i strongly agree, as long as the DNA of all male fathers and children should be kept in a database to be routinely cross checked against DNA obtained from rape kits. full transparency for all.🩷🩷
Kentucky State University student-athlete Aminata Seck has been in ICE custody since August after being detained while traveling with her basketball team.
According to the Courier Journal, Seck, 26, was taken into custody at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport on Aug. 7 as the Kentucky State basketball team prepared to travel to New York for a tournament. Since her detention, attorney Sadiqa Reynolds says Seck has been moved between multiple facilities.
Seck, who also attended Langston University, is currently dealing with an ACL injury and, according to Reynolds, has struggled to receive consistent access to ice and medical attention while in custody.
Reynolds told the Courier Journal that Seck may have missed a student visa deadline while dealing with back surgery. The newspaper reported that its attempts to obtain comment from ICE were unsuccessful.
“She needs surgery. She needs medical attention,” Reynolds said in a social media post cited by the Courier Journal.
Kentucky State told the Courier Journal that it did not have information to share out of respect for the privacy of those involved, while Reynolds praised KSU head coach Amani Williams for advocating for Seck throughout the situation.
7 frat boys at Cornell drugged a young student and raped her.
They sent text messages to other men that she was “free” and they could come join in.
Their punishment?
Writing essays to Cornell.
Arrest & prosecute every one of them and fire whoever doled out the “discipline”
I feel like that “Crooklyn and Moonlight had a baby” description sold me, but Issa’s last point matters even more.
If I Go Will They Miss Me is a Black family coming-of-age story set in Watts, built around a 12-year-old boy trying to understand his father through imagination and mythology. It just expanded into 30+ markets nationwide.
We always say we want more movies like this. Opening weekend is when showing up actually matters more than our claims.
Let’s show the move some love. ❤️
This documentary offers a window into one of the effects of liberal racism under racial capitalism: gentrification and the displacement of Black communities in Boston, one of the most liberal cities in 🇺🇸.
And this is for my HooDoos, this is a great song for protection, manifestation, and affirmations. Many other things, baneful protection and glamour, too.
Her tire blew out. She pulled into a gas station, locked the doors, and waited for her family to come help.
When police arrived she was unconscious in the driver's seat.
They broke the window and fired twenty-three shots into the car.
Tyisha Miller. Riverside, California, December 1998. She was 19.
She was hit twelve times. Four officers fired.
No one was charged with anything. A grand jury declined. The Justice Department reviewed it and closed it.
The four officers were eventually fired by the city — and the police union fought that, too.
A nineteen-year-old waiting for roadside assistance, asleep behind a locked door, in a car that was not going anywhere.
Twenty-three shots. Riverside changed its entire police department after this, under state supervision. That is what it cost.
You know what happened to Tyisha Miller. But what happened to the hundreds of other cases that never became national headlines?
We went looking. The result is 150 Crimes Against Black America They Never Answered For—a collection of cases that deserve more than a paragraph in an archive.
Start uncovering them here https://t.co/V6OJtayKnF