During a peaceful march on Tuesday evening in New York City, an unmarked Kia minivan pulled up alongside protesters before random men in NYPD T-shirts, khaki shorts, and sneakers jumped out to grab 18-year-old Nikki Stone, dragging her into the van.
If you’re like me, your feed has been flooded with opportunities to get involved in the cause of social justice lately. (If not...get a new feed.) People across the country have marched, defied curfews, written letters, donated, marched some more, and even offered to send nudes, all for the cause of human rights.
We've reached the point where it's basically a requirement that everyone acknowledges the current protests against police brutality on social media, and unsurprisingly, some are doing it better than others.
Trigger Warning: Violence, Explicit Language, Police Brutality If you’re paying even a tiny bit of attention to the world around you, you're probably aware of the protests spanning the nation over the past two weeks.
If you were craving a Big Mac on Tuesday in Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, and Kansas City, Missouri you were probably only able to get a supersized side of #MeToo.
If you smell smoke this morning, no you didn’t leave your straightener on (but, girl, double check) you’re probably just in the vicinity of a lunatic who is burning their Nike sneakers.
Let me paint you a picture: just over a month after the horrific deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 and wounded many more, lawmakers have made great strides in passing new gun violence prevention laws and making the protection of our citizens and children a top priority.
