He Implied Black People Are Born Dangerous. Watch What She Says Back.

Upworthy’s own Franchesca Ramsey joined Latoya Peterson from Racialicious to talk about Eric Garner with Katie Couric.

Former Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, “You can’t just throw your hands up and say … that’s it,” to W. Kamau Bell (at the end of a 20-minute chat about not giving up).



So, Franchesca said:


She’s referring to the recent shooting of Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old black man who was shot in his own apartment building. This was by a rookie cop who was told not to patrol stairwells like he was doing when the incident occurred.

Things have got to change.

Nostalgia

Crayola has retired just 13 colors in 123 years. The first 8 led to protests.

Wholesome

His trumpet broke halfway through the national anthem. So he grabbed a mic and started singing.

Nature

A man lost track of his late dad’s beagle for 10 years. Then a Florida rescue scanned her microchip.

Culture

In 1990, Marge Simpson ‘wrote’ to Barbara Bush for ‘criticizing her family.’ It got an apology.