For a long time, Walmart has been criticized for keeping Black and multicultural hair care and beauty products behind lock and key in certain stores. That practice will stop now. Walmart said the locked products were only in 12 of the store’s 4,700 locations but the outrage of the implied meaning has reached a new… Read more »
Texas Southern University has offered George Floyd’s daughter Gianna a full scholarship if she chooses to attend the university. Her father George was a citizen of the Third Ward and even graduated from Jack Yates High School which is close by the university. Gerald Smith, the chairman of the TSU Foundation said, “The TSU Foundation… Read more »
Drake called out the lawyer who is representing one of the former Minneapolis police officers in the death of George Floyd. Attorney Earl Gray, who appeared on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time, says that bystanders should have intervened if Floyd was in such a dire situation. “Thomas Lane lawyer struggling through an ATTEMPT to justify this… Read more »
The 2012 case of Trayvon Martin sparked what we now know as the Black Lives Matter movement. Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi are the women who founded the movement and were appalled by the acquittal of George Zimmerman. Garza saw the verdict on social media and took to Facebook to share her reaction… Read more »
“For him to talk about, to speak for George Floyd looking down from Heaven, saying that this is a great day in America? Just don’t say nothing! Stop! You should not be talking about — you should not be speaking about our brother!” was the advice director Spike Lee had for the president. Spike appeared… Read more »
Some of the biggest names in music have signed their names on an open letter urging the repeal of a statute that blocks police misconduct records in New York State. The movement is called Repeal Statute 50-A. The letter says, “We must hold accountable those who violate the oath to protect and serve, and find… Read more »
