The Rock Does Not Need Your Whitesplaining. None of Us Do.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyI'm fed up with white liberals virtue-‘splaining to people of color what we should be saying, thinking, and feeling.As a longtime Latino columnist, I give my opinions for a living, and it’s part of the job description that you won’t ever be able to please everyone. This has led to many things being virtue-'splained to me over three decades, often by condescending white liberals who would talk down to me because they believed they were be
news.yahoo.comEthel Kennedy: RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan shouldn't be freed
Sirhan Sirhan Parole-Ethel Kennedy FILE— In this June 5, 2018 file photograph, Ethel Kennedy, widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy who was assassinated during his 1968 presidential campaign, watches a video about her late husband during the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights awards ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington. In a brief statement released on Twitter by her daughter, lawyer and activist Kerry Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy said bluntly Tuesday Sept. 7, 2021 that her husband's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, "should not be paroled." Scott Applewhite, File) (J. Scott Applewhite)BOSTON — (AP) — Ethel Kennedy, the wife of the late Robert F. Kennedy, says assassin Sirhan Sirhan should not be released from prison, further roiling a family divide over whether the man convicted of killing her husband in California in 1968 should be freed on parole. Two other RFK offspring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Douglas Kennedy, have said they support the release. Robert F. Kennedy was a U.S. senator from New York and the brother of President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.
wftv.comRFK wife Ethel Kennedy says assassin shouldn't be released
Sirhan Sirhan Parole-Ethel Kennedy FILE— In this June 5, 2018 file photograph, Ethel Kennedy, widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy who was assassinated during his 1968 presidential campaign, watches a video about her late husband during the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights awards ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington. In a brief statement released on Twitter by her daughter, lawyer and activist Kerry Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy said bluntly Tuesday Sept. 7, 2021 that her husband's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, "should not be paroled." In a brief statement released on Twitter by her daughter, lawyer and activist Kerry Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy said bluntly Tuesday: “He should not be paroled.”“Bobby believed we should work to ‘tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world,’” Kennedy, 93, wrote. Two other RFK offspring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Douglas Kennedy, have said they support the release. Robert F. Kennedy was a U.S. senator from New York and the brother of President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.
wftv.comLive updates: Cuomo resigns as New York governor
The publisher of Gov. Cuomo’s book on his handling of the coronavirus, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” had announced earlier this year that it halted promotion as Cuomo faced allegations of his treatment of women and that aides manipulated nursing home data.
RFK's daughter wins yard planter from father's former home
One of Robert F. Kennedy’s children has won custody of a decorative planter that sat outside a Virginia estate called Hickory Hill where the branch of the famed American political family once lived. The federal court decision means that Kerry Kennedy, a lawyer and activist who is the seventh child of RFK and Ethel Kennedy, gets back the 4-foot-tall (1.2-meter-tall) planter that she recalls from her childhood. When she was selling the estate, the late senator’s widow had told her children to choose one item from the property and Kerry Kennedy picked the urn.
news.yahoo.comJK Rowling returns award from group linked to Kennedy family
LONDON Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling says she is returning an award from a human rights group linked to the Kennedy family after the president of the organization criticized her comments about transgender issues. Rowling's decision comes after Kerry Kennedy, the president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the late senator's daughter, published a statement expressing her profound disappointment with the author's comments. The statement incorrectly implied that I was transphobic, and that I am responsible for harm to trans people, Rowling said on her website. Kerry Kennedy joined the criticism this month when she published her statement on the website of RFK Human Rights. Kennedy claimed Rowling's attacks upon the transgender community" were a repudiation of her father's vision.
Paramedics called to Kennedy compound in Massachusetts
Paramedics responded to a call Thursday at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Public records indicate the residence belonged to Ethel Kennedy, the wife of Robert F. Kennedy. Barnstable police said they had responded to an unattended death on the street where the compound is located, but did not confirm if it was at the Kennedy compound. The Kennedy compound consists of three houses on six acres on the waterfront along Nantucket Sound in Massachusetts. Since then, extended members of the Kennedy family have gathered there for various family events, including a family party on July 4.
cbsnews.comKerry Kennedy found not guilty in drugged driving case
Kerry Kennedy found not guilty in drugged driving case Kerry Kennedy, the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, was acquitted Friday of drugged driving in a July 2012 incident in which she accidentally took a sleeping pill and then sideswiped a truck.
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