Nike is adding June 19, a holiday called Juneteenth, to its list of official, paid company holidays. The sportswear giant joins a growing number of companies that announced this week they are making Juneteenth, the oldest known US celebration of the end of slavery, an annual company holiday. Twitter, Square and Vox Media also plan […]
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Ex-NFL star Emmanuel Acho ‘honors’ actor Matthew McConaughey for fronting up to talk about race
“How can I do better as white man,” actor Matthew McConaughey recently asked Emmanuel Acho as part of the former NFL star’s YouTube series “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man.” “You have to acknowledge there is a problem,” former Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Acho advised McConaughey. “So you can take more ownership for the problem. “Individually […]
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49ers CB Richard Sherman calls for more diversity in NFL
Richard Sherman believes NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s statement condemning racism was a good start to dealing with the issue. But the San Francisco 49ers’ star cornerback called on the league to do a lot more that just talk in the coming weeks and years to confront a problem that hasn’t gone away despite years of […]
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MLB opens draft with Black Lives Matter message, donations
Before the first pick was made, Major League Baseball delivered a message: The sport stands fully behind the Black Lives Matter movement. At the outset of the amateur draft broadcast Wednesday night, Commissioner Rob Manfred said “this moment is a call to action” and baseball “can do more as an institution” to combat systemic racism and inequality. […]
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‘He is going to change the world’: Funeral held for Floyd
George Floyd was fondly remembered Tuesday as “Big Floyd” — a father and brother, athlete and neighborhood mentor, and now a catalyst for change — at a funeral for the black man whose death has sparked a global reckoning over police brutality and racial prejudice. More than 500 mourners wearing masks against the coronavirus packed […]
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Trump eyes racial equality debate through economic lens
In his comments since George Floyd died, President Donald Trump has shared lots of opinions about the need for “law and order,” about fighting crime and the dangerous ideas of the “liberal left.” When it comes to addressing racism, not so much. Trump has remained largely silent on that, except to argue that a strong […]
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When the world goes absolutely crazy
When the world goes absolutely crazy, what do you do? When your life is in absolute chaos, how do you handle it? When nothing makes any sense, where do you find clarity amidst confusion? When there is madness all around you, where do you seek sanity? It has become apparent to me that the only […]
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Republicans tour Savannah as possible GOP convention site
Organizers of the Republican National Convention are giving Georgia’s oldest city a close look as a possible replacement venue for the August convention after President Donald Trump dumped Charlotte, North Carolina, as the site where he’ll accept the GOP nomination. Gov. Brian Kemp joined GOP convention CEO Marcia Lee Kelly on Monday for a tour […]
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‘Chaos in Georgia’: Is messy primary a November harbinger?
The long-standing wrangle over voting rights and election security came to a head in Georgia, where a messy primary and partisan finger-pointing offered an unsettling preview of a November contest when battleground states could face potentially record turnout. Many Democrats blamed the Republican secretary of state for hourslong lines, voting machine malfunctions, provisional ballot shortages […]
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#Election2020 – Georgia’s Democratic Senate race is too close to call
The Democratic Senate primary in Georgia is too early to call. In Georgia, candidates must win more than 50% of the vote to avoid a runoff. With more than three-quarters of the expected vote counted as of 3:15 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Jon Ossoff has approximately 49% of the counted vote. He leads Teresa Tomlinson, who […]
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Chloe x Halle are all grown up and ready to turn up
After the sister duo Chloe x Halle spent a year working on their sophomore album — which they co-wrote, co-produced and co-engineered — they sent it off to get thoughts from their mentor, King Beyoncé. Her royal response: It’s flawless. “When we sent her the album, she said that she loved it and didn’t have […]
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L’Oreal dropped this model for commenting on systemic racism. Now it wants her back
L’Oreal has asked model Munroe Bergdorf to advise the company on diversity and inclusion, three years after it dropped her for comments about systemic racism. The fashion company cut ties with Bergdorf in 2017 after she reportedly wrote on Facebook about “the racial violence of white people” following a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, […]
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Todd Gurley passes physical with Falcons, impresses Ryan
Running back Todd Gurley has passed his physical, clearing the final hurdle for his return to Georgia with the Atlanta Falcons. The Falcons said Tuesday that Gurley passed his physical on Monday in Atlanta. Gurley’s $6 million, one-year deal with Atlanta was made official on April 6. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the NFL didn’t allow players […]
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George Floyd’s brother tells lawmakers: ‘He didn’t deserve to die over $20’
George Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, told House lawmakers on Wednesday that his brother “didn’t deserve to die over $20,” asking them “is that what a black man’s worth? Twenty dollars? This is 2020. Enough is enough.” Philonise Floyd is appearing Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee for an oversight hearing on policing and law enforcement […]
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Text of testimony of George Floyd’s brother before Congress
Text of the testimony of Philonise Floyd, a brother of George Floyd, before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday: Chairman Jerrold Nadler and members of the Committee: Thank you for the invitation to be here today to talk about my big brother, George. The world knows him as George, but I called him Perry. Yesterday, […]