Charles Kinsey, a behavior therapist from Miami, Florida, was shot by police three times in the leg Monday while trying to help an autistic patient who had run away from a group home.
Kinsey was unarmed. He was lying on the ground. He had his hands up. He wasstill shot. And he could have died.
Kinsey’s account of the officer’s response to shooting him speaks volumes.
According to Kinsey, when he asked the police officer why he shot him, the officer’s reply was: “I don’t know.”
When we found out Michelle Obama was set to appear on James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke,” we were giddy with excitement. But there’s no way we were prepared for how awesome it turned out to be.
When Corden starts playing “This Is for My Girls,” which was released earlier this year by Michelle Obama and features a verse by Missy Elliot, the hip-hop icon appears out of nowhere in the back seat. And of course, a “Carpool Karaoke” featuring Missy just wouldn’t be the same without a classic track like “Get Ur Freak On.”
The fight to make sure black lives matter is a global one.
This message was reinforced by Opal Tometi, one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement, during a recent address she delivered at the United Nations General Assembly.
“The timeliness of the UN High Level Dialogue on inequality and discrimination could not be overstated,” she said in a statement obtained by HuffPost. “There is an urgent need to engage the international community about the most pressing human rights crises of our day. In the footsteps of many courageous civil and human rights defenders that came before, I look to this meeting to be a forum for meaningful dialogue and action.”
Tometi also shared three lessons the BLM founders have learned about activism along the way.
Darryl “DMC” McDaniels is back with a new memoir, Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide, which delves into a seemingly unlikely topic: mental health issues. But for the Run DMC co-founder, it’s a topic he knows all too well.
“When I went to therapy I realized something that most men – I don’t care what race, creed, or color you are, but especially black men – I realized that therapy isn’t ‘soft’,” he told The Huffington Post. “My saying is, ‘Therapy is gangsta.’ It actually empowered me. It allowed me to say things that I thought about, but I would never want to hear myself say those things.”
For DMC, sharing his history with mental illness is his way of trying to help others dealing with similar issues.
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