Category Archives: Black Lives Matter

Tragedy in Wrightsville Arkansas: 21 Black Boys Burned Alive

Posted on March 18, 2018 by SouthernGirl2

On March 5th 1959, 69 teenaged Negro Boys were padlocked inside the Wrightsville Negro Boys Industrial School Dormitory and the building mysteriously caught fire. 48 boys were able to force mesh metal screens off  windows and escape, 21 were burned … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Open Thread | An officer is charged with assault after a video shows him Taser and strangle a Black man for jaywalking

Posted on March 13, 2018 by SouthernGirl2

So disturbing to watch. Poor man was tired and just walking home from work and here comes savage predators to prey. The trauma black people suffer at the hands of those sworn to serve and protect. They hunt and prey. … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Open Thread

Posted on February 14, 2018 by rikyrah

Happy HUMP day, Everyone. REPOST- Remember, #45 spewing “DUE PROCESSS”

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Wednesday Open Thread | The cop who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice wants his job back

Posted on January 10, 2018 by SouthernGirl2

My eyes! My eyes! This can’t be real….. The cop who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 may get his job back after nearly eight months off the force. The Cleveland Police Department fired Officer Timothy Loehmann in … Continue reading →

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Saturday Open Thread | White ex-Tulsa cop gets 15 years for killing daughter’s black boyfriend

Posted on November 25, 2017 by SouthernGirl2

TULSA, Okla. — A white former police officer in Oklahoma was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison for the fatal off-duty shooting of his daughter’s black boyfriend, after four trials spanning nearly a year including three that resulted in … Continue reading →

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Lizz Brown Memorial Service

Posted on November 11, 2017 by SouthernGirl2
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New Jersey Police Chief: “These niggers are like ISIS, they have no value

Posted on November 1, 2017 by SouthernGirl2

CAMDEN — A former South Jersey police chief is being charged with hate crimes and violating the civil rights of an African-American suspect during a September 2016 arrest. Frank Nucera Jr., the former Bordentown Township Police chief, assaulted the handcuffed … Continue reading →

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Houston Texans NFL owner on players kneeling: ‘we can’t have the inmates running the prison’

Posted on October 27, 2017 by SouthernGirl2

During a closed-door meeting among NFL team owners and executives, Houston Texans owner Bob McNair made a stunningly inappropriate analogy about allowing players to kneel during the national anthem. “We can’t have the inmates running the prison,” said McNair, a … Continue reading →

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Eminem bodied Trump during his #HipHopAwards cypher

Posted on October 11, 2017 by SouthernGirl2

(CNN) In what is perhaps the fiercest and the most exhaustive attack against Donald Trump in hip-hop, Eminem “came to stomp,” unleashing on the President in an explosive 4.5 minute freestyle — which aired during Tuesday night’s BET Hip Hop … Continue reading →

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Black Women March

Posted on September 30, 2017 by SouthernGirl2

A pair of simultaneous marches addressing racial injustice swept through Washington, D.C., on Saturday, with sister marches scheduled to take place in several cities across the country. The March for Black Women, protesting “state violence” and sexual and domestic violence … Continue reading →

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