Month: June 2019

A ‘Central Park Five’ Survivor’s Tear-Filled Plea: ‘Trump Put a Bounty On Our Heads’

LOS ANGELES, California—The five men who were arrested as teenagers, falsely convicted, sentenced to years in prison, and eventually exonerated for the rape and assault of a white jogger in Central Park in 1989, have never been keen on the name “Central Park Five.” They avoid the phrase when possible. It was not a moniker they chose, but one given to them by the press: by outlets that regularly printed their legal names, though all five were underage; by tabloids that often failed to write “allegedly” when describing their charges; by papers that ran full-page ads from a playboy real estate developer with latent political ambitions, attacking them in huge black font: “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY.”

Source: A ‘Central Park Five’ Survivor’s Tear-Filled Plea: ‘Trump Put a Bounty On Our Heads’

Britain’s mixed-race GI babies want to know why they were given away – CNN

Historian Lucy Bland estimates that around 2,000 mixed-race children were born in the UK to British women and African-American servicemen between 1943 and 1946. The US Army refused permission for black GIs to marry their pregnant white girlfriends and so the babies they gave birth to were branded “illegitimate.”

Source: Britain’s mixed-race GI babies want to know why they were given away – CNN

21 Years Ago, A Goofy Movie Became the Blackest, Most Underrated Nerd Classic of All Time – Black Nerd Problems

A Goofy Movie is the blackest Disney movie of all time and helped Black Millennials embrace their identities and see themselves in pop culture.

Source: 21 Years Ago, A Goofy Movie Became the Blackest, Most Underrated Nerd Classic of All Time – Black Nerd Problems