R.K. Hayes

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, some of whom are seen as having been targeted because of their race, gender or perceived affiliation with Biden administration policies or officials, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process. nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

⛔️It's not just Kristi Noem's husband. This is some of the republicans leaders‼️‼️

Texas 'firefighter of the year,' two others charged in child sex abuse case targeting same juvenile victim trib.al/iRxwk1D

The White House has removed this video from their social media channels. But not before we could post it.

#MISSING Can you help find Kyana, 16? Last seen in Southall on 28 March, wearing a white t-shirt, black jacket and green or grey tracksuit bottoms. Anyone with information should call 101 with reference 4648/29Mar.

🚨🚨BREAKING: Black man Ammarin Tunstall, 35, dragged across the pavement like a rag doll by Monroeville PD while unresponsive… then dies in custody hours later. Video shows officers throwing him face-down into the car. Family says he was on his knees, tased & pepper-sprayed multiple times. Tunstall’s body has been released to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences for an autopsy. A cause of death has not yet been released. Once the SBI investigation is complete, findings will be turned over to the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office.

Wow CREATIVITY at it BEST

His nips look like kash patel’s eyes

Missing Carissa was last seen on March 23, 2026 in Peoria, Arizona. missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/20…

Rick Astley & the Foo Fighters perform "Never Gonna Give You Up" in the style of "Smells Like Teen Spirit", after Dave Grohl spotted Rick on the side of the stage and just pulled him up to do the song

Just a matter of time...

Young Black UPS Driver Shot Dead While Trying to Recover His Stolen Truck blacknews.com/news/michael-h… #blacktwitter #black #crime #crimenews #crimewatch

In an Orange County, Florida courtroom, Judge John Jordan looked at a Black woman before him and asked, “Have you ever chopped cotton?” He followed it with, “That’ll straighten you up,” reaching for the history of plantation field labor while deciding a Black defendant’s fate. She was in court on a felony battery case, facing community service, and instead of modeling impartiality and respect, the judge invoked imagery tied directly to the enslavement and exploitation of Black people. That is not a harmless joke; it is a reminder of who has power in that room and how casually our trauma can be weaponized from the bench. Jordan’s comments triggered a formal ethics case. The state’s judicial commission found that he violated the Code of Judicial Conduct and is recommending only a public reprimand, which he has agreed to accept, while allowing him to remain on the bench. So the result is this: the system agrees his words were wrong, but is still asking Black defendants to trust a judge who sees “chopped cotton” as a way to “straighten up” a Black woman standing before him.

“We both have conservative values” - I know that’s right. Amber is a former stripper. Had a slut walk and Nick Cannon has 12 Children with six women. Yup conservative values. #DemsUnited

The abolition of slavery in Cuba was not a sudden act of justice but rather a slow, painful, and politically calculated process that unfolded over nearly seven decades. Slavery had been practiced on the island of Cuba from the 16th century, primarily to support Spanish plantation owners engaged in the sugarcane trade. More than a million African people were brought to Cuba as part of the Middle Passage, and Cuba did not end its participation in the slave trade until 1867. Even as other nations moved away from slavery, Cuba clung to the institution because its entire sugar economy depended on it. The international abolition movement had originated in England in the late 1700s, driven by a mixture of humanitarian concerns and economic reasons, and Britain had been pressuring other nations to follow suit, even taking naval action against their slave ships. Despite this pressure, Spanish colonial authorities in Cuba resisted meaningful reform for generations. The first symbolic crack in the system came in 1868, when Cuban landowner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes freed the enslaved workers at his sugar mill, La Demajagua, and invited them to join the fight for Cuban independence from Spain. Though Céspedes played a significant role in the independence movement, the liberation of Cuban slaves was the result of a series of laws and movements, both local and international, culminating in 1886 with the complete abolition of slavery. The Ten Years War was the first major independence conflict in Cuba, and during this war many enslaved people joined the independence army with the promise of gaining their freedom if independence from Spain was achieved. Although independence was not won, the war fundamentally changed the moral and political landscape surrounding slavery. Spain could hardly afford to appear the retrograde defender of slavery in the eyes of the United States, a potential ally of the insurgents, or in the eyes of potential Black recruits to the insurrection. This pressure forced Spain's hand, and in 1870 the Spanish Cortes passed the Moret Law. The Moret Law granted freedom to children born to enslaved mothers after September 18, 1868, and it also freed enslaved people who served in the Spanish army, those over 60 years old, and those owned by the Spanish government. However, children were freed under the condition that they owed unpaid labor to their masters until they reached the age of eighteen, which meant that even when parents won freedom, they could not automatically take their children with them. The Moret Law was, in practice, far less liberating than it appeared on paper. Cuban plantation slavery was remarkably resilient, and in the 1870s it was capable of absorbing different labor forms, including indentured, contract, convict, and paid labor, without itself collapsing. Planters adapted, delayed, and manipulated the law at every turn to protect their labor supply. In 1880, Spain introduced the next step in its gradualist approach with the Patronato Law. This law did not immediately free all enslaved people but transformed their status from slaves to sponsored laborers, who were still required to work under the orders of their former owners for a period of up to eight years, and were supposed to receive a salary but were still denied full autonomy. It was, in practice, slavery under a different name. On October 7, 1886, slavery was finally abolished in Cuba by a royal decree that also made the patronato illegal. At that time, around 30,000 enslaved people who still remained under the forced labor system were finally freed, under the reign of Regent Queen Maria Cristina and Alfonso XIII. This made Cuba one of last countries in Western Hemisphere to formally abolish slavery, preceding only Brazil. The end of legal slavery, however, did not bring racial harmony to Cuba and in 1887, only 11 percent of Afro-Cubans of all ages could read and write, compared with 33% of white Cubans. #archaeohistories

Reporter confronts Karoline Leavitt: “Since you mentioned Easter and prayers, I’m going to ask you about something the Pope Leo said yesterday. He said, ‘God does not listen to the prayer of those who wage war.’ Can you comment on that?”

Gizelle Bryant’s daughter recreating her mom’s AKA photo from undergrad, in the exact same spot after crossing the same chapter, is quite iconic. Now, this is a legacy.

🚨🚨 Breaking: Six South Dakota State University students Sam Sonju, Charlie Simonson, Logan Kelling, Zach Brummels, Cole Borchardt and Jack Kronche have been exposed in a viral video chanting “We h*te N*ggers… We k*ll nggers… white power.” SDSU’s president has called the video “painful” and opened an investigation.

This man takes around groups of boys and teaches them things they need to know like how to work a gas pump so that when they’re older their wife or girlfriend never has to pump her own gas!