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Debra Ray (L), aunt of Dijon Kizzee, is embraced after speaking near a makeshift memorial where Dijon Kizzee, a 29-year-old Black man, was killed by Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies in South Los Angeles on September 1, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Protesters marched to the South Los Angeles Sheriffs’ Station …

The Northeast Atlantic mackerel is a small fish with grey or greenish-blue scales and tigerlike black stripes from mouth to tail. Lacking a swim bladder—the gas-filled organ that helps most fish move up and down in the water—the mackerel would sink and die if it ever stopped. So it is …

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Justin Timberlake took to social media to apologize to Janet Jackson and his former lover, Britney Spears, for his behavior that negatively affected both women’s careers. He posted the apology on Instagram on Friday. “I’ve seen the messages, tags, comments, and concerns, and I want to respond,” Timberlake wrote. “I …

Photo: Rochester Police Department (AP) The Rochester Police Department—like police departments across the nation—is proving itself to be a microcosm of white America in that it appears to be indifferent to Black trauma and blind to Black innocence. Earlier this month, The Root reported that a 9-year-old Black girl was …

“It aims to be a thing of Joy and Beauty, dealing in Happiness, Laughter and Emulation, and designed especially for Kiddies from Six to Sixteen. It will seek to teach Universal Love and Brotherhood for all little folk—black and brown and yellow and white. Of course, pictures, …

Disrupt and Dismantle Investigates Inequality in America Soledad O’Brien traces the roots and results of racism, the wealth gap, and other systemic problems in the U.S. on the six-part docuseries, Disrupt and Dismantle, airing February 21 at 9/8c.  . Source link

After 17 seasons on Saturday Night Live (SNL), Kenan Thompson is embracing a chapter in his career. Thompson, who joined SNL back in 2003 and holds the record for the longest-tenured cast member in the show’s history, has landed his dream gig of starring in his very own sitcom. Titled Kenan, Thompson plays …

Image: Southside With You ‘Twas the Friday before Valentine’s Day And all through the house Not a creature was stirring Because we cannot go out. *Sigh* It’s Valentine’s Day again. I am a total romantic and have Valentine’s Day traditions dating back five years that I can’t do because my …

These efforts to record Black history have been ongoing for centuries, which Cynthia Greenlee highlights in a story about William Henry Dorsey, who used hundreds of scrapbooks to create an archive of Black life in 19th-century Philadelphia. Dorsey’s scrapbooks influenced the work of scholars such as W. E. B. Du …