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Live News Stream: A New Way To Watch The News
The news channels have learnt how to market their content and reach a global audience. Live news streaming is a powerful way of obtaining the global audience. It will have a good reach if the content of theirs is the talk of the town.
By Medusa Hornia5 years ago in The Swamp
As a Heterosexual Black Male in America how can I Follow a Movement that does not Reflect me?
I would not say that I totally disagree with policies supported by the Black Lives Matter movement. But as a black man in America how can I follow a movement on my behalf that does not fully reflect me? The rate at which black men witness inequality and injustice in this country is higher than any other demographic.
By MINORITY ALLIANCE ORGANIZATION5 years ago in The Swamp
Explaining Trump
Many of my story ideas stem from real life social issues. Then, I have to figure out a good story to illustrate what I am trying to say. My next book, for instance, involves a serial killer on the loose. The story actually began, however, as an attempt to illustrate the mind of a sociopath. This is because I was getting tired of trying to explain Trump’s behavior to people online.
By T.C. Randall5 years ago in The Swamp
Dear America
Dear America, We are sorry for what you are going through right now. This is not the way to discover that you’re not the greatest country in the world. You don’t deserve to experience what is happening here, but to remain ignorant, when the data is evident, would be foolish.
By Katrina Mae5 years ago in The Swamp
Do Rich Blacks Support White Gentrification
Do Rich Blacks Support white Gentrification? Gentrification is the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by wealthier individuals, which in effect improves property values but also can displace low-income families and small businesses. How do we stop this, well the answer is very simple wealthy blacks should be buying and renovating houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods and in return hire and train those from the community to help rebuild the community. This is how you give back. You can rent your business to anyone but you must own the property in order for the money to circulate back into the community. Until wealthy blacks stop buying into the notion that black communities are worthless white gentrification in urban American will continue to move forward. It's something how people from other cultures can come to the community set up shop and make money but blacks who are in the position to do the same thing chooses not to do anything. We will hold our clinched fists in the air, march, sing and cry when a life is taken but do nothing when people are forced to live in such deplorable conditions.
By larry wright5 years ago in The Swamp
Now What?
Now what? Changes we can make following George Floyd’s death We ask for peace and it’s quiet. We scream for justice and we’re silenced. We go for a simple walk, yet we have to run and hide. We live in the same house, yet we’re treated like guests. We do nothing wrong, yet we get framed. We do the same things as everyone else, yet we’re not treated the same. We can’t breathe— we can’t even get some air. We have had enough, and not enough has changed. Now what?
By Karim Fall5 years ago in The Swamp
Lizzo, Telling It Like It Is. Top Story - September 2020.
Lizzo is an American musician, originally from Detroit, Michigan. Lizzo's success was so swift that she was named Time Magazine's "Entertainer of the Year" in 2019 and her album " Cuz I Love You" made number four on the Billboard 200 list of most popular music in the United States. After her flute performance at the 2019 BET Awards, Lizzo received a standing ovation from the crowd, which included popular singer Rihanna. Lizzo's song "Good As Hell" became very popular last year, climbing up the charts in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Lizzo is also a well-know exemplar of body positivity. In a Vice interview she said, " You can wake up and change many things about your appearance, but the inevitability of waking up in your own skin what unifies us."
By Sabine Lucile Scott5 years ago in The Swamp
I got more backlash for this photo than anything I’ve put online in 14 years.
In my 14 years online I’ve posted naked self-portraits that have been banned from Flickr, I've outraged activists with an ad campaign of stuffed animals which got pulled from a Hong Kong metro, and I've angered Italian Christians when I staged a scene of the Virgin Mary giving birth.
By Natalie Lennard5 years ago in The Swamp
Planning and traffic rules madness
Planning and traffic rule madness. A political recipe for disaster. The politicians appear to have abandoned control over a vital aspect of national life. They have been duped into allowing left wing ecology propaganda, to replace common sense and rational evaluation, they will pay for this at the ballot box.
By Peter Rose5 years ago in The Swamp
Homeless Is Where The Hatred Is
Things are cooling down and I'm struggling against a lack of will to do anything. The joys of watching corruption burn have given way to disgust as white extremists of the right and left become the focus of the Black Lives Matter movement, at least as far as the media dictates. On a smaller scale, our personal problems are far from over. These things only happened a few weeks back and the only thing that seems to have changed is a drop in the temperature:
By J. Gonzalez-Blitz5 years ago in The Swamp
