February 5, 2021
On Thursday, LeBron James reminded the basketball world why he’s the deserved leading vote-getter for the Western Conference for the 2021 NBA All-Star Game.
However, James would prefer to skip the trip to Atlanta on March 7 for his 17th All-Star appearance. In fact, the face of the league lambasted the reported decision to forge ahead with the exhibition showcase during a pandemic amidst a condensed season.
James was asked about the recent agreement between the NBA and players association (NBPA) in his postgame Zoom conference after brilliantly leading the Lakers to a 114-93 victory over the Denver Nuggets. The future Hall of Famer did not hide his feelings.
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Liberal NBCUniversal News Group has decided to give back by launching an initiative it said would address systemic racism and inequality by you guessed it singling out individuals based on race and other identity groups.
Leftist cable communications company Comcast put out a press release Jan. 14, 2021 discussing which “underrepresented groups” are the priority for NBCU News Group’s new “multiplatform journalism training and development program.” In the press release, Comcast announced that the new initiative, called NBCU Academy, would be part of the “multi-year $100 million commitment to help address systemic racism and inequality” that was announced back in June 2020. Another part of the leftist outfits plan included announcing its Fifty Percent Challenge Initiative, announced in July 2020. The initiative challenged NBCU to become 50 percent people of color and 50 percent women.
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Retailers and brands have ushered in Black History Month 2021 with an unprecedented barrage of announcements that address systemic racism within their own businesses, welcome Black entrepreneurs and employees to their ranks, and get Black-owned brands onto their shelves.
Following the killing of George Floyd last summer and a stream of other reports of police brutality, along with the fresh attention in 2020 on several high-profile incidents of racial injustice, there appears to be a moral consensus among retailers that ingrained racial inequities must be addressed, according to Jade Sykes, president of Diversify Retail, a nonprofit that advises
BlPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) brands on working with retailers.
The Fayetteville Observer
There is a cultural divide between Black and white Americans, but in the south, that divide is more blurred.
Culture, in terms of sociology, as defined by sociology associate professor Stacye Blount at Fayetteville State University, is the total way of life for people. Each group of persons has its own unique characteristics . that makes its culture different from other groups, said Blount.
During slavery, a lot of what the slaves did and created became Southern culture, from food to religion.
Francena Turner, FSU history professor said: There are ways that what we managed to make into meals has crossed and a lot of what s considered Southern culture in general is actually Black culture.