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  • rivernymph:

    samwinchesterhatesfire:

    quads-for-the-gods:

    bellecs:

    winningthebattleloosingthewar:

    On the morning of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Dorothy Counts set out on a harrowing path toward Harding High, where-as the first African American to attend the all-white school – she was greeted by a jeering swarm of boys who spat, threw trash, and yelled epithets at her as she entered the building.

    Charlotte Observer photographer Don Sturkey captured the ugly incident on film, and in the days that followed, the searing image appeared not just in the local paper but in newspapers around the world.

    People everywhere were transfixed by the girl in the photograph who stood tall, her five-foot-ten-inch frame towering nobly above the mob that trailed her. There, in black and white, was evidence of the brutality of racism, a sinister force that had led children to torment another child while adults stood by. While the images display a lot of evils: prejudice, ignorance, racism, sexism, inequality, it also captures true strength, determination, courage and inspiration.

    Here she is, age 70, still absolutely elegant and poised.

    she deserves to be re-blogged. 

    she’s so goddamned inspirational

    this makes me want to cry

  • micdotcom:

    Watch: ’The Daily Show’ absolutely nailed what it’s like to be a woman on campus today 

    James Madison University joined the ever-growing list of U.S. colleges that have grossly mishandled sexual assault and rape cases last week when a young woman claimed that the school punished the three men who assaulted her by expelling them — after graduation.

    Jon Stewart echoed the perplexed outrage of many on The Daily Show last night when he asked, “Wait a minute, ‘expelled upon graduation?’ Isn’t that… graduation? … What the fuck? … Clearly, universities are not making their campuses safe for women.”

    Watch the full clip

  • chaipierce:

    weloveshortvideos:

    Mila Kunis Smacks Down A Reporter

    I fell I love with her even more! And how cool to hear her speak her native tongue

    (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • A woman who hates you is playing the pianoforte.

    You have five hundred a year. From who? Five hundred what? No one knows. No one cares. You have it. It’s yours. Every year. All five hundred of it.

    A charming man attempts to flirt with you. This is terrible.

    You are in a garden, and you are astonished.

    How To Tell If You Are In A Jane Austen Novel (via getoffyourfeetandmakethiscount)

  • toadelevatingmoment:

    But Confucius has answered them with the final whistle, it’s all over. Germany, having trounced England’s famous midfield trio of Bentham, Locke and Hobbes in the semi-final, have been beaten by the odd goal.

  • The bill to expand Florida’s notorious Stand Your Ground law became law Friday, after Gov. Rick Scott ® signed a measure that immunizes individuals who fire or point a gun in self-defense or as a “warning” from criminal penalty.

    Stand Your Ground Just Became Even Broader In Florida .

    Fuck everything about this.

    (via wilwheaton)

    What. The. Shit.

  • micdotcom:

    Police are getting more and more like the military, report finds

    America’s police forces are becoming more and more militarized, and it’s costing money and lives.

    A new report from the America Civil Liberties Union dives into the deployment of SWAT teams by local and state police agencies, and the results aren’t pretty. Out of 818 SWAT raids carried out in 11 states from 2010 to 2013, seven ended with civilians dying because of the raids. There were also 46 civilian injuries.

    While SWAT teams were originally meant for riot control and active shooter situations, the study found that 62% of missions were actually drug searches, with 79% of raids involving private homes. Only 7% of raids lined up with how SWAT teams were intended to be used.

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  • unamusedsloth:

    Full video here.

    Adequately adorable.

  • At 3am on 28 May, Alecia Phonesavanh was asleep in the room she was temporarily occupying together with her husband and four children in the small town of Cornelia, Georgia. Her baby, 18-month-old Bou Bou, was sleeping peacefully in his cot.
     
    Suddenly there was a loud bang and several strangers dressed in black burst into the room. A blinding flash burst out with a deafening roar from the direction of the cot. Amid the confusion, Phonesavanh could see her husband pinned down and handcuffed under one of the men in black, and while her son was being held by another. Everyone was yelling, screaming, crying. “I kept asking the officers to let me have my baby, but they said shut up and sit down,” she said.
     
    As the pandemonium died down, it became clear that the strangers in black were a Swat team of police officers from the local Habersham County force – they had raided the house on the incorrect assumption that occupants were involved in drugs. It also became clear to Phonesavanh that something had happened to Bou Bou and that the officers had taken him away.
     
    “They told me that they had taken my baby to the hospital. They said he was fine he had only lost a tooth, but they wanted him in for observation,” Phonesavanh said.
     
    When she got to the hospital she was horrified by what she saw. Bou Bou was in a medically-induced coma in the intensive care unit of Brady Memorial hospital. “His face was blown open. He had a hole in his chest that left his rib-cage visible.”
     
    The Swat team that burst into the Phonesavanh’s room looking for a drug dealer had deployed a tactic commonly used by the US military in warzones, and increasingly by domestic police forces across the US. They threw an explosive device called a flashbang that is designed to distract and temporarily blind suspects to allow officers to overpower and detain them. The device had landed in Bou Bou’s cot and detonated in the baby’s face.

    The American Civil Liberties Union has released the results of its new survey into the use of Swat teams by police forces across the country. It concludes that policing has become dangerously and unnecessarily militarized, literally so with equipment and strategies being imported directly from the US army. (via wilwheaton)