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Lauryn Hill sentenced to 3 months in prison for failing to pay taxes
AP: Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for failing to pay taxes on about $1 million in earnings. She has also been sentenced to three additional months of home confinement. Before the sentencing, her attorney said Hill had paid more than $970,000 to satisfy state and federal tax liabilities. It’s not clear when or where she’ll report to prison.
Photo: Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill exits Federal Court in Newark, New Jersey, in June 2012 after pleading guilty to three counts of failing to file federal income tax returns. ( Eduardo Munoz / Reuters)
WTF?! Now they’re gonna do Lauryn like they did Wesley Snipes??
The fuck, AmeriKKKa?
WHERE’S ALL THE WALLSTREET MOTHER FUCKERS DOIN TIME?
HUH?
Fuck outta here…
Today has been goddamn ridiculous.
I’m done.
soulsick destiny manifestation
cocaine patriot hallucination
fancy papers in the prison nation
sanctify the slavemaster’s war
his house built with black blood
on brown backs and red land
he’s always hungry for more
and more
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Toni Morrison on James Baldwin
Literally one of the most beautiful things I have ever read in my life. I won’t try to lie, some of this will probably end up in my vows.
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Published on May 3, 2013
Watch the full interview with Angela Davis on Democracy Now! athttp://owl.li/kGdcY. The legendary activist and scholar Angela Davis tells Democracy Now! that the FBI’s adding of former Black Panther Assata Shakur to its Most Wanted Terrorists List exemplifies a longstanding “racialization” of terrorism in the United States, and an effort to deter the young activists Shakur has inspired today. “When the grandchildren of those who were active in the late ’60s and early ’70s are becoming involved in similar movements today, there is this effort to again terrorize young people by representing such an important figure as Assata Shakur as a terrorist,” Davis says. “Before the Tsarnev brothers were discovered to be the alleged perpetrators [of the Boston Marathon bombings], there was an attempt to present the person who planted the bomb as either a black man or a dark skinned man with a hoodie. This racialization of what is represented as terrorism is an attempt to bring the old-style racism into the conversation with modes of repression in the 21st century.”
In 1998, Democracy Now! aired the audio of Assata Shakur reading her open letter she wrote to Pope John Paul II during his trip to Cuba in 1998 after the FBI asked him to urge her extradition. Listen at https://soundcloud.com/democracynow/a…
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