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Charlottesville To Remove Confederate Monuments Saturday
  • 9 July 2021
A Confederate monument that helped spark a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville is set...
Charlottesville To Remove Confederate Monuments Saturday
In this Aug. 7, 2020, file photo, icons for the smartphone app WeChat is seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing. China’s most popular social media service has deleted accounts on LGBT topics run by university students and nongovernment groups, prompting concern the ruling Communist Party is tightening control over gay and lesbian content. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Chinese Social Media Giant WeChat Shuts LGBT Accounts
  • 7 July 2021
China’s most popular social media service has deleted accounts on LGBT topics run by university...
Chinese Social Media Giant WeChat Shuts LGBT Accounts
FILE - In this Friday, July 31, 2020, file photo, ESPN reporter Rachel Nichols stands on the court before an NBA basketball game between the Houston Rockets and the Dallas Mavericks, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. In a decision announced Tuesday, July 6, 2021, ESPN has replaced Nichols as its sideline reporter for the NBA Finals following a report detailing critical comments she made about Black colleague Maria Taylor. (Mike Ehrmann/Pool Photo via AP, File)
ESPN Takes Nichols Off NBA Finals Duty After Leaked Comments
  • 6 July 2021
ESPN has replaced Rachel Nichols as its sideline reporter for the NBA Finals following a...
ESPN Takes Nichols Off NBA Finals Duty After Leaked Comments
FILE - In this May 21, 2016, file photo, Nikole Hannah-Jones attends the 75th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. Long-standing grievances over the treatment of Black students, faculty and staff at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have re-emerged in light of the controversy over investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Carolina Black Caucus recently wrote that faculty members are looking to leave over current conditions. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Report: UNC to Vote on Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure
  • 29 June 2021
A decision by trustees earlier this year not to grant tenure to Hannah-Jones, even though...
Report: UNC to Vote on Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure
Lawyer Javier Villalba, left and John McAfee's wife Janice speak briefly with journalists on leaving the Brians 2 penitentiary center in Sant Esteve Sesrovires, near Barcelona, northeast Spain, Friday, June 25, 2021. A judge in northeastern Spain has ordered an autopsy for John McAfee, creator of the McAfee antivirus software, a gun-loving antivirus pioneer, cryptocurrency promoter and occasional politician who died in a cell pending extradition to the United States for allegedly evading millions in unpaid taxes. McAfee's Spanish lawyer, Javier Villalba, said the entrepreneur's death had come as a surprise to his wife and other relatives, since McAfee "had not said goodbye." (AP Photo/Joan Mateu)
Widow Seeks ‘Thorough’ Investigation Into John McAfee Death
  • 25 June 2021
The widow of John McAfee has demanded a “thorough investigation” of his death, saying her...
Widow Seeks ‘Thorough’ Investigation Into John McAfee Death
Flowers lie at the scene where a driver slammed into spectators at the start of a Pride parade Saturday evening, killing one man and seriously injuring another, Sunday, June 20, 2021, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Officials said the crash was an accident, but it initially drew speculation that it was a hate crime directed at the gay community. The driver and victims were all members of the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men's Chorus, who were participating in the Wilton Manors Stonewall Pride Parade. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Officials: Deadly Pride Parade Crash Appears Unintentional
  • 20 June 2021
A member of a men’s chorus group unintentionally slammed into fellow chorists at the start...
Officials: Deadly Pride Parade Crash Appears Unintentional
FILE - In this Wednesday, May 12, 2021, file photo, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Greene apologized Monday, June 14, 2021, for affronting people with recent comments comparing the required wearing of safety masks in the House to the horrors of the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Rep. Greene Apologizes for Comparing Safety Masks, Holocaust
  • 14 June 2021
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene apologized for affronting people with recent comments comparing the required wearing...
Rep. Greene Apologizes for Comparing Safety Masks, Holocaust
This November 2018 photo provided by the American Medical Association shows Gerald Harmon at the Interim Meeting of the AMA in National Harbor, Md. The nation’s largest, most influential doctors’ group is holding its annual policymaking meeting starting Friday, June 11, 2021, amid backlash over its most ambitious plan ever — to help dismantle centuries-old racism and bias in all realms of the medical establishment. Harmon, the group's incoming president, knows he isn’t the most obvious choice to lead the AMA at this pivotal time. But he seems intent on breaking down stereotypes and said pointedly in a phone interview, “This plan is not up for debate.’’ (Ted Grudzinski/American Medical Association via AP)
AMA Doctors Meet Amid Vocal Backlash Over Racial Equity Plan
  • 12 June 2021
Portions of the plan include the language of critical race theory, referencing the theft of...
AMA Doctors Meet Amid Vocal Backlash Over Racial Equity Plan
FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2020, file photo, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during an interviewed in her office at the parliament in Wellington, New Zealand. Tentative plans for a movie that recounts the response of Ardern to a gunman's slaughter of Muslim worshippers drew criticism in New Zealand on Friday, June 11, 2021 for not focusing on the victims of the attacks. (AP Photo/Sam James, File)
Plans for Movie on New Zealand Mosque Attacks Draw Criticism
  • 11 June 2021
The movie would be set in the days after the 2019 attacks in which 51...
Plans for Movie on New Zealand Mosque Attacks Draw Criticism
FILE - This Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007, file photo shows Pittsburgh Steelers' Najeh Davenport in Pittsburgh. The NFL on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, pledged to halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive functioning — in the $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims and review past scores for any potential race bias. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
NFL Pledges to Halt ‘Race-Norming,’ Review Black Claims
  • 2 June 2021
The NFL has pledged to halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players...
NFL Pledges to Halt ‘Race-Norming,’ Review Black Claims
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Yearbooks Recalled Over Student Citing Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’
  • 27 May 2021
Cambridge Junior-Senior High School stopped distributing the yearbook two days after it had started when...
Yearbooks Recalled Over Student Citing Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’
Stone Mountain
Georgia Park with Giant Confederate Carving Approves Changes
  • 25 May 2021
The moves were part of an effort by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association to address...
Georgia Park with Giant Confederate Carving Approves Changes
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The Poptopic blog claimed without evidence that Disney has allegedly offered Johnny Depp a USD $301 million contract deal for him to return as Jack Sparrow in another Pirates of the Caribbean film and a Disney Plus series.
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