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Homeless People Read Mean Tweets About Themselves To End Stereotypes

When celebrities read mean tweets about themselves, it’s funny. When homeless people do it, it’s heartbreaking.

In a powerful PSA by Canadian advocacy group Raising the Roof, people who are dealing with homelessness read actual tweets written about those living without stable shelter. See all of the emotional reactions here.

Watch the full video here.

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this is important.

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Beautiful Pashto song performed by the Pakistani band Khumaariyaan.

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Afrofuturism appreciation post part 2 (see part 1)

TinaTurner as Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome(1985)

JoeMorton starring in The Brother from Another Planet(1984)

LeVar Burton as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge and Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)

Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson (aka Falcon) in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Idris Elba as Marshal Stacker Pentecost in Pacific Rim (2013)

Josette Simon as Dayna Mellanby in Blake’s 7 (1980-1981)

Kabu Kabu, a collection of short stories by Nigerian-American author Nnedi Okorafor

Herbert Jefferson, Jr. as Lieutenant Boomer in the original Battlestar Gallactica (1978–1979)

John Boyega as Moses in Attack the Block (2011)

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Start your day with King Sunny Ade

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German airliner crashes in the French Alps; 150 feared dead

The homeless way of death: Frozen to the hallway floor

How I escaped marrying a Boko Haram fighter

Medicare loophole endangers seniors

WSJ: Israel spied on US talks with Iran

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White people would be soooo sickkkkk.

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please God let it be

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Don’t play games with me. When? Where? How can we make this happen?

They should put a Native hero on it. It would be such poetic justice to take off Andrew Jackson and put a Native American on the $20.

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period.

(a photo series shot by sisters rupi and prabh kaur. art direction by rupi kaur.)

i bleed each month to help make humankind a possibility. my womb is home to the divine. a source of life for our species. whether i choose to create or not. but very few times it is seen that way. in older civilizations this blood was considered holy. in some it still is. but a majority of people. societies. and communities shun this natural process. some are more comfortable with the pornification of women. the sexualization of women. the violence and degradation of women than this. they cannot be bothered to express their disgust about all that. but will be angered and bothered by this. we menstruate and they see it as dirty. attention seeking. sick. a burden. as if this process is less natural than breathing. as if it is not a bridge between this universe and the last. as if this process is not love. labour. life. selfless and strikingly beautiful.

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every woman’s struggle..

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Russell Brand discusses Iggy Azalea and the appropriation of black culture (watch the full interview here)

“Hasn’t that always been the way with mainstream culture? Whether it’s the blues or rock n’ roll [or hip hop]. The re-appropriation of black culture into the mainstream? That’s always been the way. It becomes sanitized. It loses its original message without ever conceding any rights to non-white people. Take the best bits. Keep the fruit. And abandon the people.”

“The idea that black culture is constantly being ransacked is a powerful narrative, a powerful story that began with slavery, one of the great abominations of human history. That injury hasn’t been healed. The civil rights struggle is only 50 years ago and still racism is a prevalent issue in this country and all over the world.”

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He gets it.

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Why do I feel like he broke up with Katy bc of her culture appropriation.

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Come on and preach

HE GETS IT

He be knowin

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Good for him

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All they said was “She’s a white rapper” and he INSTANTANEOUSLY knew to bring up appropriation and the history of it pre-dating tumblr getting onto it. Respect for Russell just went through the fucking roof like I already loved him but that’s just ridiculously awesome.

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See, now the break up with Katy (when I thought they were so good together) makes a little sense.

And he brings up points that are so fucking BLATANTLY OBVIOUS THAT IT BAFFLES ME WHY OTHERS DON’T GET IT!

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I love him. pause

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meet my bff soul mate king husband russell brand

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Nearly 2,000 People Are Currently Protesting Fatal Police Shooting Of Tony Robinson In Wisconsin.

Almost 2,000 students marched in Madison, Wisconsin on Monday to protest the fatal police shooting of an unarmed biracial teenager, while his family demanded justice and the police chief apologized.Students crowded into the rotunda of the state Capitol in the morning, chanting and waving signs to protest the death of Tony Robinson, 19, shot on Friday by a white police officer. An investigation into this case is still going on, no word on any new findings. #StayWoke#BlackLivesMatter