I agree with your commenter name wholeheartedly, but this isn't true. In Judaism female dead bodies are washed and wrapped in shrouds by women, and it is the dead that make the living impure, never the other way around. There are many sexist aspects to traditional Jewish funerals but this isn't one of them.

Well the media has appointed Sharpton the official spokesperson but the protest community in general is far from uncritical of him.

And FINALLY Jezebel mentions this story.

Your information is wrong. In Islam, women are allowed to touch dead bodies, for example while in performing janaza ghusl, the ritual washing of the body before burial (IIRC women wash women's bodies, and men wash men's bodies). There is no "dirtying" of the deceased by being touched by a woman. Where did you get your…

This wins the most inspiring post of the day. I hate that it resulted from such a tragedy, but I can't help but be inspired when when I see this level of activism.

For those that don't know, normally, it is the men that carry the coffin(s) and they are also closest to the coffin, so for these women to do so, is a major act of defiance and protest.

Good.

Also, according to some media sources, when the Imam told women to step back, hundreds of them went and carried her coffin, and led the funeral prayer themselves.

Guardians of the Galaxy is a great movie. It probably deserved to be nominated for best picture. It is not, by any estimation, the best movie of the year. Not in a year with Under the Skin, Boyhood, Whiplash, and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Read this comment over — it doesn't make sense.

That's near Ted Turner's ranch. They were in the wealthy people's land of MT, probably doing wealthy people things. Like going on about preserving the land, all the while exploiting it with careless tourism. Or closing off land use areas so they can play/destroy the area. Or shutting down one of the few restaurants in…

This contemporary resurgence of activism & the growing popular awareness of systemic racial oppression is really exciting

(though I can't help but wish that someone would take the reins from Sharpton)

ISIS: The Juggalos of the Levant.

if you thought those hands were slutty, you should see my harlot elbows.

I think their new G500 4x4 promo video from their YouTube channel sums it up pretty nicely...

Wowwwww.

My job did this a few years ago. It's a federal government office. On the menu was "chitterlings and maw" and something called "Hopping John." Yes, this was all planned by non-Blacks.

I love when people to threaten to report a company to the BBB. Because they aren't a scam or anything... $100 erases your complaints and gives them an A rating. Not paying the BBB gives you an automatic C. 20/20 even investigated it and proved it, made there CEO even leave the interview early because he had no good…