Daily 30: Sun 12.14.2014

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Sump'n Claus

4 Sump'n Claus Late Night

If you've been crossed off Santa's nice list, here comes Sump'n Claus (Kenan Thompson).
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Pill

10 Pill Noisey Raps

Pill's epic verse on the very epic Rap Monument (co-produced by the beat wizard Hudson Mohawke, Nick Hook and S-Type).
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JUSTICE FOR ALL

16 JUSTICE FOR ALL Huffington Post

At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, hundreds of people began to gather at the Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C. By noon, the crowd had swelled to thousands. The protesters began marching through the nation's capital to call for justice and decry racial discrimination in light of recent deaths of black men at the hands of the police. The crowd rallied through the city demanding "justice for all," the slogan that lent the protest its name. The Justice For All march was a response to recent decisions by two separate grand juries in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York, which declined to indict the white police officers responsible for the deaths of, respectively, 18-year-old Michael Brown and 43-year-old Eric Garner. The families of police shooting victims, including relatives of Brown, Garner, Tamir Rice, Akai Gurley and John Crawford, led the march. The demonstration was organized by the National Action Network, a civil rights organization headed by the Rev. Al Sharpton. Sharpton joined the families as they marched through Washington Saturday. "We are not anti-police; we are anti-police-brutality," Sharpton told protesters. "And today we challenge Congress to follow in the president's footsteps and take legislative action to protect us, the citizens." "Do not be silent. Do not be complacent. Do not continue to live with police misconduct and violence as somehow acceptable," Sharpton urged earlier this week in a piece he wrote for The Huffington Post. Trevon Ferguson, a 14-year-old from Long Beach, New York, said he had traveled about five hours to attend the march in D.C., and planned to head back with his family this afternoon. He said he has never had a problem with police officers, but constantly fears them. “Sometimes I feel like, you never know, I might be the next Trayvon Martin or the next Eric Garner. So who’s to say that a cop wouldn’t come and just shoot me and leave me in the street?” Ferguson told HuffPost. “So I’m here to make sure that me and my family are treated equally, just as any white boy or girl. Dr. King believed in equality, so I’m here for equality.” The mothers of Rice, Garner, Brown and Trayvon Martin, a black teenager who was shot in 2012 by a neighborhood watch volunteer, appeared together in public for the first time Friday night. In a joint interview on CNN, the women spoke out against racial discrimination and argued that their sons might not have died if they had been white. "If Eric Garner was a white man in Suffolk County doing the same thing that he was doing -- even if he would have been caught selling cigarettes that day -- they would have given him a summons and he wouldn't have lost his life that day ... I believe that 100 percent," Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, told CNN's Anderson Cooper. The deaths of these black men have become part of a narrative that many believe is all too common in the United States. "We are together. We are united. We are standing. And we are going to fight this together," Sybrina Fulton, Martin's mother, told the crowd before she began to lead the march. "You guys mean the world to us." Garner's mother also approached the podium and praised the diversity of the crowd. "Look at the masses," she said. "Black, white, all races, all religions ... We need to stand like this at all times." In recent weeks, protesters around the country have participated in demonstrations to decry racial injustice and police brutality. Dion Anderson, a 42-year-old from Washington, D.C., said he “felt obligated” to come to the event because of his own negative experiences with police officers, especially growing up. "When I was eight years old, we were at the basketball court playing basketball and a Prince George’s County police officer -- I’m tearing up right now thinking about it -- just came on the basketball court and flattened [the ball], and just left. For no reason. So that’s why I’m obligated to come down,” Anderson said. “I even got scars on the back of my head from Prince George’s County Police Department … So police brutality has been rampant in my life.” Many of the signs and chants from protests around the country have used the slogan that has become synonymous with the movement: "Black lives matter."
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March On NYPD Headquarters

17 March On NYPD Headquarters Huffington Post

Also at the front of the march were New York City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez and New York state Assemblyman-elect Charles Barron. Matthew Brown, a 19-year-old who is African-American and Hispanic, marched down Broadway with his mother, aunt and other family members. "I'm trying to support a movement that really needs young people like myself," said Brown. "I'm here to speak for Mike Brown." The teenager said part of his motivation for making the trek from West Orange, New Jersey, with his family was his own personal experience. He's encountered racist verbal abuse from police in Jersey City, he said, who have called him "spic" and monkey." Citing the cases of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, Brown said part of the reason he wanted to speak out was because of the way police represent encounters with African-Americans. "I just see so many lies after lies." He also attended the People's Climate March in September. But this march felt more intense to him. "This is one that's really affecting people on a deep, emotional level," Brown said. Krystal Martinez, a 23-year-old schoolteacher, said she attended the march to send a simple message: "I don't want my students' names chanted at any of these events." Because she teaches at a charter school that serves students from Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, Martinez said, she was painfully aware of the challenges black youth face in interactions with police. Martinez, a Harlem resident, pointed to a sign held by a colleague with a quote from a 13-year-old girl who had been stopped by police: "The first time I was stopped and frisked I was so scared I didn't leave my house for a week." "Eighty-five percent of my students are black and this is their lives," Martinez said, emphasizing that she spoke for herself and not her school. "I'm out here because of my kids." Some protesters arrived with concrete policy proposals. Marcia Dupree, a homecare supervisor, came bearing a sign that read, "We must change the law ... no grand jury!!!" "The root of the problem," Dupree said, was the closeness between grand juries and police. In the wake of two grand juries' decisions not to indict officers in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner deaths, the idea of abolishing the institution has gotten a lot of attention from both the media and policymakers, including the chairman of Missouri's Legislative Black Caucus. Dupree added that she'd never really considered herself much of an activist before. Serving on the board of her local library in Mount Vernon, New York, was "as political as I got." But she said she has been moved to protest out of concern for her 13-year-old daughter -- who was marching in crutches by her side -- and her 21-year-old son. "I feel like I need to stand up," said Dupree. "It could be my son."
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777

18 777 Rihanna

Gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at Rihanna's unprecedented globetrotting concert tour that hit seven countries in seven days with seven shows to promote her seventh album.
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Color Outside the Lines

19 Color Outside the Lines Artemus Jenkins

Struggle, Joy, Failure, Success; words like these could serve as the backdrop for the next big hollywood blockbuster, or as a description of a tattoo artists life. Color Outside the Lines is the first film that provides a deep look into the history, culture and lives of the world's top black tattoo artists. Creating a film that would accurately tell the stories of these amazing artists, was initially a dream that manifested into a reality when world renowned tattoo artist, Miya Bailey linked with burgeoning filmmaker Artemus Jenkins. After three years of filming and tattooing everywhere from Atlanta to Amsterdam, this film is here to make sure the story and legacies of these artists will live on forever.
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The Pimp Chronicles

20 The Pimp Chronicles Katt Williams

In-demand comedian Katt Williams offers up The Pimp Chronicles courtesy of HBO. Williams shares his thoughts on such topics as drugs, politics and pop culture in this special event.
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Butts vs. Boobs

21 Butts vs. Boobs Complex

We know that 2014 is the year of the rear in the U.S., but what about the rest of the world? Is the current renaissance a global phenomenon, or just an American thing?
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Meyhem Lauren

23 Meyhem Lauren Noisey Raps

Meyhem Lauren's epic verse on the very epic Rap Monument (co-produced by the beat wizard Hudson Mohawke, Nick Hook and S-Type).
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Sharper Indicted on Rape Charges

24 Sharper Indicted on Rape Charges Complex

Earlier this year, Darren Sharper was accused of drugging and sexually assaulting several women in New Orleans in 2013. Earlier today, the former NFL player was formally indicted on two counts of aggravated rape and one count of simple rape in the state of Louisiana, which are charges that could put Sharper behind bars for the rest of his life. Sharper—who has been in jail in California since February after allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting women there as well—is facing similar charges in Las Vegas. Two of his acquaintances, Brandon Licciardi and Erik Nunez, have also been hit with aggravated rape charges in New Orleans and could face life in jail, too.
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Tamir Rice Death Declared Homicide

25 Tamir Rice Death Declared Homicide Huffington Post

CLEVELAND, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The death of a 12-year-old Cleveland boy fatally shot by police in November has been formally ruled a homicide, according to a Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's autopsy report released on Friday that found he was struck once in the abdomen. Tamir Rice, who was black, was shot on Nov. 22 by police responding to a call of a suspect waving a handgun around in a Cleveland park. The weapon turned out to be a replica that typically fires plastic pellets. He died the next day. The autopsy report said that Rice sustained a single wound to the left side of his abdomen that traveled from front to back and lodged in his pelvis. The shooting came at a time of heightened national scrutiny of police use of force and two days before a grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August. Rice was shot less than two seconds after the police car pulled up beside him in the park, police have said. They also released a security video of Rice in the park before and during the shooting. Rice's mother, Samaria Rice, said on Monday the officers involved should be convicted. The family filed a lawsuit last week against the city of Cleveland and the two officers involved in Rice's shooting. The officers are on administrative leave. Below is the autopsy report via WKYC.
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Twitter's Buy button is here

26 Twitter's Buy button is here Daily Dot

The long-rumored Twitter Buy button is here—and we actually sorta like it. Today musician Amanda Palmer tweeted out a link to her new book, The Art of Asking, which is on sale through Twitter's new impulse buy option. Those copies of the book sold out quickly, but you can still get an idea of how Twitter plans for well-loved online figures to put its lucrative new feature to good use. The experience of buying something through Twitter is surprisingly smooth—the button quickly whisks you to a payment page and confirms your purchase, shortening the distance from the sudden, burning desire to buy something and a finalized purchase. As it stands, Twitter relies on ad revenue it rakes in through promoted tweets, which enter the social feed much like Facebook's promoted posts. As Palmer's tweet demonstrates, the Buy button could prove quite well suited to the realtime social network, where fans regularly follow and interact with celebrities and brands, unlike Facebook, where design and philosophical barriers make those same figures feel more at a distance. Unlike promoted tweets—which still feel abrupt and disruptive—Twitter's Buy button plugs right into existing tweets of folks you'd be following anyway, making the whole thing feel more relevant and less contrived. As we wrote in September, Twitter is testing the feature with a handful of early partners, so expect to see it popping up more: "To start off, Twitter has partnered with Fancy, Gumroad, Stripe, and Musictoday as platforms for the service. If you have access to the buy button, you will be able to purchase items from artists, companies, and organizations including Burberry, Home Depot, (RED), DonorsChoose, GLAAD, Demi Lovato, Eminem, Pharrell, Hunter Hayes, Brad Paisley, and Panic! at the Disco." Twitter's Buy button is poised to be a win/win, both for the company's revenue strategy and for anyone promoting a book, album, or anything else we'd be prone to throw in our cart near the checkout line.
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Selma Paramount

Martin Luther King, Lyndon Baines Johnson and the civil rights marches that changed America.
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

28 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five … Warner Bros.

“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” brings to an epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield and the Company of Dwarves. Having reclaimed their homeland from the Dragon Smaug, the Company has unwittingly unleashed a deadly force into the world. Enraged, Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women and children of Lake-town.
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Terminator Genisys

29 Terminator Genisys Paramount

The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.
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Kingsman: The Secret Service

30 Kingsman: The Secret Service Marv Films

Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.