Facebook has clarified its mastectomy photo policy after petitions from The Scar Project and Change.org/David Jay.

Facebook announced today that it will allow photos of mastectomy scars after a New York woman posted a petition that garnered 20,000 signatures on Change.org.

“We have long allowed mastectomy photos to be shared on Facebook, as well as educational and scientific photos of the human body and photos of women breastfeeding,” Facebook said in a prepared statement. “We only review or remove photos after they have been reported to us by people who see the images in their News Feeds or otherwise discover them. On occasion, we may remove a photo showing mastectomy scarring either by mistake, as our teams review millions of pieces of content daily, or because a photo has violated our terms for other reasons. As a reminder, our terms stipulate that we generally do not allow nudity, with some exceptions as laid out above and here, consistent with other platforms that have many young users.”

Facebook’s new written policy was hailed by cancer survivors who were outraged that women were not able to share their photos to support others with the disease.

The new policy was established after Facebook had conversations with Scorchy Barrington, a woman struggling with stage IV breast cancer, and photographer David Jay, founder of the SCAR Project.

h/t – abcnews

In his new e-book, Robert Zimmerman Sr. blames black leaders for fanning racial flames. 

(The Root) — With his son on trial for murder in the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, the father of George Zimmerman has published an e-book criticizing the case and calling some African-American leaders who called for his son’s arrest racists. Robert Zimmerman Sr.’s book, Florida v. Zimmerman: Uncovering the Malicious Prosecution of My Son, George, was released on Friday at Amazon.com for $3.99.

Zimmerman writes at length about his background and his family’s multiracial identity, seemingly to counter accusations that his son, a 29-year-old neighborhood-watch volunteer, was racially motivated to shoot the unarmed black 17-year-old last year. Zimmerman is white, and his wife is Hispanic.

h/t – theroot

A dramatic high-rise rescue is unfolding in Midtown as cops and firefighters scramble to save two window washers trapped on a broken scaffold atop the 46-story Hearst Tower.

Firefighters and NYPD emergency service unit officers are stationed on the roof and in nearby floors of the building at 57th Street and Eighth Avenue attempting to reach the workers who are stranded on a scaffold that folded at its center.

NYPD’s emergency services unit workers have removed windows on the 44th floor of the building and are planning to bring the workers in through the open space, according to police sources. Harnesses have been attached to the workers on the scaffolding.

A law enforcement official said the scaffolding, which appears folded in at the center as it hangs in the air, is designed to bend that way but it failed to lock properly straight across.

Portions of 57th and 58th streets and Eighth Avenue are closed off to traffic as the first responders work above.

h/t – WNYC