The coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement topped the list of conversation topics on Twitter in a tumultuous year, the social platform said Monday. In a summary of trends, Twitter said the hashtag #COVID19 and other variations were tweeted nearly 400 million times, while #StayHome was the third biggest hashtag of the year. […]
In a slanderous document laced with conspiracies and falsehoods, a prominent law enforcement training group has urged local officials to view Black Lives Matter activism as a terrorist plot towards a grander violent revolution. The International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association [ILEETA] have spread inflammatory rhetoric that could misinform the reader and consequently incite […]
The queen is marching a Black parade to the Grammys: Beyoncé’s anthem about Black pride scored multiple nominations Tuesday, making hers a reigning name spanning nine categories across. The pop star picked up song and record of the year bids with “Black Parade,” which she released on Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates when the last […]
Former President Barack Obama blasted President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus, his culpability in national discord and his overall fitness for the job on Wednesday as he made his first in-person campaign pitch for his former vice president, Joe Biden. With less than two weeks before Election Day, Obama used a drive-in campaign rally […]
Sony heralds in their support for the nation-sweeping Black Lives Matter movement with launch of new PlayStation (PS) theme for gamers. The wildly popular gaming console has released a new static theme on the PS Store called the “Black Lives Matter Theme” available for free download. Hued in colours black and yellow, the user interface […]
“This is painful,” says California Senator, and VP-hopeful, Kamala Harris, as she settles alongside 2020 Presidential candidate, Joe Biden to watch POTUS Trump rip into the Democratic campaign, toss insults and make unchecked claims. [Twitter/@SenKamalaHarris]
The mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, declared a state of emergency and closed much of downtown to vehicles on Tuesday ahead of an expected decision by a grand jury on whether to indict the police officers involved in killing Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker, in a botched raid. Although the timing of any decision remains […]
