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Seven years after Ronald Greene’s death, Louisiana has agreed to a $4.8 million settlement with his family. Ronald’s loved ones were initially told he died in a car crash, but video later showed troopers beating, dragging, and stunning him after the chase ended. No amount of money can erase this pain, but the truth must always come to light.

We can’t even die in peace but America is not a racist country???

When Fannie Lou Hamer went to a hospital in 1961 to have a uterine tumor removed, she left without her reproductive organs. Dubbed a 'Mississippi appendectomy,' it was part of a statewide effort to reduce the Black population through forced sterilization.

Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre: ➖ I was trafficked to many different types of men. ➖ Yes, I was taken to other billionaires. ➖ I was taken to politicians, professors. ➖ Even members of the royal family… He used me as a blackmail tool. ➖ So these people owed him favors. ➖ They remained indebted to him. And I was completely horrified. ➖ I realized that this man was even watching me go to the toilet. ➖ He was watching everything that happened in the massage room. ➖ He was watching me in my bedroom. ➖ So everything was being recorded. ➖ And at that moment I understood how he got away with it by blackmailing everyone… ➖ The biggest reason in my mind was this: He always wanted to have something on someone. ➖ Just in case it came in handy someday. ➖ That's why it's important for the media and the government to work together to uncover who's involved. ➖ Including the highest-ranking officials in our government, and even governments at the international level.

🚨 Black mother catches HORRIFIC RACIST abuse of her nonverbal autistic son on hidden camera. School: Field Elementary School, 120 Sacred Heart Lane, Louisville, KY 40206 White Teacher: Robert Ransdell (ECE Assistant) For months the school claimed her sweet son was “abusive” and ignored her requests to observe the classroom. On May 13, she hid a camera in his ponytail. What she found was nothing short of HORRIFIC. The footage captures Robert Ransdell aggressively approaching her son after the main teacher left the room — followed by her child’s screams. The video & audio captures Robert Ransdell calling the child a “STUPID N*GGER BOY” while he chokes the child and slaps him and drags the child across the classroom by his hair!

Never forget. In 1953, They drained an entire swimming pool because Dorothy Dandridge stuck her toe in it." Racism and segregation kept many African Americans from learning to swim-a fact we can't forget while celebrating Simone Manuel's historic Olympic gold medal.

Lisa Leslie tells Lakers fans they need to appreciate LeBron James: “I’m a L.A. girl and LeBron filled a huge void for us in L.A. We lost the great Kobe Bryant and to have LeBron come into L.A. and perform the way he has at the level that he has for this amount of time. We have just been so critical of this man who has been nothing but perfection for the Purple and Gold” (Via @FirstTake)

Raven Goodwin Revealed She Lost Her Father While Filming 🎬🕊️❤️ Raven shared that while the world was seeing her show up and continue working, she was privately carrying one of the hardest seasons of her life. In the middle of filming, Raven revealed she lost her father in 2021 while also navigating newlywed life, motherhood, and the emotional aftermath of the pandemic. She explained that she was trying to balance grief and happiness at the same time — mourning the loss of her dad while embracing the joy of her growing family and daughter turning 1. ❤️ Raven admitted she never fully got the chance to properly grieve because she was so focused on surviving, being a wife, and being a mother. She says filming eventually forced a lot of those emotions back to the surface. So many people look “strong” on the outside while silently carrying pain nobody knows about. Sending Raven so much love. 🕊️❤️ #ADifferentWorld #SistasOnBET #ZatimaOnBETPlus

A year ago someone on Reddit asked how it was legal for a Connecticut state senator to work for Eversource (the utility monopoly) while serving in office. I looked into it. Turns out Connecticut’s ethics laws were basically written to allow it driscollglobe.com/p/eversource-h…

Jo and Joy Banner, twin Black sisters from Louisiana, purchased the historic Woodland Plantation — the site where their ancestors were once enslaved. Through their nonprofit, The Descendants Project, they now own the land to preserve its history and protect descendant communities. Reclaiming what was taken. 👏🏾

A food truck owner was fined $5,000 by the state for giving free food to firefighters battling a wildfire. She parked near the staging area during the emergency and served tacos, burritos, and other hot meals at no charge to exhausted first responders working long shifts in extreme heat. They were protecting the town from burning down. The state cited her for operating outside her permitted zone and lacking an emergency vendor license, claiming health and safety rules still applied. In court, the judge threw out the fine. He ruled it was a clear Good Samaritan act during a natural disaster—not a commercial operation—and said the state should have thanked her instead of prosecuting.

Lyle Gittens (108) and Eleanor Gittens (107), a beautiful Black couple from Miami, Florida, are celebrating over 83 years of marriage. Married in 1942, they hold the Guinness World Record as the world’s oldest living married couple.👏🏿❤️

Four years after the racially-motivated massacre at Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue stole 10 beautiful souls, Buffalo’s East Side is still fighting to heal, rebuild, and be heard. I have stood with several of the families affected by this tragedy, and their pain did not end that day. The weight of this loss is something they carry every single day. My heart is with all the loved ones of the victims today. wkbw.com/news/local-new…

PK Kemsley's Range Rover hits a car in L.A., then drives away. 😳 bit.ly/4wA8Isr Credit: Backgrid

There are over 300,000 more black men in college than in prison, but you wouldn't know this watching FOX, or CNN. There are some images of us that they don't ever show.

An 80-year-old Black veteran was targeted, lured outside his home, and punched in the face in Florida. the suspect, Kyle Parrish, yelled, “We don’t want people your kind living here,” before striking him in the face.

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “I should tell you, in Tennessee, a big slice of Black residents in Memphis will now have their votes folded into a White county called Williamson County. Williamson County literally STILL HAS a confederate flag on their county seal, but they’ll have just the right size of a slice of Black voters from Memphis to make sure they can never, with their other Memphis residents, elect a member of Congress of their choosing. There’s a reason why people are calling this Jim Crow 2.0. This REALLY IS plainly an effort to drag us back to the the post reconstruction era after the civil war…”😳

There’s nothing funny about letting a white man disrespect George Floyd, comedy roast or not. Black celebs laughing at George Floyd jokes the same week white racists are openly trying to strip your community of its power and rights is exactly why they think they can keep playing in our faces. A Black man was murdered in front of the world. That wasn’t a punchline. That was racial violence. This is exactly why Black people are desensitized to their own disrespect. Corny.

@TheKempire Happy Birthday

After losing a sister in her early 20s and a best friend just months later, I learned a long time ago that growing old is a privilege — not a guarantee. Every birthday, I’m reminded of what they never got to see, and I wonder what they’d think of what I’ve done with this life. I smile through tears because they’re always with me. Through every success, every setback, every new chapter. Thank you for being part of mine. And thank you for all the love today. ❤️ #kempire #kempireafterdark #birthday

This is beyond terrible. Not only were multiple people injured after a drive by shooting. But Paterson police in NJ then assaulted someone trying to get to their injured brother. Punching in his face, pulling his hair so hard that he tears out his locs.