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Tamika Mallory Places Sellout Jacket On Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron
Source: Jon Cherry / Getty If it walks and quacks like a duck; chances are that it is a duck. The same goes for bootlicking sellout. After the miscarriage of justice that was Breonna Taylor’s indictment announcement or rather lack thereof, the feeling towards Kentucky’s government might be at an all time low with people of color. As spotted on Blavity activist Tamika Mallory went ten toes down on Daniel Cameron, the resident Attorney General for the city. On Friday, September 25 she spoke at a press conference where she took objection to his decision to place higher value on concrete walls than Breonna’s life. “I want you to understand how wicked he is and how wicked this system is,” she said. Mallory also pointed to the fact that he had pledged his allegiance to the local police upon...
Platinum Plan President Trump’s 2016 Campaign Allegedly Listed Black Voters As “Deterrence”
Source: NICHOLAS KAMM / Getty President Donald Trump, fresh from selling a so-called “Platinum Plan” for Black America to drum up votes, might need to address a claim made by a United Kingdom news outlet. According to the report, Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign database listed millions of Black voters as “deterrence” in the file. The UK’s Channel 4 has much more: In 16 key battleground states, millions of Americans were separated by an algorithm into one of eight categories, also described as ‘audiences’, so they could then be targeted with tailored ads on Facebook and other platforms. One of the categories was named ‘Deterrence’, which was later described publicly by Trump’s chief data scientist as containing people that the campaign “hope don’t show up to vote”. Analysis by Channel 4 ...
Speed Boat: Lil Yachty Arrested For Speeding In Atlanta
Source: Thaddaeus McAdams / Getty Lil Yachty has been arrested and released. According to WSB-TV in Atlanta, the Atlanta rapper was arrested last week and charged with driving more than 150 mph down an Atlanta interstate. Lil Yachty, whose legal name is Miles McCollum, was pulled over Sept. 21 in downtown Atlanta after being observed by officers going high speeds in his white Ferrari. McCollum was charged with reckless driving and speeding before being sent to the Atlanta City jail, according to the Georgia State Police. Channel 2 Action News noted that the same location of the rapper’s recent arrest was also the same location that the rapper previously crashed a red Ferrari back in June. At that time, witnesses said his speed and the wet roads led to the crash that totaled his vehicl...
ROB HALFORD In Conversation With SEBASTIAN BACH: Changing Hands Virtual Event Scheduled For This Saturday
Arizona’s Changing Hands bookstore, in conjunction with Zia Records, will host a live Zoom conversation with Rob Halford about his autobiography, “Confess”. The event will take place on Saturday, October 3 at 5 p.m. Arizona time. The JUDAS PRIEST singer will discuss the book with a special guest moderator, former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach. To attend the virtual event, you need to buy a copy of “Confess” from Changing Hands — either $36.09 for pickup at either Changing Hands location, or $44.23 for delivery. Copies ordered from Changing Hands will include a bookplate signed by Halford. Visit the Changing Hands web site for more information. Earlier in the month, Bach uploaded a video of him singing along to the JUDAS PRIEST song “Solar Angels”...
METALLICA Donates $250,000 To West Coast Wildfire Relief Efforts
METALLICA has announced a new donation of $250,000 to help wildfire relief efforts in California and other parts of the western United States. The band made the donation through its All Within My Hands non-profit foundation, which was launched in 2017 to help creating sustainable communities by tackling the issues of hunger and workforce education and encouraging volunteerism. Says METALLICA: “Wildfires have become a cruel and unwelcome annual benchmark in California, and this year we have seen them tragically extend across the entire west coast of our country. This is the fourth consecutive year, dating back to the formation of the Foundation, that All Within My Hands has activated to support fire relief: the critical local services component of our mission. “This year, we wil...
RUDY SARZO Says He Saw FRANKIE BANALI A Couple Of Hours Before His Death: ‘He Was Really Fighting It’
Rudy Sarzo has reflected on the passing of his former QUIET RIOT bandmate, drummer Frankie Banali. Banali, who joined QUIET RIOT in 1982 and played on its breakthrough album, 1983’s “Metal Health”, the first heavy metal LP to top Billboard‘s album chart, died in August after a 16-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Speaking to the “Music Mania” podcast, Sarzo said (see video below): “Frankie and I, we’ve been friends since 1972. That’s 48 years. And I knew [about his cancer diagnosis] back in April last year. He asked me to come over his house. We live, like, 15 minutes away from each other. I went over, and he told me — he told that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer stage IV. And he was gonna fight it. “I’d been...
BLACK SABBATH Partners With DR. MARTENS On 50th-Anniversary Boots
Before there was metal, there was BLACK SABBATH. It’s been 50 years since the band’s groundbreaking debut album crash-landed on to the music scene and changed the course of rock history. British boot maker Dr. Martens‘s first collaboration with the “godfathers of heavy metal” celebrates “Black Sabbath” and “Paranoid”‘s 50th anniversaries, and shine the spotlight on Keith “Keef” Macmillan‘s equally hard-hitting artwork. The Dr. Martens X Black Sabbath collection lands on October 1. The boots feature McMillan‘s artwork printed over the 1460 8-Eye Black Susan combat boot. Sign up for the newsletter and you’ll be the first to know when it drops. For the fiscal year ending March 31, Dr. Martens‘s und...
Henry Cavill Would “Love to Play James Bond”
Daniel Craig is ready to hang up his martini glass, and the rumors are full of big names who could put the “oh!” into 007. Now, Henry Cavill has announced his desire to be the next James Bond. The 37-year-old actor has already played Superman, Sherlock Holmes, and the titular monster-slayer of The Witcher. That might be enough pop culture dominance for a regular geek, but Cavill is true super nerd. Via GQ, he’s spent quarantine painting Warhammer figurines, and when he was cast in 2013’s Man of Steel, he famously missed the big phone call from Zack Snyder because he was mid-battle in World of Warcraft. Cavill said, “I saw it was him… but you can’t pause World of Warcraft, it’s live.” The actor has apparently always had a soft spot for the world’s greatest spy. In a...
Frontman Burton C. Bell Quits Fear Factory
Veteran industrial metal act Fear Factory are without a singer after founding frontman Burton C. Bell quit the band on Monday (September 28th). In an open letter posted on his official website, Bell listed a number of grievances that led to his decision. Bell’s departure comes a couple weeks after Fear Factory launched a GoFundMe campaign to support work on their new album. The fund-raising effort seemed to be spearheaded by guitarist Dino Cazares, with Bell insisting, “Let me be clear: I am not part of, nor am I benefitting from, any GoFundMe campaign.” That dispute came after a long legal battle between Bell and former members Christian Olde Wolbers and Raymond Herrera over the Fear Factory name. As Bell points out in his letter, the legal wrangling and recent developments within the ban...
Chadwick Boseman Gave Sienna Miller a Portion of His 21 Bridges Salary
Chadwick Boseman was one of the most famous superheroes in Marvel history, and it turns out he was an everyday hero offscreen, too. In a new interview, Sienna Miller revealed that the Black Panther star gave her a portion of his salary from 21 Bridges so that she could continue working as a co-producer and actor in the movie, reports Variety. As Miller told Empire earlier today, she was thrilled when Boseman reached out to her about working together on the crime drama, but she hesitated to sign on because the studio wouldn’t agree to her suggested salary — despite the fact that she was in a period of her life where she was taking a break from working, and as such needed a suitable amount to justify putting her family life on hold. Boseman hoped she could work as a co-producer and as an act...
Lil Yachty Arrested for Driving More Than 150 Mph
Lil Yachty is facing reckless driving charges after being caught driving more than 150 mph on an Atlanta interstate last week. According to Atlanta’s WSB-TV 2, Yachty was pulled over in his white Ferrari on September 11th. He was subsequently arrested, charged with reckless driving and speeding in excess of maximum limits, and booked at the Atlanta City Jail. Back in June, Lil Yachty crashed another one of his Ferraris on the same interstate and sustained minor injuries. Witnesses say the road was wet and Yachty was speeding at the time of the crash. Lil Yachty’s most recent album, Lil Boat 3, dropped in May. Related You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautifu...
Watch This Haunting, Porter Robinson-Approved Piano Cover of “Mirror”
Pianist and YouTuber Keudae has released a haunting cover of Porter Robinson’s “Mirror,” a single from the Grammy Award-nominated electronic music producer’s highly anticipated sophomore LP, Nurture. Flanked by nothing but electric light strands and her Korg Kross synth, Keudae presents a nearly five-minute performance in she transforms the original into a scintillating piano ballad. The cover caught the attention of Porter Robinson himself, who took to Twitter to share the video and heap praise. “i really really enjoyed this and it just gets better the further along you listen,” he wrote. Keudae’s YouTube channel also features other covers of tracks by Robinson, like “Something Comforting” and “Get Your Wish,” as ...
