by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION:
From CNN: Full video of Vice-President Joe Biden's acceptance speech at the 2020 DNC.
From CNN: Full video of Sen. Kamala Harris acceptance speech at the 2020 DNC
ENTERTAINMENT AND CULTURAL NEWS:
EVENT - From DCFanDome: "DC FanDome" is live.
SCANDAL - From Variety: Actress Lori Loughlin ("Full House") was sentenced to two months in federal prison for her part in paying bribes in order to get her daughters admitted into the University of Southern California (USC). She was also ordered to pay $150,000 in fines and perform 100 hours of community service. Her husband, Mossimo Gainnulli was earlier sentenced to five months in federal prison.
SCIENCE - From IndependentUK: 750 million geneticially engineered mosquitoes to be released in Florida...
FOOD - From YahooLife: Are the so-call "Go Mobile" Taco Bell restaurants the future of fast food?
SPORTS-CRIME - From YahooSports: Could the prostitution case against NFL owner, Robert Kraft (New England Patriots), also help protect citizens from unchecked police surveillance.
STAR TREK - From YahooEntertainment: Their is an intense legal battle for what is basically control over iconic "Star Trek" actress, Nichelle Nichols ("Uhura"), who is 83-years-old and suffers from dementia, involving her son, Kyle Johnson, and her manager, Gilbert Bell.
SCANDAL - From Variety: Nick Cannon may be able to reconcile with ViacomCBS after he has met with Jewish leaders. Cannon made some crazy ass anti-Semitic statements on his podcast June 30th.
MOVIES/TRAILERS - From Variety: "Death on the Nile," the sequel to 2017's "Murder on the Orient Express," has a star-studded first trailer.
MOVIES - From Deadline: "Saturday Night Live‘s" Pete Davidson and "Straight Outta Compton‘s" O’Shea Jackson Jr. are set to co-star in "American Sole," a high-stakes, high-top dramatic comedy set in the world of after-market sneakers. The film will be written and directed by How To Make It In America creator Ian Edelman and produced by Kevin Hart and NBA All-Star Chris Paul.
MOVIES - From Deadline: Will Smith and Kevin Hart will star in and produce a remake of John Hughes' beloved 1987 road trip movie, "Planes, Trains & Automobiles."
SCANDAL - From YahooEntertainment: Rose McGowan accuses director and Oscar-winning screenwriter, Alexander Payne ("Sideways") of sexual misconduct, which is not the first time he has been accused.
CELEBRITY - From YahooEntertainment: Ryan Reynold's "Aviation Gin" sells for 300 million dollars.
MOVIES - From BleedingCool: Laurence Fishburne has confirmed that he will not return for "The Matrix 4." He played the wise warrior monk-type, Morpheus, in the original "Matrix" trilogy.
MOVIES - From Deadline: The latest round California tax incentives have been announced. Among the recipients include a Jordan Peele film and one starring Chris Evans.
BOX OFFICE - From Deadline: The winner of the 8/14 to 8/16/2020 weekend box office is the new release, "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run," with an estimated take of $900,000.
From THR: After an unprecedented 5-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, movie theaters reopen in North America. In Canada, movie theaters welcomed the first new Hollywood releases to open wide since the shutdown. They are "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run" and "Unhinged," a Russell Crowe road-rage thriller.
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BLACK ACTRESS - From BuzzFeed: The article article got a call-back: "18 reasons why Angela Bassett is the most amazing actress of all time." [She is certainly underrated and under-appreciated. - Leroy]
CELEBRITY - From YahooEntertainment: Bo Derek reflects on her career... and on those cornrows in "10."
OBITS:
From Loudwire: American rock musician and recording artist, Frankie Banali, has died at the age of 68, Thursday, August 20, 2020, of pancreatic cancer. Banali was best known as the drummer for the 1980s heavy metal band, Quiet Riot. He also was the drummer for W.A.S.P. for a period of time.
From Deadline: English stage, film and television actor, Ben Cross, has died at the age of 72, Tuesday, August 18, 2020. Cross was best known for starring in the "Best Picture" Academy Award-winner, "Chariots of Fire" (1981) and for playing Spock's father, Sarek, in the 2009 reboot film, "Star Trek."
From Deadline: Actor, writer, producer, and prolific filmmaker, Ash Christian, has died at the age of 35, Thursday, August 13, 2020. His best known films include "1985," "Social Animals," and "Coyote Lake." He won a Daytime Emmy in 2014 for the short, "mI Promise."
From Deadline: Television music composer, Duane L. Tatro, has died at the age of 93, Sunday, August 9, 2020. He composed music for TV series, including several for ABC, including "Dynasty," "The Love Boat," and "The Invaders," which was his first TV job. The only television series for which he composed the theme music was "The Manhunter" (CBS, 1974-75).
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19 NEWS:
From CDC: The Centers for Disease Control has a "COVID Data Tracker."
From YahooNews: Why does COVID-19 kill some people and hardly affects others?
From YahooNews: Yahoo has a dedicated page of links updating news about COVID-19.
From Deadline: The news site "Deadline" has a dedicated page for news about coronavirus and the film, TV, and entertainment industries.
From TheNewYorker: The venerable magazine has a dedicate COVID-19 page free to all readers.
From YahooNews: Re: the federal government's response to COVID-19: What if the most important election of our lifetime was the last one - 2016?
From YahooLife: What is "happy hypoxia?" And do you have this COVID-19 symptom?
From JuanCole: Remeber when President Donald went crazy and suggested that we ingest household cleaning supplies and UV light to fight COVID-19. Here is the video and commentary from Juan Cole.
From TheIntercept: The federal government has ramped up security and police-related spending in response to the COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic, including issuing contracts for riot gear, disclosures show. The purchase orders include requests for disposable cuffs, gas masks, ballistic helmets, and riot gloves...
From TheAtlantic: The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying. The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract, which deems certain lives of greater value than others.
From ProPublica: Hospital's Secret COVID-19 Policy Separated Native American Mothers From Their Newborns
From TheGuardian: More than 20 million Americans could have contracted COVID-19, experts say.
From RSN/WashPost: The COVID-19 mutation that has taken over the world.
7/13 - From YahooSports: Maybe a pandemic means that there will not be college football this fall.
7/13- From YahooNews: The CDC adds four new symptoms (including nausea and purple or blue lesions on feet and toes) to the list of COVID-19 symptoms.
7/19 - From YahooFinance: Harvard Public Health professor Dr. Howard Koh says the U.S. "needs to regroup" to find COVID-19.
7/22 - From YahooNews: A public health employee predicted Florida's coronavirus catastrophe — then she was fired.
7/22 - From YahooLifestyle: Florida mom loses son, 20, to coronavirus, and then days later, her daughter.
7/23 - From TheWrap: The site has a list of movie and TV stars, entertainment and sports figures who have tested positive for COVID-19
From YahooEntertainment: Oscar-winning filmmaker Mel Gibson reveals that he was hospitalized with COVID-19 for a week in April.
From Bloomberg: Will the COVID-19 pandemic turn Millennials into socialists?
7/27 - From CNN: Chief of critical care at Baltimore's Mercy Medical Center, Dr. Joseph Costa, passes away due to Covid-19 complications... after treating the hospital's sickest COVID-19 patients. He was 56 and leaves behind family, including a husband of 28 years.
7/29 - From YahooPolitico: Rep. Louie Gohmert, the defiant Texas Republican U.S. congressman who refused to wear a mask, has tested positive for COVID-19.
7/30 - From Deadline: Emmy-winning actor Bryan Cranston ("Breaking Bad") reveals that he had a bout with COVID-19.
7/31 - From YahooEntertainment: Writer and actress, Lena Dunham, creator of HBO's "Girls, reveals that she contracted COVID-19 and the symptoms she experiences and still experience.
7/30 - From YahooGMA: In their bid to crackdown on illegal gatherings amid COVID-19, New York authorities break up an alleged sex party.
7/31 - From Slate: COVID-19 is airborne - for reals!
8/2 - From TheDailyBeast: In Mississippi, COVID-19 has coroners terrified.
8/6 - From CNN: Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (Republican) has tested positive for COVID19.
8/6 - From YahooNews: Testing everyone constantly could stop the spread of COVID-19... according to this article.
8/8 - From YahooNYT: The coronavirus is new, but your immune system might recognize it.
8/8 - From YahooNBC: They thought COVID-19 was a hoax, and they almost died from it or are watching family and loved ones suffer with it or die from it.
8/9 - From YahooNews: The rest of the world is incredulous at the pitiful U.S. response to COVID-19.
8/9 - From YahooAFP: According to the real-time tally kept by John Hopkins University, the United States has hit 5 million cases of COVID-19.
8/15 - From NBA: Bosnian NBA player Jusuf Nurkic of the Portland Trail Blazers says that his grandmother, 67-year-old Hana, has died of COVID-19.
8/16 - From Truthout: COVID Deaths Continue to Surge in Countries Led by Far Right Authoritarians
8/16 - From YahooEntertainment: Sharon Stone reports that her sister, Kelly, is in the hospital with COVID-19. She blames "non-mask wearers" for his sister's condition.
BLACK LIVES MATTER:
From RSN: Judge's Blistering Opinion Says Courts Have Placed Police Beyond Accountability
From Billboard: In an interview will the venerable music publication, legendary country music singer-songwriter and actress, Dolly Parton, expresses support for the "Black Lives Matter" movement.
From RSN: Reader Supported News' "Sunday Song" for Aug. 8th, 2020 is "Chain Gang" by Sam Cooke.
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Saturday, August 22, 2020
Sunday, July 12, 2015
Everything's Peachy... if by "Peachy" You Mean Hemlock - 2015 - Updated #87
There's no "race problem" in America. We all have black friends. I even have more than I need. [I call some of them relatives.] Dr. King's dream has not become a nightmare. It's become a dytopian vision of future that simply dresses the dark past in new fangled rags. - Leroy 16, Aug. 2014
From TheDailyBeast: Fear of a dominant black woman, as seen in Serena Williams.
From Truthout: In praise of Bree Newsome.
From TheAtlantic: Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Confederate flag.
From TheWashingtonPost: Baltimore cop talks a horror show.
From TIME via RSN: Baltimore is just the beginning.
From RSN: Outrageous reasons cops gave for killing unarmed citizens.
From Truthout: Swimming while black.
From Truthout: Black and the U.S. military.
From GuardianUK: Banks targeted Black people with bad term loans - I think Rev. Jesse Jackson revealed this over a decade ago.
From Bloomberg: How many indeed.
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From TheAtlantic: Take it down now - Ta'Nehisis Coates preaches!
From Truthout: Two ways racists kill.
From TheDailyBeast: John Oliver says "Kill the Confederate Flag."
From Intercept: Only Muslims can be terrorists and not a white boy who slaughtered 9 Black people.
From GuardianUK: Jesse Jackson says we need more than prayer in the wake of Emanuel AME shooting.
From YahooPolitics: Denmark Vesey, an American hero, finally gets a statue.
From TheNewYorker: Charleston and the age of Obama.
From YahooNews: I wouldn't forgive Dylann Roof, him or his Klanly... err... family.
From SPLC: Southern Poverty Law Center statement on Emanuel AME shooting.
From YahooNews: South Carolina State Senator, pastor Clementa Pinckney, among victims at Emanuel AME Church shooting.
From GuardianUK: More on Pastor Pinckney.
From YahooNews: What Dylann Roof said to his victims in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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From TheDailyBeast: More pool trouble for Black children; this time in Ohio.
From the GuardianUK: Witnesses contradict Tamir Rice's killer, Cleveland PD officer Timothy Loehmann.
From YahooNews: New documents on Tamir Rice shooting in Cleveland.
From RSN: Obama remembers what happened to MLK.
From GuardianUK: Don't buy the "Ferguson Effect."
From RSN: Baltimore explained.
From TheGuardian: Wal-Mart: where white cops go to shoot black men, and this one is on his second killing.
From AlJazeera: Mexico's brothel state.
From RSN: Relatives of people killed by cops speak out.
From WashPost: Funny: some pro-law and order talking heads insisted that the number of people being shot be cops was falling fast.
From BuzzFlash: 40 reasons our jails are full of Black and poor people.
From TPM: White fragility.
From YahooNews: 30 years on Alabama death row for nothing.
From the WashingtonPost: DEA steals $16,000 from a young black businessman.
From Truthout: Police don't see black children's lives as the future, but as disposable.
From TheGuardian: Cops stop black guys in nice cars - Chris Rock.
From Haaretz: Black is being oppressed anywhere there is white superiority - even in Israel.
From ThePlayersTribune: Go ahead and put a cap in that ass, David Ortiz.
From the GuardianUK: Justice for Arfee... It will make you laugh-cry.
From BuzzFlash: Anti-gay Christian bigots attack Disney/ABC Family about a proposed TV series in which gay rights activist Dan Savage is a writer.
From Truthout: The school voucher rackets begins to serve its intended purpose.
From RSN: FBI convicted a man using hair analysis, but it was a dog's hair.
From SFGate: Cornell West on more shootings.
From GuardianUK: Elton John and Michael Stipe on the danger of the silence around the abuse of transgender prisoners.
From YahooNews: After a black woman wins mayoral election, white cops and politicians flee town. Hilarious.
From GuardianUK: The black guy dies at the end. The white guy knows why.
From TIME: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar asks who will lead Black Americans.
From WashPost: In 2004, Texas executed a man for the arson murder of his three young daughters. He may have been innocent. Now, the prosecutor of that case is facing misconduct charges.
From FreeThoughtProject: DEA does not enforce drug laws in rich communities...
From TheGuardian: Yes, White outrage at Walter Scott shooting is not enough.
From Truthout: Hip hop and Palestine.
From BuzzFlash: Accusations of being Jewish, then a suicide - strange goings in Missouri GOP.
From RSN: The roots of American racism run deep. Sho' nuff.
From Quartz: The power of Chris Rock's police-stop selfies.
From AmsterdamNews: Mumia is in a diabetic coma.
From TheNewYorker: Seymour Hersh returns to My Lai.
From Mashable: Banksy in Gaza.
From BuzzFlash: The American terrorism of lynching.
From YahooSports: College baseball player loses his gig for ugly thing he said about Little League World Series heroine, Mo'ne Davis.
From NPR via RSN: A Black Mississippi judge's speech to three white murderers of a black man.
From NPR: The power of Malcolm X as a public speaker.
From YahooNews: ESPN's Steven A. Smith encourages Blacks to vote Republican in an argument that is familiar.
From Time: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on MLK Day.
From RSN: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Dr. Martin Luther King
From RSN: Free speech in France... except for Muslim students.
From the WashingtonPost: I didn't believe this statistic until I started working at LSU Graphic Services, when I discovered how many semi-literate white people held positions for which they were unqualified - as per the official requirements for their jobs. Some made more money than Black employees with college degrees, and more shockingly, and also instructors and professors.
From YahooNews: A Univision personality is fired for comparing First Lady Michelle Obama to Planet of the Apes.
From BuzzFlash: Black man in Louisiana gets over 13 years for pot.
From AlJazeeraAmerica: We need the Black Panthers.
From TheGuardian: "The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site' "
From DemocracyNow: Malcolm X remembered 50 years after his assassination.
From RSN: Americans need fair housing free of discrimination, says Richard Trumka
From Truthout: Update on Marissa Alexander who could not stand her ground in Florida as George Zimmerman.
From the NationalPost: In Quebec, a young woman was locked in the back of a police truck with a man who then, raped here.
From NPR: There is also a war on Black girls.
From ConsortiumNews: How Jefferson Davis' name is synonymous with violence against African-Americans, especially in the form of lynching.
From AlJazeera: In Hollywood, black lives don't matter (related to Oscars' snub of "Selma")
From Truthout: Everything is not peach in LGBT equality.
From YahooSports: The story of Brian Banks - falsely accused of rape, his college football and NFL dreams were destroyed. Now, he works for the NFL.
From AlJazeera: 2014 is the year that the myth of equality under the law in America was exposed.
From CrooksandLiars: More on the white man who shot the Black chief of police and got away with it. By the way, a bulletproof vest saved the police chief's life.
From YahooNews: South Florida cops shooting at mug shots of Black men.
From TheGuardian: Yeah, why did they?
From TIME: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The police aren't under attack...
From BuzzFlash: Yes, the media does seem reluctant to call white supremacists and Christian fundamentalists terrorists when they commit acts of terrorists.
From Truthout: The modern day lynching of Rev. Edward Pickney in Michigan.
From LATimes: Exonerated and broke.
From AlterNet: A great review of the new film, Selma.
From YahooParenting: 7 things I can do that my black son can't.
From CNN: I remember hearing about Macy's racial profiling case, but not this one involving "Treme" actor, Robert Brown.
From TheDailyBeast: Fear of a dominant black woman, as seen in Serena Williams.
From Truthout: In praise of Bree Newsome.
From TheAtlantic: Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Confederate flag.
From TheWashingtonPost: Baltimore cop talks a horror show.
From TIME via RSN: Baltimore is just the beginning.
From RSN: Outrageous reasons cops gave for killing unarmed citizens.
From Truthout: Swimming while black.
From Truthout: Black and the U.S. military.
From GuardianUK: Banks targeted Black people with bad term loans - I think Rev. Jesse Jackson revealed this over a decade ago.
From Bloomberg: How many indeed.
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From TheAtlantic: Take it down now - Ta'Nehisis Coates preaches!
From Truthout: Two ways racists kill.
From TheDailyBeast: John Oliver says "Kill the Confederate Flag."
From Intercept: Only Muslims can be terrorists and not a white boy who slaughtered 9 Black people.
From GuardianUK: Jesse Jackson says we need more than prayer in the wake of Emanuel AME shooting.
From YahooPolitics: Denmark Vesey, an American hero, finally gets a statue.
From TheNewYorker: Charleston and the age of Obama.
From YahooNews: I wouldn't forgive Dylann Roof, him or his Klanly... err... family.
From SPLC: Southern Poverty Law Center statement on Emanuel AME shooting.
From YahooNews: South Carolina State Senator, pastor Clementa Pinckney, among victims at Emanuel AME Church shooting.
From GuardianUK: More on Pastor Pinckney.
From YahooNews: What Dylann Roof said to his victims in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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From TheDailyBeast: More pool trouble for Black children; this time in Ohio.
From the GuardianUK: Witnesses contradict Tamir Rice's killer, Cleveland PD officer Timothy Loehmann.
From YahooNews: New documents on Tamir Rice shooting in Cleveland.
From RSN: Obama remembers what happened to MLK.
From GuardianUK: Don't buy the "Ferguson Effect."
From RSN: Baltimore explained.
From TheGuardian: Wal-Mart: where white cops go to shoot black men, and this one is on his second killing.
From AlJazeera: Mexico's brothel state.
From RSN: Relatives of people killed by cops speak out.
From WashPost: Funny: some pro-law and order talking heads insisted that the number of people being shot be cops was falling fast.
From BuzzFlash: 40 reasons our jails are full of Black and poor people.
From TPM: White fragility.
From YahooNews: 30 years on Alabama death row for nothing.
From the WashingtonPost: DEA steals $16,000 from a young black businessman.
From Truthout: Police don't see black children's lives as the future, but as disposable.
From TheGuardian: Cops stop black guys in nice cars - Chris Rock.
From Haaretz: Black is being oppressed anywhere there is white superiority - even in Israel.
From ThePlayersTribune: Go ahead and put a cap in that ass, David Ortiz.
From the GuardianUK: Justice for Arfee... It will make you laugh-cry.
From BuzzFlash: Anti-gay Christian bigots attack Disney/ABC Family about a proposed TV series in which gay rights activist Dan Savage is a writer.
From Truthout: The school voucher rackets begins to serve its intended purpose.
From RSN: FBI convicted a man using hair analysis, but it was a dog's hair.
From SFGate: Cornell West on more shootings.
From GuardianUK: Elton John and Michael Stipe on the danger of the silence around the abuse of transgender prisoners.
From YahooNews: After a black woman wins mayoral election, white cops and politicians flee town. Hilarious.
From GuardianUK: The black guy dies at the end. The white guy knows why.
From TIME: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar asks who will lead Black Americans.
From WashPost: In 2004, Texas executed a man for the arson murder of his three young daughters. He may have been innocent. Now, the prosecutor of that case is facing misconduct charges.
From FreeThoughtProject: DEA does not enforce drug laws in rich communities...
From TheGuardian: Yes, White outrage at Walter Scott shooting is not enough.
From Truthout: Hip hop and Palestine.
From BuzzFlash: Accusations of being Jewish, then a suicide - strange goings in Missouri GOP.
From RSN: The roots of American racism run deep. Sho' nuff.
From Quartz: The power of Chris Rock's police-stop selfies.
From AmsterdamNews: Mumia is in a diabetic coma.
From TheNewYorker: Seymour Hersh returns to My Lai.
From Mashable: Banksy in Gaza.
From BuzzFlash: The American terrorism of lynching.
From YahooSports: College baseball player loses his gig for ugly thing he said about Little League World Series heroine, Mo'ne Davis.
From NPR via RSN: A Black Mississippi judge's speech to three white murderers of a black man.
From NPR: The power of Malcolm X as a public speaker.
From YahooNews: ESPN's Steven A. Smith encourages Blacks to vote Republican in an argument that is familiar.
From Time: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on MLK Day.
From RSN: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Dr. Martin Luther King
From RSN: Free speech in France... except for Muslim students.
From the WashingtonPost: I didn't believe this statistic until I started working at LSU Graphic Services, when I discovered how many semi-literate white people held positions for which they were unqualified - as per the official requirements for their jobs. Some made more money than Black employees with college degrees, and more shockingly, and also instructors and professors.
From YahooNews: A Univision personality is fired for comparing First Lady Michelle Obama to Planet of the Apes.
From BuzzFlash: Black man in Louisiana gets over 13 years for pot.
From AlJazeeraAmerica: We need the Black Panthers.
From TheGuardian: "The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site' "
From DemocracyNow: Malcolm X remembered 50 years after his assassination.
From RSN: Americans need fair housing free of discrimination, says Richard Trumka
From Truthout: Update on Marissa Alexander who could not stand her ground in Florida as George Zimmerman.
From the NationalPost: In Quebec, a young woman was locked in the back of a police truck with a man who then, raped here.
From NPR: There is also a war on Black girls.
From ConsortiumNews: How Jefferson Davis' name is synonymous with violence against African-Americans, especially in the form of lynching.
From AlJazeera: In Hollywood, black lives don't matter (related to Oscars' snub of "Selma")
From Truthout: Everything is not peach in LGBT equality.
From YahooSports: The story of Brian Banks - falsely accused of rape, his college football and NFL dreams were destroyed. Now, he works for the NFL.
From AlJazeera: 2014 is the year that the myth of equality under the law in America was exposed.
From CrooksandLiars: More on the white man who shot the Black chief of police and got away with it. By the way, a bulletproof vest saved the police chief's life.
From YahooNews: South Florida cops shooting at mug shots of Black men.
From TheGuardian: Yeah, why did they?
From TIME: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The police aren't under attack...
From BuzzFlash: Yes, the media does seem reluctant to call white supremacists and Christian fundamentalists terrorists when they commit acts of terrorists.
From Truthout: The modern day lynching of Rev. Edward Pickney in Michigan.
From LATimes: Exonerated and broke.
From AlterNet: A great review of the new film, Selma.
From YahooParenting: 7 things I can do that my black son can't.
From CNN: I remember hearing about Macy's racial profiling case, but not this one involving "Treme" actor, Robert Brown.
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Negromancer's Fave Poli-Reads - June 2015 Edition - Update #6
Posted by Leroy Douresseaux - support on Patreon.
From TheNewYorker: Dennis Hastert's plea and silence.
From YahooPolitics: Another Supreme Court for the ACA aka "Obamacare."
From RSN: Yes, he can, and so can Obamacare.
From YahooNews: The sister of a man who was abused, as a high school student, by Dennis Hastert gives an exclusive interview to ABC.
From TheIntercept: For fearmongers, it's always the scariest time. I 'm looking at you Lindsey Graham.
From ThinkProgress: What is known about the men who impeached President Clinton.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
The Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson - May 2015 Edition - Update #30
From Politico: Policing scandals threaten to overwhelm the Justice Department... Ha!
From TheVox: For me, it's not so much the picture, but the future behavior of the two cops in the photo.
From teleSUR: Beyonce and Jay Z post bail for "Black Lives Matter."
From GuardianUK: A Klan jury... I mean grand jury actually indcits all six killer cops involved in the death of Freddie Gray.
From DemocracyNow: Matt Taibbi on police engaging in an endless campaign of harassment.
From Esquire: What the Cleveland PD had planned to do to Tamir Rice... after they'd already killed him.
From YahooNews: He stood on the hood of car and fired 49 shots through the windshield at two unarmed occupants and the judge acquitted him.
From YahooNews: Why aren't the bikers who got into a gun battle with cops after rioting amongst themselves called "thugs?" Hmm...
From GuardianUK: Obama combats the militarization of American police departments.
From YahooNews: As far as I'm concerned, these guys have been coddled by law enforcement for too long, either that or law enforcement is afraid of them.
From RSN: Miami cops sent racists and pornographic emails? They're just showing their true colors.
From the New York Times via RSN: Police unions experience the loss of their privileged position.
From GuardianUK: Brian Rice, one of the Baltimore cops charged in the death of Freddie Gray, has twice had his police weapons confiscated because of behavior.
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From TheDailyBeast: George Zimmerman's blood feud.
From YahooNews: Almost there...
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From TheGuardian: New Attorney General Loretta Lynch opens federal probe of Baltimore PD.
From the ACLU: The group likes the city of Newark's cop watch accountability board.
From BuzzFeed: Racist emails by San Francisco cops causes a review of 3000 arrest.
From the SacramentoBee: California state senators seek to keep grand juries from investigating cases in which people are killed by police excessive force.
From GuardianUK: Reporters get beat-downs and locked-up covering Freddie Gray protests.
From TheDailyBeast: Cops can't stop stopping Chris Rock.
From TIME: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Walter Scott.
From Truthout: Mumia on Walter Scott shooting.
From RollingStone: Matt Taibbi on how cell phones are changing the narrative.
From TPM: How to destroy a black life.
From teleSUR: That number, in six years, may exceed the number of lynchings over a 100-year period.
From Alternet: Racists pretending to be Baltimore protestors.
From TheBaltimoreSun: Six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray - officers' arrest photos with specific charges.
From RSN: The terrorism we suffer from police - Morgan Freeman.
From TheVillageVoice: In light of Freddie Gray, New York's "antiquated" knife law.
From RSN: Baltimore explained.
From RSN: Cop beats his wife at Chicago PD black site, Homan Square.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Negromancer's Fave Poli-Reads - May 2015 Edition - Updated #14
From RSN: I voted for him, but I always thought that he was a bit of dishonest cretin.
From TheVox: Kansas is at war against the poor.
From Haaretz: Wow! No wonder they were supportive of South Africa.
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From the LondonReviewofBooks: Seymour Hersh calls into the question the official account of the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
From Salon: Hersh says he's not backing down on anything he said about Osama raid.
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From AlJazeera: Oppression, segregation, anti-free speech: so much for the MidEast's only democracy.
From BloombergBusiness: Harold Hamm, a billionaire oil CEO, wanted the University of Oklahoma to dismiss earthquake scientists and he wanted to sit in on the interview process to pick a new head of the geological survey.
From TPM: He should blame the party he supports.
From TheDailyBeast: Details on De Blasio's contract with America.
From CommonDreams: Another financial meltdown looms as many of the practices that caused the 2008 financial crisis remain in practice.
From CNN: The poor in the U.S. are not the envy of America.
From RSN: No a black man will not win the GOP nomination. That means not you, Ben Carson.
From YahooNews: Poverty is creeping into the 2016 Presidential race, putting Republicans in a tenuous position.
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From CNN: Carly Fiorina is running for President.
From TIME: Why Fiorina is controversial.
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From BuzzFlash: 5 steps to privatizing everything.
From RSN: An actual socialist is running for President.
From Consortium: The day after Damascus falls.
From RSN: Bernie Sanders is running for the Democratic nomination in 2016.
From TheIntercept: There is a protest over a PEN Award to Charlie Hebdo.
From AlJazeera: Killers on Blackwater payroll get long prison sentences... their boss needs to follow them to jail.
From RSN: Free range parenting vs. busy body servants of the police state.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Negromancer's Fave Poli-Reads - April 2015 Edition - Update #16
From RSN: Bernie Sanders is running for the Democratic nomination in 2016.
From TheIntercept: There is a protest over a PEN Award to Charlie Hebdo.
From AlJazeera: Killers on Blackwater payroll get long prison sentences... their boss needs to follow them to jail.
From RSN: Free range parenting vs. busy body servants of the police state.
From TheHill: Watch President Obama trash talk Washington Wizards forward, Paul Pierce.
From Salon: White Christian America in sinking numbers.
From YahooPolitics: Hilary is in.
From TheIntercept: American media talks about the "Iran nuclear deal," but never interviews any Iranians, while allowing pro-Israel voices to screech their side.
From NBC: Your professor might be on food stamps.
From FirstLook: Glenn Greenwald on how political smears in the United States remain the same.
From GuardianUK: Honestly, there is no chance of Mike Huckabee being President. Besides, for all his bigotry, I'm pretty sure that he is gay.
From RobertReich: The rise of the non-working rich.
From RSN: Obama makes historical breakthrough on Iran. Now, white guys in the Senate get to show how much they envy the achievements of Black men.
From TIME: Indiana tries Sharia law fro LGBTQ. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talks about the state of Indiana being on the wrong side of history.
From ThinkProgress: Maggots and rats on privatized prison food. Michigan in need of a violent revolution.
From BuzzFlash: Roundup is safe, but Monsanto lobbyist won't drink it.
From RSN: Barbra Streisand - Obama Has Turned the Economy Around.
From Esquire: Charles Pierce takes down clown David Brooks on "religious freedom."
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
The Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson - April 2015 Edition - Update #36
From RSN: Baltimore explained.
From RSN: Cop beats his wife at Chicago PD black site, Homan Square.
From RSN: This is why I found that DOJ report on Ferguson to be wanting. They let Darren Wilson get away with murder, and then for all the DOJ's criticism of Ferguson, there were no arrests, indictments, or lawsuits.
From ThinkProgress: Dallas cops shoot mentally ill man within seconds of arriving at this apartment.
From RSN: Don't forget that Cleveland said that a child was directly responsible for his death.
From GuardianUK: Reserve deputy's shooting of an unarmed black man actually isn't being investigated anymore.
From RSN: Michael Slater almost got away with murdering a black man.
From Vice: Cop mocks dying man, and boils my blood.
From RSN: After shooting Walter Scott in South Carolina, white cop jokes about adrenaline.
From TheDailyBeast: Don't be surprised if Robert Bates and Sheriff Stanley Glanz turn out to be undercover gay lovers... not that there's anything wrong with being gay.
From Truthout: The millionaire reserve deputy who shot Eric Harris dead in Tulsa Oklahoma is really the victim.
From YahooNews: Police meet with family of cop-shooting victim, Freddie Gray.
From RSN: Grand jury, Schmand jury. When the grand jury won't give the prosecutor her way, she can just ignore them.
From YahooNews: A white guy gets shot in the back and killed by a cop. Go figure.
From YahooNews: A sapling tree planted in Mike Brown's honor is destroyed and a plague stolen.
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From TheHill: Black protestors are not "enemy forces."
From Salon: Another article on "enemy forces."
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From GuardianUK: My blood still boils over this decision.
From DailyCaller: A list of those horrid text released by San Francisco cops, who must be closeted Klansman.
From the GuardianUK: Why the U.S. can't keep track of police killing civilians.
From YahooSports: The NYPD never gets enough of beating on Black men. Now, they have attacked an NBA player, ending his season because of injury that they may have caused.
Tulsa Shooting - 73-year-old reserve deputy shoots man dead, although he claims that he meant to use a Taser. RAWVideo. CNN.
From Politico: Frank Serpico - "When Cops Cry Wolf" or "testi-lying.
From RT: In this article, a US Marshal says cops are trained to justify use of deadly force. Hell, they're trained to use deadly force on Black people, even children.
From TheAtlantic: The gangsters of Ferguson.
From the NYT: Cop points gun at son of Times' writer, Charles Blow.
From TheDailyBeast: Ramsey Orta, the man who recorded the choking death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, is apparently on a hunger strike while in Riker's.
From YahooNews: About the gap in between the video recordings of the South Carolina Walter Scott shooting.
From YahooNews: After this white cop in South Carolina killed an unarmed Black man, he tried to plan a weapon on him.
From RSN: White people far more accepting of police violence. I can only laugh, although I am surprised, but should not be.
From Truthout: A young African-American woman is charged with lynching in California for "removing someone from police custody." Irony x ridiculous.
From YahooMovies: City of Ferguson releases racists emails.
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From Truthout: PART 1: Exclusive report begins - Chicago PD killing Black youth and purges misconduct allegations.
From Truthout: PART 2: Young life vs. deadly force
From Truthout: PART 4: How the "Gold Standard" of Police Accountability Fails Civilians by Design.
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From ACLU: Since the White House Task Force on 21st Century Policing report was released, cops have killed over 100 people - an average of 3 day.
From Progressive: Black America's surveillance state.
From Truthout: Ring of Snitches - how Detroit cops got false murder convictions of young Black mane.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
The Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson - March 2015 Edition - Update #30
From Gawker: The NYPD plan to turn making someone into a felony easy-peasy.
From TechDirt: There is no such thing as "contempt of cop."
From RSN: In this case, it's a white woman in prison for decades for a murder she did not commit.
From RSN: Two inmates shot and one is killed... their hands were handcuffed behind their backs.
From ShreveportTime and RSN: Former prosecutor's words are hollow.
From GuardianUK: Cleveland PD still killing black teens.
From RSN: Whatever.
From BuzzFlash: Chicago PD uses stop-and-frisk against people of color at 4 times the rate of the NYPD.
From RollingStone: Matt Taibbi on the decision to keep Eric Garner grand jury minutes secret. I say if you have nothing to hide, what are you hiding.
From YahooNews: San Fran pigs show their Klan-side in text messages.
From YahooNews: Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kindel probably called his mother "Aunt Mama" and probably thinks the Ku Klux Klan is super-tubular-cool!
From Truthout: A history of killing black men and getting away with it.
From CapitalNewYork: The NYPD kills and abuses, and then changes the Wikipedia entries about those incidents.
From the NewYorker: Release Eric Garner grand jury records... NOW!
From GuardianUK: Two cops shot during recent Ferguson protests.
From GuardianUK: Long overdue - Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson resigns, but gets a a year's severance pay, $95,000. The city manager left and got $120,000.
From Politico: Yes, Obama's friend the professor found this out.
From RSN and Slate: States take over Ferguson court system to restore order and to implement reforms.
From teleSUR: White cop kills unarmed NAKED black man.
From YahooNews: More on how Madison police chief is doing it differently from Ferguson Klan chief... err... I mean police chief.
From Truthout: Why Black America, even the uncle toms, sometimes fear calling the police.
From TheGuardian: Madison police chief has a better control of things than that portly clown in Ferguson had.
From YahooNews: Black, unarmed, shot dead by cop in Madison, Wisconsin.
From CBCNews: A police officer in Quebec drives 75 miles in a 30 mile zone and kills a five-year-old child. Canadian media won't name him, nor has he been charged.
From AlJazeeraAmerica: Shot in the back.
From The Post via RSN: They're called "SCOPs" and you should know about them.
From TheWashingtonPost: Attorney General Eric Holder is prepared to dismantle Ferguson police force if necessary.
From HuffPost: This tale of a drunk white man at White Castle begins the Ferguson PD highlights from the Department of Justice's report.
From YahooNews: Highlights or low lights from the DOJ's Ferguson Police Department report.
From TheVox: A selection of 7 racist jokes from Ferguson police and court officials. They're F'ed up.
From TheVox: Justice Department's report on Ferguson PD is due this week. Preview from the New York Times, includes racist jokes (including a horrid one about President Obama), and targeting black to raise funds for the city.
From TheGuardian: The Chicago PD have their own CIA-like "black site."
From TheGuardian: After Trayvon, a new Civil Rights movement.
From Cleveland.com: City responds to lawsuit by Tamir Rice's family.
From Reuters via RSN: Justice Department reportedly to sue Ferguson Police Department.
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Negromancer's Fave Poli-Reads - March 2015 Edition - Update #27
From AlJazeeraAmerica: the "Sodomite Suppression Act."
From InformedConsent: Juan Cole on what happens when a clown car tries to drive debate.
From TheVox: John Stewart and George Lucas mock FOX News.
From BillMoyers: Danny Schechter has died. He was the "News Dissector."
From RSN: It's that bad. Feminist writes want to retire.
From RSN: Likely 2016 presidential candidate, Martin O'Malley, the former governor of Maryland, says the big banks must be broken up.
From TheNation: An inconvenient truth about terrorists in America.
From InformedConsent: Juan Cole on Obama as the new Mr. Spock - at least in the way he comments about Israel.
From TheNation: The Pentagon finally, officially admitted that Israel not only has nuclear weapons, but also advanced armaments.
From Haaretz: John Boehner is officially the teen girl that Barack would not date in high school.
From RSN: Re Patreus - golden boys always get special priviledge.
From RSN and RSN: President Obama should give it up. Netanyahu is a racist.
From The Atlantic via RSN: Al Gore running...
From GuardianUK: Obamacare triggers massive drop in the number of uninsured Americans.
From RollingStone: Matt Taibbi once again on the hilarity that is NYT columinst, David Brooks.
From TheDailyBeast: It's a dumb idea because the people behind it are dumb, educated people.
From Politico: Actually, it was an opportunity to show just how that the GOP is now the PWPP - the preserve white power party.
From RollingStone: Matt Taibbi on the clown show of Netanyahu's Congress speech.
From CounterPunch via RSN: Drone warfare and civilian carnage.
From InformedConsent: GOP and Iran hardliners - kissin' cousin.
From ReverbPress: Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas bows down to his weapons lobbyist masters.
From HarvardCrimson: Speaking of Tom Cotton, read this hilarity from his days at the Harvard Crimson.
From TeleSur: Israel beats women for International Women's Day.
From RSN: This Billionaire Governor Taxed the Rich and Raised the Minimum Wage. Now, His State's Economy Is One of the Best in the Country
From YahooNews: Colin Powell - a dark vein of intolerance in GOP. For sure on that.
From ABCNews: I wonder if the ABC network news reported this anti-Netanyahu rally.
From BuzzFlash: America's history of terrorism - lynching.
From RollingStone: Matt Taibbi - Scott Walker, a man born to be slaughtered in a general election.
From NYMag: Frank Rich on the Giuliani circus.
From Counterpunch: The rise of fascism is again the issue.
From RollingStone: Matt Taibbi dogs Rudy Giuliani.
From InformedConsent: Juan Cole on what happens when a clown car tries to drive debate.
From TheVox: John Stewart and George Lucas mock FOX News.
From BillMoyers: Danny Schechter has died. He was the "News Dissector."
From RSN: It's that bad. Feminist writes want to retire.
From RSN: Likely 2016 presidential candidate, Martin O'Malley, the former governor of Maryland, says the big banks must be broken up.
From TheNation: An inconvenient truth about terrorists in America.
From InformedConsent: Juan Cole on Obama as the new Mr. Spock - at least in the way he comments about Israel.
From TheNation: The Pentagon finally, officially admitted that Israel not only has nuclear weapons, but also advanced armaments.
From Haaretz: John Boehner is officially the teen girl that Barack would not date in high school.
From RSN: Re Patreus - golden boys always get special priviledge.
From RSN and RSN: President Obama should give it up. Netanyahu is a racist.
From The Atlantic via RSN: Al Gore running...
From GuardianUK: Obamacare triggers massive drop in the number of uninsured Americans.
From RollingStone: Matt Taibbi once again on the hilarity that is NYT columinst, David Brooks.
From TheDailyBeast: It's a dumb idea because the people behind it are dumb, educated people.
From Politico: Actually, it was an opportunity to show just how that the GOP is now the PWPP - the preserve white power party.
From RollingStone: Matt Taibbi on the clown show of Netanyahu's Congress speech.
From CounterPunch via RSN: Drone warfare and civilian carnage.
From InformedConsent: GOP and Iran hardliners - kissin' cousin.
From ReverbPress: Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas bows down to his weapons lobbyist masters.
From HarvardCrimson: Speaking of Tom Cotton, read this hilarity from his days at the Harvard Crimson.
From TeleSur: Israel beats women for International Women's Day.
From RSN: This Billionaire Governor Taxed the Rich and Raised the Minimum Wage. Now, His State's Economy Is One of the Best in the Country
From YahooNews: Colin Powell - a dark vein of intolerance in GOP. For sure on that.
From ABCNews: I wonder if the ABC network news reported this anti-Netanyahu rally.
From BuzzFlash: America's history of terrorism - lynching.
From RollingStone: Matt Taibbi - Scott Walker, a man born to be slaughtered in a general election.
From NYMag: Frank Rich on the Giuliani circus.
From Counterpunch: The rise of fascism is again the issue.
From RollingStone: Matt Taibbi dogs Rudy Giuliani.
Saturday, February 28, 2015
The Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson - February 2015 Edition - Update #11
From Cleveland.com: City responds to lawsuit by Tamir Rice's family.
From Reuters via RSN: Justice Department reportedly to sue Ferguson Police Department.
From YahooNews: The Department of Justice will announce that it will not file civil rights charges against George Zimmerman for killing teenager, Trayvon Martin. Looks like we need some street justice on this one.
From Reuters: A cop who shot an unarmed man is indicted in Kansas City.
From RT: Protests ignite in Pasco, Washington over the police killing of a Latino man.
From YahooNews: Cop who killed a black man in a Brooklyn stairwell is indicted.
From Guardian: I can't even describe this one, other than police kill black man, because it so bizarre and ridiculous.
From RSN: Cop who shot a young man in the back is charged with murder.
From TheDailyKos: The emerging trend of innocent black men and boys dying after calls to 911
From YahooNews: A man from India was profiled in the neighborhood where his son lives; then, he was severely beaten by an Alabama cop.
From Esquire: Civil rights attorney sues over Ferguson's debtor's prisons.
From ThinkProgress: Cops who want a free hand to kill unarmed civilians attack New Mexico prosecutor.
From YahooNews: Brawl erupts at meeting to find peace between black people and St. Louis cops. White cop antagonizes until brawl erupts.
From DetroitFreePress: After two hung juries, Joseph Weekley, the white Detroit cop who fatally shot a seven year old black girl during a raid, will not face a third trial. The shooting happened during a raid that was filmed by the show, "The First 48."
From NYT: The Justice Department will not bring charges against Darren Wilson, the man who killed Michael Brown. Mike is dead. Wilson is now a millionaire because of donations he received for killing a black man and the $500,000 ABC News gave him for exclusive, softball interview. The victim is dead. The killer is rich. Yep, doesn't sound like a civil rights violation.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Negromancer's Fave Poli-Reads - February 2015 Edition - Update #8
From NewYorkTimes: It is racist because you are a racist, Giuliani.
From RollingStone: Matt Taibbi dogs Rudy Giuliani.
From Reuters via RSN: Kate Brown, the new governor of Oregon, becomes the first openly bisexual governor in U.S. history.
From RawStory: I am always amazed by Sarah Palin's ability to be both pimp and prostitute at the same time.
From Esquire: Charles Pierce - Why didn't Scott Walker graduate from college.
From Reuters: John Stewart is leaving "The Daily Show."
From YahooNews. The racist senior advisor to Rep. Aaron Schock (R. Ill) resigns.
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From The Intercept via RSN: Glenn Greenwald on whiny, privileged celebrity journalists.
From NewYorkMag: Greenwald's target.
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From RSN: President Barack Obama: Blueprint for Middle-Class Economics
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Negromancer's Fave Poli-Reads - January 2015 Edition - Updated #27
From TheNewYorker: By Andy Borowitz - 6 weeks leave opposed by people who get 33 weeks paid leave.
From TheVox: Even FOX News is ripping on the John Beohner plot to invite Benjamin Netanyahu (Throw -A-Net-Over-That Yahoo) to speak before Congress.
From TheDailyDot: Blogger who outed Congressman Steve Scalise for his connection to Louisiana Klansman and Nazi, David Duke, had his home Internet connections cut.
From TheGuardian: Eric Garner prosecutor has gall - I'll give him that. His campaign for Congress should go through hell. Hopefully, the activists will give him hell.
From Time: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on what terrorists attacks are about.
From BuzzFlash: The American Sambo Right (black conservative) manga Dr. King's message.
From YahooNews: Steve Scalise voted "No" to MLK holiday while in the Louisiana legislature. We're not surprised.
From TheDailyBeast: This may be irony when it comes to cops and open-carry activist.
From TheDailyBeast: Steve Scalise's Louisiana Nazis.
From RollingStone: They are not exactly Charlie by Matt Taibbi.
From ReaderSupportedNews: Senator Elizabeth Warren announces her support for California Attorney General Kamala Harris in her bid to replace retiring Senator Barbara Boxer.
From WashingtonPost: The Dept. of Justice curbs civil asset forfeiture. I think the Washington Post's article last September helped this decision come to be.
From WashingtonPost: The legacy of Bill Moyers.
From YahooNews: Republicans can't condemn Klan-boy, Steve Scalise, but they'll compare President Obama to Hitler.
From CenLaMar: The story that originally busted Steve Scalise as a Duker - a supporter of David Duke. OK, that's not what the article said...
From TheIntercept: David Cameron marches in Paris, while at home in the U.K., brown people are prosecuted for speech that offends white people
From HuffingtonPost: A list of Charlie Hebdo cartoons that made the magazine a target.
From the NYT: President Obama orders full restoration of relations with Cuba.
From USAToday: Pope Francis plays role in Obama's Cuba plan.
From YahooNews: The U.S. Supreme Court rejects a new challenge to the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare), although it is currently hearing one.
From RollingStone: 6 ideas for a cop-free world.
From TheIntercept: In case you hadn't heard, Cuba is not returning Assata Shakur.
From CounterPunch: I am a 20th century escaped slave.
From CounterPunch: Raul Castro speaks.
From YahooAutos: President Obama warns Americans not to get to comfortable with falling gas prices.
From RSN: Yeah, this makes sense.
From NYT: Ask Congressman Steve Scalise if he ever voted for David Duke. For a lot of white men who were eligible to vote in the late 1980s and early 1990s, that will be their political kryptonite.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
The Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson - January 2015 Edition - Update #20
From YahooNews: Brawl erupts at meeting to find peace between black people and St. Louis cops. White cop antagonizes until brawl erupts.
From DetroitFreePress: After two hung juries, Joseph Weekley, the white Detroit cop who fatally shot a seven year old black girl during a raid, will not face a third trial. The shooting happened during a raid that was filmed by the show, "The First 48."
From NYT: The Justice Department will not bring charges against Darren Wilson, the man who killed Michael Brown. Mike is dead. Wilson is now a millionaire because of donations he received for killing a black man and the $500,000 ABC News gave him for exclusive, softball interview. The victim is dead. The killer is rich. Yep, doesn't sound like a civil rights violation.
From NYT: New Mexico killer cops charged with killing homeless man.
From RSN: The cops who killed Tamir Rice tackled his sister to the ground when she tried to help her dying baby brother.
From FireDogLake: Activists move to remove St. Louis County Prosecutor, Robert McCulloch, from office.
From TPM and News9: White man shoots black police chief and will apparently get away with it. Chief was not killed because he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
From StLouisDispatch: A member of the Mike Brown grand jury wants to speak, and is suing district attorney, Bob McCulloch, to do so.
From Esquire: Mike Brown, Sr. and the agony of the black father.
From YahooNews: Trayvon Martin's killer ordered to turn in his weapons after this third arrest for domestic violence.
From TheDailyKos: This Montana police officer specializes in killing unarmed men during routine traffic stops. He's never been charged.
From RSN: Over $300 million paid to settle misconduct suits and claims against the NYPD from 2006 to 2012.
From RSN: The Justice Dept.'s report on the Cleveland Police Department.
From YahooNews: #EndWhiteSilence - Pittsburgh's new police chief has more balls than the Steelers showed Saturday night. 15 points on offense? Really?
From YahooNews: The "Black brunch" protests take off in NYC and Oakland.
From BuzzFlash: Darren Wilson was likely paid for his ABC interview. To date he may have received $1.5 million is fees and donations. Consider that a bounty for killing a black man.
From AlJazeeraAmerica: Decision reversed; "I Can't Breathe" T-shirts can be worn.
From People: President Obama praises athletes for "I Can't Breathe" stance.
From CrooksandLiars: Of course, the bastard did, and it is apparently not the first time.
From RSN: The abuse of Mayor Bill de Blasio by the NYPD and related unions.
From TheGuardian: Dear Fellow White People...
From TheGuardian: Another "I Can't Breathe" t-shirt controversy. The truth hurts, doesn't it.
From YahooNews: There was hell to pay for the callous comments about the Mike Brown memorial in Ferguson.
From Yahoo News via RSN: Hundreds of cop killings of civilians not reported to the FBI.
From Reuters via RSN: Hillary Clinton backs federal probes of Mike Brown and Eric Garner killings. Already she has more balls then so-called Democratic governors in Missouri and New York.
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