Marijuana Arrests In First Campaign Ad
Life Sentence Over Weed Conviction Upheld Is For ‘Habitual Offender’ In Mississippi
New Jersey Becomes The First Mid-Atlantic State To ‘Free the Weed’
House Passes Marijuana Equity And Decriminalization Bill was originally published on newsone.com
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Congressional Democrats are ramping up calls for the president to extend the current pause on federal student loan repayment and cancel some portion of student loan debt. In a letter dated March 31, Democrats asked President Biden to extend the pause through the end of the year and take steps toward canceling the federal student loans.
“As your administration works towards rebuilding a more equitable and just economy, it should use its administrative powers to address this crisis and permanently relieve the millions of borrowers struggling with this debt,” the letter read. “Canceling a meaningful amount of student debt will provide long-term benefits to individuals and the economy, helping families buy their first homes, open a small business, or invest in their retirement.”
Letter signers include Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Jim Clyburn, Alma Adams, Mondaire Jones, Jahana Hayes, and Hank Johnson. Sens. Cory Booker and Raphael Warnock, the only two Black members of the Senate Democratic caucus, also signed the letter. They were joined by several others, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Alex Padilla, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Mazie K. Hirono.
Common Dream reported that the group also recounted Biden’s campaign promise of forgiving debt for those whose families made less than $125,000 and went to a public university. On Saturday morning, Warren tweeted a poll from Data for Progress showing a likely increase in voter turnout in key states in November the loans were forgiven.
“Student debt relief could be the deciding issue for Democratic voters in November. I’ll keep saying it: Today would be a perfect day for President @JoeBiden to #CancelStudentDebt,” Warren tweeted.
Clyburn previously collaborated with Warren to introduce a bill to eliminate up to $50,000 of federal student loan debt. Warren and others have cited the $50,000 threshold as providing full relief for 75 percent of those with student loan debt.
In a roundtable discussion with Black journalists, Schumer and Warren said people need to share their support for debt forgiveness with the president.
“We’ve got a chance to make a little justice in this country over the next month,” Warren said. “We can do this now.”
While there is some disagreement about the proper path forward, there is a general understanding of the burden student loans have placed on millions of Americans of all ages. And even though the president has previously drawn a line between those who went to a public university and those who went to private colleges or Ivy League schools, the debt burden is universal. The Ivory Tower doesn’t benefit all alumni equally despite the impression students were given when trying to choose a place to attend.
A recent NPR investigation points out how a repayment program that was supposed to help borrowers struggling with repayment had failed many when it came to promised cancellation after 20-25 years. The investigation found that most people making payments under federal income-drive repayment plans have not received proper credit for payments made toward cancellation.
According to the investigation, the first income-driven repayment plans were unveiled in the early 1990s, but only 32 people out of 4.4 million borrowers had their loans canceled decades later. Citing documents revealed that in 2021, mismanagement of borrower records has been attributed to mismanagement by loan servicers and the U.S. Department of Education.
More than half of Black borrowers making payments on the income-driven repayment plan qualify for a $0 payment. The major requirement is having an income less than 150 percent of the federal poverty level. A family of four with less than 150 percent of the 2022 federal poverty level is an annual income of less than $41,625. The income-driven repayment plans cap repayment at 10-15 percent of annual income for qualifying borrowers with higher incomes.
The National Consumer Law Center stated on Wednesday, March 30, calling out a major federal student loan servicer for failing to inform borrowers of Federal Family Education Loans of their eligibility for the public service loan forgiveness program. This latest information adds to the list of issues with the management of student debt repayment and the cycle of never-ending repayment millions of borrowers find themselves trapped in.
“Public Service Loan Forgiveness is often a bellwether for other problems within the student loan system. For years, federal student loan servicers have failed to provide information about Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) options to borrowers who couldn’t afford their monthly payments,” the statement read. “Instead, borrowers were pushed into forbearances – which offered only temporary payment relief at a cost: mounting interest and lost time towards IDR cancellation.”
SEE ALSO:
Senate Democrats Say People Should Press Biden On Student Loan Forgiveness
Biden Deferring Student Loan Payments Again Falls Short Of Campaign Promise To Cancel Debt
Congressional Democrats Want President Biden To Extend Student Loan Pause And Cancel Portion Of Debt was originally published on newsone.com
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30 days from Election Day and we are exploring some political races that may not normally get attention, including the race for Center Township Trustee. Candidates Sam ‘Bump’ Carson and Ladonna Freeman explain what the Trustee does and why they want the job.
You can check to see if you are registered to vote at IndianaVoters.com.
“Open Lines with Cameron Ridle” airs Sunday Mornings at 8AM on HOT 96.3 and 106.7 WTLC Indianapolis.
Connect with Cameron Via Email: cridle@radio-one.com or Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @CameronRidle.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The fight against violent crime is something the Indianapolis Ten Point Coalition has been advocating for over 20 years.
Now, the city of Indianapolis is getting on board with the group’s methods.
The city recently announced it will be investing $45 million in grassroots organizations over the next three years. The coalition is one group that says it plans to apply for those funds.
“We are now in six areas in the city,” said Rev. Charles Harrison, the board president of the Ten Point Coalition. “We are supporting two other neighborhoods, so we are now really in eight areas — and there are a lot of other neighborhoods that have asked us for help.”
The Ten Point Coalition was established in 1999. Volunteers with the coalition patrol neighborhoods from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m while engaging with at-risk youth. The group also creates activities for them to participate in.
“We open the gym, and we have basketball,” said Anthony Neal, boot patrol for the Ten Point Coalition. “What made us start that is because the age group that we are dealing with, they had nothing to do. So, the pastor opened the gym and we’ve been doing this since 2003.”
Data from 2016 provided by the coalition shows this approach is getting results.
Here’s what the data says:
- Highland Vicinity has gone 365 days without a youth or adult criminal homicide five times over six years.
- Butler Tarkington has gone 365 days without a youth or adult criminal homicide four times over six years.
- Crown Hill has gone 365 days three times over six years without a youth criminal homicide, and two times over six years without an adult criminal homicide.
- 38th to 42nd Street between Post and Mitthoefer roads went 365 days without a youth or adult criminal homicide once over two years.
- 38th to 42nd Street between Mitthoefer and German Church roads went 365 days without a youth or adult criminal homicide once over two years.
- Carriage House East Apartments south of 42nd Street has gone 365 days two times over 26 months without a youth or adult criminal homicide.
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BLOOMINGTON — Indiana University basketball player Xavier Johnson and one other person were arrested in connection with a reckless driving incident early Sunday, police say.
Johnson was seen speeding and fled an attempted traffic stop with a teammate and another person in the vehicle with him, according to Monroe County Sheriff Brad Swain.
Around 3:22 a.m., a Monroe County Sheriff’s deputy clocked a Dodge Charger going about 90mph on Walnut Street in downtown Bloomington. The deputy attempted to stop the car, but the vehicle continued fleeing and went into an apartment complex north of Walnut Street, Swain said.
The car then ran a stop sign.
The deputy later saw Johnson get out of the driver’s seat and move to the back seat as another passenger climbed into the driver’s seat, pretending to be the driver. A third occupant did not move from his seat. All three were taken out of the car with assistance from Bloomington police.
During the investigation, it was confirmed Johnson was driving down Walnut going 90 mph, Swain said.
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White conservative lawmakers are continuing to perform white supremacy by prioritizing white tears over honest education while claiming it’s racist to insist that white privilege is a thing.
According to Ballotpedia News, on March 30, the Tennessee legislature passed yet another anti-critical race theory bill that has nothing to do with CRT and everything to do with the fact Republicans deal in propaganda, fragility, and racism. Of course, this time, legislators aren’t going after CRT being taught in K-12 schools—where it literally isn’t being taught—they’re trying to ban what they wrongly think CRT is from public colleges, where academic studies are supposed to be taught.
House Bill 2670 would “prohibit a public institution of higher education from taking certain actions with regard to divisive concepts and the ideologies or political viewpoints of students and employees.” And because the language in the bill is vague and senseless AF, let’s just go with the Ballotpedia explanation that says the bill “aims to prohibit an individual’s views on critical race theory from influencing decisions about hiring, tenure, promotion, or graduation in the state’s higher education institutions.”
Still confused? (Me too, bruh.) Well, here’s what Tennessee state Rep. Ron Grant (R) had to say in a statement after the bill was passed:
“Any curriculum promoting the narrative that white privilege or racism is alive and well in Tennessee does not accurately reflect our state, our public education system or its residents. Our students deserve much better. This bill empowers employees and students of all races on our college campuses to think for themselves free from fear of discrimination and without being coerced to embrace any specific ideology or political viewpoint.”
First of all, Grant is doing that thing white conservatives do where they pretend their personal views represent popular opinion. Of course racism is “alive and well in Tennessee.” Why else is a bill being passed that, per Grant’s own statement, directly benefits whiteness and effectively excludes everyone else from “our state” and “its residents?” How many Black Tennesseans would you guess he consulted before deciding the general consensus is that there is no racism or white privilege happening in Tennessee?
Secondly, the state is not empowering anyone to “think for themselves” by trying to irradicate voluntary classes from institutions of higher learning. This isn’t high school or middle school. Students have control over what classes they take. If white students don’t like what they’re being taught, they can change courses. By not giving students the option to take classes where CRT is being taught, legislators aren’t promoting freedom of education, they’re doing the opposite.
Anyway, the House voted 66-24 to approve the bill and the Senate approved it with a 25-5 vote putting the ball in the court of Republican Gov. Bill Lee.
Meanwhile, days after the bill passed, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee)—who demonstrated loud and KKKlearly that she has no idea what CRT is during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Ketanji Brown Jackson—tweeted out her uninformed disdain for the study while insisting that “Parents across America are paying attention to what their children are learning in the classroom, and they’re speaking up,” and urging the nation to “Ban critical race theory.”
Of course, the fine folks on Twitter responded, and, well, they were appropriately unkind. Most of them just pointed out that Blackburn doesn’t know WTF she’s talking about.
Those who tried to cosign her white nonsense were also given a dose of reality.
“I think the question you should ask yourself is that when kids are told the truth about America’s history why do they instinctively hate white people.”
Exactly.
SEE ALSO:
GOP Uses Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Hearing To Push CRT Misinformation
Tennessee Passes Anti-CRT Bill For Colleges was originally published on newsone.com
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Black Man Ran Over By Police Files Lawsuit
According to the federal lawsuit filed late last month, the incident ended with a Radcliff police officer “using his vehicle to run over Anthony Gray, an unarmed Black man.
A Black man is suing the city of Radcliff, Kentucky after its police officers allegedly ran over his lower leg with a patrol car last September.
According to WDRB, police were called to the Gold Vault Inn on Sept. 7, 2021, at around 2 a.m. They were told a trespasser was roaming around the property. The cops reported that when they arrived at the scene, they encountered 32-year-old Anthony Gray, who said he was leaving the grounds because the hotel’s staff were rude to him.
Now, already this story leaves us with a glaring question: Why isn’t this the end of the story?
The cops find a man roaming who hasn’t hurt anyone and doesn’t present an immediate threat—why not let him go on his way?
Instead, according to the federal lawsuit filed late last month, the incident ended with a Radcliff police officer “using his vehicle to run over Anthony Gray, an unarmed Black man, who was suspected only of a violation punishable by a simple fine.”
Gray’s attorney, Aaron Bentley, said his client was leaving peacefully when “suddenly,” and with “no reason, no justification, no warning,” Officer Robert Stephens tried to grab him by the arm, but “Anthony was scared and ran away.”
Body camera footage reportedly shows Gray shouting at Stephens, “No I’m not going to jail,” to which Stephen replied, “Yes you are!”
Gary then shouted at Stephens that he was unarmed.
While it couldn’t be seen clearly on camera, the lawsuit claims another officer, Justin Skaggs, chased Gray down with his police car and rammed into him—which leads us to another question: WHO TF PERFORMS A PIT MANEUVER ON SOMEONE WHO IS ON FOOT??
“By every indication, he intentionally runs the car into Anthony, runs over his leg and foot, causing pretty severe injuries,” Bentley said.
From WDRB:
After Skaggs stops his vehicle, Gray can be seen laying partially underneath the car groaning in pain and requesting the officer take him to the hospital.
“I didn’t do nothing wrong, sir,” Gray says as officers cuff him. “But you ran my foot over.”
Skaggs asked the other officer if he had run over Gray’s foot.
“I believe his leg was run over by a police car,” the other officer said, according to Skaggs’ body camera video.
Of course, the police said something different in the incident report. Apparently, the car didn’t run into Gray, it was Gray who ran into the car. (Yes, you read that right.)
Gray “ran into the right front corner” of the police vehicle and then “was knocked to the ground and his left foot was run over by the right front tire,” the police report claimed.
The suit names several officers involved in the incident as defendants and Gray—who suffered a fractured left tibia, among other physical injuries—has requested a jury trial.
Meanwhile, Gray is still facing charges of criminal trespassing, alcohol intoxication, and fleeing or evading police in Hardin District Court.
SEE ALSO:
Black Man Spends Nearly 9 Years In Washington Jail With No Convictions In Murder Case, Files Lawsuits
Florida Cop Chokes Female Cop Who Tried To Intervene While He Accosted Handcuffed Black Man
124 Black Men And Boys Killed By Police
124 Black Men And Boys Killed By Police
1. Thelonious “RaRa” McKnight
1 of 122Plain clothes police in Paterson, New Jersey shot and killed 25 year-old #TheloniusMcKnight.
— zellie (@zellieimani) January 2, 2022
Multiple Paterson police have been indicted for lying on police reports.
Help us demand transparency by signing our petition. #blm @communityxapp https://t.co/iUVpdsfPyS pic.twitter.com/BKUNDLgyz4
2. Kokou Christopher Fiafonou
Source:Kossi Adayi 2 of 1223. Alhaji M. Sow
Source:iOne Digital 3 of 1224. Anthony Harden
4 of 122Family of Anthony Harden sharing this photo of the 30-year-old who was shot and killed by Fall River Police yesterday, according to @BristolDA. Family says the incident should have been handled differently and that Harden should still be alive #WCVB https://t.co/p4H2TSpF10 pic.twitter.com/rZR3AXpEXO
— Matt Reed (@MattReedNews) November 23, 2021
5. Andra Murphy
5 of 122NEWS ALERT: @AttorneyCrump has released a statement and been retained by the family of Andra Murphy, a Black man who was shot and killed by Bolivar police officers outside of the Hardeman County Justice Complex on the morning of Oct. 6. pic.twitter.com/YegHc56xhn
— Ben Crump Law, PLLC (@BenCrumpLaw) October 20, 2021
6. George Watson
6 of 1227. Antwan Gilmore
7 of 122This is 27 year old Antwan Gilmore. He was killed YESTERDAY by DC police. The cop found him asleep in his car, tapped on the window, and immediately fired multiple shots and killed him. pic.twitter.com/cYUgNuR47m
— Olayemi Olurin (@msolurin) August 27, 2021
8. Robert Anderson, 38
8 of 12238 YEAR OLD DETROIT BLACK MAN SHOT IN BACK 8X AND KILLED IN CRESCENT CITY CA. OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING?
— JudiWoolworthDonahue (@Gldneaple) August 27, 2021
38YR OLD ROBERT ANDERSON FROM DETROIT, MICHIGAN.
Man killed in officer-involved shooting #newsroom #community #news #ca…https://t.co/6O4kSFS7il https://t.co/ujKUbfxHzX
9. Tory Brown, 22
9 of 122#BlackLivesMatter: 22-year-old Tory Brown was gunned down by officers who said he had a warrant out of Clayton County for violation of probation, and that he refused to comply.https://t.co/l5SWDJqQcl pic.twitter.com/ccoimuy9W9
— NewsOne (@newsone) August 25, 2021
10. Ryan LeRoux, 21
10 of 12211. Leneal Frazier, 40
Source:Getty 11 of 12212. Demetrius Stanley, 31
12 of 122Demetrius Stanley was murdered by plain clothes police officers two nights ago. They came in an unmarked van and were stalking the outside of Demetrius’ family home. He went outside to check and they shot him from inside their car. They never ID themselves. #ripmeech#blackpower pic.twitter.com/qYL1GHNsho
— B.L.A.C.K. Outreach (@blackoutreachsj) June 2, 2021
13. Ashton Pinke, 27
13 of 12227-year old Ashton Pinke was shot-and-killed by Mesquite Police Department officers, today. Investigators report he charged with a “knife and a club” following a 911 hang-up call by a screaming woman. Family members question the report. Our full story airs on @FOX4 at 9/10. pic.twitter.com/SD2AAK76p3
— David Sentendrey (@DavidSFOX4) May 5, 2021
14. Andrew Brown, 42
14 of 122BREAKING: The man fatally shot by a deputy today in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, was Andrew Brown.
— WAVY TV 10 (@WAVY_News) April 21, 2021
Deputies were serving a search warrant when Brown was shot while driving away, witnesses say.
Neighbors say they heard anywhere from 6 to 8 shots. https://t.co/w7dyIQ5zdX
15. Matthew Williams, 35
15 of 122At 5 @wsbtv: the family of 35 year old Matthew Williams are demanding that body camera footage of his shooting death be released. Dekalb police shot & killed Williams at his home Monday. They say he lunged at officers with a knife. Family say he was running away from officers pic.twitter.com/Ky4ssoYTFp
— Justin Gray (@JustinGrayWSB) April 14, 2021
16. Daunte Wright, 20
Source:Twitter/@MeritLaw 16 of 12217. Marvin D. Scott III, 26
Source:GoFundMe 17 of 12218. Kurt Reinhold, 42
Source:Getty 18 of 12219. McHale Rose, 19
19 of 122JUSTICE FOR MCHALE ROSE!
— Hustle House (@hustlehousellc) August 6, 2020
Mchale was killed by 4 officers within hours of the killing of Dreasjon Reed. Because of this, his story has gotten clouded and we need awareness! Mchale was a personal friend of mine and the sweetest boy ever. He & his family deserve justice! pic.twitter.com/SutjQn4fjy
20. Xzavier Hill, 18
Source:Change.org 20 of 122Xzavier Hill's family deserves justice. Virginia laws do not require the VSP to release footage, nor to wear body cameras. He was 18, and his whole life was ahead of him.
— melanie (@smellllanie) January 19, 2021
NAACP: Justice For Xzavier - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/a30fgNP9mk via @Change
21. Frederick Cox, 18
Source:Facebook/Tenicka Shannon 21 of 12222. Patrick Warren Sr.
Source:Patrick Warren Jr. 22 of 12223. Carl Dorsey III, 39
23 of 122Man shot to death in Police involved shooting in Newark is identified as 39 year old Carl Dorsey III. https://t.co/hdtmb6w0Il
— The Tornado News (@TheTornadoNews) January 6, 2021
24. Dolal Idd, 23
Source:GoFundMe 24 of 12225. Andre' Hill, 47
25 of 122An attorney who has represented the families of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor says he is now working for the family of Andre' Hill, the man killed by a Columbus police officer early Tuesday.https://t.co/9yXaqYKHfu
— NBC4 Columbus (@nbc4i) December 24, 2020
26. Joshua Feast
26 of 122Joshua Feast was fatally shot in the BACK by La Marque PD officer Jose Santos as he was running away, posing no threat. Witnesses report Santos refused to render aid to Joshua after shooting him AND then kicked his body, already debilitated by the bullet. #JusticeForJoshuaFeast pic.twitter.com/zO46PCsGzO
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) December 12, 2020
27. Maurice Gordon
Source:Mercury LLC 27 of 12228. Casey Goodson Jr.
Source:Walton + Brown, LLP 28 of 12229. Rodney Applewhite
Source:Ben Crump 29 of 12230. A.J. Crooms
30 of 122A Florida sheriff's officer shot and killed two Black teens, A.J. Crooms and Sincere Pierce.
— AJ+ (@ajplus) November 19, 2020
Here's what we know so far: pic.twitter.com/A8FRNS93L6
31. Sincere Pierce
31 of 122MOTHER SPEAKS: Cynthia Green of #Cocoa speaks out about her son 18 yr old Sincere Pierce, shot and killed in deputy involved double shooting last Friday. Says she isn’t getting answers and still hasn’t seen her son’s body. @MyNews13 #News13Brevard pic.twitter.com/hYFxZEOqz6
— Greg Pallone (@gpallone13) November 17, 2020
32. Walter Wallace Jr.
32 of 122Then they murdered Walter Wallace JR. #justiceforwalterwallace pic.twitter.com/JdCBgmMVl3
— BLM Philly (@BLMPhilly) November 13, 2020
33. Marcellis Stinnette, teen killed by police in Waukegan, Illinois
Source:Twitter 33 of 12234. Jonathan Price
34 of 122The Texas police officer who fatally shot Jonathan Price has been arrested and charged with murder. His bail has been set at 1 million dollars. I'm glad. RIP Jonathan, rest in power. pic.twitter.com/Mw5GMQX0Eb
— ~𝓣𝓮𝓷𝓪𝓬𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓣𝓮𝓪𝓱~ (@TeahCartel) October 6, 2020
35. Deon Kay
35 of 122Say his name #deonkay
— All Out DC (@All_Out_DC) September 3, 2020
Say his name #deonkay
Say his name #deonkay
Say his name #deonkay
Say his name #deonkay
He just turned 18 and @DCPoliceDept murdered him pic.twitter.com/NjyGxYB8ar
36. Daniel Prude
36 of 122The killing of Daniel Prude by Rochester police officers is unacceptable, and we need real answers for why this happened and why it took so long to come out.
— Jeremy Cooney (@JeremyCooneyROC) September 2, 2020
Trained medical professionals should respond to mental health crises, not armed officers. pic.twitter.com/EPhH9inn1x
37. Damian Daniels
37 of 122Yesterday in SA cops killed Sergeant Damian Lamar Daniels in front of his home. His family asked the Red Cross to get him to the VA.
— Lee Merritt (@MerrittForTexas) August 27, 2020
He had a legal gun on his hip that he never removed. He didn’t want to go and he struggled when they tried to force him.
So they killed him. pic.twitter.com/q6U7OSXb6D
38. Dijon Kizzee
38 of 122This is #DijonKizzee, 29 yrs old and shot and killed by LA Sheriffs after being stopped for a bike violation. Cops handcuffed his lifeless body. While police investigations can drag on for months/years, cops have already claimed he ran away, and dropped clothes and a gun. #BLM pic.twitter.com/pM6mQfWLeQ
— Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) September 1, 2020
39. Trayford Pellerin
Source:GoFundMe 39 of 12240. David McAtee
40 of 122in an attempt to disperse crowds, #DavidMcAtee, a louisville bbq chef known for serving cops free meals, was shot and killed by the police last night. he was unarmed. not only were the officers’ bodycams off, but they also left his body on the street for 12 hours.
— adaliah 🇹🇬 (@adxlls) June 2, 2020
say his name. pic.twitter.com/kqOPku8iuQ
41. Natosha “Tony” McDade
41 of 12242. George Floyd
42 of 122This is #GeorgeFloyd speaking to the youth before he died. pic.twitter.com/sMV8YOoTlQ
— Dr Boyce Watkins (@drboycewatkins1) May 27, 2020
43. Yassin Mohamed
43 of 122The GBI is investigating an OIS involving the Evans County Sheriff's Office and Yassin Mohamed. Mohamed is deceased. https://t.co/KwJi3e1YDc pic.twitter.com/2LQNnEhWOE
— GA Bureau of Investigation (@GBI_GA) May 9, 2020
44. Finan H. Berhe
44 of 122Montgomery County Police Tweet Video Of Cop Shooting Finan H. Berhe In Maryland https://t.co/HzNV24ZpZB
— The Bishop Speaks (@JMcCorrySpeaks) May 9, 2020
45. Sean Reed
Source:Twitter 45 of 12246. Steven Demarco Taylor
Source:S. Lee Merritt 46 of 12247. Ariane McCree
Source:The Herald/YouTube 47 of 12248. Terrance Franklin
48 of 122The City of Minneapolis has reached a $795,000 settlement with the family of Terrance Franklin, fatally shot by officers in 2013.https://t.co/ewKclYB2Pg pic.twitter.com/JzMIl7USoh
— KARE 11 (@kare11) February 14, 2020
49. Miles Hall
Source:KRON4 49 of 12250. Darius Tarver
Source:S. Lee Merritt 50 of 12251. William Green
51 of 122They murdered my cousin. How do you have someone in handcuffs and in a seat belt and shoot them multilpe times.All cops aren't bad but those were. I will fight with the last breath in me for justice. William Green was a family man, a working man. Funny. Loving. Love and miss you. pic.twitter.com/PhM3a6C7uj
— Liv 👸🏾 (@liv__03) January 28, 2020
52. Samuel David Mallard, 19
52 of 122This is a 2019 mugshot of the murder suspect Cobb police shot & killed today. Samuel Mallard, 19, was previously arrested for impersonating officers a half dozen times. In the 2020 case, the GBI says he’s involved in a murder/robbery. CCPD says there are other suspects. @wsbtv https://t.co/7EfuVQLmNB pic.twitter.com/ttWg5HjFkj
— Chris Jose (@ChrisJoseWSB) January 17, 2020
53. Kwame "KK" Jones, 17
Source:facebook 53 of 12254. De’von Bailey, 19
54 of 122Grand jury rules fatal officers' shooting of Devon Bailey was justified. https://t.co/MHXYQn87aH
— Scott Kilbury (@SKilburyFOX21) November 14, 2019
55. Christopher Whitfield, 31
55 of 122Cop Shoots, Kills Mentally Ill Black Man #ChristopherWhitfield As He Ran Away With Foodhttps://t.co/40a5i5QnEZ pic.twitter.com/nqsIRK6JZe
— Benjamin Young Savage (ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ) (@benjancewicz) October 16, 2019
56. Anthony Hill, 26
56 of 122Former Officer Robert Olsen killed Anthony Hill over four years ago and was finally convicted (not of murder). Will get get the Amber Guyger treatment? #AnthonyHillhttps://t.co/HZVf3tOEOL
— NewsOne (@newsone) October 25, 2019
57. De'Von Bailey, 19
57 of 12258. Eric Logan, 54
58 of 122BREAKING NEWS OUT OF SOUTH BEND:
— Joshua Short (@JoshuaShortTV) June 27, 2019
Two lawyers representing the estate of 54-year-old Eric Logan, who was shot and killed by a South Bend police officer, have sued that officer, Sgt. Ryan O'Neill and Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
The suit was filed in federal court today.
(READ THREAD) pic.twitter.com/frOpKFQIAV
59. Jamarion Robinson, 26
59 of 122Please join the family of Jamarion Robinson and community organizations on 8/5 to demand #justiceforjam #justiceforjamarion #76shots pic.twitter.com/wpVAoqmiQA
— Tiff Roberts (@shedefendsit) July 27, 2017
60. Gregory Hill Jr., 30
60 of 122Gregory Hill, Jr. - the family of Greg Hill grants permission to use these photos to honor Greg or tell his story. pic.twitter.com/uhn1RbEQBv
— John M. Phillips (@JohnPhillips) June 1, 2018
61. JaQuavion Slaton, 20
61 of 122This is Jaquavion Slaton, the 20-year-old who was was shot & killed by Fort Worth Police on Sunday. Community demanding release of body camera video, but FWPD hasn’t said when/if that will happen. #WFAA pic.twitter.com/iakQyWrRCl
— Teresa Woodard (@twoodard8) June 10, 2019
62. Ryan Twyman, 24
62 of 12263. Brandon Webber, 20
63 of 12264. Jimmy Atchison, 21
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65. Willie McCoy, 20
65 of 122One of six officers who fired at Willie McCoy had killed unarmed man in 2018 || Via: Guardian https://t.co/CjrSIa8r1Z
— SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) February 23, 2019
66. Emantic "EJ" Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., 21
66 of 12267. D’ettrick Griffin, 18
67 of 122Family of D’Ettrick Griffin, man fatally shot by police while trying to steal an unmarked cruiser, is suing City of Atlanta and officer involved https://t.co/4oBbxFAvoF pic.twitter.com/0KMeVwST9I
— CBS46 (@cbs46) February 8, 2019
68. Jemel Roberson, 26
Source:false 68 of 122Security guard Jemel Roberson was holding down a shooting suspect when police burst in and shot Roberson instead. pic.twitter.com/zNsYvQMRg8
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) November 14, 2018
69. DeAndre Ballard, 23
Source:false 69 of 122#NCCU remembers Fallen Eagle, Mr. DeAndre Ballard. A vigil will be held on Sun., 9/23, 11 a.m., in the A.E. Student Union lobby. https://t.co/4rnPAX1wlG #SoarInPeace pic.twitter.com/RZZxKJaivh
— N.C. Central University (@NCCU) September 21, 2018
70. Botham Shem Jean, 26
Source:false 70 of 122The young man who was killed by a Dallas police officer in his own apartment this morning has been identified as 26-year-old Botham Jean. He worked at the PwC firm in Downtown Dallas. https://t.co/oyjHMdMXVv pic.twitter.com/uSvJWJ062e
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) September 7, 2018
71. Antwon Rose Jr., 17
Source:false 71 of 12272. Robert Lawrence White, 41
Source:false 72 of 12273. Anthony Lamar Smith, 24
Source:Getty 73 of 12274. Ramarley Graham, 18
Source:Getty 74 of 12275. Manuel Loggins Jr., 31
Source:Getty 75 of 12276. Trayvon Martin, 17
Source:Getty 76 of 12277. Wendell Allen, 20
Source:Getty 77 of 12278. Kendrec McDade, 19
Source:Getty 78 of 12279. Larry Jackson Jr., 32
Source:Getty 79 of 12280. Jonathan Ferrell, 24
Source:Getty 80 of 12281. Jordan Baker, 26
Source:Getty 81 of 12282. Victor White lll, 22
Source:Getty 82 of 12283. Dontre Hamilton, 31
Source:Getty 83 of 12284. Eric Garner, 43
Source:Getty 84 of 12285. John Crawford lll, 22
Source:Getty 85 of 12286. Michael Brown, 18
Source:Getty 86 of 12287. Ezell Ford, 25
Source:Getty 87 of 12288. Dante Parker, 36
Source:Getty 88 of 12289. Kajieme Powell, 25
Source:Getty 89 of 12290. Laquan McDonald, 17
Source:Getty 90 of 12291. Akai Gurley, 28
Source:Getty 91 of 12292. Tamir Rice, 12
Source:Getty 92 of 12293. Rumain Brisbon, 34
Source:Getty 93 of 12294. Jerame Reid, 36
Source:Getty 94 of 12295. Charly Keunang, 43
Source:Getty 95 of 12296. Tony Robinson, 19
Source:Getty 96 of 12297. Walter Scott, 50
Source:Getty 97 of 12298. Freddie Gray, 25
Source:Getty 98 of 12299. Brendon Glenn, 29
Source:Getty 99 of 122100. Samuel DuBose, 43
Source:Getty 100 of 122101. Christian Taylor, 19
Source:Getty 101 of 122102. Jamar Clark, 24
Source:Getty 102 of 122103. Mario Woods, 26
Source:Getty 103 of 122104. Quintonio LeGrier, 19
Source:Getty 104 of 122105. Gregory Gunn, 58
Source:Getty 105 of 122106. Akiel Denkins, 24
Source:Getty 106 of 122107. Alton Sterling, 37
Source:Getty 107 of 122108. Philando Castile, 32
Source:Getty 108 of 122109. Terrence Sterling, 31
Source:Getty 109 of 122110. Terence Crutcher, 40
Source:Getty 110 of 122111. Keith Lamont Scott, 43
Source:Getty 111 of 122112. Alfred Olango, 38
Source:Getty 112 of 122113. Jordan Edwards, 15
Source:Getty 113 of 122114. Stephon Clark, 22
Source:false 114 of 122Please, do not forget #BlackLivesMatter #StephonClark pic.twitter.com/474DSVBGLm
— Zendaya (@Zendaya) March 27, 2018
115. Danny Ray Thomas, 34
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116. DeJuan Guillory, 27
Source:false 116 of 122DeJuan Guillory #TakeAKnee4Me pic.twitter.com/SrSaweU6dY
— Faces Of Injustice (@takeaknee4me) October 12, 2017
117. Patrick Harmon, 50
117 of 122Patrick Harmon was shot and killed by police in Salt Lake City, Utah. The district attorney says the shooting was "legally justified." pic.twitter.com/zYBOwlTzRb
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 7, 2017
118. Jonathan Hart, 21
118 of 122Friends and family of Jonathan Heart aka Sky Young, a young #homeless man killed last Sunday at a Walgreens in #Hollywood for allegedly shoplifting, gather tonight to remember the 20-year-old. pic.twitter.com/uiMRiFnutq
— Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) December 9, 2018
119. Maurice Granton, 24
119 of 122Dash cam footage of police killing Maurice Granton Jr. has been released. His family says it proves that he was unarmed pic.twitter.com/YLAM7my1ny
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 26, 2018
120. Julius Johnson, 23
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121. Jamee Johnson, 22
Source:S. Lee Merritt 121 of 122122. Michael Dean, 28
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UPDATED: 11:30 a.m. ET, Mar. 24, 2022 -- The centuries-old American tradition of police shooting and killing Black males suffered an untraditional jolt in April when former cop Derek Chauvin was found guilty and convicted on all counts for murdering George Floyd by kneeling on the unarmed, handcuffed man's neck for more than nine minutes. But it has been a quick resumption to police normalcy with multiple killings of Black people by law enforcement since the day of Chauvin's verdict. MORE: #SayHerName: Black Women And Girls Killed By Police On March 19, Irvin D. Moorer Charley was shot and killed by Richland County police in Columbia, South Carolina. Moorer Charley suffered from mental health issues. According to officials, deputies, John Anderson and Zachary Hentz were responding to a domestic violence call at the house of Connie Craig, the mother of the victim. When they arrived on the scene, Moorer Charley came outside and approached officers with a piece of wood in hand. Officers believed it to be a knife. His brother pleaded with the deputies not to shoot because Moorer Charley didn’t have a gun and had a history of mental illness. According to the body cam footage, which was edited and shared with the family, Moorer Charley slowly approached a deputy, the officer pointed his gun at him yelling for him to drop the knife. Another officer then tased Moorer Charley, but the taser had little affect on him. The deputy who yelled at Moorer Charley to drop his weapon then shoots him seven times until Moorer Charley falls to the ground. Moorer Charley’s family has demanded the full video be released to the public, but Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott believes the shooting isn’t something everyone needs to see. https://twitter.com/MakaylaEvans21/status/1506689894244134927?s=20&t=__i5SQuqNE0E0ErCvCo_FQ Lott also defended the actions of his deputies basically stating they did what they had to do. “We can’t expect these deputies to go out here and be killed,” said Lott in a statement to the AP. “They have to protect themselves. And that’s what this deputy did yesterday. He protected himself.” But the family’s attorney Shaquana Cuttino believes deputies had no right to kill Moorer Charley. “We believe officers could have disarmed Mr. Charley easily and without the use of deadly force,” said Cuttin. “Yet they came in with guns blazing.” The Richland County Sheriff’s Department will be investing the incident with an internal investigation, then a prosecutor will decide if the shooting was justified. Moorer Charley's name joins a long list of too many other Black men and boys killed by the police, including people who have become household names for all the wrong reasons like Tamir Rice, Botham Jean, E.J. Bradford, and Michael Brown. But there are plenty of others whose police killings never went "viral," including people like Michael Dean, a 28-year-old father who police shot in the head on Dec. 3, 2019, and Jamee Johnson, a 22-year-old HBCU student who police shot to death after a questionable traffic stop on Dec. 14, 2019. One of the most distressing parts of this seemingly nonstop string of police killings of Black people is the fact that more times than not, the officer involved in the shooting can hide behind the claim that they feared for their lives -- even if the victim was shot in the back, as has become the case for so many deadly episodes involving law enforcement. In a handful of those cases -- such as Antwon Rose, a 13-year-old boy killed in Pittsburgh, and Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old killed in Sacramento, both of whom were unarmed -- the officers either avoided being criminally charged altogether or were acquitted despite damning evidence that the cops' lives were not threatened and there was no cause for them to resort to lethal force or any violence for that matter. Crump, who has been retained in so many of these cases, described the above scenarios in his book, "Open Season," as the "genocide" of Black people. As NewsOne continues covering these shootings that so often go ignored by mainstream media, the below running list (in no certain order) of Black men and boys who have been shot and killed by police under suspicious circumstances can serve as a tragic reminder of the dangers Black and brown citizens face upon being born into a world of hate that has branded them as suspects since birth. Scroll down to learn more about the Black men and boys who have lost their lives to police violence.
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The HBCU Community will come together for the 8th Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference next week.
The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice in collaboration will host the event in collaboration with Texas Southern University on April 13 – 16, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The goal of the conference is to unite HBCU faculty, students, researchers, climate professionals and environmental justice, and coastal community residents affected by detrimental weather caused by or related to climate change. The conference will work to help eliminate the gap between theory and the day-to-day realities of climate change. Issues such as climate justice, adaptation, community resilience, global climate problems, and other major climate change topics like transportation, energy sources, carbon emissions, and more will be discussed at the event as well.
Also, the conference will work to incorporate local high school students into the activities of the conference. These teenagers who are looking to attend College will have the opportunity to learn more about how climate science is an integral part of their lives. The activities will offer an introductory glimpse into the realities of climate change for these young students through computer-simulated games and other forms of engaging learning tools.
The conference was originally postponed until the Spring of 2022 due to the surge in the COVID19 Omicron Variant. But now the HBCU community will have an opportunity to come together to discuss and hopefully find some practical solutions to a very important issue.
In May of 2021, Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, spoke to theGrio about the importance of inclusion for HBCUs and becoming actively involved in the discussion on climate change.
“My first venture out in this COVID environment was to Howard University … it was to announce a $17 million opportunity at DOE [Department of Energy] offering to support college internships and research projects and opportunities and to bolster investment in underrepresented use in minority-serving institutions,” said Granholm.
“If you don’t have diverse researchers at the table, your research product, whatever it is, is going to not be as effective,” Granholm continued. “So, for example, when we have all this face recognition software out there, all this artificial intelligence, well, they’re the way MIS identifies African-American faces, especially in law enforcement. If you have more people of color who are on the teams doing the development of that software and that technology, then you will not have that problem.”
The conference will likely continue to serve as a vital step in helping to get more diversity in the conversations around climate change.
“We have to have diverse participation in the design of these products and the research of them,” stated Granholm. “And that’s why we need to increase the diversity in our laboratories, but of our stem, our science, technology, engineering, and math workforce.”
SEE ALSO:
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United Negro College Fund Launches HBCUv Platform To Advance Digital Learning, Cultivate Community
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Everyone plays way too much. Today is the first of the month, and it is also widely regarded as April Fools’ Day. We will share the silly holiday’s origin and some of our favorite celebrity April Fool’s Day pranks.
There are similar holidays in ancient Rome and Britain, but the eldest historical reference comes from a Flemish poem written in 1561. According to a history of the holiday written by Stephen Wince of the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center, one nobleman sends his servant on “fool’s errands” on April 1.
According to History.com, some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. In the Julian Calendar, as in the Hindu calendar, the new year began with the spring equinox around April 1. People who didn’t get the news in time or failed to acknowledge the new start of the new year became the butt of jokes and consequently called, “April fools.”
Some pranks included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as “poisson d’avril” (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person.
The Catholic Church is also credited for making April Fools’ Day a thing. The religion celebrated a carnival-like “Feast of Fools,” originally held in medieval France and England on Jan. 1. It was practiced but was banned by the 15th century, but the holiday still continued for hundreds of years.
By the 19th century, April Fools’ Day become a mainstay of American culture. So much that celebrities and fans alike celebrate with pregnancy pranks and unlikely changes for the sake of jokes and laughter.
In the spirit of the virtually silly holiday, check out a list of our favorite celebrity pranks on April Fools’ Day below.
Jokes On You: 5 Of Our Favorite Celebrity Pranks On April Fools’ Day [Gallery] was originally published on globalgrind.com
1. Lil Nas X
Source:LilNasXOur favorite Internet troll and the biggest prankster of them all is Lil Nas X. The young artist doesn’t need a made up holiday to make up an elaborate story on social media, but today makes it especially fun. Lil Nas X announces the Montero Deluxe album featuring a laundry list of celebrities. His tweet made “featuring Rihanna” trend because no one could believe he was able to obtain a verse from the Fenty queen.
Don’t play with our emotions like this!
2. Michael Strahan
Source:michaelstrahanLast year, Michael Strahan fooled everyone when he pretended to close his signature front gap teeth. Fans were distraught in the comments saying that he was supposed to be the gap teeth advocate and they have no one to look up to anymore.
The Good Morning America co-anchor eventually confessed to the prank, but only after countless people believed it. “C’mon man! The gap is here to stay, for a little while. Not going anywhere anytime soon,” Michael said, all smiles, when revealing his big lie in a video.
3. Rihanna
Source:Jimmy Kimmel LiveSpeaking of our favorite bad gal, Rihanna played the ultimate prank on Jimmy Kimmel.She made a secret 1:00 a.m. visit to talk show host Jimmy Kimmel‘s house to wake him up and prank him with a private concert in 2015. She brought a mini light kit, made it rain money over his barely awake body, and jumped up and down on his bed! The songstress revealed that she came up with the epic prank herself.
4. Sam Smith
Source:samsmithOpenly gay singer Sam Smith decided to play a prank on their Twitter followers back in 2015. Smith tweeted, “Guys…I have some news. I’m straight.”
Smith only allowed the tweet to sit their briefly before hopping back online to wish everyone a very Happy April Fools’ Day! The artist is very sure of his sexuality, since coming out as non-binary and using the pronouns they/them.
5. Nick Cannon
Source:mixtapeminimus1Got eeeem! Nick Cannon played the ultimate prank on Kevin Hart last September, and it wasn’t even April Fools’ Day. The jokester put his entire face on the side of Kevin Hart’s private jet to promote his talk show. The two have an ongoing prank war.
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The 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards weekend is well underway and some of our favorite celebrities are hitting the scene to show off their best looks ahead of the biggest night in music. Last night, the gworls were out for the a variety of events including Recording Academy Honors presented by The Black Music Collective event as well as the Fifteen Percent Pledge Benefit Gala and turned heads in their stunning evening gowns and ensembles, being sure to give us fashion envy in the process.
From Saweetie to Chloe Bailey, the fashions were everything and if this is any preview of what we can expect on tonight’s GRAMMY Awards red carpet, then prepare to have your edges snatched! Check out some of our favorite looks from the weekend inside.
Red Carpet Rundown: The Most Jaw-Dropping Looks From GRAMMY Awards Weekend was originally published on hellobeautiful.com
1. Saweetie
Source:GettySaweetie attended the elegant event looking as beautiful as ever in this green cut out Alexandre Vauthier gown. She accessorized the look with matching heels and wore her long hair flowing over to one side of her face.
2. US-ENTERTAINMENT-MUSIC-RECORDING ACADEMY-HONORS-LEGEND
Source:GettyChloe Bailey turned heads at the event in this sexy black look, trading in her signature locs for a voluptuous afro that looked absolutely stunning on the R&B crooner.
3. Summer Walker
Source:GettySummer Walker gave us fashion envy in this cut out sheer ensemble that showed off her sexy curves.
4. Muni Long
Source:GettyMuni Long was also in attendance at the The Black Music Collective event donning this sexy all-black look.
5. Tamron Hall
Source:GettyTamron Hall attended The Fifteen Percent Pledge Benefit Gala at New York Public Library over the weekend in this black and white two piece ensemble.
6. Iman
Source:GettyIman was also in attendance of The Fifteen Percent Pledge Benefit Gala at New York Public Library donning this curve-hugging animal print ensemble.
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We spend a lot of time talking about our favorite musicians here on the “Hot Spot,” so it was only right for Da Brat to recap the biggest night in music at this year’s GRAMMY Awards ceremony that went down over the weekend.
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In addition to who won, who performed and who got snubbed at the 2022 GRAMMYs, we also have an update on the fallout for Will Smith following that heavily-talked-about slap he delivered to Chris Rock at the Oscars last week. Let’s just say The Fresh Prince may be slowly losing his crown.
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With Eva handling the current events and Rock-T covering sports, you already know we’re looking out for you in today’s “Front Page News” report with everything worth knowing to start the week off right.
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Ukraine is continuing to suffer the greatest in the midst of a month-long invasion by way of Russia, gun violence here in America saw an unfortunate spike over the weekend and Ketanji Brown Jackson is just a few short steps away from locking in a historic U.S. Supreme Court confirmation. In sports, college basketball is heating up and a high school track & field fight has gone extremely viral.
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination will move forward for a full Senate vote, bringing her historic confirmation one step closer to completion. After Jackson’s nomination “deadlocked” in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrats moved for a vote to discharge her nomination from the committee and to a full confirmation vote.
It passed 53-47, setting the stage for Jackson’s confirmation later in the week. Senate Democrats were joined by Republican Sens. Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins.
The alleged opposition to Jackson on “ideological grounds” has no more validity than the claims that Republicans would have preferred someone “moderate.”
Supreme Court justices are not required to have a particular ideology. But the theatrics from certain Republicans are more about political theater for the 2022 midterm election than Jackson’s qualifications.
In a statement emailed to NewsOne, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) spokesperson Freedom Alexander Murphy challenged a “ridiculous double standard” being applied to Jackson.
“Senate Republicans admit that if they held the majority, the first Black woman and one of the most qualified people nominated to serve on the Supreme Court would not even have received a hearing,” Murphy said. “The stakes for protecting and expanding our Democratic Senate majority with the power to confirm Supreme Court justices could not be more clear.”
For April Frazier Camara, president and CEO of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, Jackson’s confirmation positively highlights the vital role lawyers representing indigent clients play in the legal system.
“It’s a tremendous milestone, in terms of racial and ethnic diversity, but also in being able to shed light on the valuable role that public defenders play in protecting our constitutional rights and the valuable role that they can play on the court,” Camara explained.
A former member of the DC Public Defender Service and chair of the Black Public Defender Association, Camara, stressed the importance of having a judiciary that is more reflective of the people entering the criminal legal system. She said the combination of Jackson’s lived experience and professional experience as a public defender will be an added benefit to the Court.
“It’s very important for people to understand, especially at this moment where people talk so much about individual rights and our right to freedom and all these ideas that we have in America,” Camara began. “The role that a public defender plays is oftentimes like this silent guardian of those rights.”
Camara said that at times many of the rights outlined in the Constitution fall to public defenders, and other attorneys representing indigent clients, to defend. She also said Jackson’s nomination provided a conversation point for possible pathways to the judiciary for public defenders and legal aid attorneys.
Camara said she and her colleagues began laying the narrative framework to support adding more public defenders to the federal bench in anticipation of the Biden administration.
“We have done a lot to shape the public narrative in the media around trying to explain the role that public defenders play and to push back on this misconception that what we do is not a valuable role in not just society, but in our legal system,” she said.
Madiba Dennie, who serves as counsel with the Brennan Center’s Democracy program, said decisions made by the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, disproportionately impact Black and other groups overrepresented in the criminal legal system.
Of the 115 people to serve on the Supreme Court, only eight justices have been non-white men, and only one has been a woman of color. Being a white male seemed like a prerequisite for the Court until Justice Thurgood Marshall was confirmed in 1967.
“The conversations don’t include us,” Dennie said. “A consequence of that different perspective is it influences the process of judicial deliberations and decision making.”
Expanding on a point she argued in an NBC Think op-ed last month, Dennie acknowledged that adding a Black woman to the Court wasn’t going to magically transform it. But she described the power and importance of well-reasoned dissenting opinions from the justices.
“Dissents have proven useful historically to shape law and policy,” she said. “Whether by the Court returning to a dissent later or Congress looking to the dissent in a case and being like ‘oh, yeah, this is what we wanted to do. Let’s change the law with this dissent in mind.’”
Turning to alleged objections over Jackson’s experience and record, Dennie challenged claims that the nomination was nothing more than “affirmative action.”
“It’s not affirmative action so much as reparative action,” she explained. “Her record should not be in doubt, and it’s a little suspicious when folks challenge her qualifications.”
SEE ALSO:
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Isn’t Moderate Enough For GOP Senators But Neither Was Merrick Garland
OP-ED: For Black Women, Racism, Denial and Disrespect Never End; But Still We Rise
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Moves Closer To Confirmation was originally published on newsone.com
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The GOP grandstanding in the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson keeps getting weirder. Some Republican Senators seem to want to outdo each other with their dramatic declarations that they will not vote in favor of the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court.
There is not a legitimate reason to object to her nomination or confirmation. And yet, Sen. Lindsey Graham claims he can’t dare vote to support her. He also insists that Republicans would not have even given her a hearing if they were in charge in favor of someone more moderate.
If only Graham had the chance to support someone more moderate? Oh wait, he did in 2016 when President Barack Obama nominated then Judge Merrick Garland.
Despite saying pleasant things about Garland, Graham joined his Republican colleagues in blocking the confirmation process. Garland never even got a chance to have a hearing when he was nominated in 2016. At the time, NPR described Garland as a moderate who had a record of Republican support.
Graham also stalled Garland’s nomination as attorney general by President Biden early last year. Garland ultimately was confirmed, but Graham did everything in his limited power to obstruct a second confirmation process.
While Graham tried to claim that he thought favorably of a more moderate potential nominee for SCOTUS in Judge Michelle Childs from South Carolina, we’ve already seen how he has acted when a Democratic president has nominated a moderate.
Faced with a similar scenario four years later and an event tighter election timeline, Republicans suddenly forgot their values. When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg died in 2020, less than two months before the presidential election, Republicans rammed through the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Barrett also had significantly less judicial experience than Jackson. Mother Jones called her the least experienced nominee in 30 years.
But what also makes Graham’s shenanigans laughable is that he just voted to confirm Jackson last year for another judicial position with a lifetime appointment.
Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joined Graham in supporting Jackson’s confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals D.C. Circuit just last year. Her record has remained unchanged in the past year. Jackson’s prior appointment was also for a lifetime appointment, and yet suddenly, Graham is against her.
So much for being a man of principles.
According to MSNBC Host Medi Hasan, Collins and Murkowski will support Jackson’s nomination again with Sen. Mitt Romney joining them. Romney voted against confirming Jackson last year.
After reviewing Jackson’s record, Romney tweeted that he found her to be a “well-qualified” jurist. The American Bar Association unanimously found her “well-qualified,” and representatives from the legal organization provided glowing testimony during the confirmation process.
Garland’s nomination followed the death of Justice Antonin Scalia more than seven months before the 2016 presidential election. At the time, Republicans Senators claimed that it was too close to an election and the next president should have the right to choose Scalia’s replacement.
For as much as certain senators go on about the sanctity of the institution, they very quickly throw tantrums when they don’t get their way. Per Article III of the Constitution, the president has the authority to nominate judges and Supreme Court justices. It is for the Senate to confirm them.
Confirmation hearings have a history of trying to prevent diverse candidates from making it to the bench. The first confirmation hearing took place over 100 years after the first group of Justices took the bench. It wasn’t until a Jewish man, Louis Brandeis, was nominated that suddenly a confirmation hearing was deemed necessary.
Some of these senators who talk about the “honor” of the institution when it comes to a procedural obstacle, like the filibuster, think it’s ok not to do their job and vote on a nominee.
And in this case, they don’t like this Black woman and all she represents for forward progress and the future of the Court.
Graham isn’t alone in the overtures and grandstanding. Sen. Ted Cruz, who knew Jackson while at Harvard Law, went out of his way to distort his former classmate’s record and experience on and off the bench. His fixation on her presence on the board of a progressive D.C. private school is laughable considering his children also attend a school with an express commitment to anti-racism.
Also, any issues Republicans have with prior confirmation hearings including the handling of credible sexual assault claims have nothing to do with Jackson or her confirmation. Graham, Cruz and several other Republican members of the Judiciary Committee colleagues disrespected Jackson and the process itself.
Disagree with her, or just say you refuse to vote for her because you’re sticking to a party strategy. But pretending this is about honoring the process or institution, is not it.
While a sitting president does not owe members of the opposing party a particular nominee, in the past, some have considered specific objections in hopes that a confirmation process can move forward without too many issues.
Republicans can’t articulate a valid reason to object to Jackson, and despite trying to sugarcoat the vitriol, their objections are rooted in partisan obstructionism and nothing more. And in this case, someone more “moderate” is code language for the status quo of a prosecutor or corporate lawyer who is unlikely to rock the boat.
We’ve seen the national influence Justice Sonia Sotomayor has made with her epic dissents. Imagine adding another Justice or two to her side on the bench? It will take a lot more to shift the balance of power on the bench, but the possibility for the future is real.
When Chief Justice John Roberts was confirmed in 2005, 22 Democrats joined 55 Republicans in supporting his nomination. Polling shows that Jackson tied Roberts with the highest favorability for a nominee in recent history.
Also, Jackson’s confirmation is a part of the broader Biden Administration’s commitment to having a federal judiciary that is representative and reflective of the American people. Having federal judges and Supreme Court justices who have no experience in indigent defense, let alone working as a public defender, leaves out a necessary perspective in the nation’s criminal legal system.
And yet, the majority of Senate Republicans would have you believe Jackson’s nomination was the beginning of some attack on Democracy. As a former public defender, Jackson’s confirmation will add a new dimension previously absent from the Court.
But if anyone knew anything about undermining Democracy, like by trying to interfere with an election, Graham and crew would know.
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Tasha has moved on from Ghost and is living her best life! Power star, Naturi Naughton, said “I do” to Xavier ‘Two’ Lewis this past weekend, on April 2nd, in an undisclosed location.
As seen in the video above, Naturi and Xavier’s wedding colors included different shades of purple and a shade of pink. Omari Hardwick, who plays Ghost – Naturi’s deceased husband – on Power, was a part of the bridal party sporting a purple, ankle length tuxedo. Lala, who played LaKeisha on Power, was also a part of the bridal party donning a spaghetti strap, floor length gown that featured a plunging neckline and small train.
The groom dapperly walked down the aisle in an all-white tuxedo that included ankle length pants paired with white dress shoes. Naturi floated down to her groom looking absolutely beautiful in a spaghetti strap, bell-shaped gown equipped with a train length veil. She carried a bouquet of purple flowers.
During an interview in Essence Magazine, Naturi revealed that her and Xavier were introduced by Omari Hardwick. The couple got engaged in 2020 during the Christmas holiday.
After the wedding, the guests and wedding party let their hair down at the reception. While we don’t know all the fun details about the party, we do know that our girl LaLa caught the bouquet!
In a post on her Instagram feed showing her snagging the flowers, LaLa wrote, “Now what are the chances of me catching the bouquet at @naturi4real & @twolewis_ beautiful wedding this weekend?? WE OUTSIIDDDEEEEEE OR NAH? somebody tell me what we doing?!!!”
Lala filed for a divorce from her husband of 11 years, Carmel Anthony, so you know her followers were eating this video up!
Congratulations Naturi and Xavier!
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The fight for civil rights isn’t just about voting, it also encompasses equality in everyday living, including the right not to be discriminated against when trying to purchase or sell a home. In April 1968 the Fair Housing Act (FHA) was passed. Now every year during the month we celebrate the Fair Housing Act and the rights it afforded Blacks trying to build a life in America. But why April? Yes, the Act was passed in April, but that’s not the only reason we celebrate it on the 4th month of every year.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the FHA into law just a week after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Fair Housing Act is directly tied to Dr. King’s legacy. His commitment to equal opportunity in every community is embodied by the Fair Housing Act. As we remember King, we remember the reasons he fought tirelessly for equal rights. One of the reasons we need fair housing is because it helps build strong, lasting communities. Due to a long history of discriminatory lending practices called ‘redlining,‘ Black homeownership and wealth have always been a struggle. Although the Fair Housing Act ended the official practice of redlining, sadly, some of its discriminatory ways have still seeped into the processes of homeownership.
In August 2021, NewsOne reported Black American homeowners are being forced to whitewash their homes just so they can receive a fair price on their appraisals, in what is known as “appraisal discrimination.”
Housing and Urban Development have put together a task force called the interagency Property Appraisal Valuation Equity Task Force or PAVE for short. The group, which will be led by Secretary Marcia Fudge of HUD, former ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, and 20 year HUD staffer Melody Taylor, will try to combat the decades-old issue of “appraisal discrimination.” But protections should already fall under the Fair Housing Act.
Who Does The Fair Housing Act Protect?
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing because of race, color, national origin, religion sex, familial status, or disability.
It also makes it illegal to harass persons because of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, familial status, or national origin. Among other things, this forbids sexual harassment.
What is Illegal Discrimination Under The Fair Housing Act?
- Refuse to rent or sell housing
- Refuse to negotiate for housing
- Otherwise make housing unavailable
- Set different terms, conditions or privileges for sale or rental of a dwelling
- Provide a person different housing services or facilities
- Falsely deny that housing is available for inspection, sale or rental
- Make, print or publish any notice, statement or advertisement with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation or discrimination
- Impose different sales prices or rental charges for the sale or rental of a dwelling
- Use different qualification criteria or applications, or sale or rental standards or procedures, such as income standards, application requirements, application fees, credit analyses, sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements
- Evict a tenant or a tenant’s guest
- Harass a person
- Fail or delay performance of maintenance or repairs
- Limit privileges, services or facilities of a dwelling
- Discourage the purchase or rental of a dwelling
- Assign a person to a particular building or neighborhood or section of a building or neighborhood
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Why Are Black Families Pretending To Be White To Sell Their Homes?
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“We want to thank Jeff Bezos for going to space because while he was up there, we were signing people up.” – Christian Smalls
Chris Smalls, the fired Amazon worker who is quickly becoming the corporation’s worst nightmare, is currently on the winning side of a union battle most thought couldn’t be won, but he and his group of former and current Staten Island, New York, warehouse workers still have a road ahead of them before they can claim success.
As the Associated Press reported, Smalls helped lead a victory for the Amazon Labor Union Friday, when Amazon workers voted 2,654 – 2,131 in favor of the union despite Amazon executives spending millions on a campaign to quash the whole thing. Amazon pr-union employees in other states weren’t so fortunate.
For example, workers in Bessemer, Alabama, are failing to approve a union so far. “Initial results in that election show the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union down by 118 votes, with the majority of Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer rejecting a bid to form a union,” AP reported, adding that the “final outcome is still up in the air with 416 outstanding challenged ballots hanging in the balance.”
So, why has the effort in Staten Island been so successful where others have failed. Well, Smalls said he believes one reason is that the Bessemer campaign lacked local support. This might be true, because, by all indications, the New York campaign has been a true grassroots effort that undermined Amazon’s narrative that outside “third party” groups were behind the effort to unionize, not Amazon employees.
“They were not perceived as outsiders, so that’s important,” Ruth Milkman, a sociologist of labor and labor movements at the City University of New York, said, according to AP.
Smalls said that in March, the ALU raised about $100,000 and was operating on a week-to-week budget, which had been subsidized through community help, aid from other unions and pro-bono work from legal advisors. Meanwhile, Amazon executives had dropped about $4.2 million last year on labor consultants and the company held mandatory meetings to persuade workers that unions weren’t in their best interest.
Here’s how the ALU counteracted Amazon’s deep pockets as reported by AP:
Outmatched financially, Smalls and others relied on their ability to reach workers more personally by making TikTok videos, giving out free marijuana and holding barbecues and cookouts. A few weeks before the election, Smalls’ aunt cooked up soul food for a union potluck, including macaroni and cheese, collard greens, ham and baked chicken. Another pro-union worker got her neighbor to prepare Jollof rice, a West African dish organizers believed would help them make inroads with immigrant employees at the warehouse.
How gangsta is it that while Amazon was making it rain millions in order to quell union efforts, Smalls and his people gained an advantage by giving out free weed and serving food that makes colonizers wish they’d learned to actually do something with all the spices their ancestors appropriated?
In fact, according to organizers, the Staten Island ALU win has been so inspiring that Amazon workers from more than 20 states have reached out to learn how they can get their own union efforts off the ground. But right now, Smalls and his colleagues are focused on the daunting effort of reaching agreements with Amazon officials in labor contract negotiations.
“The number one thing is going to be fighting for the contract,” Smalls said. “We have to start that process right away because we know the longer drawn out the contract is, workers will lose hope and interest.”
It should be lost on no one that two years ago, a memo was leaked revealing that a top Amazon attorney characterized Smals as “not smart or articulate.” We all saw the remark as dog-whistle racism, but Smalls saw it as motivation.
“When I read that memo, that motivated me to start an organization,” he said, NPR reported.
And now, here we are.
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In the wake of Will Smith’s career coming to a pause, we’re sharing work horror stories. Due to Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, Netflix and other production companies have paused their work that was planned with the seasoned actor. Every action has a consequence and Rickey Smiley is asking, have you ever done something that cost you your job.
Hear the Rickey Smiley Morning Show share their stories.
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When it comes to therapy, sometimes it can be scary because you’re opening up to someone you don’t know. Picking a therapist can be a nerve-racking process, but Counselor Yunetta Spring shares some tips on how to find the best therapist.
When seeking out therapy, some of the tips she talks about is figuring out what type of therapy one needs. Do you need one-on-one, family therapy, or couple therapy? There so are many options to think of. Also, think about whether you’re comfortable with face-to-face or virtual and do you want a man or woman, and what race you would like them to be.
Listen to the clip below for tips on finding your perfect therapist.
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‘Tis the season for award shows, celebrity events, and festivals galore. The stars are out and about serving looks, and we are on the prowl for it all. From stylish pantsuits to vintage-inspired gowns, the celebs are bringing the fashion heat, and we are getting major inspiration from their ensembles.
PaleyFest LA is back and held its first in-person event this week in three years since Covid. PaleyFest is a television showcase with screenings and celebrity interviews at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. The festival offers Paley members and loyal television fans the chance to get more acquainted with their favorite television shows, celebrity actors, and actresses. It also includes an array of events and informative panels.
This year, the popular television show Black-ish is scheduled to be a part of the lineup, and of course, we got the details on their wardrobe for their ‘Evening with Black-ish’ event. Get into some of the cast members’ outfits below.
Red Carpet Rundown: The ‘Black-ish’ Cast Serve Fashion At The 39th Annual PaleyFest was originally published on hellobeautiful.com
1. Tracee Ellis Ross
Source:GettyTracee Ellis Ross shined brightly in a blue and yellow printed dress by Proenza Schouler. The dress featured long sleeves and a plunging neckline. Styled by Karla Welch, the dress was paired with black boots.
2. Jennifer Lewis
Source:GettyJennifer Lewis looked great in a black and white striped top paired with ivory wide leg pants that featured buttons up and down each leg. She completed the look with black and white loafers and a voluminous afro.
3. Marsai Martin
Source:GettyMarsai Martin looked stunning as she arrived to the ‘Evening with Black-ish‘ event in a beaded, long sleeve black dress that was accessorized with ankle strap sandals and perfectly braided cornrows.
4. Yara Shahidi
Source:GettyYara can do no wrong when it comes to fashion. Styled by Jason Bolden, she looked absolutely amazing in a Tory Burch net dress. The two-toned dress fit Yara to a tee, and her Bantu knots hairstyle set the look off.
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Student loan borrowers might get another few months to breathe. According to a report from the Associated Press, the Biden administration is expected to extend the repayment pause until August 31.
Currently, repayment of federal student loans has been paused since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. And surprisingly, the world has not fallen apart.
Former President Trump got something right when he paused loan repayment and later extended the pause. When President Biden took office last year, he, in turn, extended the pause.
Coming just one day after The Debt Collective led a day of action urging the president to cancel student debt, an extension of the pause is nice, but some say it’s not enough. The Debt Collective demanded Biden “pick up the pen” and wipe out all student loan debt in an action Monday.
The Debt Collective and supporters gathered in front of the U.S. Department of Education calling for a Student Debt Jubilee and cancellation of all debt.
Last week Democrats in both the House and Senate urged the president to extend the repayment pause through the end of the year while he considered options for canceling at least a portion of outstanding student loan debt. Rep. Jamaal Bowman tweeted that it wasn’t enough to pause student debt, but the president should cancel it.
“@StrikeDebt and many Dems have called for student debt cancellation for over two years now,” Bowman tweeted. “Student loans have been paused since 2020, and our economy hasn’t collapsed. The cost of living goes up while wages stagnate. Don’t just delay payments @POTUS, cancel student debt.”
While it may seem like the president is just kicking the can down the road, there could be a strategic reason for the delay. Extending the repayment pause through the end of August, with the possibility of cancellation later still on the table, could be a move for midterm elections later this year. People heading to the polls in late October/early November might be more likely to remember the president clearing out loans.
As previously reported by NewsOne, Congressional Democrats have been pushing for the administration to cancel student loans. While there are different approaches, Sen. Elizabeth Warren continues to push for canceling $50,000 of federal student loan debt. She also co-introduced legislation with Rep. Jim Clyburn in 2019 but maintains the president can take executive action.
Some may wonder why student debt cancelation and not voting rights. But proponents of debt cancelation argue that the president could simply pick up his pen and do something that will benefit more than 40 million student debt holders without dealing with partisan fighting.
“Stop kicking the can down the road. Stop extending the pause. Just cancel all student debt,” an organizer said in a video captured by D.C. based justice reporter Chuck Modiano.
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Biden Deferring Student Loan Payments Again Falls Short Of Campaign Promise To Cancel Debt
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I really wish all these white Republicans would just admit their opposition to Ketanji Brown Jackson sitting on the Supreme Court isn’t based on anything truthful or practical. I just want them to admit they’re racist, they’re hypocritical and they hate Black women who are not Candace Owens or a Candace Owens variant. Mostly, I just want these people to stop reaching around the MAGA world for arguments that just aren’t there.
For weeks, we’ve been watching Republican legislators line up to tell demonstrable lies about Jackson’s judicial record and bend themselves into white nationalist pretzels to link her to whatever the hell they think critical race theory is. But it’s the arguments themselves that would be embarrassing to Republicans if conservatives knew shame.
This brings us to Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton (R).
As HuffPost reported, on Tuesday, Cotton stood his long-neck-head-a** up during a Senate hearing to use Jackson’s common AF surname to draw the stupidest parallel imaginable in insinuating that she’s a Nazi sympathizer based on her record as a public defender.
From HuffPost:
“You know, the last Judge Jackson left the Supreme Court to go to Nuremberg and prosecute the Nazis,” Cotton said, referring to Robert Jackson, who was appointed by President Harry Truman to lead cases against German war criminals. “This Judge Jackson may have gone there to defend them.”
Cotton’s absurd leap echoes a GOP theme dwelling on Jackson’s stint as a public defender representing Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of terrorism. As a public defender, Jackson did not pick her clients.
OK, but while we’re out here playing around with people’s last names in order to make absurd statements, let’s just acknowledge that “Tom Cotton” sounds like every plantation owner in every Mark Twain novel ever. Let’s talk about how Cotton sounds like a white man who uses Black people’s backs as staircases as he walks down to his cotton field, whip in hand, to make sure the n*ggras aren’t slacking in their duties.
Of course, the only difference between my reach and the senator’s is—mine isn’t that much of a reach.
Cotton, after all, has literally defended the institution of slavery as a “necessary evil.”
Go ahead and try to find a quote where Jackson is defending Nazis. I’ll wait.
In the meantime, maybe Cotton’s Django Unchained villain sounding-a** should just STFU.
Tom Cotton Calls Judge Jackson A Nazi Defender was originally published on newsone.com
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Just over one year from nearly losing a leg in a car crash, Tiger Woods is planning to play The Masters. Woods said during a news conference on Tuesday that he plans to play the tournament. Well, his final decision came after playing nine more holes on Wednesday and he’s in. Woods played a practice round at Augusta National last week with his son, Charlie, and Justin Thomas. The 15-time major champion, and five-time Masters champ, will tee off in the first round alongside Louis Oosthuizen and Joaquin Niemann at 10:34 am Thursday.
Next question is, will he make the cut going into the weekend?
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T.I. pulled a “Will Smith” when comedian, Lauren Knight made comments about his recent sexual assault allegations. The comedian joked about the now dismissed allegations during a standup show in Atlanta that soon turned into T.I. screaming defending him and his wife’s name. Rickey Smiley and Special K have a conversation on what makes someone a great comedian.
Hear this explain the art of comedy and where the two went wrong.
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Of course, Black Tony couldn’t come to work today and his phone call was unusually weird. First off, Rickey Smiley thought that he would be our winner for the day for our Beat The Buzzer contest but Black Tony didn’t care about the money. He was at the hospital to support his step-grandma and while he supported her, he wants Maria More to send photos in her bikini.
Listen to how Maria More responds to Black Tony’s nonsense.
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Trae Tha Truth continuously proves that he’s Houston’s hero.
Recently a video went viral showing an elderly woman getting robbed at gunpoint in front of her Houston home. The video shows the woman walking toward her stairs when a car stopped and a man hopped out of the passenger seat, attempting to rob the woman. She threw her purse and things at the man when he demanded money from her.
“I haven’t had no sleep,” said Tonya Robertson, the victim as reported by Click2Houston. “I haven’t been to work.” She says didn’t know the suspect but had a message for him.
“I hate that you done this to me because I don’t harm nobody,” Robertson said. “I’m not a violent person and I just want justice.”
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Houston’s hometown hero, Trae Tha Truth is not only known for his music but also for his positive impact on the community, his activism, and his philanthropic acts within the city. Once the video reached social media, he professed his disgust that was in the video and immediately wanted to help. He later posted how he felt about the situation while on his way to find the woman to offer his help.
“Nothing about that is street, man,” he said in the video. “That ain’t what’s up. We don’t touch women, we don’t touch kids. We stick to the code. You gotta have some type of real gangsta about yourself. Don’t do that to women, man. Don’t prey on the weak, that’s not how we move.
“That video really, really ran me hot, man. I ain’t never gonna be quiet; I’m gonna speak up. I’m actually gonna go pull up on her and let her know she ain’t alone and there’s real ones out here that’s gonna stand for her and other elders and other kids. Definitely prayers up for her. About to actually go find her now. I’ma make it my business to do that today.”
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The following post showed him with the woman and sharing that he blessed her so that she could get back on her feet and wanted to comfort her and let her know she was not alone.
“I Made It To Her,” Trae shared. “I Made Sure She know That Real Ones Dont Stand By Or Approve What Happen To Her…. And Also Blessed Her… Protect Our Own…. I Told Her She Should Create Her Own personal Go fund because a lot of people want to help her…”
Trae Tha Truth is always known for helping the city through acts like this or helping people during national disasters like Hurricane Harvey.
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Click2Houston reports that “Houston Crime Stoppers is offering to pay up to $5,000 for information leading to an arrest. Anyone with information is being asked to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-8477, submit an online tip at www.crime-stoppers.org, or through the Crime Stoppers mobile app.”
Tonya Robertson is taking donations through GoFundMe.
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Trae Tha Truth Helps Elderly Woman Who Was Robbed At Gunpoint In Houston was originally published on rickeysmileymorningshow.com
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Former President Obama says nothing made him prouder than signing the Affordable Care Act in 2010. During a White House ceremony, Obama noted how difficult it was getting the bill passed with uncooperative Republicans. Obama cited repeated Republican attempts to repeal the law and said it’s “pretty darn popular” now. President Biden said Obamacare proved that “hope leads to change.” He insisted it is about making life better for struggling families.
Biden said his administration is committed to lowering healthcare costs and expanding coverage. He warned that Republicans are still plotting a repeal of Obamacare, calling it “unrelenting.” Vice President Harris opened the event and said Obamacare has provided high quality, affordable healthcare to millions of Americans. As he began speaking, Obama jokingly referred to “Vice President Biden and Vice President Harris.” He laughed and called it a “setup.” Obama hasn’t been at the White House since he left office in early 2017.
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The ladies are back with their thoughts on the updates of Will Smith vs The Academy. Are they still on different sides? Plus, Blac Chyna threw Twitter in a tizzy after her baby daddies clap back at her. And lastly, Eva and Lore’l talk about being with a Russell Wilson vs a Future and the podcast that stirred up controversy over this.
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The Undressing Room Presented By Macy’s “Get You A Russell Wilson | Episode 62” was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
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INDIANAPOLIS — Back 9 Golf and Entertainment, a new 58,000 square-foot venue near downtown Indianapolis, is holding a hiring event as they prepare to open.
The hiring events will be held from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on April 25 and April 26 at the Primo Banquet Hall on National Avenue.
The company is looking to fill positions at all types of employment levels, including director, executive and management.
You can view all open positions here.
An exact opening date hasn’t been announced, but it’s expected to open in June.
The venue will have 75 golf bays, a restaurant, a beer garden and meeting spaces once it opens.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Colts linebacker Darius Leonard’s Maniac Foundation has created a helpline to connect callers with mental health services.
The helpline will also have a message recorded by Leonard himself that will rotate every month. This month, he tells callers that they are good enough, encourages them to keep going, and thanks them for seeking help.
“We’re trying to change the world one by one. That’s the mindset of the whole thing. How can we be a change in this world?” said Leonard.
Leonard wants to use his platform and his own mental health struggles to help others.
“If I can say that my mental (health) isn’t 100, then other people can say things about their mental health, and kind of go from there,” he said.
Ashley Overley, CEO of Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center, said that it’s important to end the stigma around mental health. That’s how more people seek help. She thinks Leonard’s hotline and his openness could help a lot of people with their own struggles.
“I think we need more football stars, more movie stars, more people from marginalized communities,” Overley said. “A well-known figure who is admired and respected being able to share their own struggles definitely helps normalize that.”
The hotline also offers callers easy access to other hotlines.
“I think that’s really positive. I think it can be really confusing to navigate all of the resources out there,” said Overley.
In the first 24 hours, the Maniac Foundation says it received hundreds of calls.
“Just to get them through the day, the week, the year, that’s what it’s all about. That’s what puts a smile on my face and helps me sleep at night, knowing that I’m giving this world my best,” said Leonard.
You can reach the Maniac helpline anytime by calling 833-MANIAC4, or 833-626-2442.
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