#Corey Alton Jr.

[retrowave-racer]

A young Corey asks a young Rita a very important question.

Not sure what spurred this specific idea into my head but it was so nice drawing in a toony style like this, I’ve missed this! Want to do more little character comic interactions like this, I really enjoy it. But yes,of course Rita loves Sonic the Hedgehog! I feel like it’s possibly more a surprise that Corey does. The more you know huh? Also Rita snail lore. Been thinking recently and it’s just canon now that she’s a mother to many snails, still to this day!

Also yes the run of sentence levels of Rita yap are very intentional.

[ritas-rambles]

Just a little sketch dump! With a lot of Erica and Corey apparently xD

[unknown-songs]

BLACK LIVES MATTER

A list with black artists who have a song in the Unknown Songs That Should Be Known-playlist (Can be a black artist in a band or just solo-artist) (no specific genre)

Bull’s Eye - Blacknuss, Prince Prime - Funk Aftershow - Joe Fox - Alternative Hip-hop Strangers in the Night - Ben L’Oncle Soul - Soul Explore - Mack Wilds - R&B Something To Do - IGBO - Funk

Down With The Trumpets - Rizzle Kicks - Pop Dans ta ville - Dub Inc. - Reggae Dance or Die - Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Funk FACELESS - The PLAYlist, Glenn Lewis - R&B Tell Me Father - Jeangu Macrooy - Soul

Southern Boy - John The Conquerer - Blues Hard Rock Savannah Grass - Kes - Dancehall Dr. Funk - The Main Squeeze - Funk Seems I’m Never Tired of Loving You - Lizz Wright - Jazz Out of My Hands - TheColorGrey, Oddisee - Hip-Hop/Pop

Raised Up in Arkansas - Michael Burks - Blues Black Times - Sean Kuti, Egypt 80, Carlos Santana - Afrobeat Cornerstone - Benjamin Clementine - Indie Shine On - R.I.O., Madcon - Electronic Pop Bass On The Line - Bernie Worrell - Funk

When We Love - Jhené Aiko - R&B Need Your Love - Curtis Harding - Soul Too Dry to Cry - Willis Earl Beal - Folk Your House - Steel Pulse - Reggae Power - Moon Boots, Black Gatsby - Deep House

Vinyl Is My Bible - Brother Strut - Funk Diamond - Izzy Biu - R&B Elusive - blackwave., David Ngyah - Hip-hop Don’t Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down - Heritage Blues Orchestra - Blues Sastanàqqàm - Tinariwen - Psychedelic Rock

Disco To Go - Brides of Funkenstein - Funk/Soul Circles - Durand Jones & The Indications - Retro Pop Cheesin’ - Cautious Clay, Remi Wolf, sophie meiers - R&B Changes - Charles Bradley - Soul The Sweetest Sin - RAEVE - House

Gyae Su - Pat Thomas, Kwashibu Area Band - Funk What Am I to Do - Ezra Collective, Loyle Carner - Hip-hop Get Your Groove On - Cedric Burnside - Blues Old Enough To Know Better - Steffen Morrisson - Soul Wassiye - Habib Koité - Khassonke musique

Dance Floor - Zapp - Funk Wake Up - Brass Against, Sophia Urista - Brass Hard-Rock BIG LOVE - Black Eyed Peas - Pop The Greatest - Raleigh Ritchie - R&B DYSFUNCTIONAL - KAYTRANADA, VanJess - Soul

See You Leave - RJD2, STS, Khari Mateen - Hip-hop Sing A Simple Song - Maceo Parker - Jazz/Funk Have Mercy - Eryn Allen Kane - Soul Homenage - Brownout - Latin Funk Can’t Sleep - Gary Clark Jr. - Blues Rock

Toast - Koffee - Dancehall Freedom - Ester Dean - R&B Iskaba - Wande Coal, DJ Tunez - Afropop High Road - Anthony Riley - Alternative Christian Sunny Days - Sabrina Starke - Soul

The Talking Fish - Ibibio Sound Machine - Funk Paralyzed - KWAYE - Indie Purple Heart Blvd - Sebastian Kole - Pop WORSHIP - The Knocks, MNEK - Deep House BMO - Ari Lennox - R&B

Promises - Myles Sanko - Soul .img - Brother Theodore - Funk Singing the Blues - Ruthie Foster, Meshell Ndegeocello - Blues Nobody Like You - Amartey, SBMG, The Livingtons - Hip-hop Starship - Afriquoi, Shabaka Hutchings, Moussa Dembele - Deep House

Lay My Troubles Down - Aaron Taylor - Funk  Bloodstream - Tokio Myers - Classic Sticky - Ravyn Lenae - R&B Why I Try - Jalen N’Gonda - Soul Motivation - Benjamin Booker - Folk

quand c’est - Stromae - Pop Let Me Down (Shy FX Remix) - Jorja Smith, Stormzy, SHY FX - Reggae Funny - Gerald Levert - R&B Salt in my Wounds - Shemekia Copeland - Blues Our Love - Samm Henshaw - Soul

Make You Feel That Way - Blackalicious - Jazz Hip-hop Knock Me Out - Vintage Trouble - Funk Take the Time - Ronald Bruner, Jr., Thundercat - Alternative Thru The Night - Phonte, Eric Roberson - R&B Keep Marchin’ - Raphael Saadiq - Soul

Shake Me In Your Arms - Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’ - Blues Meet Me In The Middle - Jodie Abascus - Pop Raise Hell - Sir the Baptist, ChurchPpl - Gospel Pop Mogoya - Oumou Sangaré - Wassoulou Where’s Yesterday - Slakah The Beatchild - Hip-hop

Lose My Cool - Amber Mark - R&B New Funk - Big Sam’s Funky Nation - Funk I Got Love - Nate Dogg - Hip-hop Nothing’s Real But Love - Rebecca Ferguson - Soul Crazy Race - The RH Factor - Jazz

Spies Are Watching Me - Voilaaa, Sir Jean - Funk The Leaders - Boka de Banjul - Afrobeat Fast Lane - Rationale - House Conundrum - Hak Baker - Folk Don’t Make It Harder On Me - Chloe x Halle - R&B

Plastic Hamburgers - Fantastic Negrito - Hardrock Beyond - Leon Bridges - Pop God Knows - Dornik - Soul Soleil de volt - Baloji - Afrofunk Do You Remember - Darryl Williams, Michael Lington - Jazz Get Back - McClenney - Alternative Three Words - Aaron Marcellus - Soul

Spotify playlist 

In memory of:

Aaron Bailey Adam Addie Mae Collins Ahmaud Arbery Aiyana Stanley Jones Akai Gurley Alberta Odell Jones Alexia Christian Alfonso Ferguson Alteria Woods Alton Sterling Amadou Diallo Amos Miller Anarcha Westcott Anton de Kom Anthony Hill Antonio Martin Antronie Scott Antwon Rose Jr. Arthur St. Clair Atatiana Jefferson Aubrey Pollard Aura Rosser Bennie Simons Berry Washington Bert Dennis Bettie Jones Betsey Billy Ray Davis Bobby Russ Botham Jean Brandon Jones Breffu Brendon Glenn Breonna Taylor Bud Johnson Bussa

Calin Roquemore Calvin McDowell Calvin Mike and his family Carl Cooper Carlos Carson Carlotta Lucumi Carol Denise McNair Carol Jenkins Carole Robertson Charles Curry Charles Ferguson Charles Lewis Charles Wright Charly Leundeu Keunang Chime Riley Christian Taylor Christopher Sheels Claude Neal Clementa Pickney Clifford Glover Clifton Walker Clinton Briggs Clinton R. Allen Cordella Stevenson Corey Carter Corey Jones Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd Cynthia Wesley

Daniel L. Simmons Danny Bryant Darius Randell Robinson Darius Tarver Darrien Hunt Darrius Stewart David Felix David Joseph David McAtee David Walker and his family Deandre Brunston Deborah Danner Delano Herman Middleton Demarcus Semer Demetrius DuBose Depayne Middleton-Doctor Dion Johnson Dominique Clayton Dontre Hamilton Dred Scott

Edmund Scott Ejaz Choudry Elbert Williams Eleanor Bumpurs Elias Clayton Elijah McClain Eliza Woods Elizabeth Lawrence Elliot Brooks Ellis Hudson Elmer Jackson Elmore Bolling Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. Emmett Till Eric Garner Eric Harris Eric Reason Ernest Lacy Ernest Thomas Ervin Jones Eugene Rice Eugene Williams Ethel Lee Lance Ezell Ford

Felix Kumi Frank Livingston Frank Morris Frank Smart Frazier B. Baker Fred Hampton Fred Rochelle Fred Temple Freddie Carlos Gray Jr.

George Floyd George Grant George Junius Stinney Jr. George Meadows George Waddell George Washington Lee Gregory Gunn

Harriette Vyda Simms Moore Harry Tyson Moore Hazel “Hayes” Turner Henry Ezekial Smith Henry Lowery Henry Ruffin Henry Scott Hosea W. Allen

India Kager Isaac McGhie Isadore Banks Italia Marie Kelly

Jack Turner Jamar Clark Jamel Floyd James Byrd Jr. James Craig Anderson James Earl Chaney James Powell James Ramseur James Tolliver James T. Scott Janet Wilson Jason Harrison Javier Ambler J.C. Farmer Jemel Roberson Jerame Reid Jesse Thornton Jessie Jefferson Jim Eastman Joe Nathan Roberts John Cecil Jones John Crawford III John J. Gilbert John Ruffin John Taylor Johnny Robinson Jonathan Ferrell Jonathan Sanders Jordan Edwards Joseph Mann Julia Baker Julius Jones July Perry Junior Prosper

Kalief Browder Karvas Gamble Jr. Keith Childress, Jr. Kelly Gist Kelso Benjamin Cochrane Kendrick Johnson Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. Kenny Long Kevin Hicks Kevin Matthews Kiwane Albert Carrington

Lacy Mitchell Lamar Smith Laquan McDonald Laura Nelson Laura Wood L.B. Reed L.D. Nelson Lemuel Penn Lemuel Walters Leonard Deadwyler Leroy Foley Levi Harrington Lila Bella Carter Lloyd Clay Louis Allen Lucy

M.A. Santa Cruz Maceo Snipes Malcom X Malice Green Malissa Williams Manuel Ellis Marcus Deon Smith Marcus Foster Marielle Franco Mark Clark Maria Martin Lee Anderson Martin Luther King Jr. Matthew Avery Mary Dennis Mary Turner Matthew Ajibade May Noyes Mckenzie Adams Medgar Wiley Evers Michael Brown Michael Donald Michael Griffith Michael Lee Marshall Michael Lorenzo Dean Michael Noel Michael Sabbie Michael Stewart Michelle Cusseaux Miles Hall Moses Green Mya Hall Myra Thompson

Nathaniel Harris Pickett Jr. Natasha McKenna Nicey Brown Nicholas Heyward Jr.

O’Day Short family Orion Anderson Oscar Grant III Otis Newsom

Pamela Turner Paterson Brown Jr. Patrick Dorismond Philando Castile Phillip Pannell Phillip White Phinizee Summerour

Quaco

Ramarley Graham Randy Nelson Raymond Couser Raymond Gunn Regis Korchinski-Paquet Rekia Boyd Renisha McBride Riah Milton Robert Hicks Robert Mallard Robert Truett Rodney King Roe Nathan Roberts Roger Malcolm and his wife Roger Owensby Jr. Ronell Foster Roy Cyril Brooks Rumain Brisbon Ryan Matthew Smith

Sam Carter Sam McFadden Samuel DuBose Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr. Samuel Hammond Jr. Samuel Leamon Younge Jr. Sandra Bland Sean Bell Shali Tilson Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Shukri Abdi Simon Schuman Slab Pitts Stella Young Stephon Clark Susie Jackson

T.A. Allen Tamir Rice Tamla Horsford Tanisha Anderson Timothy Caughman Timothy Hood Timothy Russell Timothy Stansbury Jr. Timothy Thomas Terrence Crutcher Terrill Thomas Tom Jones Tom Moss Tony McDade Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. Trayvon Martin Troy Hodge Troy Robinson Tula Tyler Gerth Tyre King Tywanza Sanders

Victor Duffy Jr. Victor White III

Walter Lamar Scott Wayne Arnold Jones Wesley Thomas Wilbert Cohen Wilbur Bundley Will Brown Will Head Will Stanley Will Stewart Will Thompson Willie James Howard Willie Johnson Willie McCoy Willie Palmer Willie Turks William Brooks William Butler William Daniels William Fambro William Green William L. Chapman II William Miller William Pittman Wyatt Outlaw

Yusef Kirriem Hawkins

The victims of LaLaurie (1830s) The black victims of the Opelousas massacre (1868) The black victims of the Thibodaux massacre (1887) The black victims of the Wilmington insurrection (1898) The black victims of the Johnson-Jeffries riots (1910) The black victims of the Red summer (1919) The black victims of the Elaine massacre (1919) The black victims of the Ocoee massacre (1920) The victims of the MOVE bombing (1985)

All the people who died during the Atlantic slave trade, be it due to abuse or disease.

All the unnamed victims of mass-incarceration, who were put into jail without the committing of a crime and died while in jail or died after due to mental illness. 

All the unnamed victims of racial violence and discrimination. 

...

My apologies for all the people missing on this list. Feel free to add more names and stories. 

Listen, learn and read about discrimination, racism and black history: (feel free to add more)  Documentaries: 13th (Netflix) The Innocence Files (Netflix) Who Killed Malcolm X? (Netflix) Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix) I Am Not Your Negro

YouTube videos: We Cannot Stay Silent about George Floyd Waarom ook Nederlanders de straat op gaan tegen racisme (Dutch) Wit is ook een kleur (Dutch) (documentaire)

Books: Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery White Fragility by Robin Deangelo Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Woman, Race and Class by Angela Davis

Websites: https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/ https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/ https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearsoflyn00nati/page/n11/mode/2up https://lab.nos.nl/projects/slavernij/index-english.html https://blacklivesmatter.com/ https://www.zinnedproject.org/

[jamisonwieser]

Ahmaud Arbury, Miciah Lee, Corey Jones, Breonna Taylor, Dion Johnson, Bernie Edwards, Cezar Vargas, Botham Jean, Freddie Gray, Lionel Morris, George Floyd, Ronell Foster, Marvin Scott III, Daniel Prude, Cornelius Fredericks, Luis Góngora, Jessica Williams, Jordan Edwards, Mario Woods, Kevin Peterson Jr., Roger Allen, Christan Taylor, Danny Ray Thomas, Tamir Rice, Myra Thomson, Alex Nieto, Alton Sterling, Atatiana Jefferson, David Joseph, Jamarion Robinson, Ethel Lance, James Scurlock, Dorian Harris, Bettie Jones, Tony McDade, James Lacy, Philando Castil...

I can’t do it.

The list of those we’ve lost to police violence in the United States is just too overwhelming.

[inconspicuoussuggestion]

SAY THEIR NAMES

Aiyana Jones (07/20/2002)

Trayvon Martin (02/2012)

Rekia Boyd (03/21/2012)

Timothy Russel (11/29/2012)

Malissa Williams (11/29/2012)

Larry Jackson Jr. (07/26/2013)

Jonathan Ferrell (09/14/2013)

Renisha McBride (11/2013)

Dontre Hamilton (04/2014)

Eric Garner (07/14/2014)

John Crawford III (08/05/2014)

Michael Brown (08/9/2014)

Ezell Ford (8/11/2014)

Laquan McDonald (10/20/2014)

Akai Gurley (11/20/2014)

Tamir Rice (11/22/2014)

Charley Leundeu Keunang (03/01/2015)

Tony Robinson, Jr. (03/06/2015)

Anthony Hill (03/09/2015)

Meagan Hockaday (03/28/2015)

Eric Harris (04/02/2015)

Walter Scott (04/04/2015)

Freddie Gray (04/12/2014)

William Chapman II (04/22/2015)

Jonathan Sanders (07/08/2015)

Sandra Bland (07/13/2015)

Samuel DuBose (07/19/2015)

Jeremy McDole (09/23/2015)

Corey Jones (10/18/2015)

Jamar Clark (11/15/2015)

Alton Sterling (06/05/2016)

Philando Castile (07/06/2016)

Joseph Mann (07/11/2016)

Paul O’Neal (07/28/2016)

Sylville Smith (08/13/2012)

Korryn Gaines (08/01/2012)

Terence Crutcher (09/16/2016)

Keith Lamont Scott (09/20/2016)

Alfred Olango (09/27/2016)

Deborah Danner (10/18/16)

Joques Clemmons (02/10/2017)

Adam Trammell (05/25/2017)

Stephon Clark (03/18/2018)

Botham Jean (09/06/2018)

Ahmaud Arbery 02/23/2020)

Breonna Taylor (03/13/2020)

George Floyd (05/25/2020)

Tony McDade (05/27/2020)

David McAtee (06/01/2020)

[a-dumb-bitch-apparently]

I'm so fucking angry

I'm 16, so I can't vote

I'm living in my parents' house, so I can't go out and protest

I have signed so many petitions, but I still feel like I should be doing more

I just learned about the steps to fascism in school, and I see the signs

I can't tell my parents this is happening because it's "fake news"

My healthcare rights as a trans person just got taken away, but "just stop being trans it won't affect you"

I want to take a bigger stand on social issues happening, but I can't

The only fucking things I can do is try and help save the fucking bees, because that's not a matter of human rights so for some fucking reason I'm allowed to talk about it without getting yelled at

https://blacklivesmatter.com/petitions/

So go and sign some of those petitions maybe?

I'm so fucking sorry to everyone that has to deal with this first hand, but I know that the most important thing for me right now is staying alive so I can help make more changes later

EMMETT TILL - MEDGAR EVERS - GEORGE JUNIUS STINNEY JR. - DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR - HENRY SMITH - JOHN CRAWFORD III - MICHAEL BROWN - EZELL FORD - DANTE PARKER - MICHELLE CUSSEAUX - MARY TURNER - LAQUAN MCDONALD - MALCOLM X - TANISHA ANDERSON - AKAI GURLEY - TAMIR RICE - RUMAIN BRISBON - JERAME REID - MATTHEW AJIBADE - JAMES N. POWELL JR. - FRANK SMART - ERNEST LACY - NATASHA MCKENNA - TONY ROBINSON - ANTHONY HILL - MYA HALL - PHILLIP WHITE - ERIC HARRIS - WALTER SCOTT - WILLIAM CHAPMAN II - ALEXIA CHRISTIAN - BRENDON GLENN - VICTOR MANUEL LAROSA - JONATHAN SANDERS - FREDDIE CARLOS GRAY JR. - JOSEPH MANN - SALVADO ELLSWOOD - SANDRA BLAND - ALBERT JOSEPH DAVIS - DARRIUS STEWART - BILLY RAY DAVIS - SAMUEL DUBOSE - MICHAEL SABBIE - BRIAN KEITH DAY - CHRISTIAN TAYLOR - TROY ROBINSON - ASSHAMS PHAROAH MANLEY - MICHAEL STEWART - FELIX KUMI - KEITH HARRISON MCLEOD - JUNIOR PROSPER - LAMONTEZ JONES - PATERSON BROWN - DOMINIC HUTCHINSON - ANTHONY ASHFORD - ALONZO SMITH - TYREE CRAWFORD - INDIA KAGER - LA?VANTE BIGGS - MICHAEL LEE MARSHALL - JAMAR CLARK - RICHARD PERKINS - PHILLIP PANNELL - NATHANIEL HARRIS PICKETT - BENNI LEE TIGNOR - MIGUEL ESPINAL - MICHAEL NOEL - KEVIN MATTHEWS - BETTIE JONES - QUINTONIO LEGRIER - KEITH CHILDRESS JR. - JANET WILSON - RANDY NELSON - ANTRONIE SCOTT - WENDELL CELESTINE - DAVID JOSEPH - CALIN ROQUEMORE - DYZHAWN PERKINS - CHRISTOPHER DAVIS - MARCO LOUD - JAMES BYRD JR. - PETER GAINES - TORREY ROBINSON - DARIUS ROBINSON - KEVIN HICKS - MARY TRUXILLO - DEMARCUS SEMER - AMADOU DIALLO - WILLIE TILLMAN - TERRILL THOMAS - DEMETRIUS DUBOSE - ALTON STERLING - PHILANDO CASTILE - TERENCE CRUTCHER - PAUL O?NEAL - ALTERIA WOODS - BOBBY RUSS - JORDAN EDWARDS - AARON BAILEY - RONELL FOSTER - STEPHON CLARK - COREY CARTER - ANTWON ROSE II - TAYLER ROCK - MALICE GREEN - RAMARLEY GRAHAM - ELIJAH MCCLAIN - AIYANA STANLEY JONES - BOTHAM JEAN - PAMELA TURNER - DOMINIQUE CLAYTON - SEAN BELL - ATATIANA JEFFERSON - JEMEL ROBERSON - JAMES LEE ALEXANDER - RYAN MATTHEW SMITH - DERRICK AMBROSE JR. - ADDIE MAE COLLINS - CAROL DENISE MCNAIR - CAROLE ROBERTSON - CYNTHIA WESLEY - NICHOLAS HEYWARD JR. - CHRISTOPHER WHITFIELD - WILLIE MCCOY - VICTOR WHITE III - MARCUS DEON SMITH - CHAVIS CARTER - MARTIN LEE ANDERSON - CHRISTOPHER MCCORVEY - BRADLEY BLACKSHIRE - TIMOTHY THOMAS - REGINALD DOUCET JR. - DANROY "DJ" HENRY JR. - KARVAS GAMBLE JR. - ERIC REASON - KORRYN GAINES - REKIA BOYD - KIONTE SPENCER - DARIUS TARVER - WAYNE ARNOLD JONES - MANUEL ELLIS - VICTOR DUFFY JR. - KOBE DIMOCK-HEISLER - CLINTON R. ALLEN - DONTRE HAMILTON - TIMOTHY CAUGHMAN - SYLVILLE SMITH - COREY JONES - TYRE KING - ERIC GARNER - MILES HALL - KENDRICK JOHNSON - CHARLEENA LYLES - MICHAEL LORENZO DEAN - TRAYVON MARTIN - RENISHA MCBRIDE - KIMONI DAVIS - KIWANE CARRINGTON - OSCAR GRANT III - BREONNA TAYLOR - KALIEF BROWDER - DARRIEN HUNT - TROY HODGE - WILLIAM GREEN - AHMAUD ARBERY - DION JOHNSON - TONY MCDADE - ANDREW KEARSE - JAMEL FLOYD - GEORGE FLOYD - RAYSHARD BROOKS - ITALIA MARIE KELLY - DAVID MCATEE - CHRIS BEATY

I got this list from

I'm so fucking sorry to every single one of you

I'll make sure things change, or die trying

I promise

[erikacousland]

Each one of these names was somebody's baby.

EMMETT TILL - MEDGAR EVERS - DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR - HENRY SMITH - JOHN CRAWFORD III - MICHAEL BROWN - EZELL FORD - DANTE PARKER - MICHELLE CUSSEAUX - LAQUAN MCDONALD - TANISHA ANDERSON - AKAI GURLEY - TAMIR RICE - RUMAIN BRISBON - JERAME REID - MATTHEW AJIBADE - JAMES N. POWELL JR. - FRANK SMART - NATASHA MCKENNA - TONY ROBINSON - ANTHONY HILL - MYA HALL - PHILLIP WHITE - ERIC HARRIS - WALTER SCOTT - WILLIAM CHAPMAN II - ALEXIA CHRISTIAN - BRENDON GLENN - VICTOR MANUEL LAROSA - JONATHAN SANDERS - FREDDIE CARLOS GRAY JR. - JOSEPH MANN - SALVADO ELLSWOOD - SANDRA BLAND - ALBERT JOSEPH DAVIS - DARRIUS STEWART - BILLY RAY DAVIS - SAMUEL DUBOSE - MICHAEL SABBIE - BRIAN KEITH DAY - CHRISTIAN TAYLOR - TROY ROBINSON - ASSHAMS PHAROAH MANLEY - FELIX KUMI - KEITH HARRISON MCLEOD - JUNIOR PROSPER - LAMONTEZ JONES - PATERSON BROWN - DOMINIC HUTCHINSON - ANTHONY ASHFORD - ALONZO SMITH - TYREE CRAWFORD - INDIA KAGER - LA’VANTE BIGGS - MICHAEL LEE MARSHALL - JAMAR CLARK - RICHARD PERKINS - PHILLIP PANNELL - NATHANIEL HARRIS PICKETT - BENNI LEE TIGNOR - MIGUEL ESPINAL - MICHAEL NOEL - KEVIN MATTHEWS - BETTIE JONES - QUINTONIO LEGRIER - KEITH CHILDRESS JR. - JANET WILSON - RANDY NELSON - ANTRONIE SCOTT - WENDELL CELESTINE - DAVID JOSEPH - CALIN ROQUEMORE - DYZHAWN PERKINS - CHRISTOPHER DAVIS - MARCO LOUD - PETER GAINES - TORREY ROBINSON - DARIUS ROBINSON - KEVIN HICKS - MARY TRUXILLO - DEMARCUS SEMER - AMADOU DIALLO - WILLIE TILLMAN - TERRILL THOMAS - SYLVILLE SMITH - DEMETRIUS DUBOSE - ALTON STERLING - PHILANDO CASTILE - TERENCE CRUTCHER - PAUL O’NEAL - ALTERIA WOODS - BOBBY RUSS - JORDAN EDWARDS - AARON BAILEY - RONELL FOSTER - STEPHON CLARK - COREY CARTER - ANTWON ROSE II - TAYLER ROCK - MALICE GREEN - RAMARLEY GRAHAM - ELIJAH MCCLAIN - AIYANA STANLEY JONES - BOTHAM JEAN - PAMELA TURNER - DOMINIQUE CLAYTON - SEAN BELL - ATATIANA JEFFERSON - JEMEL ROBERSON - JAMES LEE ALEXANDER - RYAN MATTHEW SMITH - DERRICK AMBROSE JR. - ADDIE MAE COLLINS - CAROL DENISE MCNAIR - CAROLE ROBERTSON - CYNTHIA WESLEY - NICHOLAS HEYWARD JR. - CHRISTOPHER WHITFIELD - VICTOR WHITE III - CHRISTOPHER MCCORVEY - TIMOTHY THOMAS - REGINALD DOUCET JR. - DANROY "DJ" HENRY JR. - KARVAS GAMBLE JR. - ERIC REASON - KORRYN GAINES - REKIA BOYD - KIONTE SPENCER - DARIUS TARVER - WAYNE ARNOLD JONES - MANUEL ELLIS - VICTOR DUFFY JR. - KOBE DIMOCK-HEISLER - CLINTON R. ALLEN - TIMOTHY CAUGHMAN - COREY JONES - TYRE KING - ERIC GARNER - MILES HALL - MICHAEL LORENZO DEAN - TRAYVON MARTIN - RENISHA MCBRIDE - OSCAR GRANT III - BREONNA TAYLOR - KALIEF BROWDER - DARRIEN HUNT - TROY HODGE - WILLIAM GREEN - AHMAUD ARBERY - TONY MCDADE - JAMEL FLOYD - GEORGE FLOYD

BabyNames.com stands in solidarity with the Black community. #blacklivesmatter

[sincerely-michael-mell]

My Audio List

I have a smaller collection that I thought, but at least I have them...

Beetlejuice

Washington, DC

Date: October 14,2018

Notes: First preview

Dear Evan Hansen

Date: May 13, 2018

Note: Mike's last show

Cast: Ben Platt, Mike Faist, Will Roland

The Prom

Date: 10-24-18

​Cast: Caitlin Kinnunen - Emma

Isabelle McCalla - Alyssa

Beth Leavel - Dee Dee Allen

Brooks Ashmanskas - Barry Glickman

Josh Lamon - Sheldon Saperstein

angie Schworer - Angie

Christopher Sieber - Trent Oliver

Coutnay Collins - Mrs. Greene

​Michael Potts - Mr.Hawkins

Ensamble - Mary Antonini, Coutney Balan, Jerusha Cavazos, Shelby Finnie, Josh Franklin, Sheldon Henry, Fernell Hogan, Joomin Hwang, Becca Lee, Wayne "Juice" Mackins, Vasthy Mompoint, Anthony Norman, Drew Redington, Teddy Toye, Kalyn West, Brittany Zeinstra

Waitress

Notes: Jessie's final show

Date: 3-24-17

​Jessie Mueller (Jenna), Charity Angel Dawson (Becky), Caitlin Houlahan (Dawn), Drew Gehling (Dr. Pomatter), William Popp (Earl), Dakin Matthews (Joe), Joe Cassidy (Cal), Christopher Fitzgerald (Ogie)

Bandstand

Notes: Second preview

Date: 4-1-17

​Corey Cott (Donny Novitski), Laura Osnes (Julia Troy), Beth Leavel (Mrs. Adams), Joe Carroll (Johnny Simpson), Brandon James Ellis (Davy Zlatic), Nate Hopkins (Jimmy Campbell), Geoff Packard (Wayne Wright), Joey Pero (Nick Radel)

Be More Chill

Date: Unknown

Dear Evan Hansen

Date: 2-10-19

Cast: Andrew Barth Feldman, Mallory Bechtel, Lisa Brescia, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Alex Boniello, Michael Park, Sky Lakota-Lynch, Samantha Williams

Date: 3-15-18

Taylor Trensch, Alex Boniello, Lisa Brescia, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Michael Park, Sky Lakota-Lynch

Hamilton Chicago

Date: 10-12-16

Cast: ​​Miguel Cervantes (Alexander Hamilton), Ari Afsar (Eliza Hamilton), Joshua Henry (Aaron Burr), Karen Olivo (Angelica Schuyler), Jonathan Kirkland (George Washington), Chris De’Sean Lee (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Wallace Smith (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), José Ramos (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Samantha Marie Ware (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Alexander Gemignani (King George III), Jin Ha (Philip Schuyler/James Reynolds/Doctor), José Amor (Samuel Seabury), John Michael Fiumara (Charles Lee), Remmie Bourgeois (George Eacker), José Amor, Amber Ardolino, Remmie Bourgeois, Chloë Campbell, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, John Michael Fiumara, Jin Ha, Holly James, Dashí Mitchell, Justice Moore, Emmy Raver-Lampman (Ensemble)

​Date: 10-5-16

Cast: ​Miguel Cervantes (Alexander Hamilton), Ari Afsar (Eliza Hamilton), Joshua Henry (Aaron Burr), Karen Olivo (Angelica Schuyler), Jonathan Kirkland (George Washington), Chris De’Sean Lee (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Wallace Smith (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), José Ramos (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Samantha Marie Ware (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Alexander Gemignani (King George III), Jin Ha (Philip Schuyler/James Reynolds/Doctor), José Amor (Samuel Seabury), John Michael Fiumara (Charles Lee), Remmie Bourgeois (George Eacker), José Amor, Amber Ardolino, Remmie Bourgeois, Chloë Campbell, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, John Michael Fiumara, Jin Ha, Holly James, Dashí Mitchell, Justice Moore, Emmy Raver-Lampman (Ensemble)

Falsettos

Date 1-8-17 (Closing Night)

Cast: ​Christian Borle (Marvin), Stephanie J. Block (Trina), Andrew Rannells (Whizzer), Brandon Uranowitz (Mendel), Tracie Thoms (Dr. Charlotte), Betsy Wolfe (Cordelia), Anthony Rosenthal (Jason)

​Pretty Woman

Notes: Second preview

Date: 3-14-18

​Samantha Barks (Vivian), Steve Kazee (Edward), Orfeh (Kit De Luca), Jason Danieley (Philip), Eric Anderson (Mr. Thompson), Kingsley Leggs (James)

The Lion King

Date: 6-8-13

Andile Gumbi (Simba), Jaden Jordan (Young Simba), Derek Smith (Scar), Alton Fitzgerald White (Mufasa), Buyi Zama (Rafiki), Chantal Riley (Nala), Teshi Thomas (Young Nala), Jeff Binder (Timon), Ben Jeffrey (Pumbaa), Fred Berman (Zazau), James Brown-Orleans (Bonzai), Bonita J. Hamilton (Shenzi), Enrique Segura (Ed), Derrick Davis, Lindiwe Dlamini, Bongi Duma, Joel Karie, Ron Kunene, Sheryl McCallum, S'bu Ngema, Nteliseng Nkhela, Sindisiwe Nxumalo, Chondra La-Tease Profit, Vusi Sondiyazi, L. Steven Taylor, Rema Webb (Ensemble Singers), Lawrence Alexander, Lamar Baylor, Gabriel Croom, Charity de Loera, Christopher Freeman, Lisa Lewis,

Jaysin McCollum, Ray Mercer, Bravita Threatt, Natalie Turner (u/s Fireflies specialist), Donna Michelle Vaughn, Camille Workman (Ensemble Dancers)

Frozen

Date: 2-22-18

Cast: ​Caissie Levy (Elsa), Patti Murin (Anna), Jelani Alladin (Kristoff), Greg Hildreth (Olaf), John Riddle (Hans), Robert Creighton (Duke of Weselton), Kevin Del Aguila(Oaken), Timothy Hughes (Pabbie), Andrew Pirozzi (Sven), Mattea Conforti (Young Anna), Brooklyn Nelson (Young Elsa), Tracee Brazer, Wendi Bergamini, Ashley Blanchet, James Brown III (King Agnarr), Claire Camp, Lauren Nicole Chapman, Jeremy Davis, Kali Grinder, Zach Hess, Donald Jones JR. Nina Lafarga, Ross Lekites, Austin Lesch, Synthia Link, Adam Perry, Olivia Phillip (Bulda), Noah J. Ricketts, Ann Sanders (Queen Iduna), Jacob Smith, Nicholas Ward

​Ben Platt (Boston)

(Concert)

Date: May 9, 2019

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On my way to the actual real life Alton Towers today…..so who better to post than Mr. Alton Towers Jr himself…Corey!!!! Born to love dinosaurs and Rita, forced to take a huge responsibility he’s not even sure he can handle. He’s trying his best though!

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WE WILL BE CLOSED 08/31/2020 because of... Alton Sterling David McAtee Modesto Reyes George Perry Floyd Dreasjon “Sean” Reed Michael Brent Charles Ramos Breonna Taylor Manuel “Mannie” Elijah Ellis Atatiana Koquice Jefferson, Emantic “EJ” Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. Charles “Chop” Roundtree Jr. Chinedu Okobi Botham Shem Jean Antwon Rose Jr. Saheed Vassell Stephon Alonzo Clark Aaron Bailey Charleena Chavon Lyles Fetus of Charleena Chavon Lyles Jordan Edwards Chad Robertson Deborah Danner Trayford Pellerin Alfred Olango Terence Crutcher Terrence LeDell Sterling Korryn Gaines Joseph Curtis Mann Philando Castile Bettie “Betty Boo” Jones Quintonio LeGrier Corey Lamar Jones Jamar O’Neal Clark Jeremy “Bam Bam” McDole India Kager Samuel Vincent DuBose, Sandra Bland Brendon K. Glenn Freddie Carlos Gray Jr Walter Lamar Scott Eric Courtney Harris Phillip Gregory White Mya Shawatza Hall Meagan Hockaday Tony Terrell Robinson Janisha Fonville Natasha McKenna Jerame C. Reid Rumain Brisbon Tamir Rice Akai Kareem Gurley Tanisha N. Anderson Dante Parker Ezell Ford Michael Brown Jr. John Crawford III Eric Garner Jacob Blake …AND SO MANY OTHERS! Be the Change! Come in on Friday & Saturday to register to vote and talk about how we can be the change ! You can also hit the link in our bio to register to vote right now ! #BlackLivesMatter (at Sneaker Politics) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEay0dPhEoI/?igshid=mv65uqdoc5m5

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Black&Blue

To support the Blue Lives Matter movement is to express to the world around you that you have no idea what Black Lives Matter even means, and to suggest that authority is more important than personal freedoms or happiness.

Let’s say someone in support of Blue Lives Matter is a centrist and not fully aware of what the two sides truly stand for.  Here’s your cheat sheet. 

History of Black Lives Matter:

2013: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi respond to the acquittal of George Zimmerman by kickstarting the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag and movement.

2014: Police kill 1,039 people including Dontre Hamilton, Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Michael Brown, Ezell Ford, Laquan McDonald, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Antonio Martin, Jerame Reid

2014 July: Eric Garner dies in New York City, after a New York City Police Department officer put him in a chokehold while arresting him.

2014 August: Mike Brown is murdered in Ferguson by police officer Darren Wilson; Darnell Moore and Patrisse Cullors organize a national ride during Labor Day weekend in protest.

2014 November: A New York City Police Department officer shoots and kills Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old African-American man.  

2014 November: Alicia Garza organizes a response to the grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson for the death of Mike Brown; fourteen Black Lives Matter activists are arrested.

2014 November: Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy is shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer.

2014 December: 2,000–3,000 people gather at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota to protest the killings of unarmed black men by police.  At least twenty members of the protest are arrested.

2014 December: In Wisconsin, BLM protests the police shooting of Dontre Hamilton, who died in April.

2014 December: Black Lives Matter protests the shooting of John Crawford III.

2014 December: The shooting of Renisha McBride is protested by Black Lives Matter.

2014 December: In response to the decision by the grand jury not to indict Darren Wilson on any charges related to the death of Michael Brown, a protest march was held in Berkeley, California.

2015: Police kill 1,134 people including Charley Leundeu Keunang, Tony Robinson, Anthony Hill, Meagan Hockaday, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, William Chapman, Jonathan Sanders, Sandra Bland, Samuel DuBose, Jeremy McDole, Corey Jones, and Jamar Clark as well as the killing of The Charleston Nine.

2015 March: BLM protests at Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office, demanding reforms within the Chicago Police Department.

2015 March: Charley Leundeu Keunang, a 43-year-old Cameroonian national, is fatally shot by Los Angeles Police Department officers. The LAPD arrests fourteen following BLM demonstrations.

2015 April: Black Lives Matter across the United States protests over the death of Freddie Gray which includes the 2015 Baltimore protests.

2015 April: After the shooting of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, Black Lives Matter protests Scott's death and calls for citizen oversight of police.

2015 May: A nationwide protest, Say Her Name, decries the police killing of black women and girls, which includes the deaths of Meagan Hockaday, Aiyana Jones, Rekia Boyd, and others.

2015 May: In Cleveland, Ohio, an officer is acquitted at trial in the shooting of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams.

2015 May: In Madison, Wisconsin BLM protests after the officer was not charged in the shooting of Tony Robinson.

2015 June: Dylann Roof's shooting in a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

2015 June: A video is released showing an officer pinning a girl—at a pool party in McKinney, Texas—to the ground with his knees.

2015 July: Sandra Bland, an African-American woman, is allegedly found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas.

2015 July: Samuel DuBose is shot and killed by a University of Cincinnati police officer.

2015 July: Jonathan Sanders dies while being arrested by police in Mississippi.

2015 August: In Charlotte, North Carolina, a judge declares a mistrial in the trial of a white Charlotte police officer who killed an unarmed black man, Jonathan Ferrell.

2015 September: BLM protests the shooting of Jeremy McDole.

2015 October: Black Lives Matters activists are arrested during a protest of a police chiefs conference in Chicago.

2015 November: Jamar Clark is shot by Minneapolis Police Department.

2015 November: A group of men carrying firearms and body armor confront a BLM march, and begin calling the protesters racial slurs.  After protesters ask the armed men to leave, the men open fire, shooting five protesters.

2016: Police kill 963 people including Bruce Kelley Jr., Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Joseph Mann, Abdirahman Abdi, Paul O'Neal, Korryn Gaines, Sylville Smith, Terence Crutcher, Keith Lamont Scott, Alfred Olango, and Deborah Danner.

2016 January: Mario Woods is shot by San Francisco Police officers

2016 January: Bruce Kelley Jr. is shot after fatally stabbing a police dog while trying to escape from police.

2016 February: Abdullahi Omar Mohamed, a 17-year-old Somali refugee, is shot and injured by Salt Lake City, Utah police.

2016 June: Conviction and sentencing of Jasmine Richards for a 2015 incident in which she attempted to stop a police officer from arresting another woman

2016 July 5: Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, is shot several times at point-blank range while pinned to the ground by two white Baton Rouge Police Department officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

2016 July 6: Philando Castile is fatally shot by Jeronimo Yanez, a St. Anthony, Minnesota police officer, after being pulled over in Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul. Castile was driving a car with his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter as passengers when he was pulled over by Yanez and another officer.  A video of the shooting is instantly uploaded and shared via social media.

2016 July 8: More than 100 people are arrested at Black Lives Matter protests across the United States.

2016 July 28: Chicago Police Department officers shoot Paul O'Neal in the back and kill him following a car chase.

2016 August 1: In Randallstown, Maryland police officers shoot and kill Korryn Gaines, a 23-year-old African-American woman, also shooting and injuring her five-year-old son.

2016 August: Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers kneels during the national anthem, as opposed to the tradition of standing, before his team's third preseason game.  During a post-game interview he explains his position stating, "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."

2016 September: Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma is shot to death by police officers

2016 September: Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina is shot to death by police officers.

2017: Police kill 987 people

2017 January: Hector Navarrete, a 31-year-old Hispanic man, is shot in a vehicle in Northglenn, Colo. after police falsely accused Navarrete of kidnapping his girlfriend.  The police stated Navarrete tried to ram their vehicle, but the girlfriend and witness to the encounter stated this was a false accusation.

2017 January 10: Darrion Barnhill, an unarmed 23-year-old black man, is shocked with a stun gun and shot in Reagan, Tenn. when police broke into his home for outstanding warrants.  Although unarmed, the police opened fire.

2017 February: A month-long "Black Lives Matter" art exhibition is organized by three Richmond, Virginia artists at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond in the Byrd Park area of the city. The show features more than 30 diverse multicultural artists on a theme exploring racial equality and justice.

2017 February 5: Nana Adomako, an unarmed 45-year-old black man, is shot in Fremont, Calif.  Captain Sean Washington, tasked with investigating the murder stated, "My observations of the video it was such a sudden and violent attack that I think Officer Taylor did a fantastic job trying to survive that particular situation by going through and considering the tools that he had available for him at the time," 

2017 February 8: Chad Robertson, an unarmed 25-year-old black man, is shot in Chicago, Ill. by an Amtrak officer with only 18 months on the job.  He shot Robertson in the back as he was fleeing under the suspected possession of marijuana.  The officer’s lawyer claimed he "really believed he was about to be shot," and stated Robertson reached into his pocket while charging at the officer.  Yet, none of the six witnesses in the 300 block area saw Robertson turn or gesture toward the officer.  Following the shooting, Robertson’s heartbroken sister stated, "He had dreams and aspirations. I'm devastated. I'm devastated that his life was taken."

2017 February: Virginia Commonwealth University's James Branch Cabell Library focuses on a month-long schedule of events relating to Black history and showed photos from the church's "Black Lives Matter" exhibition on its outdoor screen.  The VCU schedule of events also includes: the Real Life Film Series The Angry Heart: The Impact of Racism on Heart Disease among African-Americans; Keith Knight presented the 14th Annual VCU Libraries Black History Month lecture; Lawrence Ross, author of the book Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses talked about how his book related to the "Black Lives Matter" movement; and Velma P. Scantlebury, M.D., the first black female transplant surgeon in the United States, discussed "Health Equity in Kidney Transplantation: Experiences from a surgeon's perspective."

2017 February 10: Jocques Clemmons is shot in Nashville, Tennessee, and incites a BLM protest.

2017 March 19: Alteria Woods, an pregnant unarmed 21-year-old black woman, is shot in her home in Gifford, Fla.

2017 April 29: Jordan Edwards, an unarmed 15-year-old black male, is shot in Balch Springs, Tex. during a routine traffic stop following a report to police that there may have been a party in the area where underaged drinking may have occurred.  Edwards was in the passenger seat of his 16-year-old brother’s car when the officer fired through the passenger window.  False claims were made by police through the following days that Edward’s car was backing up towards the officer, but later admitted the car was pulling forward.  The officer’s life was not in any danger, but he decided rather than allow car of young boys to pull away from a traffic stop he would rather discharge his weapon.

2017 May: The district attorney of Davidson County decides not to prosecute police officer Joshua Lippert, the officer who shot and killed Daniel Hambrick during a chase, shooting the unarmed man in the back.

2017 June 2: Marc Brandon Davis, an unarmed 34-year-old black man, is shot in Petal, Miss. after a car accident.  When officers arrived an alleged “altercation” broke out between Davis, who was just in a car accident, and one of the officers who remains unnamed. The family of the deceased soon sued the city claiming excessive force, intentional infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment and battery and assault in the death of 34-year-old Marc Brandon Davis.  Petal Mayor, Hal Marx, refutes the lawsuit saying he's confident the officer "did nothing wrong."

2017 June 8: David Jones, an unarmed 30-year-old black man, is shocked with a stun gun and shot in Philadelphia, Pa. after fleeing a traffic stop.  Jones purposefully ditched his legally owned weapon and was shot in the back nearly 25-feet from where the gun dropped.  Jones was in a populated area as the officer fired in the direction of traffic.

2017 June 29: Aaron Bailey, an unarmed 45-year-old black man, is shot in his vehicle in Indianapolis, Ind. during a routine traffic stop.  Driving on a suspended license, Bailey fled the scene and crashed his car.  The officer fired his weapon 11 times, 4 bullets striking Bailey in the back of the head.

2017 July 6: Dejuan Guillory, an unarmed 27-year-old black man, is shot in Mamou, La. when an Evangeline Parish sheriff's deputy started a physical confrontation with both Guillory and his girlfriend.  The deputy first shot Guillory in his back while Guillory was face down, then fired several more times.

2017 July 7: Brian Easley, an unarmed 33-year-old black man and a former lance corporal in the Marine Corps is shot in Marietta, Ga.  Easley was living in a $25-a-night hotel, scraping by on a small monthly disability check from the Department of Veterans Affairs.  After returning from his 2005 tours of Kuwait and Iraq he found himself honorably discharged and returning home suffering from both physically ailments and mental illness.  In the summer of 2017 his usual disability check from the VA had mysteriously failed to materialize, and rent was due. If he couldn’t cover it, he’d be on the street, and the thought terrified him. On July 7 at around 9:30 a.m, the Marine veteran entered the Wells Fargo branch and claimed that the backpack slung over his shoulder contained C-4 explosive. He allowed several employees and customers to exit and then began making calls, dialing 911 to let the authorities know what was happening, and a local news station, WSB-TV, to explain his predicament. “They took everything,” he told the assignment editor who picked up the phone. “With my last little bit of money I got I’ve been able to hold up at a hotel, but I’m going to be out on the street and I’m going to have nothing. I’m not going to have any money for food or anything. I’m just going to be homeless, and I’m going to starve.” He continued to speak to the editor on the phone, “I already told them if I detonate this bomb, I’ll let them go first,” he promised. “These ladies are very nice, and they’ve been very helpful and supportive.”  He allowed the editor to speak with the hostages. One described her captor as “very respectful.”  Around 12:15 p.m. a single shot rang out, adding Easley’s name to the list of 236 mentally ill people killed by police in 2017.  As the hostages were whisked to safety, a robot entered the bank and retrieved Easley’s backpack, placing it in a “total containment vessel.” It was eventually deemed harmless, and inside investigators found a Bible, some papers, and other incidentals.  On his body they found a wallet and a broken cross pendant.

2017 July 19: Farhad Jabbari, an unarmed 38-year-old man, is shot in Saginaw, Mich. after he is pulled over for drunk driving.  Dash cam footage shows a clear picture of the encounter. “You just blew a 0.61, legal limit is .08, you are double the legal limit,” the officer tells Jabbari.  Jabbari is placed in handcuffs and placed in the back of the police cruiser.  “So I'm going to jail now?” Jabbari asks. “Yep, we will do the test right there,” the officer replies.  “I'm not going to jail,” Jabbari says.  Seconds later, Jabbari is able to slip out of one handcuff.  “What are you doing, uh uh, keep them on,” the officer says.  “I'm committing suicide,” Jabbari responds.  The officer opens the back seat of the car and is pulled in by Jabbari.  The officer fires five gunshots, killing Jabbari.

2017 September 27: At the College of William & Mary, students associated with Black Lives Matter protested an ACLU event because the ACLU had fought for the right of Unite the Right rally to be held in Charlottesville, Virginia.  William & Mary's president Taylor Reveley responded with a statement defending the college's commitment to open debate.

2017 October 19: Dewboy Lister, an unarmed 55-year-old black man, is shot in Corpus Christi, Tex. Lister spent the last years of his life mentoring the youth in his community.  He helped young men in Corpus Christi get jobs, he instilled in them respect for others and encouraged them to help after Hurricane Harvey struck the area.  He was shot in the torso during a traffic stop.  About him, Listers friends said, "He was a great man. He’s always a phone call away when families are in need.  He helped a lot of men around my age [21] land jobs at the local docks and ports.  He would constantly tell us to obey but know our rights. He was all about family and helping.”

2017 November 13: Calvin Toney, an unarmed 24-year-old black man, is shot in an apartment building in Baton Rouge, La. during a routine DCF meeting with an officer escort.  The footage was never released and Toney’s family was never given closure.  Toney was pronounced dead after a bullet wound to the chest, but paramedics found Toney’s body in handcuffs.  The official statement is that Toney was handcuffed after being shot, but without the body cam footage there is no corroborating evidence to this statement.  The family has been left without answers as to why their son was murdered.

2017 November 18: Lawrence Hawkins, an unarmed 56-year-old black man, is shot in Prichard, Ala.  Lakeisha Williams witnessed the event and stated a Prichard officer followed Hawkins closely all the way to his driveway without the patrol lights turned on.  Williams said, "It was ridiculous how he did that. He didn't turn on no lights until after that man was shot over there (the driveway)." Williams said Hawkins ran a stop light but didn't deserve to get shot.  She said, "He just got out of his truck and reaching out to get his cell phone." Williams continued, "The police was saying something and then all I heard was pow, pow, pow."

2017 December 1: Keita O'Neil, an unarmed 42-year-old black man, is shot on a street in San Francisco, Calif. by an officer on his fourth day on the job.  Body camera footage shows the officer drawing his pistol from the passenger seat while the cruiser is still moving. The video then shows him opening the side door and firing a single shot through the window as O’Neil, who was unarmed, runs by in the opposite direction.  O’Neil was later pronounced dead at San Francisco General Hospital.

2017 December 6: Jean Pedro Pierre, an unarmed 42-year-old black man, with a history of medical problems, including mental illness, is shot in Lauderdale Lakes, Fla.  Pierre’s family states the cops’ video footage misrepresents the man, who was a father of five, an entrepreneur and former political candidate in Haiti.  “They didn’t have to kill him at all,” said Ralph Fenelon, Pierre’s son.  “They had tasers, they had other weapons. They didn’t have to shoot him.”

2018: Police kill 1,165 people

History of Blue Lives Matter:

2014: The FBI reports 51 law enforcement officers were 'feloniously' killed in the line of duty.

2014 December: The homicides of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in Brooklyn, New York kickstart a counter movement to Black Lives Matter, which the authorities believe to be “anti-police”.

2015: National statistics Report 42 police officers were shot and killed.

2016: National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund reports 64 officers were killed in firearm-related incidents.

2016 July 7: A BLM protest was held in Dallas, Texas that was organized to protest the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. At the end of the peaceful protest, Micah Xavier Johnson opened fire in an ambush, killing five police officers and wounding seven others and two civilians. The gunman was then killed by a robot-delivered bomb. Before he died, according to police, Johnson said that "he was upset about Black Lives Matter", and that "he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers."

2017: National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund reports 44 officers killed in fire-arm related incidents.

2018: National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund reports 52 officers killed in fire-arm related incidents.

Homicide Comparisons:

According to the FBI, which publishes the data in the Uniform Crime Reports, from 1980–2014, an average of 64 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed per year.

Updated estimates from the Bureau of Justice Statistics released in 2015 estimate the number of killings by police officers to be around 930 per year, or 1,240 if assuming that non-reporting local agencies kill people at the same rate as reporting agencies.

The numbers show why support for Blue Lives Matter is a disingenuous cause. Especially as most of those in favor of Blue Lives Matter are police officers themselves showing support for their “boys in blue.”  A police officer who is in support of Blue Lives Matter, and flaunts the Blues Lives Matter flag and merchandise, overall dismisses the deaths of the very citizens they’ve vowed to protect.

The initial response of centrists to the statement “Black Lives Matter” was “All Lives Matter”.  However, this is how disenfranchisement works.  Similar tactics are used against feminism, stating that feminists are anti-men.  As bell hooks stated in her collection of essays Feminism is for Everyone, “Conservative mass media constantly represented feminist women as man-haters. And when there was an anti-male faction or sentiment in the movement, they highlighted it as a way of discrediting feminism. Embedded in the portrayal of feminists as man-hating was the assumption that all feminists were lesbians. Appealing to homophobia, mass media intensified anti-feminist sentiment among men.”  We see this tactic being used today by groups like Blue Lives Matter to hijack a movement and portray it as chaotic and violent.

Black Lives Matter was never about the prospect that one life is more important than another.  Rather, it aims to highlight the most affected and yet least represented group of people.  The movement portrays the sentiment that no one is free while others are oppressed.  Or as Audre Lorde said, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter

https://blacklivesmatter.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Lives_Matter

https://www.odmp.org/

https://thinkprogress.org/who-police-killed-in-2014-44e56b4037a1/

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/30/373985338/report-number-of-police-officers-killed-spikes-in-2014

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/the-counted-police-killings-2015-young-black-men

http://www.aapf.org/sayhernamereport/

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/29/461402091/number-of-police-officers-killed-by-gunfire-fell-14-percent-in-2015-study-says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2016/

http://www.espn.com/blog/san-francisco-49ers/post/_/id/18957/transcript-of-colin-kaepernicks-comments-about-sitting-during-national-anthem

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/30/507536360/number-of-police-officers-killed-by-firearms-rose-in-2016-study-finds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2017/

https://www.theroot.com/here-s-how-many-people-police-killed-in-2018-1831469528

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-amtrak-shooting-charges-20170217-story.html

https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/us/louisiana-fatal-police-shooting/index.html

https://taskandpurpose.com/didnt-kill-death-lance-corporal-brian-easley

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-new-estimate-of-killings-by-police-is-way-higher-and-still-too-low/

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D&D Sponsored Flat Track Racers – Chris Carr Gets His First Podium of the Year with a 3rd @ Springfield.

Chris Carr Gets His First Podium of the Year with a 3rd @ Springfield.

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The AMA Pro Grand National Twins Championship is officially under way with the running of the opening round, the Illinois Motorcycle Dealers Association’s Springfield Mile. With the laps running down Carr and Smith were running wheel to wheel with Mees, Kopp, Cummings, Memphis Shades’ JR Schnabel, McCoy and Zanotti Racing’s Jethro Halbert in tow. On the last re-start Coolbeth joined a lead pack that included Smith, Blue Springs Harley-Davidson/Screamin’ Eagle rider Jared Mees, Latus Harley-Davidson/Screamin’ Eagle rider Joe Kopp, Chris Carr Racing/Lancaster Harley-Davidson rider Chris Carr and Nick Cummings. Smith gambled by taking a low line on the backstretch of the last lap to draft past the pack, and carried his lead out of the fourth turn with enough momentum to hold off Coolbeth. Carr finished third, followed by Mees, Cummings and Kopp.

RESULTS FOR THE D&D Racers @ the 2009 SPRINGFIELD MILE & TT

Springfield TT

Pro singles: D&D equipped Corby Scherb #32n Took 1st in Heat 1 and 3rd in the Main Event

Expert singles: D&D Sponsored Chris Carr #4 Took 3rd in Heat 2 and 4th in the Main Event

D&D Sponsored Nick Cummings #22 Took 10th in Heat 3, 3rd in Semi #2, and 14th in the Main.

Springfield Mile

Pro singles: D&D equipped Corby Scherb #32n Took 4th in heat 1, and 8th in the main

Grand National Twins: D&D sponsored Chris Carr #4 Took 3rd in heat 2, and 3rd in the Main.

D&D sponsored Nick Cummings #22 Took fast qualifier, 1st in heat 1 and 5th in the Main.

Overall it was a great showing for D&D and all the riders. Speed is scheduled to air the mile on June 13th.

(may have to double check that).

AMA Pro Grand National Twins Championship 1. Bryan Smith, Flushing, Mich.; 2. Kenneth Coolbeth Jr., Morris, Conn.; 3. Chris Carr, Fleetwood, Pa., 4. Jared Mees, Clio, Mich.; 5. Nicholas Cummings, Mount Morris, Mich.; 6. Joe Kopp, Mica, Wash.; 7. Jethro Halbert, San Jose, Calif.; 8. Willie McCoy, Keller, Texas; 9. Matthew Weidman, Westerlo, N.Y.; 10. Bryan Bigelow, Omer, Mich.; 11. Don Taylor, Welland, Ontario, Canada; 12. Brandon Robinson, Oxford, Pa.; 13. Logan Myers, Wheeler, Mich.; 14. Larry Pegram, Hebron, Ohio; 15. Glen Schnabel Jr., Campbellsport, Wis.; 16. Shaun Russell, Westville; 17. Jacob Johnson, Franklinville, N.J.; 18. Sammy Halbert, Graham, Wash.; 19. Steven Bonsey, Salinas, Calif.

AMA Pro Singles Championship 1. Michael Toon, Blue Springs, Mo.; 2. James Rispoli, Attica, N.Y.; 3. Shayna Texter, Willow Street, Pa.; 4. J. Beach, Philpot, Ky.; 5. Brad Baker, Chehalis, Wash.; 6. Jeffrey Carver, Alton; 7. John Long, Coatesville, Pa.; 8. Corby Scherb, Decatur, Texas; 9. Tony Davila, Pleasanton, Calif.; 10. Corey Crawford, Elba, N.Y.; 11. Stephen Vanderkurr, Davison, Mich.; 12. Michael LaBelle, Welland, Ontario, Canada; 13. S. Tapp, Philpot, Ky.; 14. Colton Chebultz, Manhattan,

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After finishing Coaster Maynia, I’ve jumped right into making reference images of my ocs with the specific intent of them being for Art Fight…while accidentally making them basically full on refs for the characters! Starting with posting Corey, I’ve actually been doing characters that are arent in my Big 7 to mix things up a bit! I got a pack of character ref sheet reference images from Adorakstock to help make these refs I’ll be uploading! (I really recommend AdorkaStock! The account has been really helpful these past few years to help me push posing outside of my classic one arm up other behind back pose that used to plague my art!)

Want to post these each separately to let them each shine but yes! Have a sweet Dino Boy who’s just trying to live up to the image his dad set. I hope its clear that the ribbons on his cape move magically! They turn into little corkscrew type drills!

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Since a lot of people have guessed on insta! She is based off Toyland Tours! But Around the World and 80 Days was also an accepted answer~ Like Corey she uses “life magic” and when he was young brought his toys and other inanimate things to life and taught Corey how to do it as well.

She sadly passes away along with Corey’s father, Corey Alton Jr then needing to take up the mantle for the two of them. He finds himself pretending to be something he’s not out of fear of being unable to live up to his parents, when all along his mother would have wanted him to be himself. Really can’t wait to draw some more art of her showing her story!

For some reason I drew this and let it sit for AGES before I got around to posting it, I think I had intended to post it for OC tober before I came up with the prompts. But! A new character I designed last year was…Corey’s mum! I wonder what ride she is based off of…as always I’ll let you guys guess, hint, it is a defunct Towers one. Still need a name for her but for now, I’ll refer to her as Mrs. Alton!

Pff so far most 2025 posting has been 2024 art, promise I’m working on some new stuff to share soon! :D

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Corey Alton Jr. Was a prodigy in every sense of the word. Born with the power of life magic; magic considered to be the strongest a human could have, he had a lot to live up to when his parents tragically passed. He abandoned his identity to replace his father after his passing.

As I said still doing a few more #oc_tober posts since I missed! I know Corey is a pretty beloved character ( I mean I hope yall like him haha) so I had to do a piece with him!