While some were stunned and saddened by Michael Dunn's bittersweet mistrial verdict in the shooting death of black teen Jordan Davis on Saturday, Black Twitter provided a cathartic and sarcastic release by responding with the hashtag #dangerousblackkids.
It was recently announced that George Zimmerman, the Sanford, Florida man who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012, had signed on with fight promoter Damon Feldman to participate in a "celebrity" boxing match with a hitherto unnamed opponent. Yeah, apparently murdering an unarmed teenager as…
On Wednesday, Theodore Wafer, the man charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Renisha McBride on November 2, went before a judge in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. And as of this morning, that judge has ruled that there's enough evidence for Wafer, who is also charged with manslaughter and possession of a…
You can now buy George Zimmerman's vision of America: a flag drowning in a deep blue sea of shit.
George Zimmerman, the gun waving lunatic who killed BUT DID NOT MURDER unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, is in the middle of a messy divorce. The latest allegation brought by his estranged wife is that once when he was mad at her, he nailed a bullseye riddled with bullet holes to her parents' house. "Yep, sounds about…
Trayvon Martin, Paula Deen, Stop and Frisk and Assistant DA Raul Esparza? Dick Wolf was not kidding with this whole Law & Order/ripped from the headlines thing. Of course, if he wanted to be more accurate, the slogan would go "ripped from one headline, ripped from another headline, ripped from a third headline and…
Shellie Zimmerman — wife of George Zimmerman, the man who shot unarmed teen Trayvon Martin — was on Today this morning, and seemed freaked out and conflicted as she told Matt Lauer "I know my husband" in one sentence and "I don't know him" in another.
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit doesn't shy away from crafting "ripped from the headlines" plot lines: last season, for instance, they aired an episode clearly meant to mirror Chris Brown's brutal assault of Rihanna and and episode that was just a monstrous agglomeration of various campus rape headlines (two rape…
Supposedly Sons of Anarchy actor Charlie Hunnam is now Universal's first choice to play Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey. Generally speaking, casting rumors are no fun — unless they involve a really hot person whose .gif you can blow up to four times its size and share on the Internet. You're welcome.
Of course, in this instance, he's talking about Russia and the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi. The country's sports minister reneged on their promise to welcome gay athletes and fans and is vowing to enforce the ridiculous law that outlaws "gay propaganda". Most. un-fun. (And terrifying.) Winter. Olympics. Ever.
If you're lucky enough not to have any right-wing Tea Party uncles, you might not be familiar with the "I'm Baby Santiago" (or the maximum white-ified "I'm Antonio West") reverse-racism Facebook meme, but it goes something like this: A photograph of a cherubic, smiling, light-skinned baby is juxtaposed next to a…
Identified only as "Maddy", Juror B29 sat down with ABC's Robin Roberts to talk about what went down in deliberations.
Someone send this guy a cape. Since George Zimmerman, who killed — BUT DID NOT MURDER — Trayvon Martin "rescued" a "family" of "four" from a "car" "wreck" earlier this week, conspiracy theories have abounded about the circumstances to Zimmerman just HAPPENING to be right near a place where a car overturned in time to…
OK, I use italics a lot, but I really mean them this time: this is weird. Police in Sanford, Florida say George Zimmerman — who killed BUT DIDN'T MURDER Trayvon Martin — has emerged from hiding to save a stranger family of four strangers from an overturned truck and then disappear again into the night like the…
In a press conference earlier this afternoon, President Barack Obama spoke on the recent acquittal of George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin and what it means for the future of the country. In the past, Obama has commented that Martin, the seventeen-year-old African American kid in a hoodie who was pursued — and ultimately…
This week, Rolling Stone made everyone very mad by putting a picture of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of the magazine. Rolling Stone was accused of "glamorizing" terror by using a photo of Tsarnaev that made him look like a "rock star." Boston Mayor Tom Menino said the cover "rewards…
The time has come, the walrus said, for Rihanna to put some grey streaks in her hair and call it #brrr. So she did. It looks cute, I think! Then she riffed on #brr for awhile:
Trayvon Martin's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, spoke to both Anderson Cooper and Al Sharpton today. In the moving interviews, they talk about the whole awful ordeal, and about the verdict "literally breaking [them] down."
This morning, Trayvon Martin's parents did a live interview with Matt Lauer on the Today show. Lauer asked for Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton's reactions to the verdict; Mr. Martin said that they were "still shocked" and "still in disbelief."
Juror B37 — the most outspoken member of the most hated jury in America — is looking to have a normal life. A normal life full of book deals (sorry, B37) and Anderson Cooper interviews and the ability to repeatedly say stupid things that she's never held accountable for. You know, a life just like yours or mine!
