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Friends Create Successful Barber App
Friends Obi and Kush have taken the barbershop world by storm.
JAY-Z Gives Speech At Trayvon Martin Peace Walk
Obi and Kush have been friends since high school. The two have now built an app that’s taking over barber- shops around the country by storm.
The app, dubbed “TheCut” was created from the horrible experience the two had, struggling to find a good bar- ber they could trust.
In 2016, Obi and Kush got together and started working on the idea for the app. Now, the company have
hit incredible milestones.
On a shoe-string bud- get, the small team has grown to more than 10,000 barbers, 100,000 users and have booked over 500,000
appointments!
In celebration of everything
they've accomplished and the community they've built, the- Cut has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign to give their users, friends and family the opportunity to in- vest in the company.
was going to put out a docu- mentary series on Trayvon. The series will be based on the books Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It and
Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin.
When George Zimmer- man, who was acquitted for killing Trayvon Martin, found out about this series he was far from happy about it.
MIAMI GARDENS, FL —- It was almost six years ago that George Zimmerman murdered Trayvon Martin and to this day, the teen’s death still resonates all over the country. In Florida, Mar- tin’s parents Sybrina and Tracy hold a Trayvon Martin Peace Walk & Peace Talk and this year Jay-Z was there and shared a moving speech.
His talk was given at the Betty T. Ferguson Recre- ational Complex in Miami Gardens and when he was through speaking, the group assembled went on a march through the streets. As they walked people were chanting while wearing red shirts with a picture of Trayvon Martin on them.
Last year, Jay-Z said he
JAY-Z with Trayvon Martin’s parents Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin.
Third Transgender Woman Killed In 2018
Ohio Teen Who Killed Abusive Father Released Sunday
Bresha Meadows now 16, will go home to her family on Sunday after being in custody since July, 2016 for the fatal shooting of her father.
BUFFALO, NY —- Tonya Harvey, a black transgender woman, was shot to death in Buffalo, N.Y. last week in what authorities could be in- vestigating as a hate crime.
Hardy, is at least the third trans person on record to be killed in the U. S. this year, and the first homicide victim in Buffalo.
Harvey, who was known as “Kita” to her friends, was reportedly originally identified as a male by police, but they later corrected their statement to reflect her gen- der identity.
Harvey is the third trans person to be killed in 2018. On Jan. 5, trans activist Christa Leigh Steele- Knudslien was killed in North Adams, Mass. Her hus- band, Mark Steele-Knud- slien, confessed to the murder and turned himself in to the North Adams Police Department.
On Jan. 10, Viccky
Tonya ‘Kita’ Harvey was found shot to death.
Gutierrez was killed in a fire in her apartment complex. Authorities in Los Angeles are calling the fire “suspicious.”
While the transgender community has been dispro- portionately targeted by anti- trans violence, according to GLAAD, an overwhelming majority of victims are “trans- gender women of color.
CLEVELAND, OH — Ohio teenager, Bresha Meadows shot and killed her father after allegedly facing over a decade of abuse at his hands.
The court case, in which it was decided that Meadows would not be tried as an adult, garnered national at- tention and opened up con- versations about child abuse, self-defense, and racial and gender biases in the justice system.
When Bresha potentially faced life in prison over her crime, social media rallied be- hind the young girl, creating a #FreeBresha campaign.
After being sentenced to months of confinement in a mental health facility, Mead- ows will be freed this Sun- day, according to Jezebel.
In the summer of 2016, Bresha fatally shot her fa- ther, Jonathan Meadows
in the head with his own .45 caliber handgun as he slept.
Brandi Meadows, Bre- sha's mother, later said that the two had faced consider- able physical abuse from Jonathan and that Bresha had fought back after years. Brandi hailed her daughter as a hero.
“In the 17 years of our mar- riage he has cut me, broke my ribs, fingers, the blood vessels in my hand, my mouth, black- ened my eyes. I believe my nose was broken. If he finds us, I am 100 percent sure he will kill me and the chil- dren," said Brandi in 2011 after filing a police report.
The family of Jonathan Meadows has disputed claims about his abusive be- havior.
Nonetheless, Bresha has since been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD).
Bresha, was held in ju-
venile detention for about 10 months after the July killing, then spent 60 more days at Trumbull County Juvenile De- tention Center in Warren, Ohio, where she was given ac- cess to outside treatment. She was admitted to the Bellefaire residential treatment center, a counseling center near her family, for six months.
She will be put on proba- tion for two years following her release. Her records will be officially sealed in three years and totally purged in five, according to The New York Times.
Jezebel notes that women of color face disproportion- ately higher amounts of do- mestic abuse and often find themselves victims of a biased justice system after fighting back.
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