Nail Gyptian Press-On Collection

GRIOT NEWS:
Companies in China have been reported to selling Blsck baby dolls and Black baby shaped snacks as stress relievers or sensory toys. A trend of Asian social media users have circulated with videos of people abusing the toys or eating the snacks.

Although the companies questioned have acknowledged in the past that all of their dolls come in white skin tones, the Black baby dolls are used in the social media videos circulating online.

The concept of using baby shaped snacks or baby dolls as a stress reliever in this case is considered.... normal?
Thoughts?

Sources: Consumer Reports Investigates Squishy Gel Fidget Toys; Made-in-China.com (Natasha Ugly Cute Blacl Doll Squeeze Toy Squish Fidget Toys Stress Balls)

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A White, Conservative, Anti DEI Doctor is song the company FIND A BLACK DOCTOR with claims of racial discrimination. Since Affirmative action was taken away, conservative legal groups are targeting only BLACK companies and organizations to destroy opportunities for marginalized communities.

White people are claiming that Black people are racially discriminating and claims it's illegal to do so.

Yet, recently, The word "Black" was almost entirely stripped from the latest legislative text of the Momnibus Act. Once named the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act, the package dropped "Black" from its title and almost all references to Black women from its text.

Lead sponsor Rep. Lauren Underwood’s office stated that removing the word "Black" was intended to align legislative text with the formal language used by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Minority Health.

Sources: The 19th, House.gov Momnibus Act

A young Congolese girl in North Carolina was found hung from a tree at a church parking lot.
No news media coverage. Little support.

Young black children go missing daily in America and the organizations fighting to find them receive very little funding from the wealthy class.

Source: The North Carolina Beat

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Harvard Magazine recently updated the data revealed from Harvard's Legacy of Slavery project where professionals investigate Harvard's connection to the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Comes to find out, Harvard University had professors and faculty who actively owned slaves while working at the institution including Harvard stakeholders also owning enslaved people.

At a time where reparations for descendants of the Transatlantic Slave Trade are a digital, divisive and distant conversation for some, institutions like Harvard are skating by with evidence hidden in plain sight.

What is a course of reparations or responsibility for an institution that once didn't allow Black students at a time where many universities are happy to roll back their DEI programs to satisfy the current administration. 🤔 Thoughts?

Griot News:
Another Black woman loses her life while chaperoning her daughter's prom after party in Indianapolis. First weekend of May, Brittany Members-Grundy shared her last moments with her family and her family are still grieving wanting answers to the 2+ gunmen who came to the after party with intent of entry to a closed party for friends and family.

It's been reported that the gunmen asked for entry, when denied, shot the mother in close range in the head. It's also been reported over 60 shots were fired but unclear if all 60 were the gunmen or including when members of the party shot back.

Source: Fox59

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Staffers on a Disney cruise ship docked in San Diego were among 28 people arrested in a sweeping crackdown on a child po*******hy operation:

• CBP agents boarded eight cruise ships between April 23-27 and interviewed suspects from the Philippines, Portugal and Indonesia

• 27 of the 28 subjects were found implicit in the operation and were deported to their country of citizenship

• Disney says employees tied to the operation “are no longer with the company
Source: Variety Magazine

Everyday life
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As Cop City Atlanta has become a new neighbor to Black neighborhoods in Georgia, AI surveillance companies are using Black Residents as a testing ground for their camera technology.

Surveillance will continue to increase as AI surveillance will become the newest member of police departments around the country. Although, many argue, that AI surveillance will assist in crime investigations, others question the intentions of AI surveillance companies.

According to Capital B News, in 2025 there were 124+ cameras per 1000 residents with the expectation of more cameras than people as technology increases. Along with the effects of AI data centers on the environment, residents also are worried of the infrastructural damage these centers will have on the community over the next decade.

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Councilman, Chi Ossé, was arrested and later detained for protesting with other community members in Bed Stuy Brooklyn after an 81 year old resident was recently arrested and taken to Rikers Island over a deed theft.

According to sources, the residents have been illegally living in the home they have lived in for 6 decades and we await more information to be released on the truth of this situation. Mayor Mamdani tweeted that is in conversation with Commissioner Tisch on the nature of Ossé's arrest but have not made any statement regarding deed theft targeting of Black and Brown residents at this time of this post.

Deed theft in NYC with the help of NYPD, lawyers and judges is becoming a cyclical operation that seems to have a deliberate target of Black home owners. *Allegedly*

Sources: Chi Ossé, Brooklyn Paper, Gothamist,Gotham Istanbul, The New York Times