“Eventually I faced the inevitable, this was the body and the booty I was given, and I might as well start loving them.” -Tracee, from her contribution to the book “Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts” -Tracee Ellis Ross
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Can you imagine going to prison for 10 years for a crime you didn’t commit? This high school football star and NFL hopeful, who was wrongly jailed for rape, was finally exonerated after the woman who accused him admitted she lied.
[Brian Banks, 26,] spent more than five years in prison and another five on parole. He had to register as a sex offender and was still wearing an ankle monitor during yesterday’s hearing.
“If I can do this, I can get through anything,” he told The Daily just after leaving a Long Beach, Calif., courtroom. “This was my hardest part, and, as they say, good things go to people who hustle while they wait.”
Stories like this break my heart.
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