Ladies and gentlemen, freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
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Ladies and gentlemen, freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
On Tuesday night, the 2021 BET Hip-Hop Awards aired on BET from Atlanta’s Cobb Energy Center.
Travis McMichael, a craka accused of joining his daddy in a chase that ended in a Black man’s death, wants the court to ban a photo of his license plate, which included a Confederate Flag emblem, ahead of his upcoming trial in the death of Ahmaud Arbery.
I believe it’s the congressional bylaws that state: When Congress is fighting over money, it’s always the Black initiatives that get the short end of the stick.
The state of Missouri executed Ernest Lee Johnson on Tuesday after calls for his death sentence to be halted went unanswered. Members of Congress and even Pope Francis lobbied to save Johnson’s life, but he was executed by lethal injection at 6:11 p.m. central time, according to the Missouri Department of Corrections.