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Bad Bunny is joining the protests against Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló. The Puerto Rican native announced his participation via Instagram on Monday night, informing fans he would pause his European tour as he joins the call for Rosselló’s resignation. “My respects to everyone who has had the courage, valor and initiative to go out in the streets and fight […]
Social media users around the world are going #BlueForSudan. Over the past several days, a growing number of people have changed their profile pictures to a plain blue image in support of the north African country, where peaceful demonstrators are being met with military violence. The months-long protests began with a 2018 uprising against then-President Omar al-Bashir, a brutal […]
Wale showed his support for D.C. go-go at a protest event Tuesday night. The event, which WJLA notes doubled as a free concert, was put together by local organizers in less than 24 hours. “[Go-go music] made me the man that I am today, and I will never let it go and I’m going to […]
Devonte Hart was just 12 years old when he was thrust into the national spotlight. The young black boy was photographed with tears streaming down his face as he embraced a white police officer during a 2014 Ferguson protest. The image became known as the “hug felt ’round the world.” Years after the photo went viral, Devonte was back in […]
Bobby Shmurda called into SiriusXM’s Hip Hop Nation where he spoke with host Swaggy Sie about the possibility of aligning himself with Meek Mill in his fight for criminal justice reform. Bobby wasn’t too enthusiastic about the idea, explaining that while he respects what Meek is doing, he believes that the pattern of an unfair justice system will only continue. […]
The national anthem protest that began in the NFL has now spread to college basketball. Ole Miss players knelt on the hardwood Saturday while “The Star-Spangled Banner” played, much in the same way that numerous professional football players have over the last several years. While the NFL protests take place amid the constant threat […]
The family of 16-year-old Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann is suing the Washington Post for $250 million, Reuters reports. Sandmann, the Kentucky teen who was filmed facing off with Native American activist Nathan Phillips during the Indigenous Peoples March and coinciding anti-abortion March for Life at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., is claiming the publication engaged in defamation and “targeted […]
An 11-year-old student was arrested in Florida—of course—after confronting his substitute teacher over his refusal to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. The incident occurred on February 4 at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in Lakeland when the kid told his substitute teacher that he would not take part in the pledge because, according to Tampa’s Bay 9 News, “the flag was […]
On Friday, Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid‘s reps announced they settled their collusion complaint against the NFL for an undisclosed amount. Kaepernick filed the grievance against the NFL in October 2017 after he failed to find a new team following his dismissal from the San Francisco 49ers. LeBron James has made it clear that he’s very […]
In an interview with Bloomberg Business of Sports podcast, former NBA commissioner David Stern said that he thought the NFL should have suspended Colin Kaepernick from the moment he first started protesting police brutality by kneeling during the playing of the national anthem. Stern believes that if the league took that course of action with […]
