Texan Breana Talbott was arrested Wednesday on a charge of making a false report to a peace officer after claiming to have been abducted and gang raped by three masked black men. Monday, bloodied and beaten she ran into a church wearing only a shirt, bra and underwear. The hospital was unable to find the physical evidence of the assault and her story broke down. The 18-year-old blonde woman also admitted that the cuts on her body were self-inflicted! The police chief detailed, "We were unable to corroborate any of Talbott's allegations that she had been abducted or sexually assaulted." The Denison Police Department also plans to seek restitution for the cost of the investigation.
TEXTURISM IN THE NATURAL HAIR MOVEMENT?
Texturism in the natural hair community has driven this naturalista back to the creamy crack! She writes, “I slowly realized that I didn't know, nor did I have the patience to suddenly relearn, how to style and care for my new hair, especially as a busy college student. I felt alone and frustrated, like I'd never achieve the "ideal" natural look. As someone with the thickest, tightest 4C coils, (if 4D existed, I would definitely classify) it never felt to me like natural women with tighter curl patterns were as celebrated as those with looser textures. I'd expected to feel empowered and liberated by finally embracing my natural texture, but instead, being natural presented me with a new struggle to fit a different ideal that still seemed unachievable for me.
Here they go auctioning off black history again! On March 30 New York City’s Swann Auction Galleries will hold an auction for its “Printed & Manuscript African Americana” catalog. There are more than 500 lots for sale with prices ranging from the hundreds to the tens of thousands of dollars. The lots are mostly books, letters and other documents, but there are also items like child-size slave shackles ($2,500 -$3,500) and James Brown’s stage worn Italian platform shoes ($1,500 - 2,500).
NOTHING TO SEE HERE...
President Trump finally met with seven Congressional Black Caucus members Wednesday, and not a damn thing was accomplished.
ART OR BLACKSPLOITATION?
A group of black artists have urged the Whitney Museum of American Art to remove and destroy Dana Schutz's "Open Casket,” a portrait of Emmitt Till’s body in the casket, accusing the White painter of exploiting Black death for profit. Artist and writer Hannah Black says “.. it is not acceptable for a White person to transmute Black suffering into profit and fun, though the practice has been normalized for a long time. …” The artist in question was reportedly surprised by calls for the painting’s destruction. Surprised, huh?
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