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Nicki Minaj is offering to pay tuition for dozens of her followers on Twitter right now, as long as they have good grades.

GOD I Love Black Celebrities making real shit like this 

Please don’t make compilation videos of the MSA series and then upload them to your Youtube channel. 

While I appreciate the desire to share our work as much as possible, compiling the videos together and having them on your own personal channel does ultimately hurt us, as the views from that video get taken away from ours, which can in fact hurt our ability to produce future content.

Unless there is some manner of transformative property to the videos, such as stating theories, giving a review, adding personal reactions, etc, I will politely ask that you do not simply upload the videos in full without adding anything of your own to it.

This applies regardless whether you link back to us in the description and say that you won’t monetize the video.

Jemel Roberson, a real life hero, was murdered by police. For being black.

“WROW!”

Don’t get me wrong, I’m really glad she’s a huge hit, it’s super exciting to see so many people love the character design and the gameplay, and know that I contributed directly and significantly to the behind-the-scenes engineering that makes it all work. It’s validating.

But it’s also so fucking melancholy to know I did so much work and put in so much time for such a shitty company, run by shitty people, and the reward I got for it was unemployment. 

I threw a lot into this character. I cried at work. I started getting panic attacks, which I’ve never gotten before. I developed persistent heart palpitations from the daily overwhelming stress and had to go to the hospital (this is true, seriously.) I basically dropped all my friends outside of work. My manager (and his manager!) lied to me constantly to keep me working. They said I was doing a great job but to keep it up. Don’t worry, it’s going to turn out great, and it’ll all be worth it in the end – recognition, a raise, probably a promotion in short order. They promised me the world. When she was finally finished, I didn’t even get to go to the release party, they just walked me out. 

I remember a quote from my last day, it sticks out in my mind: “I know you realize this is really hard for me,” my manager said. Yes, in the end, when he awkwardly informed me I didn’t have my dream job anymore – or any job at all – and then stared back at my shell-shocked face, my thousand-yard stare, the only thing he felt was sorry for himself.

She launched with no major bugs and was considered a technical success. Doesn’t matter. Get the fuck out.

Look, I get it. Akali is EXTREMELY my type. It’s obvious how much love and care was put into her development. But it makes me furious to see all the free advertising that Riot is getting from people who I thought would know better.  And now? One of the people who is arguably responsible for all that free advertising? Who’s work is undoubtedly making Riot hundreds of thousands of dollars a day? Who was overworked to the point of near breaking? They get nothing. WORSE than the scant bit of credit that most devs can get in a big company like Riot. They got let go.

At least 60 Indigenous women are pursuing a lawsuit alleging they were sterilized against their will, as recently as last year. Is there an issue of systemic racism within Canada’s healthcare system?

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I FOUND THE SONGS!!

the one playing in Shuri’s lab is by South African artist Babes Wodumo - Wololo (feat. Mampintsha)

and the one playing when Nakia and T’challa are in wakanda walking about is by Malian artist Idrissa Soumaoro - Bèrèbèrè (feat. Ali Farka Touré)

also here are other songs that appeared in the movie that are not featured in the Kendrick Lamar Black Panther soundtrack or the Ludwig Göransson Black Panther movie score:

(African American) Mozzy - Sleep Walkin 

(African American)Too $hort - In The Trunk (in the opening oakland scene)

(South African) Bhizer ft Busiswa, SC Gorna, Bhepepe- Gobisiqola

Terry Crews came out and admitted he had been sexually assulted by someone in the film industry, and is now being blacklisted. I have been a fan of his since Idiocracy, and will continue to support all of his work.