6LACK Covers Mos Def’s ‘Umi Says’ As Part Of Apple Music’s 2022 Freedom Songs

6lack holds nothing back in his music or real life, especially when speaking on the plight of Black people in this country. For Apple Music’s Freedom Songs 2022 celebrating Juneteenth through covers and original music, the East Atlanta Love Letter artist covered Mos Def’s powerful 1999 record “Umi Says.” The low tempo beat loaded with …

‘I chose freedom’: Popular Papa John’s worker ‘Professor Pizza’ cuts ties with the company

Professor Pizza deleted all his Papa John’s-related content and says he will no longer be posting about the pizza chain on TikTok. The TikToker, known as Professor Pizza (@_professorpizza_) on the platform, has about 10,000 followers and is well known for posting about his job working at Papa John’s. Professor Pizza previously went viral for …

‘Freedom of speech goes both ways’: Man ruins anti-choice protest with one sign

A viral TikTok posted last month sparked controversy after showing a group of anti-choice protesters being driven away by a man holding a sign saying, “These people are losers.”  The video was posted by The Good Liars (@thegoodliars), a comedy duo with over 1.5 million followers on TikTok composed of Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler. …

Trevor Noah Gave An Impassioned Defense of The Freedom Of The Press During His White House Correspondents’ Dinner Set

Trevor Noah was the first comedian to attend the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner in four years. The last one was Michelle Wolf, whose set was so infamous — at least amongst Republicans, her chief target — that the next year they brought in a historian. (Donald Trump, one of the thinnest-skinned people on the …

Jon Batiste Was Full Of Life During His Vibrant Performance Of ‘Freedom’ At The 2022 Grammy Awards

Getty Image This year’s Grammys are a big one for Jon Batiste. The New Orleans star was nominated in eleven categories including Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Best R&B Album, and more. His total of eleven nominations for the 2022 Grammys makes for the second-most ever in the award show’s history and, …

Jordan Klepper Went To Ottawa To Meet Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ Truckers (And Find The End Table He Ordered From Wayfair)

Jordan Klepper has rarely witnessed a right-wing protest he didn’t want to infiltrate. So for his latest episode of “Fingers the Pulse,” The Daily Show correspondent headed to Ottawa to get to the bottom of the Great Canadian Trucker Convoy of 2022—yep, the same protestors that Russell Brand is for some reason praising. Among the …

Donation site used by Freedom Convoy suffers 3rd data leak in two weeks

GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding service used by the Canadian trucker protest, has suffered yet another leak of internal data. The journalism collective DDoSecrets announced on Tuesday that it had been provided with five gigabytes of new data related to the Freedom Convoy’s fundraising efforts as well as a separate campaign known as “Adopt a Trucker.” …

Geraldo Rivera Came For Tomi Lahren Over The Anti-Vaxxer Canadian Truckers Who She Calls ‘Freedom Fighters’

Fox News During a tense episode of Fox News The Story, Geraldo Rivera pushed back on Tomi Lahren‘s praise for the Canadian truckers anti-mandate protest that’s been hell for local residents and causing disruptions in other countries. Lahren attempted to paint the truckers as freedom fighters, which left Rivera astounded at what he was hearing. …

Russell Brand Is Celebrating Unvaxxed Canadian Truckers ‘Standing Up For Freedom,’ Leaving People Wondering, ‘What Happened To You?’

Getty Image Former MTV VJ and ex-Katy Perry spouse-turned actor, podcaster, and comedian Russell Brand has been on quite a journey over the past few years. His long-time left-leaning points of view (and Fox News opposition) appear to have been transformed into dust while he’s veered to the right. This has included hopping aboard with …

Not even the Freedom Phone is using the Freedom Phone

“I’m not only the Hair Club president, but I’m also a client,” is one of the most famous lines in advertising. The Freedom Phone should probably take a page from Hair Club for Men’s playbook. Because the Freedom Phone’s Twitter account is tweeting with an iPhone. The Freedom Phone was announced last summer. Founder Erik …

As social media censorship in Pakistan continues to rise, users fear what it means for internet freedom

When tech professional and gender justice advocate Faiza Yousuf heard about the latest social media rules passed in Pakistan, she was more than disappointed. Yousuf is the founder of Facebook community called Women in Tech PK and built up the group to its now 9,000 members. She created it as a way of helping women …