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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 […]
On Wednesday, a federal appeals court ordered the dismissal of the case against Donald Trump’s ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn. The Associated Press reports that the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said that the Justice Department’s decision to drop charges against Flynn on May 7 concludes the case, despite Flynn having previously pleaded […]
The exhaustingly long history of art-averse political figures missing the point of musical expression entirely continues in 2020 with the Trump campaign’s use of the Panic! at the Disco hit “High Hopes.” In case you missed it, and hopefully you did, the Trump team used the 2018 Pray for the Wicked single at a recent gathering of dumbfucks […]
Chrystul Kizer, a 19-year-old survivor of sexual violence who’s been incarcerated for nearly two years in connection with a killing widely believed to have been done in self-defense, has been released from jail. The Chicago Community Bond Fund announced the release in an extended public statement this week, confirming that the $400,000 bond (reduced from […]
