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LeBron James, joined by his longtime business partner Maverick Carter, had an exclusive interview with Bloomberg Business Week via Zoom on Thursday morning, where he said the NFL still owes Colin Kaepernick an apology. “As far as the NFL, I’m not in those locker rooms, I’m not with those guys but I do understand that an apology, I have not […]
As a confounding number of Americans continue to behave as if COVID-19 isn’t real, the country has now broken its own record of daily cases. The U.S. bagged a record number of new coronavirus cases in a single day—45,557—on Wednesday, per an NBC News tally of new diagnoses. This tops the previous record for highest […]
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is the subject of a new Department of Justice indictment. Though the superseding indictment doesn’t contain any additional charges other than the 18 the DOJ unsealed in 2019, prosecutors argue that it “broadens the scope” of alleged efforts by Assange to gather and release classified information. Among the mentions in […]
Bomani Jones took Will Cain to task on his own ESPN Radio show Wednesday for comments about how NASCAR immediately responded to the story of the noose found in the garage of Bubba Wallace. Earlier today, Cain appeared on First Take where he criticized NASCAR for “rushing to judgment” in their statement when they classified what was found […]
Saniniu Laizer entered millionaire status last week after discovering some very rare and very big gemstones in Tanzania. According to the BBC, the country paid the small-scale miner about $3.4 million for two Tanzanite stones, which had a combined weight of 33 pounds. The dark violet-blue gemstones are only found in northern Tanzania and have become one of the rarest […]
Disneyland and Disneyland California Adventure will delay their phased reopening, which was scheduled to begin on July 17, Deadline reports. Both parks have been closed since March. The announcement was made on Wednesday, hours after California Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed the state had a record 7,149 new coronavirus cases the previous day. Disneyland will now […]
On Tuesday afternoon the New York City Housing Authority tweeted out praise to the Shawn Carter Foundation, as well as Jack Dorsey’s Start Small Foundation, after using “a generous donation” from those charities to purchase supermarket gift cards for residents in the Marcy, Sumner, and Tompkins housing projects. For background (since it’s a pretty brief tweet) in […]
A 46-year-old Black has sued Georgia police officers for “unnecessary and excessive” use of force. According to the Valdosta Daily Times, Antonio Arnelo Smith filed the lawsuit in federal court last Friday, nearly five months after Valdosta officers mistook him for a panhandling suspect. Bodycam footage of the Feb. 8 incident shows white officers confronting Smith outside a Walgreens. […]
Following up on a similar act of generosity that we’ll get to in a second, TMZ reports that Jeopardy! mainstay and GOAT gameshow host Alex Trebek has donated $500,000 to a homeless shelter charity looking to get a new facility up and running in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley by next year. Trebek’s sizable contribution to the […]
Attempting to stack up political confidence ahead of an election by touting polls is, as recent history has made quite clear, not a good idea. Still, it’s hard not to at least pay a bit of attention to a fresh poll from the New York Times and Sienna College in which Joe Biden takes 50 percent and […]
