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The multi-billion-dollar video gaming industry owes a sizable portion of its success to Black and Brown teen and young adult consumers. Yet, when you look at the percentage of minorities in the industry’s senior management and game development ranks,
Listen The University of Kentucky’s 2020-21 events calendar is filled like any typical school year’s: The 42nd Annual Kentucky Women Writers Conference welcomed attendees from around the nation. The UK Alumni Association celebrated homecoming. And to commemorate Black History Month, the Martin Luther King Center held its second annual Men of Color Symposium. There was one difference, but it was a major one: All of these events were held online. “The big thing is that this university has been around for 156 years, and we did not shut down because of a pandemic that ravaged the world,...
Unrest in Northern Ireland continued for an eighth straight night on Friday but protests were largely subdued out of respect for the Queen following the death of her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. The streets of Belfast were much less crowded than in previous days on Friday, when clashes pitted riot police against a crowd trying to approach unionist neighbourhoods. Demonstrations and marches that had been planned in unionist areas of the capital Belfast were cancelled after the announcement of Prince Philip's death on Friday morning at age 99. But violence still broke out in some union...
Lanegan embraces his love of gothy '80s alt rock this fun, sometimes danceable album Mark Lanegan has had one of the more resilient careers of any of the acts associated with the '90s grunge movement. That association was mostly geographical: his old band Screaming Trees were from Seattle, but started well before the flannel movement and their sound was more on the garage-psych side of the spectrum. He survived the '90s and drug addiction, and has dabbled in a wide variety of genres including blues rock, atmospheric folk rock, electronica, a few Nancy-and-Lee duet albums with Isobel Campbell...
0 budget deal may be painful indeed. the average american worker is currently out of work nearly 37 weeks, near historic highs. if congress does not act before the end of this year, 1.3 million of those americans will lose their life line, long-term unemployment assistance congress authorized back in june 2008. revisiting the theme of economic fairness and fair shake for american worker, this weekend president obama urged congress to extend these benefits. >> these are people we know. they are our friends and our neighbors. they sit next to us in church and volunteer in our communities. their ...