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Thought Leader + Journalist + Strategist + Commentator. I walk it like I talk it and I said what I said. This is my personal account.

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    6 Mar 2017

    The only thing worse than calling slaves , is Black people calling each other niggas. 💅🏾

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  2. May 9

    Los Angeles County Public Public Defender Elizabeth Lashley-Haynes speaks about her client a 75 y/o great-grandmother arrested for assault for trying to protect herself on April 5. Bail is being posted shortly and then the groups will go to Lynwood to wait for her release. – at Twin Towers Correctional Facility: Tower 1

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  3. May 9

    The in is a partnership between Essie Justice Group, Dignity and Power Now and a host of other local community orgs.

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  4. May 9

    This year, a 75 y/o Black woman from Long Beach charged with assault after she tried to protect herself is being bailed out of jail in time to spend with her 2 daughters, grand and great-grand children. Her bail was $30k and she’d been in jail since April 5.

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  5. May 9

    This morning Public Defender Ricardo Garcia joined community organizers outside of Twin Towers Correctional Facility in for the 3rd Annual Black Mamas Bail Out where Black mothers are being bailed out of jail all over the country in time for .

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  6. May 7

    I said it back in December when this young brother was killed and I’ll say it again—there’s nothing in Walgreens that’s so expensive it requires an armed security guard to protect it. There’s nothing for sale in Walgreens worth someone’s life. Nothing.

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  7. May 7

    Shoplifting suspect killed by Walgreens security guard was targeted because black, gay, sister says

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  8. May 5

    Los Angeles’ newest intersection.

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  9. May 5

    Hearing the voices of over 20k people sing with Stevie Wonder who was accompanied by none other than Doug E. Fresh was one of the many highlights of Saturday’s festival celebrating Obama Blvd. in .

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  10. May 5

    It’s official! On Saturday over 20k people in came out to help unveil President Barack Obama Boulevard!

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  11. May 1
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  12. Apr 29

    This is the same person who was 🤐 on his buddy Ed Buck and the dead Black bodies popping up in Buck’s house.

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  13. Apr 29

    Disgraced Ex-chairman of the California Democratic Party, Eric Bauman, accused of racial discrimination against a Black woman, in 3rd suit against Party

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  14. Apr 29

    Here’s what L.A.’s new Obama Boulevard street signs will look like

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  15. Apr 29

    A brilliant man who told our stories with precision, and dedication. I’m sending love, positive energy and condolences to his family and friends. He will be missed. ❤️

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  16. Apr 29

    This is so sad. I first met John through the Pan African Film & Arts Festival. I saw him last when he came to a panel I was on at Eso Won in Leimert Park where we were discussing Nat Turner’s Birth of A Nation.

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  17. Apr 29
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  18. Apr 29

    27 years later, some communities affected by the 1992 Civil Unrest are still trying to rebuild.

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  19. Apr 29

    For five days, the nation watched as entire neighborhoods in rebelled.

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  20. Apr 29

    The four officers acquitted for brutalizing motorist Rodney King in a videotaped attack were--from left, Sgt. Stacey C. Koon, Officer Theodore J. Briseno, Officer Timothy E. Wind and Officer Laurence Powell.

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  21. Apr 29

    April 29, 1992, at 3:15 p.m., the acquittals of the four officers caught on camera beating Rodney King were announced triggering what would be 5 days of civil unrest in , , and surrounding areas.

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