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Read: The conundrum of Lucian Freud’s portraits For a painter whose fascination with the grisly would eventually result in depictions of figures hacked to bits on a bed, shrieking into the void, or nailed to a mattress by a hypodermic syringe, Bacon excelled in a design style that was exceptionally …

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Say goodbye to the death penalty in Virginia. March 24, 2021, became the official day that it was scrapped in the Southern commonwealth. CNN reported that Virginia’s Gov. Ralph Northam signed a bill into law abolishing the death penalty. In fact, Virginia just became the 23rd state to abolish capital …

“A person walks by a boarded-up shop in Oakland, California on February 12, 2021. – Racial minorities have borne the brunt of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, with higher rates of death, unemployment and business failure, and less success obtaining federal government assistance intended to provide relief.”Photo: JOSH …

NBA YoungBoy has reportedly been arrested over an outstanding federal warrant and is in FBI custody. It’s not clear what charges he’s facing or what lead to the warrant. According to TMZ, federal agents and the LAPD attempted to pull over a vehicle NBA YoungBoy was in on Monday (March …

A white Washington state sheriff faces online backlash for being afraid of a Black newspaper carrier. On Jan. 27, Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer called 911 on Sedrick Altheimer, a Black newspaper carrier, because Altheimer parked his car outside Troyer’s house. Although he later retracted his statement to the Tacoma …

Photo: Maranie R. Staab (Getty Images) Tuesday marked one year since Daniel Prude was detained by police in Rochester, N.Y., while suffering what his family has called a mental health crisis that involved him walking naked through the streets—an encounter that led to him dying after being taken off of …

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Black farmers are receiving relief under President Joe Biden’s stimulus bill. Farmer of colors, specifically, Black farmers, are getting more than $4 billion in government aid, Yahoo! Finance reported. The money is part of the American Rescue Plan, a 1.9 trillion bill signed by the Biden administration to boost the economy during …

Photo: Jayne Kamin-Oncea (Getty Images) Venus Williams has earned her way to be one of the most privileged women in tennis (if not the world)—but even her privilege didn’t always add up to equal earnings. As the tennis legend wrote in an op-ed for British Vogue timed in tandem with …