Black Culture Discussion Thread

[DCAllAfrican]

Tariq mentioned all of these books written by black women: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/142-1644049-2552834?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=BWWM

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Must See

CNN: Beneath The Skin

Horrific cuts cover her son's body after he's shot dead by Chicago police, and Cynthia Lane wants answers. A yearlong investigation by CNN's Rosa Flores shows the truth is not always black and white.

Beneath the Skin - CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/12/us/beneath-the-skin/

 

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[Quincy McCall]

I seen the previews for that Cynthia Lane doc, didn't think I could stomach it at the time

 

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[Nouss]

^wtf?

 

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Officers Held an 11-year-old Girl at Gunpoint

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A Michigan police department has opened an internal investigation after officers held an 11-year-old girl at gunpoint, handcuffed her and put her in the back of a cruiser

WOOD-TV reports the incident happened Wednesday as the girl leaving her Grand Rapids home to go to a store. Police say they were at the home looking for the girl's 40-year-old aunt, who had allegedly stabbed a relative nearby.

The girl said the incident has left her scared.

"It made me feel scared and it made me feel like I did something wrong,” 11-year-old Honestie Hodges told WOOD-TV.

Grand Rapids police also detained two other women who exited the house with the girl.

Police issued a statement Monday saying officers detained the women and the girl because they hadn't determined if they were the suspect.

Police say neither the woman nor the girl was armed

 

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[trueprada]

Brooklyn Museum Exhibits honors #Sza #21Savage & #MetroBoomin were honored by the museum by displaying a sculpture of each artist. Each sculpture will reflect the artist's biggest hits in 2017. (Sza's 'Love Galore', 21 Savage 'Bank Account' & Metro Boomin's on 'Mask Off'.

 

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Michael Che will be the first person of color to be a head writer for 'Saturday Night Live'

https://buff.ly/2BXfBHT

 

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NJ Girl Who Killed Herself Saw Story About Another Child's Suicide: Sources

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loc...icide-Found-Hanging-in-Bedroom-463736763.html

Investigators said they are still trying to determine what drove an 8-year-old New Jersey girl to suicide a week before her birthday, but sources close to the investigation said she had seen a story on Facebook about another girl killing herself in a similar manner beforehand.

Essex County prosecutors said they're trying to determine if Imani McCray was copying what she had read about the death of 10-year-old Colorado girl Ashawnty Davis, or if she hanged herself in a case of tragic playacting at her home in Vailsburg on Sunday night.

Authorities said that relatives frantically tried to revive Imani, who had been sent to her room for a time out just before the suicide attempt. She had a faint pulse when paramedics arrived on scene, but prosecutors said she was pronounced dead at University Hospital in Newark.

Imani's died less than a week after Ashawnty, who was bullied before her death. The Aurora, Colorado, fifth-grader's suicide has also gained widespread media attention.

Authorities said that there is no indication that Imani was bullied.

The family is making funeral arrangements, according to a family friend. Imani would have turned nine years old next week.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 provides people in distress, or those around them, with 24-hour support. The Crisis Text Line allows people to text 741-741 to connect with crisis counselors.

rip to imani and her family

 

[illwill8710]

I'm not sure if this has been post but I just started listening on Audible and its fire. So far it has the feel of being the female version of Between the World and Me.

 

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Black Excellence! Two Brothers, ages 18 and 16, admitted to Stanford & Harvard

This is truly Black Excellence. These two young brothers, Alex and Ayrton Little from Breaux Bridge, LA just had their dreams come true by being accepted into the top school. Ayrton, age 16, is going to Harvard and his big brother Alex, age 18, is coming to Stanford!

This **** right here makes me proud. I already reached out to Alex and offered to help him in any way. Once the young man comes here, gonna ensure to put him under my wing and give him game on how to survive Stanford and Silicon Valley! There's so few of us here at Stanford so all we got is us and we gotta make sure we are there for each other!

PS. This is Early Decision hence why they were admitted this early!

 

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Study: News Media Consistently Presents False Narratives of Black American Families

https://buff.ly/2o5b4kX

 

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[Mark Antony]

What a jackass.

 

[iamdef]

Chuck being Chuck
f'n idiot

 

[Quincy McCall]

Tried not to be offended by that, because he's making a good gesture but he went into mocking territory. That joke wouldn't have been fly if it were anybody else and it definitely isn't fly for Barkley. Either he talked down womens capability to run a sound start-up or Black people's ability to put up a sound business but regardless I don't like it as a joke or otherwise. Doesn't take away a good deed but a reminder that we can't take Barkley seriously

 

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DeRay McKesson Sues Fox News and Jeanine Pirro for Defamation Over Claim He ‘Directed Violence’ at BLM Protest

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/de...cted-violence-at-blm-protest/?comments=disqus

Activist DeRay McKesson is suing Fox News and pro-Trump pundit Jeanine Pirro for defamation over their portrayals of him as a violent ringleader in the Black Lives Matter movement.

As the Baltimore Sun reported Wednesday, McKesson is suing Pirro over her September comments about a BLM lawsuit where she said the activist was“directing the violence” at a Louisiana protest.

The lawsuit, which was brought by a Baton Rouge police officer against both McKesson and BLM at large, was thrown out because McKesson was exercising free speech and a social movement like BLM cannot be litigated. McKesson asked Fox News to issue a retraction after Pirro’s inflammatory comments, but was told that the network was refusing his request because Pirro was reading from a judge’s order dismissing the lawsuit brought against the movement.

In his complaint, McKesson argues that contrary to the network’s characterization, Pirro “wasn’t quoting court documents and noted that the judge ruled against the officer.”

“Pirro’s statements are untrue and further a narrative that I, and other activists, engage in violent protest,” McKesson told the Sun. He remarked that other false statements about him have spurred death threats, including a 2015 threat that resulted in a theater being evacuated while he was attending a documentary screening.

McKesson argues in his suit that Pirro’s statements “are false, and were either known to be false by Defendant Pirro or were made with reckless disregard for whether they were true.”

Responding to the lawsuit, a Fox News spokeswoman said the network “will defend this case vigorously,” and that they consider Pirro’s statements an exercise of First Amendment-protected free speech.