Before Bree Newsome there was Emmett Eddy Jr., known as “the Rev. E. Slave".
Eddy, wearing a black Santa Claus suit, climbed over the iron fence around the Confederate Soldier monument in 2002, set a ladder next to the flagpole, climbed up, and set the banner on fire before police surrounded and arrested him.
Eddy died in 2005.
Battle Creek Enquirer, Michigan, February 23, 1957
Good Morning by the Daily Mirror, England, April 4, 1944
#ShutDownSlavePlay #SlavePlay
Ashley B started this petition:
This is the letter I sent to the theater:
This past Saturday I attended Slave Play for the 8pm showing. I wanted to verbalize that this was one of the most disrespectful displays of anti-Black sentiment disguised as art that I have ever seen. As a Black woman I was terribly offended and traumatized by the graphic imagery mixed with laughter from a predominantly white audience.
I feel that the play’s writer and director, even as Queer Black men, were viscous in their depictions of slavery, Black sexuality, and specifically targets Black women. Slavery and its pervasive consequences that still affect the descendants of US chattel slavery are not funny and I am extremely disappointed that all involved thought this was an appropriate tool to challenge that status quo on race relations.
While I understand the subjective nature of art, there should be a line that freedom of expression does not cross when it’s connected to human atrocities, especially ones that have not truly been atoned for. The only reason I didn’t leave, like a couple of others, is that I wanted to watch the play in it’s entirety to gain full context of the vision. I was sadly disappointed that the final scene would be so degrading to my psyche.
Art, in any form, can not and should not be separated from its historical context. Hearing the crack of the whip in conjunction with the imagery and white audience members laughing sends chills up my spine as I write this.
I am reaching out to the theater in hopes that this can be an opportunity for you to take a stand against this type of disrespect. Black women specifically continue to be used and misused in public discourse. Our voices remain stifled in the rigidity of our existence. Our bodies are used and discarded without anyone being accountable. Just like when I reached out to the author of the play, he openly accused me of lying and called me a lonely soul. I produced a copy of the ticket and he did not retract or amend his initial statement when I was calling for an explanation of his artistic vision in reaction to the outcry against the existence of this play.
I am looking for resolve in this matter. I am looking for someone in this disaster of a production to take our concerns seriously. This play needs to be shut down. The depictions in this play are counterproductive to progressive racial dialogue. I am deeply disappointed and disgusted that there was no check system in this process.
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DashCam from when Carteret Police beat my 16 yr old cousin after he crashed his father’s car. How they treat a Black boy after an accident 😡
DashCam from when Carteret Police beat my 16 yr old cousin after he crashed his father's car. How they treat a Black boy after an accident 😡
A video, which was posted late Monday afternoon, shows two teens fighting on the corner of McKinley and Indiana avenues in Atlantic City as onlookers cheer and laugh. One of the boys involved in the fight, 15-year-old Jamar Mobley, told NBC10 the fight was over a girl.
“I don’t know what happened,” Mobley said. “I’m a straight-A student. I don’t know how I ended up fighting this man.”
As Mobley and the other teen fought, 27-year-old Ibn Ali suddenly walked over and stepped in between the two teens.
“The one thing he said that got through to me was that, he explained that all my friends, who I thought were my friends, all of them just wanted to see a fight,” Mobley said.
“I want to say thank you for everything,” Mobley said. “You made me think about a lot.”
Ali’s friend Ramal Ford told NBC10 he’s not surprised at all by the video.
“What he did was pretty indicative of what I’ve come to know from him as a person,” Ford said. “I applaud him. He understood how to deescalate the situation and sometimes it’s just the right words.”
“You’re now talking about a video that was seen by over 12 million people in less than 24 hours and it’s a positive video,” Small said. “Normally videos that go viral are very negative. Very harmful to people. He stepped up and was a real man about the situation and he made Atlantic City look great.”
Ali, a father of five who played high school football in Atlantic City and is currently taking college courses, was honored by Atlantic City council Wednesday night for his actions. Mobley and the other teen were honored as well. Ali fought back tears while thanking his own mother for raising him to be the man he is today.
Luther Roderick Campbell (born December 22, 1960), also known as Luke Skyywalker and simply Luke, is an American record label owner, rap performer, promoter, and actor. He is best known as a one-time member and leader of rap group 2 Live Crew, and star of his own short-lived show on VH1, Luke’s Parental Advisory. As a result of one of the group’s songs, which used a parody of Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman”, Campbell was party to Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., which was argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Miami New Times described Campbell as “the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech”.
Early works
Born in Miami, Florida, Campbell’s work as a performer can be characterized as Southern rap; most of it is part of the Miami bass subgenre. The sexual content of his group’s lyrics caused controversy and led to legal cases. Usually, Campbell does not rap but rather shouts or chants—very often in a call and response manner, with him calling and the crowd responding. He was not an original member of the 2 Live Crew, only joining them after their first steps as a California rap crew. Only through Campbell did they become “Southern” rappers.
While working as a cook at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach, Campbell was a concert promoter in Miami, bringing all the hot rap groups of the early 1980s to the city. In 1983, he enrolled in an eight-week study course at public radio station WDNA, learning basic audio editing and production techniques. He ran his own label, Luke Skyywalker Records, which was later shortened to Luke Records after George Lucas filed a legal case against them for infringing on the name of his Star Wars character, Luke Skywalker.
2 Live Crew
In 1985, 2 Live Crew’s initial single (2 Live AKA Beat Box) was a smash hit on the South Florida club circuit, so Luke brought them from California to Miami for a performance. He took a special interest in the group and began managing them, and inserted himself into the group as their “hype man”.
Luke’s first solo LP, Banned in the USA, was a 2 Live Crew record just under the New “Luke” record handwritten tan label, which were sold out of his car at Penrods and Club Nu, yet he did not offer royalties to the group for creating the album; rather, a small flat fee was paid. When 2 Live Crew’s contracts with Luke Records ended in 1991, the group’s producer (and Luke Records’ in-house producer for the entire label) Mr. Mixx left the group and returned to California. However, the group did decide to do a sequel to their biggest album. Initially, Luke employed the label’s second string producers The O.D.S. to produce the album, but it was not turning into the group’s vision, so David Chackler (then Luke’s chief operating officer) recruited Mr. Mixx to return and produce the album as an independent producer (T-shirt and Khakis Productions).
However, by the time of the album’s completion, they sought to make it appear as if the group was totally intact. Shortly after, all members of the group drew up a lawsuit against Luke for unpaid royalties, which member Fresh Kid Ice backed out of and revamped a new 2 Live Crew with Luke in 1994. A settlement was reached for the remaining plaintiffs. Hobbs and Ross sold their entire catalog, and rights to the 2 Live Crew tradename, to Luke Records and Campbell for a lump sum payment.
Solo career
Luke released a solo record (technically, his first) in 1991 entitled I Wanna Rock (also known as Doo Doo Brown), but he remained true to his call and response style rather than rapping, and hired outside producers. The song is seen as a pivotal point in Miami Bass, sparking what some call its third wave. He released it on the heels of the final 2 Live Crew album, going so far as to stop promotion on their album while the 2 Live Crew single “Pop that Coochie” was still rising up the charts. It is suggested that Luke wanted his solo song to be seen as the next 2 Live Crew single, despite not having rights to the group’s name.
Lil Jon (who used to produce Miami Bass records) has a vocal style not too dissimilar from Luke—in any case, they both (normally) do not rap and use guest rappers. Crunk music may be seen as the heir of Campbell’s brand of Miami bass—both lyrically and musically.
Luke’s latest album, My Life & Freaky Times, was released in March 2006 and featured Trick Daddy, Petey Pablo, Jacki-O, Pitbull, Dirtbag, and Big Tigger to name a few. The first singles serviced to radio and the clubs from the compilation album were “Holla At Cha Homeboy”, featuring Pitbull & Petey Pablo, and the reggaeton-leaning “Pop That” by Plan B and Rey Chester Secretweapon.
Association with University of Miami Hurricanes
Campbell was also infamous in the late 1980s–early 1990s for his association with the University of Miami Hurricanes football team. Campbell was alleged to have been behind what was referred to as a “pay-for-play” system, which involved cash rewards for acts such as scoring touchdowns and big hits, although Campbell has never actually donated to the University of Miami or its athletics department. In 1993, he also threatened to go public with various violations by University of Miami’s athletic department, specifically their football program, if Ryan Collins, a black player, wasn’t named their starting quarterback for that season.
Campbell was interviewed about his involvement with the Miami Hurricanes for the documentary The U, which premiered December 12, 2009 as part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series.
Other ventures
In 1994, Campbell co-founded Liberty City Optimists, an intercity youth sports program. One of his notable apprentices is Devonta Freeman, who went on to play college football for Florida State Seminoles, rival of the Hurricanes.
Campbell appear in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories as DJ Luke for the hip-hop station Fresh 105 FM. Campbell hosts a sports talk show on Miami’s 790 The Ticket with former football player Terry Kirby on Saturdays.
Luke has recently entered the adult film industry and cites on his MySpace page the need to clean up the “sometimes amateurish new courtship of Hip-Hop and Adult Entertainment”. He produced the Adult Entertainment movie Luke’s Bachelor Party in 2007.
In December 2007, Campbell launched The Luke Entertainment Group and took the company public trading under the symbol LKEN on Pink Sheets. As of September 3, 2008, its current price is $0.01 per share. With this launching of Luke Entertainment Campbell had bought an oil company with the stock trading symbol of FPPL. Luther Campbell is also a legendary DJ member of The Worldwide DJ organization, The Core DJ’s.
Luther Campbell is of Jamaican and Bahamian ancestry and has three older brothers. He has five children from four previous relationships. On July 19, 2008, he married law school graduate Kristin Thompson in Dallas, Texas. She is the mother of his sixth child, and was brought up in Liberty City, Miami.
On February 18, 2009, Campbell was arrested for falling behind on child support payments. He became a columnist for the Miami New Times in February 2010. His column, Luke’s Gospel, provides “a forum for his crazy-ass views on current events,” which include politics, sports and entertainment. He is quoted on the web site as saying: “It’s the perfect place for me. I am a free-speech guy. It’s just a match made in Heaven. Can you believe it? Me turned loose on the world in New Times. Wow.”
On February 2, 2011, Campbell announced his intention to run for mayor of Miami-Dade County on a platform that includes making housing projects safer, transparency in local government, and taxing strippers. He came in fourth in a field of 11 candidates, winning 11% of the vote. Campbell is a registered Democrat.
In 2014, Campbell tweeted that he would be defensive coordinator for Miami Norland Senior High School in 2014.
A pseudonym created by Euroasians! Everyone here has different shades of brown skin! Afrakans are ppl who come from a sunny place that is the birthplace of humans and civilization(Tamazight,medu Neter ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0z6zyc2J8
More specifically…..we’re originally are and were called……Negritos, the first Beings that came out of The Cradle of Life into The Motherland…..it’s for you to read and know where we originally came from.
That’s the reality. #Hate it!
When Mary Anderson’s grandson saw the ghost of his grandfather in the family home in Indiana, she decided to ease the boy’s fears by selling the cane he had owned.
The winning bidder was asked to write a letter to the youngster letting him know that the cane was doing ok – and the $65,000 walking stick is now housed in Antigua’s Golden Palace Casino.
Bruno Amadio’s portrait of a weeping child hit the headlines in the 1980s when a Yorkshire firefighter claimed to have noticed the painting left unscathed at the scene of numerous house fires, leading to rumours that it was cursed.
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I feel sad that the only alternative people can come up with for playing basketball armed, is to place it on ground. That’s best you got? #Hate it!
😢😔🙏🏿😡OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Police say a 16-year-old girl who was among the four people that were shot in downtown Oakland Tuesday has died. Reggina Jefferies had just performed the praise dance in the video above at a vigil of a drowned classmate. After leaving the vigil, her and other friends were caught in crossfire of a shooting. At this time, three people are hospitalized in stable condition. The shooting occurred just after 6:00 p.m. near the Tribune Tower. A store owner ABC7 News spoke with said the shooting happened around the parking structure by the Golden Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant located at 1301 Franklin Street.
