7. In 1992, Terry McMillan made the second largest paperback book deal of all time (at the time) making $2.64M for Waiting to Exhale, selling 3 million copies by 1995. Forest Whitaker directed the 1995 movie-adaptation.

6. On Valentines Day 1993, highly-scouted college basketball player Allen Iverson was arrested after a fight at a bowling alley, and spent four months in jail. The first black governor of Virginia, Douglas Wilder, offered him clemency and Georgetown gave him a full-ride…

NEW: ESSENCE's parent company Sundial Media Group to buy Refinery29 from VICE Media
Story on Axios:
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Insanity!!!

Renovation relic: Man finds hominin jawbone in parents’ travertine kitchen tile. Yes, travertine often has embedded fossils. But not usually hominin ones. arstechnica.com/science/2024/0…

It's called the Matthew Shepherd and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

James Byrd was a disabled Black man chained to the back of a pickup truck and dragged for miles by white supremacists. His 1998 murder was called the last known lynching.

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Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, born on this day in 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. Here she is performing “Up Above My Head” on the TV Gospel Time program in Chicago in 1965.

Bby said now research THAT

Chuck Berry once said his entire career was “one long Sister Rosetta Tharpe impersonation.”

Let's sit with that.

GENO WITH A BAR

in a documentary bro

I just cannot fathom educators calling in NYPD on their own students. It is shameful.

Read it.
Read it again.

Republicans in Louisiana voted to repeal lunch breaks for child workers.

Wrap your head around modern slavery.

This is the Republican Party today.

Breaking on MSNBC:

Trump attorney Todd Blanche asked who the DA's Office plans to call as their first three witnesses. Joshua Steinglass from office refused on the basis that Trump has been tweeting about them.

Judge Merchan said he doesn't blame the DA's office. Blanche said…

I have a student who is an asshole, and she knows she is lol well, she came back from Spring Break with an eye patch.

I ain’t let up on her Slick Rick looking ass yet!

She called me big back yesterday so I said “look me in my eyes and say it again”. She was fuming. 😭

Video shared by a protester appears to show NYPD Deputy Chief Timothy Beaudette responding to a verbal taunt by striking another protester in the head with a walkie talkie. I don’t know what went down before or after this.

The climate activists who protested Mayor Adams’ speech Tuesday morning were charged with forgery — for faking ABNY name badges.
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Maryland Supreme Court Justice Michele Hotten is retiring from service as an active justice on Saturday, when she will reach the mandatory retirement age. Known for her empathy and open mind, her time on the bench has also included many firsts. My story: thedailyrecord.com/2024/04/18/ret…

Scammers are calling people and demanding $1500 payable immediately to avoid arrest for missing jury duty. 'Legitimate government agencies will never demand immediate payment over the phone/threaten arrest if payments are not made.' Hang up, and report it to The City Of New Orleans.

Not even 24 hrs after making history as the first company to mass fire workers for pro-Palestine protests, google announced that the “(ir)responsible AI org” they announced after firing me, is now reporting up the Israeli office.

Clearly backing this genocide seems priority.