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Source: Ric Tapia / Getty Kansas City Chiefs defensive end BJ Thompson is continuing recovery at home after suffering a seizure and going into cardiac arrest. This happened during a team meeting back on June 6. Thompson’s agent said in email to NBC News on June 11 that the 25-year-old football player is home and “making progress.” This update coming days after Rick Burkholder, the Chiefs’ vice president of sports […]

Source: Fair use photo / Fair use photo In today’s episode of The Beneficiaries Of White Supremacy Are Not OK, a right-wing group full of fragile and aggrieved white people with close ties to the Texas GOP is hosting a conference next month to encourage its attendees to embrace Christian nationalism and resist a Democratic campaign “to rid the earth of the white race,” according to the Texas Tribune. Now, […]

Source: OLIVIER DOULIERY / Getty Long before Supreme Court shucker and jiver Clarence Thomas voted to strike down the same affirmative action in college admissions that put him through law school and then later declared that the Brown v. Board of Education decision that desegregated schools was also wrong, he and his wife, Ginni, raised the Black grandson of Thomas’s sister Emma Mae Martin. In that role, they allowed a […]

Source: Pool BOUVET/DE KEERLE / Getty In 1964, at his trial for high treason against South Africa’s aparthied’s regime, the leader would speak from the dock, telling the court, that, “I have done whatever I did, both as an individual and as a leader of my people, because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background….I do not….deny that I planned sabotage. I did not […]

Source: Los Angeles Lakers Jerry West (44) in action, taking foul shot vs Chicago Bulls at Chicago Stadium. Game 6. Chicago, IL 4/13/1973. (Heinz Kluetmeier/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images) / Getty NBA icon and three-time Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Jerry West has died at the age of 86, according to NBA insider Shams Charania. The Los Angeles Clippers, who he was currently an advisor for, confirmed he passed […]

Source: Justin Merriman / Getty Brian Howey and Nate Rosenfield are examining the power of sheriffs’ offices in Mississippi as part of The Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship. More than two months after deputies were sentenced for torturing two Black men in central Mississippi, federal prosecutors have widened their investigation and may sue the Rankin County sheriff’s department for civil rights violations, a serious escalation that could lead to federal monitoring. Todd […]

Source: Ethan Miller / Getty As the 2025 presidential election looms, conservative circles are intensifying their efforts to usher in a transformative leader poised to enact Project 2025. The comprehensive four-stage plan, outlined in a 920-page document titled Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, aims to swiftly alleviate the plight of Americans burdened by what conservatives perceive as the detrimental policies of the Left. Led by the conservative think tank […]

Source: Carmen Mandato / Getty Drake’s fashion choice while watching his son Adonis’ soccer game has gone viral, with many social media users seizing the chance to crack jokes. As the summer gets underway, superstar rapper Drake has kept it fairly low-key since his battle with Kendrick Lamar dominated the cultural conversation for the past few weeks. But the Certified Lover Boy rapper popped up on Sunday (June 9) with a […]

Source: Anne Cusack / Getty The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died. A Civil Rights activist, Rev. Lawson spent his life practicing and leading others in nonviolent protests against white supremacist ideologies and laws. He died Sunday in Los Angeles following a short illness, his family said Monday. He was 95. Lawson was born in 1928 into a family of ministers. He grew up in Massillon, Ohio, where he became […]