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Black news, culture, entertainment and opinion. #AllBlackLivesMatter
- Miriam Zinter was outside her house gardening when a comment by a neighbor brought her lovely day to a screeching halt. “Why do you have a ‘Black Lives Matter’ sign on your front lawn when all those people do is kill each other,” her neighbor asked.
- The two-time Grammy winner celebrated the success of “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” by pledging to "do so much sex tonight.” huffp.st/LePH98V
- Issa Rae brought the audience to its feet with her funny acceptance speech, in which she jokingly said she did it all on her own.
- Replying to @blackvoices“I told him that my father, who was a veteran, could not be approved to use the GI Bill for college or a house because he was Black,” Zinter writes. “I told him how BLM calls attention to the fact that Black people are considered less than white people ― and that needs to stop.”
- Replying to @blackvoices“White people think I am white too, and therefore feel safe saying all kinds of horrible things they might not say publicly,” Zinter continues. “I’ve had people tell me it ‘disgusts’ them to see interracial couples. They’ve told me that Black people are “animals” or “thugs.”
- New footage from Sandra Bland’s phone was released, and now her family wants to reopen her case, saying investigators withheld evidence.
- Congratulations to Ayanna Pressley, the first black woman elected to Congress in Massachusetts.
