A: Whether or not the immigrants in question become reliable Democratic voters is within the Republican Party’s ability to help decide; “open borders” as they existed for white people for most of United States history are not on the table, and deferring the deportation of undocumented immigrants does not make …
Read More »Craig Williams, Nike Jordan Brand President Talks Legacy
The iconic pose was created in 1984 during a photoshoot for Life magazine. A young Michael Jordan was rising above the ground going up for a dunk. Now, almost 35 years later, that silhouette has become omnipresent, not just around the world of sports, but the world at large. Nike’s …
Read More »In True 'Stop and Frisk' Fashion, New Jersey Police Admit to Targeting Minority Neighborhoods in What They Call 'Hunting at the Border'
Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP (Getty Images) In today’s Water is Wet News we find, once again that when police are sent to target civilians at random, black and Latino people will overwhelmingly represent the victimized. The nation saw a prime example of this in the form of New York City’s …
Read More »The Art of Second Chances
How many second chances, how many reinventions, how many transformations are possible for any given person? What are the forces that keep us moving along our current path and not a different one? In Station Eleven, in which the course of everyone’s life is altered by the disaster, a violinist …
Read More »Blac Chyna Excitedly Watches Her Mother Tokyo Toni Remarry
Blac Chyna’s Valentine’s Day was a bit more special than normal. That’s because she got to watch her mother, Tokyo Toni, get remarried to her ex-husband Marcellus Hunter. The 31-year-old took to her Instagram live to share a video with her fans that showed her digitally witness the knot tying …
Read More »Three People Wounded During Valentine's Day Shooting At Kandi Burruss' Old Lady Gang Restaurant Near Atlanta
Kandi Burruss, Todd Tucker and Joyce Jones attend the 2015 Ford Neighborhood Awards Hosted By Steve Harvey at Phillips Arena on August 8, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: Moses Robinson (Getty Images) On Valentine’s Day night, three people were shot and injured at Kandi Burruss’ Old Lady Gang restaurant in …
Read More »How Two Young Hippie Friends Grew Up to Live Very Different Lives
Beck: That was all prologue. Now tell me about the beginning of your friendship and that trip to Mexico. Stephanie: So I was madly in love with Kelly’s brother Mako, and he had left the school to go down to meet his family in Mexico. I flew down a little …
Read More »NBA All-Star Weekend: Get Into It
Remembering Kobe And All-Star Media Day Saturday 1:00 pm – Chicago Illinois NBA All-Star weekend is in full swing! Team Giannis and Team LeBron took turns with their individual media sessions. But before they did Hall of Famer and NBA legend George “Iceman” Gervin talked about Kobe Bryant. The NBA …
Read More »90,000 People Vying for Tickets to Kobe Bryant's Memorial Within First 24 Hours of Sale
Signage on a Metro train near Staples Center pays tribute to Kobe Bryant before the first Lakers game since the former NBA star and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna died in a helicopter crash, on January 31, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Kobe and “Gigi” were among nine people killed in …
Read More »China Wants Food. Brazil Pays the Price.
If China could, it would plant its own soy. The protein-rich grain is critical to fattening up pigs, but it takes some 1,500 tons of water to produce one ton of soybeans, and the country has inadequate sources of water to fill the need. China “will never be self-sufficient in …
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