Wednesday 06.19.2019

Jay-Z Hires A Lawyer For The Family Suing The Cops Who Pulled A Gun On Their 4-Year-Old Daughter

The police will not pull guns on a young Black family and their four-year-old child without facing consequences on Jay-Z’s watch. The billionaire hip-hop mogul has hired high-powered attorney Alex Spiro to join the legal team of a Phoenix, Arizona family after a traumatizing police stop went viral, reported XXL.

Maryland Has Created A Truth Commission On Lynchings – Can It Deliver?

Between 1850 and 1950, thousands of African American men, women and children were victims of lynchings: public torture and killings carried out by white mobs. Lynchings were used to terrorize and control black people, notably in the South following the end of slavery.

10 Things To Know About The Clinton Crime Bill And Mass Incarceration

In the 1990s, fear of crime was the beating heart of then-President Bill Clinton’s domestic policy. It was to Clinton what illegal immigration is to President Donald Trump today, Bruce Shapiro wrote in The Nation.

This Woman Says Videotaping Herself Eating Food Online, aka Mukbanging, Made Her A Millionaire

Bethany Gaskin has eaten her way to a $1 million payday. Well, by mukbanging to be exact. Mukbang is a combination of the Korean words for “eating” and “broadcasting” and it’s when someone devours food while videotaping themselves. And the noisier and sloppier they eat, the more viewers seem to like it.

Cory Booker, Ta-Nehisi Coates And Danny Glover Testify At Emotional Reparations Hearing

Presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker, author Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor/activist Danny Glover were among those who testified on Juneteenth at the first congressional hearing in more than 10 years on reparations by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.