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China detains Canadian citizens in response to U.S. request for Canada to extradite Huawei CFO
In December, Meng Wanzhou, the 46-year-old CFO of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, was arrested in Canada by request of American officials who say she violated sanctions against Iran using a subsidiary of Huawei. According to CBC News, U.S. officials have indicated to David MacNaughton, Canadian ambassador to the United States, that they will be filing […]
Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship sparks fiery responses ahead of midterms
In an Axios interview this morning, President Donald Trump said he plans to sign an executive order to end birthright citizenship. Just a week ahead of the midterm elections and seemingly eager to redirect attention away from a string of white supremacist terrorist attacks, Trump is hard lining his anti-immigrant stances.
In response to Trump administration’s memo define gender to exclude transgender people, organizers, activists say we #WontBeErased
On Sunday morning, the New York Times obtained an unreleased Trump administration draft memo which would define gender as a person’s sex at birth. In response, LGBT activists and organizers are mobilizing to protest the memo’s proposal.
Teenage Parkland survivors demand political response to school massacre
Who hasn’t heard of the narcissistic, vapid young people trope? These people, we hear, are not abreast of current issues. Purportedly, they do not care about others. They are tethered to their smart-phones but do not read books. While many Millennials are familiar with how young people can be miscast as society’s primary scapegoats, the […]
D.C. Mayor Creates Task Force In Response To Missing Black Girls
The Washington Metropolitan Police Department has made a regular practice out of posting information on missing children in the D.C. area daily. While the faces of dozens of missing Black and Latina girls filled the Twitter feed, people started to notice the horrifying pattern.
‘We Need To Be Rethinking Our Response To This’: An Interview with dream hampton
Days after clinching the U.S. presidency in November, Donald Trump appointed Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as his pick for Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice. From stating he was once “okay with the Ku Klux Klan” until he learned they smoked marijuana, to prosecuting Black activists in the decades following the fall of […]
Black Woman Officer, Nakia Jones, Posts Viral Video In Response to Cops Killing Blacks
There have been varied reactions to the footage of both Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old man who was shot and killed while police had him pinned down to the ground in Lousiana, and Philando Castile, a 32-year-old man who was shot four times in the chest at a routine traffic stop. One Ohio police officer named […]
Zendaya’s Response to a Twitter Troll Highlights the Objectification of Women Celebs
Black women in the limelight are not only scrutinzed by onlookers and consumers. They are often devalued, hypersexualized, and fetishized in ways that render them mere objects.
Laverne Cox Has the Best Response to Caitlyn Jenner’s Photo Shoot
Laverne Cox took to her personal blog to express her thoughts on the responses to Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair photo shoot. “On May 29, 2014, the issue of timemagazine magazine which proclaimed the “Transgender Tipping Point” was revealed with me on the cover. June 1, 2015 a year and 3 days later, Caitlyn Jenner’s vanityfair […]
This Tweet Is the Perfect Response to Respectability Politics
The violent arrest of University of Virginia student Martese Johnson, has set off a wave of conversation about police brutality and respectability politics. It’s clear that no black body is safe from police violence. How’s that “black thug” excuse for denying police brutality working for you now? #UVA #JusticeForMartese pic.twitter.com/k5UCXv51DS — Tess Millennial (@TessMonet) […]
This Tweet Is a Perfect Response to the SAE Scandal
Read it. Study it. Understand it. Change it. #SAEHatesMe pic.twitter.com/8EIp3HsEQH — Haley (@haley_Gspot) March 10, 2015
Zendaya Pens Powerful Response to Ignorant Dreadlock Comments
Zendaya responded to insensitive comments made by Giuliana Rancic and Kelly Osbourne about her choice to rock faux locs on the Oscar red carpet. Rancic and Osbourne remarked that Zendaya looked as though she smelled of “patchouli oil” and “marijuana”. But Kylie Jenner’s hair is cool and edgy though, right? Foh @GiulianaRancic RT @dirtyxluxury: […]