Wednesday, 26 August 2020

NBA players discuss boycotting games following Jacob Blake shooting

Celebrating your team's qualification for the next round of the NBA playoffs should be momentous occasion. But for players across the league, instead of enjoying the fact they were one step closer to an NBA title, discussions were being had about boycotting following the shooting of Jacob Blake by police.


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US racial inequality just as deadly as Covid-19 if not more, report suggests

Even amid a pandemic, life expectancy among White people in the United States far exceeds what Black people have experienced every year, according to new research.


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'It's like dating a guy that you know sucks,' says Serena Williams after loss

After relinquishing another lead and exiting the Western & Southern Open in the third round in New York, Serena Williams sounded a bit like 'Sex and the City' author Candace Bushnell, whose alter-ego Carrie Bradshaw chronicled the lives and loves of people she knew in the Big Apple.


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Two dead and a third injured after an overnight shooting in Kenosha, police say

• Second video of shooting surfaces • Jacob Blake's sister says she isn't sad. She's angry and she wants change • 'They shot my son seven times!' Blake's dad speaks out to media


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Aaliyah's music could soon appear on streaming services

Aaliyah's music catalog could soon appear on streaming platforms for the first time, it has been announced.


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Miami police officer's wife dies after she gets trapped for hours in the back of his work vehicle

Clara Paulino, the wife of Miami Police Officer Aristides Paulino, is dead after being found unconscious in the back of her husband's police SUV on Friday, Matt Reyes, the vice-president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police tells CNN.


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Kenosha demonstrators defy another curfew in third night of protests after Jacob Blake's shooting

• Second video of shooting surfaces • Sister: You all stood by and let it happen • Jacob Blake's sisters: His family is his world


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The most ridiculous historical arguments denying women the right to vote

Today, women being able to vote is a given. A no-brainer. A natural, non-negotiable insurance of a Constitution designed to provide equality for all people. But before the 19th Amendment was ratified 100 years ago in 1920, ensuring all women the right to vote*, people invented all sorts of reasons why they didn't belong at the polls. (*Assuming you weren't Black or disabled.)


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Central Park is unveiling a statue of women's rights pioneers. It's the park's first statue of real women

New York's Central Park is set to unveil a statue of women's rights pioneers Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth -- marking the park's first statue of real-life women.


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