Female rap icon Missy Elliot donated $50,000 to assist 26 families living in her hometown of Portsmouth (VA) with past-due rents. Now, these families can stay in their homes and avoid eviction – what a generous donation by Missy! https://t.co/mD9O2w9y5z
DeShaun Watson has had some trouble returning to his old form since becoming a Brown, & I feel confident in saying that. What, I won’t say is what @Brady_Quinn said. None of it. As an analyst it isn’t my job to judge a man’s intent. How can I? How can I challenge a man’s want to, or link that “want to” to money. Should I be allowed to call a man a trust fund baby because he isn’t playing up to expectation. This isn’t Quinn’s first time challenging a player’s character. Before the draft he did the same to CJ Stroud. So, maybe this is his way.
To finish Quinn made jokes about @deshaunwatson’s alleged past while arguing with Watson’s QB coach @QuincyAvery . There are families & people involved in those situations that are forever changed, & that trauma is not to be played with. I guess it’s cool to get laughs from the rest of your frat boy friends & other failed NFL QBs, but you’d hope we analyst would see the whole picture. That’s the job, and in truth we all fall short. At the least we should know we can’t judge intent on film, & the respect of incredibly sensitive situations is of value. Some things are bigger than football.
@thepivot OG’s. Just real talk.
https://t.co/O2jUIVNnJa
#ThePivot #DeshaunWatson #NFL
Shilo - "Dad, you putting the defense out there first?"
Deion - "Y'all ain't stop nobody all day."
Prime reveals convo from Colorado State game 😂
(via @TaylorRooks)
In 1938, Lloyd Gaines filed a lawsuit after being denied admission to the University of Missouri Law School in 1935 because he was black.
The Court ruled in his favor & required Missouri to admit him or set up a black law school.
He disappeared 3 months later never to be found.
—Lloyd Lionel Gaines was born to the Gaines family in northern Mississippi in 1911. One of eleven children, seven of whom survived illness and accident, he moved with his widowed mother and siblings to St. Louis after the premature death of their father. They found a better, although not easy, life for themselves in Missouri. Gaines excelled in his studies graduating as valedictorian in 1931 from Vashon High School. At Lincoln University in Jefferson City, he graduated with honors and was President of the senior class, while participating in many extra-curricular activities and working to pay for his schooling.
Despite his outstanding scholastic record, the University of Missouri School of Law denied Gaines admittance in 1936 solely on the grounds that Missouri's Constitution called for "separate education of the races." By state law, Missouri would have been required to pay for Gaines to attend the Universities in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, but Gaines was determined to fight for the right to attend law school in his own state university. He sought legal assistance from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which had been working systematically to overturn the ignominious precedent of "separate but equal" established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Together, they challenged the University of Missouri's admissions policies. In 1938, Gaines won his case before the United States Supreme Court in State of Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada, paving the way for a series of cases that would lead to Brown v. Board of Education's outlawing segregation in public education. In March 1939, only three months after his Supreme Court victory, Lloyd Gaines was last seen in Chicago. He disappeared at age 28 with his promise of attending law school in Missouri unfilfilled. Lloyd Gaines was never to be seen or heard from again.
@Rhonda_Crowder I will look to see who is in this “league”, assess and move forward with caution. And definitely keep an eye on who told me I wasn’t in this league.
According to CNN and court records, on Friday an Oklahoma judge dismissed the lawsuit filed by 3 of the last survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre. A sad miscarriage of justice. https://t.co/chksHFHIaC
34 percent of Harvard students are white. 43 percent of those students are either legacies, children of faculty, kin of donors or a recruited athlete. 75 percent of them would not have gotten in if not for special status (National Bureau of Economic Research).
But when in doubt, blame the Black people!