On this day in 1924, Novelist, playwright, poet and social critic, the late James Baldwin was born.
“To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.” —James Baldwin
@DanWetzel There has to be serious punishment for false accusations and this woman should pay dearly.
Although Araiza has been cleared of legal charges, he will always have a dark cloud over his head to some people.
Hopefully Araiza gets a chance again in the NFL.
𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: New evidence now show that former #Bills Punter Matt Araiza was *NOT* present at the house when a woman alleged that he raped her, per @DanWetzel
Evidence instead show that the accuser was having consensual sex with several other men that night.
Araiza being falsely accused of gang rape caused him to lose his job.
The woman that accused Araiza shouldn't go unpunished for ruining his life. Hopefully he gets another shot in the NFL and gets his life back on track.
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Yo LeSean McCoy what you gotta say about this now that you seen Gervonta Davis make Ryan Garcia quit??? @CutonDime25
“Tank is small, small arms & who has tank fought? He hasn’t fought anybody good”
On this day in 1931, the Scottsboro trial began in Scottsboro, Alabama.
Scottsboro Boys were 9 black teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women on a train and an all white jury found them guilty and they collectively served more than 100 years in prison.
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Maggie Walker started a department store allowing Black customers to shop with dignity: enter through the main doors instead of a side entrance, try on clothing, to eat at lunch counters and she hired exclusively Black women to work as clerks.
On this day in 1958, Jeremiah Reeves, was executed via electric chair by the state of Alabama after police tortured him into giving a false confession as a 16-year-old child.
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A 37-year-old dad was stabbed to death in front of his 3-year-old daughter and fiancée outside a Starbucks in Canada after he asked the attacker not to vape in front of his child.