Category : News Talk

Lizzo Bets On The Billion-Dollar At-Home Fitness Industry With An Investment In Rowing Startup Hydrow

afrotech.com - Lizzo’s latest business venture has led her to the billion-dollar fitness industry.In a funding round said to be around $200 million for rowing startup Hydrow, the pop star is listed as an investor, CNBC reports. Singer Justin Timberla...

Sheriff Villanueva To Defy Subpoena On Harassment Of Oversight Officials

laist.com - L.A. voters gave the Sheriff's Civilian Oversight Commission subpoena power; Villanueva has not once complied.Tweeted by @IssueFortyFive https://twitter.com/IssueFortyFive/status/1440106385039974403

After recall, work continues toward multi-racial democracy

calmatters.org - A diverse coalition will continue to engage communities on issues of immigrant rights, affordable housing, climate change and criminal justice.Tweeted by @HMoonBayPatch https://twitter.com/HMoonBayPatch/status/1440364267073519619

Group seeks to combat misleading information online

apnews.com - RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — A group of U.S. Black scholars, activists and writers has launched a new project they say will combat misleading information online around voting, reparations and immigration,…Tweeted by @DebDirtylooks https://twi...

The Capitalistic Ties of #BlackExcellence Are Linked to Internalized Respectability and Classism

wearyourvoicemag.com - #BlackExcellence is a methodology, an ideology, a marketing schema, and an aesthetic, and it deserves to be re-examined for its elitism.Tweeted by @oni_blackstock https://twitter.com/oni_blackstock/status/1440276673480433665

Durban conference on racism and intolerance: 20 years after, By Adeoye O. Akinola

premiumtimesng.com - As the advocacy for reparations gains momentum, the focus is on the UN General Assembly debate on the post Durban conference in September.Tweeted by @onyxgod32 https://twitter.com/onyxgod32/status/1440307373579460608

Women Are on the Verge of Being Forced Into Military Conscription Due to a Perverse Notion of 'Equality'

reason.com - Expanding government-imposed burdens to new classes of people is a bad idea, unless the goal is equality of immiseration.Tweeted by @JennyBristol2 https://twitter.com/JennyBristol2/status/1440399690252488706

Why Criminal Justice Too Often Goes Criminally Wrong

thecrimereport.org - Although everyone grasps in a general way that “stuff happens” in the U.S. criminal justice system, what most Americans don’t see is that once things do go wrong there is an elaborate architecture in…Tweeted by @Prison_Health htt...

Early Mexican Immigrants Blurred Color Lines in the Southern U.S.

daily.jstor.org - In the 1920s, Mexican immigrants to the United States challenged the country's notions of who was white and who was not.Tweeted by @FarEastDeepSo https://twitter.com/FarEastDeepSo/status/1440107758578278403

Being ‘Stronger Than Hate’ Means Addressing The Trauma That Can Lead To Violence

wesa.fm - Six months ago, a gunman killed 11 Jewish worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, in what has been called the deadliest anti-Semitic…Tweeted by @kenything https://twitter.com/kenything/status/1440296309726973959

Fury as Tories refuse every recommendation made by Scots MPs to curb drug deaths

dailyrecord.co.uk - It had been hoped the Tories could be persuaded to adopt the progressive measures employed successfully in many countries.Tweeted by @AlisonHarriso16 https://twitter.com/AlisonHarriso16/status/1440308785197694988

Israel and Yom Kippur: Time for a Day of National Atonement?

counterpunch.org - Yom Kippur—the Day of Atonement—is considered the most important holiday in the Jewish faith. Falling in the month of Tishrei, it marks the culmination ofTweeted by @dublinactivist https://twitter.com/dublinactivist/status/14401476...

Trump’s Afghanistan Deal: Surrender with Reparations

thebulwark.com - “Surrender is a strategy,” the eminent Eliot Cohen once quipped. And over the last week, it’s become clear that surrender is in fact the Trump administration’s new strategy in Afghanistan. During a p…Tweeted by @ManBradley006 https:/...

The Bible compels slavery reparations

sfltimes.com - LETTER TO THE EDITOR The Bible speaks on the issue of reparations. "Fools mock at reparations, but among the upright, there is favor" (Prov. 14:9, ...

Cork artist creates new work in tribute to US civil rights campaigner

echolive.ie - Cork artist Alex Pentek tells AISLING MEATH about his latest commission - designing a 16ft stainless steel flower outside an American school that ...Tweeted by @echolivecork https://twitter.com/echolivecork/status/1440216358998872070