Mel D. Cole always told himself that if he saw a chance to photograph history in action, he’d take it. So when he heard about a protest at New York’s Foley Square following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, he headed downtown. “It was so intense I couldn’t …
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Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio was arrested Monday, weeks after allegedly burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a Washington D.C. protest. The city’s Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement that Tarrio, 36, had been charged with destruction of property in connection with the December 12th incident, which occurred …
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“Who’s gonna care if I don’t?” Maren Morris asks in her sharp-eyed new ballad “Better Than We Found It.” “Who’s gonna change if I won’t?” Morris released the song on Friday in solidarity with the summer of Black Lives Matter protests that have taken place across the country. Directed by …
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Patrisse Cullors can’t quite remember if she was six or seven when her home was raided by police. “We were children. My mom was young. I just remember them having no care in how they treated us,” says Cullors, who grew up with a single mom in Van Nuys, California, …
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Ellen DeGeneres taped the first episode of her talk show since the George Floyd protests erupted around the country, and she dedicated her time to discussing Black Lives Matter and the need for white people to speak up against racial injustice. She spoke first to the show’s resident dancer, Stephen …
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YG has released a new protest song, “FTP (Fuck the Police),” amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. The rapper made the announcement on Instagram, adding that he would have to cancel his previously planned Hollywood and Vine demonstration in Los Angeles …
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