Diversity brought everyone to tears during the semi-finals of “Britain’s Got Talent”.
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PHOENIX -- A renewed focus on social justice in the wake of police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd has seen sales soar at Black-owned bookstores around the country as customers seek out knowledge from their own communities. The stores have always served as a community space for Black people to gather and educate themselves and their communities about their culture and history.
Diversity brought everyone to tears during the semi-finals of “Britain’s Got Talent”.
Dance group Diversity have won praise for their powerful performance on Britain’s Got Talent inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Teyana Taylor is highlighting the pain and terror of police brutality in the powerful, provocative new music video for her song, «Still.» In the video, the songstress portrays several victims of racially motivated violence, including Breonna Taylor and Trayvon Martin.The video blends real-life footage of Black Lives Matter protests and archival footage of police brutality incidents, with modern body cam footage of police killings — including the death of George Floyd — with montages of Taylor
Chris Stapleton said recent protests against systemic racism and police brutality have made him realize that the America he thought he was living in is a “myth.” The country singer spoke with “CBS This Morning” to discuss his recently completed album “Starting Over.” During the interview, he was asked about the controversial and widespread protests that have been happening throughout the nation following the May 25 death of George Floyd while in police custody.
Howie Mandel’s Golden Buzzer act Brandon Leake performed a powerful Black Lives Matter poem during Tuesday’s fourth and final round of “America’s Got Talent” live quarter-finals.
It can be hard to know how to respond when you hear someone yelling racist, homophobic or disagreeable things. But, when Trey Hogan, a freshman at the University of South Carolina, heard an anti-Black Lives Matter protest was being held on campus, he knew exactly what to do. Grab his trombone.No, this is not a euphemism. The week before another anti-Black Lives Matter protester had come to the campus and, according to local media, been shouting racist and homophobic slurs at students. As Hogan,
Megan Thee Stallion is making sure that victims of police brutality are not forgotten. The rapper took a moment during her virtual concert on Saturday night to pay tribute to those who have lost their lives or were seriously injured in incidents involving the police.
LL Cool J has spoken out about the changes needed to help stop police brutality in a new interview.Protests were sparked around the world earlier this summer following the death of George Floyd while in police custody. Last week (August 23), Jacob Blake was shot several times by authorities but survived.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s «I Have a Dream» speech at the March on Washington, the families of Black Americans shot or killed by police officers spoke at the same site Friday, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Tyrese Gibson, one of Hollywood’s most notable Black performers as an actor, singer and songwriter, has a heavy heart in the wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake, was shot seven times in the back by Rusten Sheskey, a police officer in Kenosha, Wis. while his children looked on in an SUV.
John Ridley The murder by Minneapolis police of George Floyd and the peaceful protests that followed sparked soul searching in Hollywood, including a Blackout Tuesday shutdown in solidarity to Black Lives Matter protests, and the enactment of diversity measures to hopefully create a more inclusive industry culture.
Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Wisconsin man, was shot in the back multiple times by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday. Graphic video footage of the incident shows Blake — who was reportedly trying to break up a fight when police arrived on the scene — walking away from officers, who have their weapons drawn. When he approaches the driver's side door of a parked SUV, one officer reaches out to grab his shirt and fires multiple shots into his back.