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Photo: Shutterstock If you thought that being in the midst of a global pandemic would inspire folks to act a little more humanely, well, you would unfortunately be wrong. Buzzfeed News reports that Bradford Skinner, an inmate at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, was choked by a sheriff’s deputy after …

Finally, the test-positivity rate has become much more reliable nationwide over the past few weeks. As recently as the end of March, not all states reported every negative test result from commercial laboratories. Nearly every state now publishes those numbers. While our numbers still probably do not capture every coronavirus …

Rappers have been spending more time in the studio lately, since it’s one of the few places one can work while staying in quarantine. DaBaby is among the artists taking this time to work on new music, and his forthcoming album is loaded with some impressive features. The Charlotte rapper’s …

Malcolm Jenkins (Image: Facebook) The plight of the black family in the United States is well documented, even more so now in the face of the recent coronavirus pandemic. To help further illustrate this point, New Orleans Saints player Malcolm Jenkins has taken to social media to remind black Americans …

Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer (Getty Images) One of the only things getting us through this endless, nationally mandated quarantine is the “Verzuz” battles on Instagram Live. The virtual event, ideated by super producers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz, features two musicians putting a selection of songs they’ve sung, produced, or written against …

Image above: Buras Boat Harbor, in Buras, Louisiana In 2010, Dung Nguyen, a 39-year-old Vietnamese fisherman living in Dickinson, Texas, decided to take his boat out early in the season. Peak shrimping in Texas’s Galveston Bay wouldn’t begin until mid-August, but Nguyen was saving to send his three children to …

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Photo: John Sommers II (Getty Images) Are Republicans still even bothering to try to hide the fact that they just don’t want people voting? While the nation is in the midst of fighting a global pandemic, legislators in Republican-controlled Kentucky thought it was a good time to push new voter …

Getty / The Atlantic America’s fault lines are showing. As my colleague Joe Pinsker put it last week, there are really two pandemics: One will be disruptive and frightening to its victims, but thanks to their existing advantages and lucky near misses with the virus, they will likely emerge …

NASCAR star Kyle Larson has been fired from his team for using the n-word on a hot mic for thousands to hear, TMZ reports. The racecar driver has been let go by Chip Ganassi Racing after facing outrage for using the slur during a virtual racing event broadcast on the …