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  oigetit_ BET News - Reliability Score 68% Milwaukee Bucks players stood in solidarity during a press conference as they explained why they chose to boycott playing Wednesday night over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, which spurred similar cessations of play across the NBA, the WNBA and stretching as far as Major League Baseball. iamtoryshulman Kenny Smith walks off the set and joins the NBA Boycott in response to the Jacob Blake shooting. #playoffs @kennysmith j_smo_training I LOVE THE BOYCOTT!! What y'all think? S/o to my podcast @inthelabofficial we touched on a lot of good topics! #inthelab #nbaboycott #BLM urfightmyfight NBA Players and Coaches will meet tonight to determine the future of the 2020 NBA season. Players and coaches will discuss the emotional impact on themselves and society through this social justice crisis. #blacklivesmatter #defundthepolice rcdbeato This gives me chills https://www.patreon.com/theiconiumfou...

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LIRR commuter shouts racist comments at black women A white commuter was caught on video making racist comments to a pair of black women on a Long Island Rail Road train. The man, who was upset that the women were talking too loudly, then said they couldn’t possibly know who their parents are. “Shut the f–k up, you f–king loudmouthed monkey motherf–ker,” the man screams to the girls, who are offscreen. “… I can’t listen to your f–king black ass no more. ..You f–king loudmouthed bitch. ..At least I got a f–king mother. Do you know who your mother is? You don’t know who your mother or your father is because you’re a f–king monkey, that’s why.”

Michelle Obama dancing alongside Jussie Smollett on College Signing Day Obama told the eager crowd of high school students “There are all these people out there telling you what you can’t do.I am so proud of you all. You did just what I did. You ignored the haters.” In addition to sharing some words of wisdom with the youth, she also shared a few dance moves with actor and singer Jussie Smollett. The  Empire  star shared a clip of their boogie session on Twitter with a sweet caption using the queen emoji in reference to Obama.

Michelle Obama Just Called Herself Our ‘Forever First Lady.’ No Other First Ladies Need Apply During a stirring speech delivered to rising college students in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Michelle Obama embraced the moniker “Forever First Lady,” sending the crowd of 8,000 high school students into thunderous cheers. Because, duh. At the 2018 College Signing Day at Temple University,  HuffPost reports , Obama delivered a message of encouragement to the high schoolers, telling them: “I know you have everything it takes to succeed. I know that you are me. “And if I can be standing here as your ‘forever first lady,’” she added, pausing as the crowd cheered, “then you can do anything you put your mind to.”

George Zimmerman 'sells Trayvon Martin gun for $250,000 to a mother planning to give it to her son for his birthday' George Zimmerman sold the gun he used to shoot dead Trayvon Martin for $250,000 to a mother planning to give it to her son for his birthday, according to reports. Zimmerman said he put the pistol up for auction after hearing Hillary Clinton's 'anti-gun rhetoric' as he smoked a cigar during an interview with  KTNV . He also vowed to fight against the Black Lives Matter movement and end the career of Florida state attorney Angela Corey, who led Zimmerman's prosecution. But he may have made yet another enemy after he snubbed Daytona Beach bar owner Denny Honeycutt, who Zimmerman initially agreed to sell the gun to for $150,000.

Exeter University: 'Why I revealed my friends' racist WhatsApp messages' http://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-43987148# "It went from crude humour to racial slurs. Awful things were said about rape. Every group was targeted." Exeter University student Arsalan Motavali is talking about the WhatsApp group he was in with fellow members of the university's law society. "[The messages] started to get progressively worse after certain people were added." Five months on and several of them have been  expelled  after Arsalan's post of their "vile" screen shots went viral. Speaking to Newsbeat, the 21-year-old said he had no regrets about his decision to go public.

The top social media moments from Week 1 of the NBA playoffs It can be difficult to keep track of all the NBA's important moments on social media. Every night there's seemingly a new meme, a new highlight or a new beef to keep track of. That's what we're here for. Moving forward, we'll be rounding up the top social moments of the week and asking readers to vote on their favorite tweets, videos, GIFs and Instagram posts.