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Beyoncé is the latest recipient of the annual Humanitarian Award at the 2020 BET Awards, joining the likes of Muhammad Ali, Chance the Rapper, Alicia Keys, and last year’s honoree, Nipsey Hussle. Beyoncé is being recognized for creating the #IDIDMYPART Mobile Testing Relief Campaign with her mother, Tina Knowles Lawson, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The movement aims to provide free tests to the people in their home […]
Due to an order by Governor Gavin Newsom, California will close bars in seven of its counties (including Los Angeles County) in addition to recommending that eight others shut down the same operations. The order will go into effect on Sunday, and will be an effort to combat the rising spread of COVID-19, according to NBC News. For those wondering […]
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world hit more than 10 million on Sunday, the Associated Press reports. The virus still has a firm grip on European countries; there have been outbreaks in Switzerland and England. “We have seen flare-ups across the country in recent weeks,” British Home Secretary Priti Patel told BBC before claiming that the government is […]
Did Donald Trump prioritize favorable optics over public health? It’s definitely believable. According to a recent Washington Post report, the president’s campaign not only failed to enforce social distancing at last week’s Tulsa rally, it also took steps to thwart them. The outlet reports that hours before Trump took the stage, workers at the BOK Center in Tulsa had labeled thousands of arena seats with […]
An unpublished study by Spanish virologists suggests the novel coronavirus has been around much longer than we thought. According to Reuters, researchers at the University of Barcelona announced Friday they had detected COVID-19 in sewage samples collected in March 2019—about nine months before the disease was first reported in Wuhan, China. The team of researchers said they began testing frozen […]
The NBA has created an insolated bubble for the 22 teams that have a strong chance of making the postseason and winning a championship. Despite being far removed from the playoff picture, however, the remaining eight teams are not willing to give up on their season. On Saturday, The Athletic reported that the eight teams that […]
Nike CEO John Donahoe announced in a company-wide email on Thursday that the brand will soon be “forced to make some difficult choices” that will “likely result in a net reduction of jobs.” The email, viewed by Complex, comes after Nike posted a net loss of $790 million in its latest quarterly earnings report on […]
Audiences will have to wait a little longer to see Christopher Nolan‘s action thriller Tenet. Warner Bros. announced Thursday that the highly anticipated film will hit U.S. theaters in mid-August, rather than late July. As pointed out by to The Hollywood Reporter, the news comes after multiple states—including Texas, California, Arizona, and Florida—reported alarming spikes in coronavirus cases. In […]
Ron Barbosa had a bad feeling about attending a birthday party in North Texas on May 30 for his daughter-in-law, who was turning 30. So, Barbosa, a volunteer EMT who is married to a doctor, decided to skip the gathering among family members. Now, according to WFAA, 18 people in his family have tested positive for COVID-19. “When […]
Two weeks ago we told you that Chuck E. Cheese might file for bankruptcy. You can now change that might part to will. Late Wednesday the parent company for that host of legendary pizza parties, CEC Entertainment, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection while pointing the finger at the “financial strain” from the coronavirus as the cause […]
