Marissa Alexander Bonds Out of Jail!

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According to Global Grind via Action News Jacksonville, Marissa Alexander was released on bail Wednesday just before midnight. She is now on house arrest awaiting a new trial as a result of bad jury instructions in the first trial. Read the full story and stay tuned for details.

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Boxing Main Event: Kendrick Lamar and TDE vs GQ Magazine

According to AllHipHop.com and a host of other media outlets buzzing around the web, Kendrick Lamar and his team are calling out GQ for the use of racial overtones in their cover story. The popular "Men of the Year" issue portrayed images that were "not accurate and felt biased," says Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith.

GQ editor-in-chief, Jim Nelson seems baffled by the upset.

“Kendrick Lamar is one of the most talented new musicians to arrive on the scene in years. That’s the reason we chose to celebrate him, wrote an incredibly positive article declaring him the next King of Rap, and gave him our highest honor: putting him on the cover of our Men of the Year issue. I’m not sure how you can spin that into a bad thing, and I encourage anyone interested to read the story and see for themselves. We were mystified and sorely disappointed by Top Dawg’s decision to pull him at the last minute from the performance he had promised to give. The real shame is that people were deprived of the joy of seeing Kendrick perform live. I’m still a huge fan.” 
Here's the thing: America is not accustomed to young African descendants being so outspoken on the rebuttal with power companies like GQ. Generally, the excitement, and appreciation would over shadow any other feelings I guess. Well not this time. Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith says they can't go for that.

"The interview portrayed him and his company in a negative light and he won’t stand for it. To say he was ‘surprised at our discipline’ is completely disrespectful … Kendrick deserved to be accurately documented. The racial overtones immediately reminded everyone of a time in hip-hop that was destroyed by violence, resulting in the loss of two of our biggest stars [Tupac and B.I.G.] … As a result of this misrepresentation, I pulled Kendrick from his performance at GQ’s annual Man Of The Year party. While we think it’s a tremendous honor to be named as one of the Men Of The Year, these lazy comparisons and offensive suggestions are something we won’t tolerate.”

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Has NOPD Sergeant Crossed The Line?

According to The Advocate, NOPD Sgt. Chris Landry has been reassigned after making an offensive remark about President Barack Obama during training before the Presidents' Friday visit to New Orleans. Details are sketchy as to officer Landry's exact statement; but The Advocate has media reports saying Landry was talking about firearms and animals and referred to Obama as an animal. Police are withholding specifics of said incident until further investigation. Read Full Story here.

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Corrupt Judge Was Texting Instructions To Prosecutors To Help Send People To Prison

This is just one of the "justice" systems' dirty little secrets. Wake up! Stop fighting each other and open your eyes to what's really going on around you.

The Texas district Judge Elizabeth E. Coker is stepping down from the bench after she is being heavily scrutinized because of a texting scandal. A recent whistle blowing case exposed that the judge was SMS messaging prosecutor’s questions that they should ask the people on the stand to secure a conviction. The accusations popped up when media stories came out that Coker was sending inappropriate texts to Polk County Assistant District Attorney Kaycee Jones while she ruled over a criminal trial August of last year. Once the allegations were launched, the commission decided to launch an investigation against to see if it was true that she was texting questions to Jones that she believed would get her a conviction.

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Freeway Rick Says Talk Is Cheap Jay Z: ‘It’s not enough to comment about Barneys’

by Stereo Williams

The controversy surrounding high-end department store Barneys, racial profiling and hip-hop mogul Jay Z continues to spark conversation and commentary. Following accusations that Barneys profiles and harasses young African American patrons of its Manhattan location, many called for Jay to pull out of his planned partnership with the store. While advocates like Rev. Al Sharpton have defended Jay, former drug kingpin “Freeway” Rick Ross was asked for his take and offered a different perspective on Jay’s recent statement regarding his business dealings with Barney’s.

“I read the Jay Z comments on Barneys asking why he’s being judged, you’re being judged because that’s what comes with basing your career off the D-boy game,” Rick told AllHipHop. “The game is give and take with those around you. It’s not enough to comment about Barneys profiling when you sell products to the people possibly targeted. People that look like people you grew up with, and that are in your family. We know the reality of this country in regard to race. You stand up for them immediately when it comes to something as sensitive as racial profiling.” 

Ross added that rappers have to acknowledge that many of the brands they champion in their music don’t value their fans as a demographic. 

“You have to have context of American history that this profiling is happening and be honest, and demand the people you partner with to be of the type that treat your people fairly,” he explained. “This is the big problem of the high-end luxury these rappers talk about and have our children hooked on for status. They are not in our interest as a community, and often, as seen in the profiling case, they look down upon us as customers.”

Source: RollingOut.com

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What About This Is Funny? New Slaves

Can you think of anything that makes this amusing? Me either. This post was shared on Facebook by Danielle Monique Whitelow Read what she wrote about it and share as much as you can stand it. We have to expose these coons at all cost. 

"I'm sharing this so others can see the nastiness and ignorance that lurks beneath. The last documented lynching took place in 1981. Picking cotton was arduous labor. The chattel slavery that went with it was dehumanizing. My Ancestors were terrorized by it. Yet to some their life as property and extrajudicial slaying as citizens is a laughing matter."

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Racism Is Dead You Say? Halloween Photo Of Black Face Trayvon Martin Costume Emerges (PHOTOS)

I can't even really call this ignorance because they know exactly what this is. Blatant disrespect, uncensored hate, disguised as good clean all American fun. Read the full story by Evanka Williamson on Global Grind. 

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