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Even Condoleezza Rice Wants Donald Trump To Drop Out
Movie House Rethinks Dreadlocks Policy After Firing Leads To Social Media Campaign
Tyler House was fired on first day of work.
After a federal appeals court sided with an Alabama com- pany and gave it permission to discriminate against hiring someone because of their dreadlocks, one company in Illinois is actually changing its policy in order to allow dread- locks on the job. And it’s all be- cause of one teenager and her fight against hair discrimina- tion.
Sixteen-year-old Tyler House was offered a job at Marcus Country Club Hills Cin- ema after going through the in- terview process. Tyler was pretty excited about starting her new job, until her first day at work when she met her man- ager.
He called my name and brought me to the hallway and said, ‘Dreads are not allowed,’” said Tyler.
Tyler says she was a bit con- fused because she had the style when she interviewed for the job, and was told nothing about the anti-dreadlock policy.
The Country Club Hills, Ill., movie theater had a policy against dreadlocks, but that was until Tyler and her sister, who posted about the incident on Facebook, made the com- pany rethink its position. According to a posting:
‘Effective immediately, no job candidate will be disquali- fied because they wear dread- locks. We are in the process of reviewing our protocols, and will update them to ensure that they reflect our professional standards and commitment to recognizing the diversity of our associates’.
Ben And Jerry’s Ice Cream Company Takes Stand: Releases Statement About ‘Black Lives Matter’
It’s pretty bad when your own political party doesn’t like you.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is the lat- est GOP member to blast Don- ald Trump’s presidential campaign. On Saturday, Rice cut straight to the chase in a Facebook post, demanding the former reality star turned pres- idential nominee drop out of the race.
Rice, a past national security adviser to former President George W. Bush, now Stan- ford University professor, is one of the many notable Re- publicans urging Trump to end his run at the White House.
Less than 24 hours before Rice updated her Facebook status denouncing Trump, he became entangled in yet an-
Former Sec. of State Con- doleezza Rice posted her feel- ings about Donald Trump recently.
other media scandal as 2005 tapes surfaced showing him making sexually explicit com- ments, bragging about grab- bing women without their consent.
BURLINGTON, VT. —Ben and Jerry's has joined the Black Lives Matter movement.
The ice cream company posted a statement signed by the founders Friday on its web- site. The company's tweet was retweeted nearly 40,000 times and liked more than 53,000 times.
The pair said systemic and institutionalized racism were defining civil rights and social justice issues of our time.
Ben and Jerry asked Ameri- cans not to be complicit.
The two said it has been dif- ficult to watch "the list of un- armed Black Americans killed by law enforcement officers grow longer and longer.
The statement said Black Americans and white Ameri- cans have "profoundly differ-
ent experiences and outcomes with law enforcement and the criminal justice system."
The company said it has a moral obligation to take a stand for justice and Black lives.
Ben and Jerry said our pub- lic institutions disadvantage and discriminate against peo- ple of color from the beginning of their lives.
"For this reason, we are not pointing fingers at individuals; we are instead urging us to come together to better our so- ciety and institutions so that we may finally fulfill the found- ing promise of this country: to be a country with dignity and justice for all," the statement said. "All lives do matter. But all lives will not matter until Black lives matter."
You Can Still Register To Vote If You Do It Today
National Voter Registration Day has come and gone. But the push to get more Ameri- cans to register to vote is far from over. With the series of presidential debates continuing until the end of October, it’s the perfect time for the Americans who aren’t registered to vote to at least be eligible to cast an of- ficial ballot in November. If you’re one of those who have yet to register, you must not have heard of all the unbeliev- ably easy ways you can register.
HelloVote makes the process of registering to vote from your phone take one minute or less. Americans spend 23 hours per week texting anyway. You don’t have to mail anything in or take away from your busy schedule. Simply text HELLO to 384-387 and HelloVote will guide you through the rest.
Snapchat
You can now register to vote
on Snapchat in 1 minute. Snapchat partnered with voter registration app TurboVote to help the social media savvy reg- ister to vote with the swipe of a finger.
Twitter
By just sending a Direct Mes- sage to Twitter’s @Gov account with your five-digit zip code, you will receive an automatic response including your state’s voter registration deadline and a personalized link to get regis- tered. It’s that simple.
Death Toll Hits Over 800
In Haiti After Hurricane Matthew
Billy Bush Suspended From Today Show
Due To Donald Trump Tape Reveal
Billy Bush has been sus- pended from the Today show pending further review after a 2005 tape of him and Donald Trump sparked backlash.
NBC’s senior vice president, Noah Oppenheim, wrote in a memo: “I know we’ve all been deeply troubled by the revelations of the past 48 hours. Let me be clear—there is simply no excuse for Billy’s language and behavior on that tape. NBC has decided to sus- pend Billy, pending further review of this matter.”
In the video, Trump talks about grabbing women’s p– sies, and Bush jokes and laughs along with him.
Billy Bush was on the 2005 tape with Donald Trump. He apologized for his participa- tion.
Bush did issue an apology Friday and said he was embar- rassed.
The Category 3 hurricane, which hit Haiti with winds of 145 mph, has left more than 61,000 Haitian residents in shelters, according to Haiti’s central civil protection agency.
The death toll is now at 842, per ABC news.
Hurricane Matthew is the strongest hurricane to hit the Caribbean since Hurricane Felix, which was a Category 4 cyclone, hit in 2007.
As the death toll continues to rise in Haiti, many are won-
dering why Facebook hasn’t created a “check-in” feature for users on the island. The so- cial network also hasn’t issued a #PrayForHaiti initiative as was issued in the wake of the attack in France.
With Hurricane Matthew continuing to cause devasta- tion, it’s important to help in any way that we can.
If you’d like to donate to Haiti, you can send donations to Planting Peace, Partners in Health, UNICEF, the Salva- tion Army and more.
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