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Luckily, he lived. Miami police shot Charles Kinsey, an unarmed Black man with his hands up who was trying to help an autistic man who had wandered away from an assisted living facility. 

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Nick Cannon might have the image of a fun-loving entertainer, but it appears he is also about that activism work too. Cannon led a Black Lives Matter protest at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio on Monday, expressing disdain for both major political parties.

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Why does the oppressor want to make you think that they are the ones being oppresses so bad? A tweet has been making the rounds of an image of the words “Black Rule” that was allegedly spraypainted onto the driveway of his home.  

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Let’s see if this gets major media attention. Police officers from Wichita, Kansas and Black Lives Matter activists got together for a friendly barbecue on Sunday (July 17) called ‘The First Steps Cookout.’

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Pusha T promises that his next album will be a “time capsule” of what’s going on right now.

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A few days before police in Baton Rouge executed Alton Sterling and an officer of the law murdered Philando Castile in Minnesota, Fermin Vincent Valenzuela fell victim to an act of police brutality himself, and ultimately paid with his life as well.

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Joe Budden has been in the news of late for his shots at Drake, but people might remember that he’s still one of Hip-Hop’s top lyricists and that’s before sharpening swords with his Slaughterhouse brethren. The New Jersey rap star lifted a track from Beyonce‘s LEMONADE LP titled “Freedom” and dropped a timely freestyle of the […]

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Sarah Palin is just the woman you want to expound on the political matters of the day and as one can imagine, the results were dimwitted as expected. The former governor of Alaska, you know, where you can see Russia from her back porch, wants people to refer to members of the Black Lives Matter […]

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A group of Minnesota Lynx players wore some pre-game t-shirts promoting change, justice and accountability. Four police officers responded by leaving their security posts.

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Common took an extra moment at the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors show to shout the women activists that have been holding it down for decades.

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The debate between the #BlackLivesMatter movement and individuals who wave the countering #AllLivesMatter flag has swelled in intensity in the past week for obvious reasons. With Black Lives Matter consistently maintaining that it isn’t excluding the fair point that all lives do indeed matter, the All Lives Matter crowd got a lesson today when the […]

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Over the weekend the Bahamian Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave their Black men some advice—if they were to travel to the United States during what was their Independence Day weekend, they were to “exercise caution” when dealing with the police.