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Trae Young, Chris Paul Among Players Set to Square Off in H-O-R-S-E Competition
As the bitter rivalry between the NBA and COVID-19 rages on, the league has announced its latest attempt to entertain the masses: a friendly game of H-O-R-S-E. ESPN reports that the single-elimination tournament will include familiar faces like NBA All-Stars Trae Young and Chris Paul, two-time Slam Dunk Contest champion Zach Lavine, an assortment of…
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God Is Love: Why Finding Common Ground Is Paramount to LGBTQ Folks Feeling Welcomed In Religious Spaces
“God loves me radically. And any member of faith, any leader of faith should also love me radically.” — Alphonso David, President of the Human Rights Campaign Growing up, Alphonso David spent a lot of time at the Lord’s house. Whether he was attending his mother’s three and a half hour long Baptist services or…
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If NBA Owners Get Their Way, LeBron James, Kevin Durant Among Players Who Could Be Forced to Return Salary
As someone who lives in Los Angeles and fraternizes with more public figures and celebrities than I care to admit, one thing I can say with complete certainty is that many of their lives are a façade. Their carefully curated Instagram accounts will have you believe that they live a life of luxury and extravagance,…
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Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Tyler Perry Will Reportedly Join In on Joel Osteen's Easter Sunday Service
Renowned pastor and televangelist Joel Osteen is not letting the COVID-19 calamity impact his upcoming Easter Sunday service, and by the sound of what he’s reportedly planning to do, it looks like this will be a big event. Per TMZ, Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston will host a virtual version of Kanye West’s Sunday Service,…
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Locked in the House (Like the Rest of Us)? Here Are Five Ways to Stay Civically Engaged
“Now, more than ever, your leadership is so necessary. Do not abandon your responsibilities and your role to be a leader in your community, just because we’re in the house. It just requires us to pivot and use different tools and resources to then move our community forward.” —Tiffany D. Loftin, director of the NAACP…
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NFL Hall of Famer Bobby Mitchell Dies at 84
NFL Hall of Famer and former Washington Redskins player Bobby Mitchell, the first black player for the franchise, passed away Sunday at the age 84, according to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Born Robert Cornelius Mitchell on June 6, 1935 in Hot Springs, Ark., he was a seventh-round pick in the 1958 NFL draft…
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Who All Gon' Be There? With Social Distancing a Thing Now, the NFL Draft Might Be the Next Big Virtual Party
Despite President “China Virus’” ‘insistence that the NFL season should start on time, there’s this thing called the COVID-19—perhaps you’ve heard of it?—that’s doing everything humanly possible to disrupt those plans. Of immediate concern is the NFL Draft, which was originally set to take place in Las Vegas on April 23, but shelter-in-place orders have…
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Mississippi State Football Player Announces He's Transferring Days After Coach Posts Tweet With a Noose
Two days after Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach posted an offensive meme of an elderly woman knitting a noose, defensive tackle Fabien Lovett announced in a tweet that he will be transferring from the university, USA Today reports. Leach’s tweet—which was captioned, “After 2 weeks of quarantine with her husband, Gertrude decided to knit…
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Simone Biles Publicly Addresses Olympics Postponement: It 'Takes a Toll on Your Mind'
The top of 2020 was shaping up to be a banner year for Simone Biles. Widely looked at as the best women’s gymnast of all time, all eyes were on the 23-year-old reigning world champion to see if she’d repeat her stellar performance from the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Then, the coronavirus…
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The 'Forgotten Population': Yusef Salaam Speaks Out About COVID-19 and the Prison Industrial Complex
“There’s going to be a more serious health crisis as it relates to the prison industrial complex and a prison population. Whatever we are seeing in the world is going to be times ten—it’s going to be magnified in the prison industrial complex.” —Yusef Salaam, Ph.D. text In the state of New York alone, there…