A speechwriter for the Trump family, Meredith McIver, took responsibility on Wednesday for plagiarizing portions of Melania Trump’s Republican National Convention speech from a 2008 address by first lady Michelle Obama.
“A person she has always liked is Michelle Obama,” McIver said. “Over the phone, she read me some passages of Mrs. Obama’s speech as examples. I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech.”
McIver said she offered the Trump family her resignation, but they rejected it.
Twitter poured a cup of water on a dumpster fire Tuesday night, banning one of its most notorious trolls following a sustained harassment campaign against the “Ghostbusters” actress Leslie Jones.
Milo Yiannopoulos, a high-profile editor for the conservative news outlet Breitbart received a “permanent suspension” from the social media outlet after he tweeted abuse at Jones. That encouraged his followers ― who totaled more than 300,000 ― to join in and bully the actress, who claimed that she received a number of racist and sexually explicit tweets.
But banning one person ― even one as high-profile as Yiannopoulos ―likely won’t protect others from abuse on a platform that makes it effortless for anyone to join on an anonymous basis.
Best-selling poet Nikki Giovanni has opened up about her close friendship with Nina Simone, and what the singer would have thought of today’s racial and political climate. According to Giovanni, the deeply political singer would have joined the Black Lives Matter movement if she were still alive.
When asked about our current civil rights movement, commonly referred to as the “Black Lives Matter” movement, Giovanni said that she is proud of the efforts young black people are making today to fight against police brutality and other forms of oppression.
“If Nina were here,” Giovanni added, “She’d have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on... These are great young men and women, and they’re bold, and they are saying to America, ‘Something’s going to change.’”
Black Lives Matter is peace.
Black Lives Matter is love.
Black Lives Matter is unity.
These activists break down why what you might have heard about Black Lives Matter is WRONG.
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