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Jay-Z’s Team Calls On Milwaukee District Attorney To Terminate and Prosecute Police Officer Who Killed Three Men Of Color

JayZ Demands Action

Written by: @kristenshylin_ Jay-Z’s social justice organization is demanding the prosecution and termination of Wisconsin police officer Joesph Mensah. Jay-Z’s Team Roc sent a message to District Attorney John Chisholm in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “How many more people must die at the hands of Officer Joseph Mensah?” Team Roc …

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Quarantined in Costa Rica: The Longest Third Date Ever

Quarantine Costa Rica

Can you imagine being quarantined abroad for 79 days on your 3rd date with someone you just met?! @moviematt305 faced this reality with his date, Khani, as their five-day fling to Costa Rica turned into nearly THREE MONTHS stuck together after the coronavirus lead to cancelled flights, closed hotels and …

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Terry Crews Opens Up After Receiving Backlash Over His Recent Tweets: “Black People Must Be Allowed To Have Other Views”

Terry Crews Apologizes For Controversial Black Lives Matters Tweets He Made Following George Floyd's Murder

On Tuesday morning, actor Terry Crews made a tweet that did not sit well with many people. In his tweet, he suggested that the Black Lives Matter movement would lead to Black supremacy. ”We must ensure #blacklivesmatter doesn’t morph into #blacklivesbetter,” Crews tweeted. The television personality received responses from multiple …

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28 Family Members Contract Coronavirus, Father Dies

28 People Get Coronavirus

Written by: @kristenshylin_ A 60-year-old man, Vidal Garay, died the day before Father’s Day ahead of a celebration with his family, according to The Central Valley Business Journal. Vidal’s wife, Norma Garay, said she wished it was all a bad nightmare as she described the loss of her partner. Norma’s …

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Texas Real Estate Company Will Use The Term “Primary” Instead Of “Master” To Describe Rooms On Property Listings

Property Listing

Written by: @kristenshylin_ On Thursday, CNN reported that the Houston Association of Realtors announced its decision to retire the word “master” to describe bedrooms and bathrooms in its listings. As the Black Lives Matter movement progresses and demands to remove symbols of racism within corporate America, erasing “master” from real …

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Research From Florida Scientists Indicates Newly Found Mutated Strain of the Coronavirus Is More Infectious Than The First Virus That Circulated Across The World

Coronavirus

Written by: @kristenshylin_ “The virus has, under selection pressure, made itself more stable,” scientist Michael Farzan said. This month, the Scripps Research Institute scientific team published online that the mutant virus infects cells at a higher and more efficient rate. Scripps Research Institute is a facility where principal investigators and …

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U.S. Government Sent Stimulus Checks To Nearly 1.1 Million Dead People

stimulus checks

Written by: @kristenshylin_ The U.S. Government Accountability Office, an independent government agency that monitors government spending, announced that millions of deceased people received $1,200 payments by the end of April. According to The Guardian, a federal watchdog reported that the Trump administration spent roughly $1.4 billion on improper payments.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Payments …

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She Likes You, But Not Your Race

black men on race

by Cambreisha M. The topic she likes you but doesn’t like your race is a very touchy subject for black men. The fact of the matter is that if she has stereotypical views of your race that are negative, then she might like you, but not the race you come …

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Surfer Killed in Shark Attack Off A Northern California Beach

Shark Attack

 Written By @pistolwhippedya Around 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Ben Kelly, 26, was killed in a shark attack at a Northern California beach. According to CNN, California State Parks announced in a news release, that Kelly was surfing off Manresa State Beach on the northern end of Monterey Bay in Santa Cruz …

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Nicholas Johnson Named Princeton’s First Black Valedictorian In School’s 274-Year History

Princeton University

-written by @erinboogie Princeton University has named its first black valedictorian in the school’s 274-year history. Nicholas Johnson was an operation and financial engineering concentrator,  according to Princeton‘s news release. Princeton describes the ORFE program as providing “strong technical grounding in statistics, stochastics, and optimization.” As if that doesn’t sound …

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