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TX Cop Fatally Shoots Unarmed Black Man, Family Called for Psychiatric Help

TMZJanuary 15, 2021

by TMZJanuary 15, 202101

Play video content ring.com An unarmed Black man was shot and killed outside of his home in front of his family … who say they called police to get him psychiatric help, but were told a mental health officer was not available. Ring video doorbell footage captures the final moments......

NFL hiring practices still concern Black coaching candidates

USA TodayJanuary 15, 2021

by USA TodayJanuary 15, 202101

USA TODAY – For more and to sign up click here USA TODAY As this year’s NFL hiring cycle unfolds, coaches and talent evaluators of color find themselves closely monitoring the decisions around the league, wondering how these moves will impact their futures. Could this year feature the breakthrough in......

A Republican senator from Oklahoma apologizes to Black constituents for seeking to disenfranchise them.

New York TimesJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 202109

Senator James Lankford, an Oklahoma Republican who spent weeks trying to reverse the results of the presidential election before changing his mind at the last moment, apologized on Thursday to Black constituents who felt he had attacked their right to vote. In a letter addressed to his “friends” in North......

Illinois elects first Black speaker after decades of Madigan rule

PoliticoJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 2021

by PoliticoJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 202107

Politico.com – For more and to sign up click here “Today will be the last time I talk about us as Democrats and Republicans,” Welch said in a speech to lawmakers after becoming speaker. “I want to talk about us as being united. We are going to work together to......

Tony Dungy criticizes narrative that Black coaches interview poorly

USA TodayJanuary 13, 2021

by USA TodayJanuary 13, 202101

USA TODAY – For more and to sign up click here USA TODAY Tony Dungy, now in the Hall of Fame, remembers going through interviews for head coaching positions, and how afterward he’d hear that the interview went poorly. “For years, that was said about me,” Dungy explained to USA......

Finding a Missing Black Hole

NASAJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 2021

by NASAJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 202106

Astronomers have no evidence that a distant black hole estimated to weigh between 3 billion and 100 billion times the mass of the Sun is anywhere to be found. Source link To Return to the Main Aggregate News Page – click here Break’n Pics – For Free Stock Photos –......

Trump supporters, not antifa or Black Lives Matter, waged war on U.S.

USA TodayJanuary 13, 2021

by USA TodayJanuary 13, 202101

USA TODAY – For more and to sign up click here USA TODAY Often during Donald Trump’s presidency, we have seen two realities. There are the complex and very real issues we’ve had to face as a nation, particularly as it has been ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic. Then there are the lies that......

Indonesia confident on finding second ‘black box’ of crashed plane

ReutersJanuary 12, 2021

by ReutersJanuary 12, 202101

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian divers believe they are close to finding the cockpit voice recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that plunged into the sea shortly after takeoff with 62 people onboard. Divers retrieved the plane’s flight data recorder (FDR) from the seabed on Tuesday and officials said they had......

Bitcoin is a good savings ‘Plan B’ for Black investors, says Isaiah Jackson

CNBCJanuary 12, 2021January 13, 2021

by CNBCJanuary 12, 2021January 13, 202103

CNBC – For more and to sign up click here Bitcoin pro Isaiah Jackson told CNBC on Tuesday that the cryptocurrency is a key way to fix economic injustice, and urged Black investors to get in on the digital coin as a way of long-term saving. “For the first time......

Smoked Sausage, Black Pearl, Ferrari Right: How Kansas City Chiefs creatively name their wild plays

ESPNJanuary 12, 2021January 12, 2021

by ESPNJanuary 12, 2021January 12, 202101

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — While experimenting during a break at Kansas City Chiefs practice earlier this season, Patrick Mahomes got the idea to go in motion before returning behind center to receive the snap. Mahomes later went to coach Andy Reid with an unconventional idea for a play using the......

Bruins to honor NHL’s first Black player O’Ree

ESPNJanuary 12, 2021January 12, 2021

by ESPNJanuary 12, 2021January 12, 202101

The Boston Bruins will retire Willie O’Ree’s No. 22 and raise it into the rafters this season, honoring him for being the league’s first Black player. The Bruins will celebrate O’Ree in a ceremony on Feb. 18, before a game against the New Jersey Devils. O’Ree, who debuted for the......

The Black vote has been a long time coming

USA TodayJanuary 12, 2021

by USA TodayJanuary 12, 202101

USA TODAY – For more and to sign up click here USA TODAY On the night of his historic election in Georgia last week, the Rev. Raphael Warnock talked about his mother, saying her “82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton went to the polls and picked her......

Blame racist health care system for Black distrust of COVID-19 vaccine

USA TodayJanuary 12, 2021

by USA TodayJanuary 12, 202101

USA TODAY – For more and to sign up click here USA TODAY Adom M. Cooper I received my first dose of Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in December 2020 and received the second dose on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Truthfully — I was nervous. Although tens of millions of Americans still wait for their......

Indonesia retrieves black box from crashed Sriwijaya Air plane – media

ReutersJanuary 12, 2021

by ReutersJanuary 12, 202101

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian authorities have retrieved a black box from the Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea at the weekend, KompasTV and MetroTV reported on Tuesday. The recording device was being transported to Jakarta port, the television reports said. Reporting by Fransiska Nangoy; Editing by Martin......

Sriwijaya Air crash: Indonesia’s black box locator damaged

BBCJanuary 11, 2021January 11, 2021

by BBCJanuary 11, 2021January 11, 202101

Indonesia Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737 ‘black boxes’ located BBC – For more and to sign up click here To Return to the Main Aggregate News Page – click here GoCoin – Latest Cryptocurrency News and Trading...

How High-End Restaurants Have Failed Black Female Chefs

New York TimesJanuary 11, 2021January 11, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 11, 2021January 11, 202101

In response, the company announced that its senior leadership was working with an inclusion expert, Dr. James Pogue, on anti-bias training. The company has vowed to keep “diversity and inclusion front of mind” in its hiring, a spokeswoman said, and to create “safe forums for everyone at U.S.H.G. to have......

Sriwijaya Air crash: Indonesia divers search wreckage as black box hunt resumes

BBCJanuary 10, 2021January 10, 2021

by BBCJanuary 10, 2021January 10, 202101

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Indonesia hopes to retrieve black boxes of crashed jet from Java Sea

ReutersJanuary 10, 2021

by ReutersJanuary 10, 202101

By Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian divers on Monday will try to retrieve the data recorders of a Sriwijaya Air jet that plunged into the sea two days ago with 62 people on board minutes after take off from Jakarta’s main airport. A piece of......

How Black users are saving Clubhouse from becoming a drab hangout for tech bros

CNBCJanuary 10, 2021January 10, 2021

by CNBCJanuary 10, 2021January 10, 2021016

CNBC – For more and to sign up click here Black artist Bomani X has been one of the key innovators of voice-chatting app Clubhouse, and now, his face serves as Clubhouse’s app icon. Courtesy of Bomani X Clubhouse, a social media app introduced in March, allows users to gather......

Black Southerners are wielding political power that was denied their parents and grandparents

CNNJanuary 10, 2021

by CNNJanuary 10, 202101

USA TODAY – For more and to sign up click here There was one place, though, that her mother dreaded visiting: the Deep South. Her mother saw it as a forbidding land of lynch mobs and “Whites Only” signs, where Black people went missing just for trying to vote. Burton’s......

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