Simone Boyce

In the book, It Was All a Dream, culture journalist Justin Tinsley writes this of sophomore Sean Combs' involvement in this protest campaign. For Combs, the student protest in the spring of 89 presented an opportunity to unite the student body and put some money in his pockets at the same time.

In the book, It Was All a Dream, culture journalist Justin Tinsley writes this of sophomore Sean Combs' involvement in this protest campaign. For Combs, the student protest in the spring of 89 presented an opportunity to unite the student body and put some money in his pockets at the same time.

In the book, It Was All a Dream, culture journalist Justin Tinsley writes this of sophomore Sean Combs' involvement in this protest campaign. For Combs, the student protest in the spring of 89 presented an opportunity to unite the student body and put some money in his pockets at the same time.

Combs took images from the protests, photos of students and police clashing and students being whisked away and printed up some posters. And he like sells posters based on this. Oh my goodness. So he's like, he's a profiteer. A write-up by Chris Malone goes further.

Combs took images from the protests, photos of students and police clashing and students being whisked away and printed up some posters. And he like sells posters based on this. Oh my goodness. So he's like, he's a profiteer. A write-up by Chris Malone goes further.

Combs took images from the protests, photos of students and police clashing and students being whisked away and printed up some posters. And he like sells posters based on this. Oh my goodness. So he's like, he's a profiteer. A write-up by Chris Malone goes further.

Future producer and co-worker of Diddy's Derek D. Angeletti was at Howard at the same time as Diddy and saw how he made a quick buck from the protests. In the 2003 Notorious B.I.G. documentary Unbelievable, he spoke about Diddy's photo enterprise during the protests. He made hundreds of them and sold them for $10 and $15 a piece, Angeletti said. That's the type of guy I saw.

Future producer and co-worker of Diddy's Derek D. Angeletti was at Howard at the same time as Diddy and saw how he made a quick buck from the protests. In the 2003 Notorious B.I.G. documentary Unbelievable, he spoke about Diddy's photo enterprise during the protests. He made hundreds of them and sold them for $10 and $15 a piece, Angeletti said. That's the type of guy I saw.

Future producer and co-worker of Diddy's Derek D. Angeletti was at Howard at the same time as Diddy and saw how he made a quick buck from the protests. In the 2003 Notorious B.I.G. documentary Unbelievable, he spoke about Diddy's photo enterprise during the protests. He made hundreds of them and sold them for $10 and $15 a piece, Angeletti said. That's the type of guy I saw.

All this protest shit is well and good, but who's getting paid off it? He was ready.

All this protest shit is well and good, but who's getting paid off it? He was ready.

All this protest shit is well and good, but who's getting paid off it? He was ready.

It's a lot more money.

It's a lot more money.

It's a lot more money.

This was back when a dime bag cost $10, and that wasn't cheap.

This was back when a dime bag cost $10, and that wasn't cheap.

This was back when a dime bag cost $10, and that wasn't cheap.

we had onions on our belts it was a style at the time yeah yeah uh amusingly enough in 2009 diddy made statements in support of another protest movement at howard promising i got y'all back and saying do what we did and take it over let's go and do it in a peaceful way but do it and again you did not take anything over you sold pictures of people doing that you

we had onions on our belts it was a style at the time yeah yeah uh amusingly enough in 2009 diddy made statements in support of another protest movement at howard promising i got y'all back and saying do what we did and take it over let's go and do it in a peaceful way but do it and again you did not take anything over you sold pictures of people doing that you