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Colin Kaepernick Partners With The Disney Channel For Documentary Series
Source: NEW YORK, NY – DECEMBER 05: Colin Kaepernick receives the SI Muhammad Ali Legacy Award with Beyonce and Trevor Noah during SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 2017 Sportsperson of the Year Show on December 5, 2017 at Barclays Center in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Sports Illustrated) Colin Kaepernick will continue to be a voice for the voiceless but now on a bigger platform. The activist is now partnering with one of the prominent media brands in the world to do so. As spotted on ESPN the former quarterback will be telling a much needed story regarding racial inequality in the United States via a new deal with The Disney Channel. According to the report the conglomerate will also deliver a documentary series on Kaep’s life including his career as a NFL star quarterba...
Breonna Taylor’s Family Says She Was Still Alive After Being Shot, But Police Didn’t Offer Aid
Source: Breonna Taylor / Breonna Taylor Breonna Taylor‘s family is once again speaking out about new details regarding the murder of the 26-year old EMT after a new report reveals that she was actually still alive after being shot in her home. On Monday (Jul 6), Breonna Taylor’s family, who is currently in a lawsuit against police and the city of Louisville, revealed that Taylor was actually still alive after being shot more than 8 times while sleeping in her bed and only succumbed to her injuries after being denied medical attention by the detectives. The 31-page complaint filed Sunday (Jul 5) presents a new narrative of the events leading up to the raid, which it describes as “wanton” and “reckless,” and attempts to fill in the details of how the 26-year-old Black woman died at the hands...
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Freddie Gibbs Cooks DJ Akademiks To A Crisp On ‘Desus & Mero’ [Video]
Source: WASHINGTON, DC – June 8th, 2017 – Rapper Freddie Gibbs performs at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. Gibbs released his third studio album, You Only Live 2wice, in March. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson / For The Washington Post via Getty Images) When journalists go low, Freddie Gibbs goes lower. He had time for Hip-Hop’s most hated media personality. As spotted on HipHopDX the Gary, Indiana MC made a recent appearance on the Desus & Mero show. As usual The Bodega Boys were combing through the biggest stories in popular culture. Things got interesting when the topic of DJ Akademiks’ and Kane’s online beef came up. The two got him on the video call and a roasting ensued. ‘This hoe ass got mad because he thought I was talking some shit about Gunna and T.I. or something li...
Michaela Coel Turned Down $1M Netflix Deal Over Attempted Copyright Jig
Source: Karwai Tang / Getty Chewing Gum star Michaela Coel may have gained her cross over success thanks to Netflix, but after the deal surrounding her new series, I May Destroy You, left her at a disadvantage the British star is explaining why both BBC and HBO are now the series’ new home. During an interview with Vulture, Michaela Coel details why the partnership with Netflix ended after the launch of her new show due to the negotiation for placement leaving her with no rights to the show. Recalling a conversation she had asking Netflix if she could keep at least five percent, Michaela said: “There was just silence on the phone. And [the senior development executive at Netflix] said, ‘It’s not how we do things here. Nobody does that, it’s not a big deal.’ I said,...
(G)I-DLE Proclaims ‘I’m the Trend’ in Spunky New Song
(G)I-DLE already had the Internet and the K-pop world buzzing with their ‘I-LAND: WHO AM I’ online concert series last month, but turns out, they have more up their sleeves. The girl group unveiled an infectious new song on Tuesday (July 7) titled “i’M THE TREND.” The spunky tune, written by the band’s Minnie and Yuqi as a thank you to their exponentially growing fanbase, features lyrics that reference their other hit songs like “Oh my god,” “Blow Your Mind,” “LATATA,” LION” and “Uh-Oh.” The accompanying clip shows the girls having some summertime fun as they chant “I’m the trend.” Recently (G)I-DLE made their official U.S. debut with the release of their I trust mini-album. Watch th...
Neil Young Won’t Sue Trump for Playing His Music at Rallies, So He Rewrote ‘Looking For a Leader’
Neil Young sounded off on President Donald Trump yesterday (July 6) in one of his signature scathing letters after Trump used his music at another one of his rallies. But Young had another suggestion cued up. Over the weekend, Young expressed his disdain for the Commander-in-Chief on Twitter when he played his classics “Rockin’ in the Free World” and “Like a Hurricane” during his Independence Day celebration at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota’s Black Hills, a sacred area to the Lakota Sioux where Indigenous people arrived to protest the president’s event. In his latest letter to the president posted on his Neil Young Archives website, the 74-year-old rocker wrote, “Although I have repeatedly asked you to please not use my music because it indic...
Remember Mariah Carey’s Bottle Cap Challenge? Here’s the Blooper You Didn’t See
Mariah Carey‘s whistle tones can blow the roof off any venue and the cap off any bottle per her 2019 Bottle Cap Challenge clip. But on the one-year anniversary of the video today (July 7), the 50-year-old megastar shared some behind-the-scenes bloopers that, well, blew off more than expected. “Last year I tried to crush the bottle cap challenge, but the bottle almost crushed me. Here’s the take you didn’t see…” she captioned the new video on Instagram. In the 10-second clip, Carey’s glass bottle goes flying off the table and rolls across the floor, which startled one of her kids who yelled, “Mom!” Stars from supermodel Naomi Campbell to filmmaker Lee Daniels couldn’t get enough of the hilarious miscalculation as evident by th...
Apple Music Launches Africa Rising to Amplify the Continent’s Next Generation of Artists
Apple Music has announced a new artist discovery initiative that seeks to spotlight the emerging artists of the world’s second largest continent. The launch of the Africa Rising initiative sees the addition of a new playlist to the Apple Music ecosystem by the same name. The mission to uplift Africa’s next generation of stars arrives with Nigerian Afro-fusion artist and producer Omah Lay as the playlist’s first cover feature. Lay’s debut EP Get Layd was released in May, sparking several appearances for him on Nigeria’s Top 10 singles chart. The EP additionally netted him the top album on Apple Music Nigeria at the time. “I have always used Apple Music, seeing my favorite artists on playlist covers and features but here I am looking pretty as Ap...
Jeff Tweedy Shares Potential Plan for Reparations in the Music Industry
On June 18, Jeff Tweedy announced that he would start donating 5% of his writer royalties to racial justice organizations and urged other artists to do the same. And in a new interview, Tweedy explains not only its importance but also how this promise can turn into an industry-wide mission. “It’s not an exaggeration to say our culture wouldn’t be our culture without black genius,” the Wilco singer told Rolling Stone. “There’s a shameful history there, and there are things the industry should still be ashamed of. There are things about the way Black artists are treated today that are different and unfair. It isn’t an equal playing field.” He plans to start pushing for these donations with BMI, which currently allows artists to do this on a “one-off basis” but are looking into a sustainable ...
Ten-a-Key Karen Fired From Job After Screaming “White Lives Are Better” At Black Lives Matter Protestors
Source: Twitter / Twitter During the past few years for “inexplicable reasons” racist white folk have felt emboldened to show their true colors in public when dealing with Black and Brown folk. But it seems like the recent Black Lives Matters demonstrations seemed to have had them in a frenzy even when in front of a camera phone. The latest —and certainly not last—incident came this past Saturday (July 4th of course) when a middle-aged white woman was caught on video spewing a racist and homophobic rant while at counter-protesting a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Elizabethton, Tennessee. According to the Johnson City Press, Sonya Holt attended the counter-protest to bask in her white privilege and yell “white lives matter” and “white lives are better” at peaceful protesters calling fo...
Black Thought Announces ‘Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Abel’ EP
Source: Sean Zanni / Getty For well over two decades, Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter has maintained his status as one of the best Hip-Hop artists to ever grace a microphone. Although the Bad Lieutenant is forever connected to The Roots for good reason, Black Thought’s solo run via his Streams Of Thought series will be getting a new installment on July 31. The latest EP, Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Abel, continues Black Thought’s lyrical examinations and dominance within the art form, employing the same strategy of working with one producer as he did with the previous installment. This time, Thought’s new drop is produced solely by Sean C, who has worked with Jay-Z, Pusha T, Joey BadA$$, and more. Billed as an EP, the 13-track release features the likes of ScHoolboy Q, Swizz Beatz, ...
It’s #BlackoutDay2020, Here Is What You Need Know About The Economic Call To Action
Source: Grace Cary / Getty Tuesday (Jul.7) marks the arrival of Blackout Day 2020. The economic protest sparked by Calvin Martyr is a call to action urging Black people across the country to not spend their money except with Black-owned businesses only. Organizers behind the movement want Black people to understand the power in their dollars. On the website dedicated to Blackout Day 2020, the call to action is broken down in this description: “This movement is an awakening of the national consciousness of black people in America and abroad. We need economic solidarity in America amongst all black people unequivocally. In order to break free from the chains of financial servility, we will organize days, weeks, months, and years if necessary when not one black person in America will spend a ...
