(Please note that this post is about mental health and please mind the trigger warning.) Last Tuesday, beloved professional dancer, actor, television producer, and television personality Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss died by suicide. He was 40 years old. In 2008, tWitch finished in second place on So You Think You Can Dance. From 2014 to the show’s conclusion this year, tWitch was a co-host and co-executive producer of The Ellen DeGeneres Show on CBS, which made him...
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I don’t blame pops at all for getting up out of his seat for Mya! Photographer AShotOfLee captured this incredible moment of Mr. Isaac Henry Petty, Jr. and rnb superstar Mya in Charleston, West Virginia at Multifest 32! When asked about the experience that she captured the photographer/videographer stated, “He’s such an awesome person and was so excited to meet Mya. He owned his moment!” The audience went wild...
In a video that recently surfaced at what appears to be a party a woman can be seen laughing and telling friends that she is about to get “Ghetto Nig__r Drunk.” In the video she repeats the phrase and also says “Put your phone down before I turn into a ghetto nigger.” And then she laughs as her recording friend laughs too. Another friend says “Amanda’s acting crazy y’all!...
5 Women Quarantined and Left w/o Food, Water, Medicine and Staff Support in Mississippi Prison
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Five women have been reported as quarantined in Quick Bed at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF). The women have been left without food, water, medicine such as insulin and medical staff support. The guards on duty have placed garbage bags over the windows and cameras preventing the women from reaching out for help. The women are relying on the guards’ good mercy and capacity to...
By now we’ve probably all heard about the cases of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and the international protests that followed. I think it’s safe to say that most of us are hurt but not surprised. Their stories are only recent additions to America’s long history of violence against African Americans. The first viral case of police brutality that I was old enough to actually process was Trayvon...
