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Michael Jordan has a new set of wealthy partners
Basketball is a team sport, and Michael Jordan, the owner of the Charlotte Hornets, has added two wealthy owners to the team and it cost them a reported $3 billion. Jordan recently announced that Gabe Plotkin, the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Melvin Capital, and Daniel Sundheim, the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of…
Read MoreJessica Fulton has been named interim president at the Joint Center
Jessica Fulton has been named interim president by the Board of Governors of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C. think-tank for Black elected officials. Fulton is replacing Spencer Overton, who has served as president of the Joint Center since 2014 and has been a member since 2013. Fulton has been…
Read MoreChicago Police Sergeant who led a botched police raid is fired
The Chicago Police Board voted to fire Sergeant Alex Wolinski, who led police officers to raid the wrong house in 2019 armed with a “no-knock warrant.†The house belonged to Anjanette Young, a social worker who had just gotten off work. She can be heard screaming at the cops that they had the wrong house…
Read MoreSouth African leads delegation to end the war between Russian and Ukraine
South Africa and other countries on the African continent have put together a proposal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, according to Aljazeera. “This war has to end because it is having a negative impact on the African continent and other countries around the world,†Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa, told…
Read MoreParalyzed New Haven man receives a record $45 million settlement in a police brutality lawsuit
Richard “Randy ” Cox, who was riding without seatbelts in the back of a police van, was paralyzed when he was thrown into a metal partition following a sudden stop, received on Friday a settlement of $45 million in what Benjamin Crump, his attorney, said was the largest national settlement in a police brutality case.…
Read MoreThe Supreme Court rules on voting rights, but there is a split between the only two black justices
In the high-stakes fight over Black voting rights, the only two Black members of the U.S. Supreme Court are split in the decision concerning “Allen vs. Milligan.” The court ruled that Alabama violated the Voting Rights Act by failing to draw a second majority-Black congressional district. Chief Justice John Roberts, said the high court declined to…
Read MoreIreland and Australia may reduce cow and camel populations to cut methane gas
Ireland officials are discussing a plan to cull or reduce the number of the nation’s cows by 200,000, and Australia is considering culling the camel population although the country has not yet set a specific number. Both proposals are designed to cut methane gas. Methane gas from livestock contributes to a major portion of the…
Read MoreA financial backer of the Tutsis genocide was arrested but he won’t be tried because he is suffering from dementia
Félicien Kabuga, once the wealthiest man in Rwanda who has been accused of financing the slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus was recently arrested in Paris for the crimes but he won’t stand trial because he is suffering from “severe dementia,†United Nations war crimes court has ruled. Kabuga was arrested in Paris in 2020 and…
Read MoreThe killer of a Black woman neighbor was released on $150,000 bond
Susan Lorincz, who shot and killed her Black neighbor through her home’s closed door, was released after paying a $150,000 bond in Ocala, Florida. The shooting of Ajike “AJ†Owens, 46, comes after the NAACP cautioned Black people not to visit the state because it was dangerous. Owens went to Lorincz’s rental house after she…
Read MoreFormer President Trump faces another indictment
Former President Donald Trump said he will be indicted for not turning over highly classified documents when he left office on January 20, 2021, said Jack Smith, Special Council to the Justice Department’s investigation of Trump. Trump said last night he is expected to report at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the U.S. Justice Department in…
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