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The Bethel School District has fired first-year wrestling coach Dave Hollenbeck for mocking the tragic death of George Floyd on Facebook, KOMO News reports. “His behavior was not consistent with our equity initiatives and nondiscrimination policies,” a school spokesperson said in a statement. The post shows Hollenbeck lying on the ground giving a thumbs up gesture with a smile on his face […]
Christian Cooper, the black man who recorded his unnecessarily tense interaction with a white woman in New York City’s Central Park on Memorial Day after he asked her to put her dog on a leash, said on The View Thursday that he has accepted Amy Cooper’s apology. “I do accept her apology. It’s a first step. I think she’s got to do some […]
It appears that as County Attorney of Hennepin County, Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar actively pursued harsher sentences and plea deals, and more trials, boosting the number of imprisoned black people, while avoiding prosecution of police shootings. According to The Guardian, Klobuchar—now a Minnesota senator and a former Democratic presidential candidate—has been slammed for her soft demand of “a […]
An Arizona man was arrested this week after he allegedly held a black DoorDash driver at gunpoint. The incident reportedly occurred at around 3 p.m. Sunday outside an apartment building in Mesa. Witnesses told authorities that 32-year-old Valentino Tejada, a resident of the complex, was seen pointing a firearm at 24-year-old Dimitri Mills, who was on the property […]
Robert Kenney has become an unlikely internet star with Dad, How Do I?—a now-viral YouTube channel that offers practical life lessons for those who grew up without fathers. The 55-year-old told Good Morning America he decided to create the channel on April 1 and uploaded his first video, “How to tie a tie,” the following day. Since then, Kenney’s YouTube channel […]
In the latest episode of Red Table Talk, Jada Pinkett Smith got candid about her experiences with colorism—both as a witness and victim. The 48-year-old actress, who was joined by her daughter, Willow Smith, and her mother, Adrienne Banfield Norris, discussed the ways in which this form of internalized racism has caused a divide within the black community, and how […]
COVID-19 has now claimed the lives of over 100,000 people in the United States in less than four months, CNN reports. An average of 900 Americans have died every day from the virus. This staggering total doesn’t even take into account some individuals who passed away at home from complications related to the coronavirus, but were […]
Gabrielle Union has elaborated on what she says was “the very definition of a toxic work environment” during her time on America’s Got Talent. As you may recall, September 2019—just two months after the finale of Union’s first season on the talent competition series—brought word that both Union and fellow judge Julianne Hough had been dismissed from the […]
Antibody tests for COVID-19 could be inaccurate up to half the time, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The agency, as spotted by CNN on Tuesday, makes note of this in a new guidance message posted to the Interim Guidelines for COVID-19 Antibody Testing section of its official site. The CDC—following similar cautionary assessments […]
13-year-old California boy Jack Rico has just acquired his fourth associate’s degree, adding his name to a small but distinguished list of peers who also made headlines for snagging college diplomas at young ages. Not bad. People, citing his mother (Ru Andrade), adds that the teen got degree No. 4 from Fullerton College this past […]
