Has Facebook Live changed the game? Yes. In Minnesota, Diamond Reynolds, the girlfriend of the Philando Castile, went live on Facebook and actively reported the developments of what happened after her boyfriend was shot while sitting in his car at a traffic stop. In a way that was impossible before, the world had the chance …
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Ah not callin’ school names. Ah not callin’ no bredrin and sistrin name who was in dis one. Allyuh, know allyuhself and this is a very sensitive topic. “If you don’t know now you know N(inja)” – Christopher George Latore “Biggie Smalls” Wallace, Juicy (1994) In Trinidad and Tobago there is a game called Catch …
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A sketel can be defined as: A promiscuous female A woman whose character is defamed and shamed through misogynist and sexist interpretations of her body that express a particular [patriarchal] social order based on the devaluing of women. Carnival gives us so much insight into our society and ourselves. I could not help but …
