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Woodstock 50 has ended a major legal battle. According to Billboard, organizers of the ill-fated festival quietly settled their lawsuit against Japanese marketing firm Dentsu in late 2020. Woodstock 50 sued the Tokyo-based company in April of last year, alleging the investor had “secretly decided to abandon, and then sabotage” the anniversary event just months before its scheduled kickoff. The plaintiffs […]
The mass COVID-19 vaccination site at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles shut down on Saturday afternoon after dozens of protesters blocked the entrance, preventing hundreds of people from receiving their vaccine after waiting in line for hours. According to the Los Angeles Times, the protest included anti-vaxxers and far-right conspiracy theorists who crowded the entrance […]
White New Yorkers descended on a COVID-19 vaccination site set up in a Latino community, taking vaccines from people of color living in the neighborhood. According to a report from CNN, the clinic launched on Jan. 14 at the Armory Track & Field Center in Washington Heights, a neighborhood that was hit hard by the […]
The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for helping bring awareness to racial justice worldwide. USA Today reports that Norwegian Parliament member Petter Eide nominated the organization because the protests against police brutality and systemic racism in the United States reached international recognition. “To carry forward a movement of […]
After the insurrection at the U.S Capitol building by pro-Trump extremist failed, it looks as though the aftermath has shaken up the Republican party, making many Republican voters change affiliations. According to a report that Newsweek cites from The Hill on Wednesday, over 30,000 Republican voters across several states have changed their political alignment in […]
Like clockwork, the once loud and abrasive pro-Trump rioters who stormed the capitol building just a few weeks ago are starting to lose some of their once strong convictions to the failed second-term president. One participant in the insurrection, the virally pictured shirtless, horned man Jake Angelo, who was later identified and imprisoned after the riot, has now said that […]
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office has made a sweeping move that aims to keep sex workers out of the court room. On Friday, Kings County DA Eric Gonzalez announced his office has recently vacated 262 bench warrants related to prostitution and loitering for the purposes of prostitution. He also said his team intends to dismiss 850 more warrants, some of […]
Five years after Kim Kardashian was robbed in Paris back in 2016, one of the five alleged robbers has just released a tell-all book chronicling some of the events that took place that night. While it’s not clear why the individual who is currently arrested and awaiting trial would author such a work, essentially admitting to being involved in the crime, […]
Last week a Louisiana cemetery refused to bury a Black sheriff’s deputy because of its “white-only” sale restriction. Reminder, it’s 2021. Karla Semien, the wife of the late Darrell Semien, was told by Oaklin Springs Cemetery in Allen Parish that she couldn’t bury her husband there because of the 1950s sales contract that included language […]
Rep. Cori Bush has announced that she will be moving her office away from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s office due to concerns for her team’s safety. “A maskless Marjorie Taylor Greene & her staff berated me in a hallway. She targeted me & others on social media,” Bush tweeted of Greene, who has previously expressed […]
