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Will Smith stopped by Crooked Media’s Pod Save America podcast where he once again floated the idea of running for political office one day. “I think for now I’ll let that office get cleaned up a little bit and then I’ll consider that at some point down the line,” Smith said. “I absolutely have an opinion, I’m […]
A rooster equipped with a three-inch blade tied to its leg slashed open the groin of its owners during the staging of an illegal cockfight in southern India last week, according to authorities. The bird was reported to have been fluttering out of panic when it accidentally gashed 45-year-old Thangulla Satish. Police inspector B. Jeevan says that Satish […]
A Sacramento plastic surgeon is under fire after logging into Zoom traffic court while simultaneously conducting an operation, representing the latest instance of some COVID-19-induced court proceedings being weird enough to generate national headlines. (The champion of this genre is still that Texas lawyer who couldn’t turn off the cat filter.) According to NBC News, Dr. Scott […]
Georgia high school teacher Susan McCoy has received a lot of justified criticism after she suggested Breonna Taylor was responsible for her own death. The forensics teacher has gotten calls for her to be fired from her job at Pebblebrook High School in Mableton, Georgia, the Courier Journal reports. “I’m sorry she was killed, but you know […]
Jay-Z launched his cannabis line Monogram not too long ago, and now the brand is challenging national drug policy with a new awareness campaign. On Monday, Monogram launched the campaign, which is heavily critical of the war on drugs, specifically when it comes to Black Americans. The campaign highlights the hypocrisy inherent in current cannabis […]
Gucci, by way of the brand’s social impact initiative Gucci Changemakers, has announced a new collaboration with Detroit designer Tommey Walker and his Detroit Vs. Everybody label featuring a run of t-shirts benefiting various non-profit organizations. “Simply stated, there is nothing more inclusive and nothing more powerful than the concept of ‘Everybody,’ and the power […]
Donald Trump dispelled rumors that he would start a third party outside of the GOP during his CPAC speech on Sunday. The former president said he’s behind the Republican Party, the same one that the one-time political outsider dominated to become the 45th president of the United States. Though Trump has run in other elections as an […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has asked the state’s attorney general and chief appeals court judge to launch a harassment investigation, following Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s calls for an independent probe. The Associated Press reports that Cuomo has asked Attorney General Letitia James and Janet DiFiore, chief judge of the Court of Appeals, to jointly appoint an independent […]
In 2019, while 61 percent of white households owned stock, only 33.5 percent of Black households owned stock. And while minority stock ownership narrowed between 2016 and 2019, according to the Associated Press, the COVID-19 pandemic and acute recession have “widened the gap again.” In addition to the disparities between Black and white stock owners, […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called for an independent investigation following reports of a second former aide who has accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment. “Lindsey Boylan and Charlotte Bennett’s detailed accounts of sexual harassment by Gov. Cuomo are extremely serious and painful to read,” AOC wrote on Twitter on Sunday. “There must be an independent […]
