Niubom wouldn’t set foot on land again until the middle of June. By that point, after nearly five months at sea, he would have done almost anything to get back to his wife and his young daughter in St. Petersburg as quickly as possible. He just didn’t expect that would …
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Video footage at a “Back the Blue” rally in Fort Collins, Colo. on Saturday (August 8) showed pro-police demonstrators beating up a smaller group of counter-protesters that included Black Lives Matter activists. Three people were arrested and another person was cited in the violence, according to The Denver Post The …
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While COVID-19 has ravaged some sectors of the U.S. economy, the pizza industry has experienced unexpected growth. Major pizza franchise brands are announcing they’ve hired tens of thousands of people, and plan to continue. Stephanie Moseley, franchise owner of Marco’s Pizza, took advantage of this opportunity and opened a second …
Read More »Photo: Andrew Toth (Getty Images) Atlanta-bred emcee 2Chainz is as serious about the upcoming presidential election as we all should be, and he wants to turn voting skeptics into believers during this incredibly crucial year. The “I’m Different” rapper has partnered with Michelle Obama’s When We All Vote initiative to …
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Image above, clockwise from top left: MasterClass instructors Serena Williams (who teaches tennis on the platform); Natalie Portman (acting); Gordon Ramsay (cooking); Malcolm Gladwell (writing) Sometimes an advertisement is so perfectly tailored to a cultural moment that it casts that moment into stark relief, which is how I felt upon …
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Police officers are catching hell on Twitter after a video posted Saturday (August 8) on the social media platform purported to show them preventing people from painting a Michael Brown mural in Ferguson, Missouri. Sunday (August 9) marked the sixth anniversary of the former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson gunning …
Read More »Graphic: Elizabeth Henges Best Deals of the DayBest Deals of the DayThe best deals from around the web, updated daily. A cheap pack of disposable masks, ComiXology’s sale on comics starring Harley Quinn, JACHS NY blazers, a nice foot scrubber, and more are some of Sunday’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja …
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Things have reportedly been strained between Kanye West and Kim Kardashian over the past few months, as the rapper and entrepreneur appeared to be struggling with his mental health and publicly revealing personal family matters. However, it looks like their children might be bringing them closer together. Vacationing in the …
Read More »Photo: Stock (Shutterstock) It’s apparently open season on Black people in America, and that includes our children. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) says it is now investigating a shooting incident in which officers from the Waycross Police Department in Ware County, Georgia fired multiple times at a vehicle of …
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Director Spike Lee’s first feature-length film, She’s Gotta Have It, premiered in theaters on Aug. 8, 1986. She’s Gotta Have It is a comedy about Nola Darling, a free-spirited African-American woman in Brooklyn, New York, and her three suitors. Lee makes an appearance in the film as one of those suitors, a bike messenger named Mars …
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