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🗓️ 24 December 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | Just a heads up, today's show contains talk of violence and sexual harassment and may not |
0:05.1 | be suitable for all listeners. |
0:06.5 | You're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR. |
0:11.2 | I'm Brittany Luce. |
0:12.2 | Today, I want to talk about something that's really important and frankly, something that |
0:17.3 | isn't getting the kind of coverage that I think it deserves. |
0:21.1 | After a two week trial, rapper Tori Lanes has been found guilty of assault. |
0:25.7 | In July 2020, he shot his former friend in the feet. |
0:29.8 | Grammy winner Megan Thee Stallion. |
0:33.0 | Since Megan went public with the allegations in August 2020, the backlash has been intense. |
0:39.0 | On social media and popular gossip blogs, but also from her peers in the hip hop community. |
0:44.9 | Some feel that her allegations are simply her trying to bring a black band down. |
0:49.7 | Others question whether she was shot at all, despite plenty of evidence showing that |
0:53.6 | she most definitely was. |
0:56.1 | And the comments haven't stopped there. |
0:57.9 | We've seen the way that black women who are involved in this case have been treated |
1:03.9 | and vilified online have been told to, and their lives have been called out their name |
1:09.2 | completely. |
1:10.7 | And I think it has a ripple effect for her regular black women like you and me. |
1:16.3 | That's Gabby Bulgarelli, my friend, colleague and senior producer of NPR's Louder Than |
1:21.1 | a Riot. |
1:22.1 | Gabby's been on the ground in Los Angeles for the trial and was in the courtroom when Megan |
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