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10 Things Everyone Loves but I Pretty Much Hate
So there’s an unpopular opinion prompt thing going around Facebook—where you’re asked to list 10 things everyone loves but you kinda hate. I sometimes get annoyed with these sort of things because people don’t follow the rules and just start listing things that everyone hates (“1. funerals.”), but thankfully people haven’t been doing that with…
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Kobe Bryant’s ‘Mamba Out’ Towel Just Sold for Over $30,000
Imagine being so iconic, so renowned, such a household name that a sweaty towel of yours can be auctioned off for tens of thousands of dollars. Late NBA superstar Kobe Bryant was and still is that icon. According to the Washington Post, the “Mamba out” towel that Bryant had draped over his shoulders as he…
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A Death Sentence: As Jails Struggle to Stem Coronavirus Outbreaks, Delays Could Spell Disaster
On March 19, the chief physician of New York City’s jail system, Ross MacDonald, issued a warning on Twitter: “A storm is coming.” In a plea directed at city prosecutors and judges, MacDonald said he noticed how swiftly courts were closed in response to COVID-19. “This was fundamentally an act of social distancing, a sound…
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Lizzo Treats Workers in Several Hospitals to Lunch
During the confusing times we’re currently living in, we’re being advised to stay home. However, many companies around the country have been deemed “essential business,” forcing their workers to risk their health and safety by going to work in order to help others. Medical workers, especially those employed in hospitals, face the real possibility of…
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Can Coronavirus Cure White Supremacy?
Black people are crazy. Long before Donald Trump’s peer-reviewed research concluded that warm weather and Easter speeches could cure the deadly COVID-19, Dr. Samuel Adolphus Cartwright mesmerized America with his own pseudo-scientific discovery. On March 17, 1851, Cartwright delivered a paper before the most distinguished scientific minds of Louisiana (the same brilliant Southerners who believed…
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JP Morgan Announces Policy Changes After Battling a Series of Racial Discrimination Allegations
After a couple of years battling complaints of racial discrimination by both customers and bank employees, JPMorgan Chase & Co. has pledged to increase efforts to diversify its workforce and make changes to how eligibility for certain banking products is decided. According to the New York Times, a memo was sent to bank employees on…
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NBA Stars Set to Compete in Televised NBA2K Tournament
It has been almost 3 weeks since the sports went away. In that time America has tried to filled that basketball-shaped hole with Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Tiger King. If you need a break from your animal companions or can only stomach so much of white people doing the most, fear not. Basketball is…
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A Federal Court Rules Records in 64-Year-Old Lynching Trial to Remain Sealed
Lynching is one of the great stains on America’s legacy. Black bodies were regularly brutalized for the entertainment of the white masses, and justice was rarely ever served in these cases. In 1946, one of the last mass lynchings to occur went to trial and resulted in no one being indicted. The New York Times…
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NABJ and JAWS Come to the Defense of Yamiche Alcindor After President Trump's Attacks
The continuously escalating COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a need for President Trump to be truthful and to drop his compulsion to spread misinformation. Unfortunately, any effort to hold the president accountable is met with insults and derision. Journalist Yamiche Alcindor has recently taken the brunt of the president’s attacks and now both the National…
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Jay-Z Follows Rihanna's Lead, Matches Her Additional Donation of $1 Million Toward Coronavirus Relief
You can now add Jay-Z to the list of celebrities pledging to drop some coins as more relief is needed amid the coronavirus pandemic. After an initial $5 million pledge, on Tuesday, Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation (CLF) announced they would be donating an additional $1 million in grants. Jay-Z’s Shawn Carter Foundation is joining CLF’s…