See you have to be intelligent if you’re the one holding the mic and that’s where I think this whole thing went sideways.
The nonchalant way that she just goes about eating the burrito and owning her is hilarious
NEW: Houston man who was born on a plantation says his one wish is to get a birth certificate.
94-year-old James Dorsey says he started working on a plantation at age 8 in Shreveport, Louisiana.
When he became an adult, Dorsey says he began to have difficulty proving who he was.
"I went to the courthouse. I went to the school board. They were over everything, all the schools and plantations, what the school was on, they were over everything," he said.
"What does a birth certificate mean for me? I couldn't even pronounce what it would mean."
The energy between Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen in this episode became self explanatory to me after finding out they were both sisters in real life😭
You can just tell this episode was so much fun for both of them to film!😭😭
Floyd Norman will receive an honorary Oscar.
He was the first black animator at Disney and had a 65-year run at the studio working on films such as ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘The Jungle Book’, ‘Mulan’ and ‘Toy Story 2’.
Congratulations to Kameirah Johnson on winning this year’s Google Doodle contest. Just a beautiful piece of art. I hope her artistic career goes very, very far. This is the kind of talent we need to see and support. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Breaking News:
For the first time ever, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood has officially launched a YouTube channel.
Full episodes. Classic Clips. 100% wholesome.
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They removed CD/DVD drives from devices.
They made physical media harder to buy and use.
They removed expandable storage from phones.
They pushed us into streaming subscriptions.
They made always-online normal.
They made unlimited internet necessary.
Then slowly raised the price of everything.
Ownership quietly became renting.
Louisville’s Black entrepreneur, Cortrell Winkfield, invented Velvera - the world’s first digital heated cake stand that keeps cakes, pastries & baked goods perfectly warm while on display.
Tatyana Ali (Ashley from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) spoke about the difficult pregnancy she had with her first child and the discrimination that Black women face during pregnancy
“I had a really healthy pregnancy… and all of that changed once we got into the hospital. Our birth plan wasn't followed... I was also held down, my arms and legs," she continued, using the term “obstetric violence” to describe the experience she went through
“I mean, I'll be real with you, they pushed him back inside me… that's what happened, my baby was all the way crowned, that’s not a real procedure.”
“In my records, it shows that he goes from the lowest station, I saw his hair, I touched his hair, to the highest station and it doesn't say how that happened. It's an incredibly dangerous thing that they did; they could have snapped his neck, but this is after hours of them holding me down.”
She added that her baby "couldn't pee on his own for a long time, about five or six days."
“Actually, it was a pediatric urologist who was the only one who came to my side and said, ‘I saw what happened during your birth, the things that resulted in this emergency C-section.’ She said, ‘I think the traumatic nature of his birth is what is causing this,’ ” Ali recalled, revealing, “We [then] left [the hospital] in the middle of the night … we ran away."
Black women suffer discrimination during pregnancy, and Ali made a point of emphasizing that
“It's been happening for a very long time … black women are three to four times more likely to die in childbirth, and I think a lot of times people go, ‘Oh well, those are other health risks.’ Yes, that's in the mix of things, but there are incredible traumas that are also being experienced in the hospital when you're a black woman, an indigenous person, giving birth. The treatment is just totally different…”
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