Happy 25th Birthday to Saint Lucia's Olympic Champion and National Diamond
Julien Alfred
She also competes today in the 100m in the Oslo Diamond League.
🚨 TSA forces wheelchair-bound disabled Black man to stand unaided for minutes — now 30+ seizures in 2 weeks
Vince “Fresh The Dj” Colston has a traumatic brain injury and paralysis on one side from a motorcycle accident. He’s wheelchair dependent. At Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, TSA made him stand out of his chair for a long search anyway.
His mom says she was terrified they’d just see “an angry Black dude with dreadlocks” and not a brain injury survivor. She had to get in his face to calm him down while he was upset.
TSA gave zero explanation why the search couldn’t happen in his wheelchair and even called over a supervisor. Since that incident, he’s had over 30 silent seizures in just the past two weeks.
Another disabled Black man humiliated and harmed by airport security that refuses to accommodate obvious disabilities.
How many more wheelchair users and brain injury survivors have to get punished before TSA stops treating them like threats instead of people who need basic respect?
Kemelia Paul is gone.💔😭💔😭
I've been staring at my phone for the last hour trying to find the words. I still don't have them. I'm not sure they exist.
For weeks I spoke with her mother. I followed every update. Every surgery. Every fever. Every small victory, the moment she said she was cold, the moment the doctors said the tube was coming out, I held each one like it meant something. Because it did. Because SHE did.
I was planning to go see her this weekend. This weekend.
I never got to meet her. I never will.
Kemelia Paul was 13 years old. She was in Form 1 at Excelsior High School. She passed her exams and got into the school of her choice. She was somebody's firstborn. Somebody's whole world.
And he was brave. Brave enough to step between a violent man and someone she loved. Brave enough to take what was meant for someone else.
That bravery cost her everything.
To Josephine —
I don't have words big enough for what you're carrying tonight. I don't think such words exist in any language.
You fought for your daughter with everything you had. You walked those streets. You sourced those supplies. You sat beside that bed for weeks. You answered my calls when you had every reason to disconnect from the world entirely.
You did everything right. Everything.
And I am so deeply, deeply sorry that it still wasn't enough to keep her here.
I knew this child only through her mother's voice. Through a crumpled prescription. Through a GoFundMe flyer. Through updates that came in at odd hours that I would read and feel in my chest.
I didn't know her. But I am broken tonight.
I can only imagine what those who did know her are feeling right now.
Kemelia should be complaining about homework tonight.
She should be in her uniform on Monday morning.
She should have decades ahead of her, love, laughter, everything a life is supposed to hold.
Instead a violent man took all of that. In one moment. With one knife.
And Jamaica lost another child it could not protect.
Rest easy, Kemelia.
You were brave and beautiful and you deserved so much better from this world.
I'm sorry we couldn't bring you home.
I'm sorry. 💔😭💔😭💔🕊️
One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.
The moment the tents of displaced people were bombed in the southern Gaza Strip, in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, killing more than 500 civilians.
A video that the world must never forget.
girl to girl: it's okay to be alone. it's okay to have a dry phone. it's okay to be celibate. it's okay to be selfish. it's okay to have high standards. your peace, your pace, your rules