It should have been a happy week for Leslie Jones.
Crowned one of the new Ghostbusters, Jones joined Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Kristen Wiig in the reboot, which survived months of vitriol to take the No. 2 spot at the box office last weekend (almost beating out The Secret Life of Pets, which nudged ahead).
But behind the Hollywood rollout was another ugly storm brewing on social media. On Monday, Jones began retweeting the ugly, racist hatred that has been coming her way on Twitter.
After each fatal shooting of a black man by an officer, President Barack Obama has swiftly spoken out against bad policing, giving voice to the generations of African-Americans who have found themselves at the wrong end of a baton, a snarling dog or a gun.
As much as those words have comforted blacks, they have rankled many of the nation's men and women in blue. Some have described the remarks as an insult, an all-too-quick condemnation before all the facts are in and a failure to acknowledg
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The conversation surrounding the police killing of unarmed African-American men is ongoing. Discussions are centered on whether Black lives really matter in America and why the people who swear to protect these lives end up as the killers.
However, as these conversations continue, the Black community shouldn’t forget to address the issue of unemployment and lack of business ownership that are equally serious threats to Black survival.
We saw the killing of Alton Sterling an
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Diamond Reynolds, the girlfriend of police-shooting victim Philando Castile, urged against violence at protests in the aftermath of his death, which she streamed on Facebook Live using her cellphone during the fatal traffic stop in a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, on Wednesday evening.
Reynolds said that she was "baffled" to see some protesters responding to police brutality with more violence.
In St. Paul this weekend, prote
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Television host Wendy Williams is known for “saying it like she means it” spilling the tea since she stepped on the entertainment scene as a gossip-y radio personality.
Normally, Williams is catching from celebrities, but this week, everyone is giving her plenty of side eyes. Unless you’ve been hiding from civilization, then you already know that Williams’ made some offensive comments about HBCUs and the NAACP while discussing Jesse Williams’ BET Awards acceptance speech dur
