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Saturday, February 22, 2020

How This Guy Builds Mesmerizing Kinetic Sculptures | Obsessed | WIRED

I Draw Like A Printer ( Drawing Will Smith ) - DP Truong

MAPY VIOLINIST - Luv by Tory Lanez (Violin cover)

Black-Owned Restaurants That Defied the Odds

From the Huffington Post -

4 Black-Owned Restaurants That Serve Food With A Side Of History
How Patillo's Bar-B-Q, The Four Way Restaurant, Sylvia's and Ben's Chili Bowl have found ways to thrive.
By Shontel Horne

History remembers 1912 as the year that saw the sinking of the RMS Titanic, the election of Woodrow Wilson as the 28th U.S. president and the establishment of Arizona’s statehood.

But for a small town in southeast Texas, 1912 was the year an entrepreneur named Jack Patillo Sr. opened Patillo’s Bar-B-Q, a Beaumont, Texas, institution that is both the state’s oldest family barbecue business and oldest Black-owned restaurant.

Patillo’s is in an elite club of independently owned American restaurants that have reached their centennial, a feat considering various reports and studies have found that restaurants have, at best, a five-year lifespan. But for establishments that have remained owned and operated by Black restaurateurs, the rare accomplishment is a testament to resilience, particularly during tumultuous and violent moments in American history.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-owned-restaurants_l_5e1df927c5b6640ec3dc48dc

Black Polo Players

From The Undefeated -




https://theundefeated.com/videos/why-i-play-being-black-in-polo/

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Young Black Ballerinas

From People -

Young Ballerinas Celebrate Black History Month with Fierce, Misty Copeland-Inspired Photo Shoot
The young girls dance together at iRule Dance Studio in Beaumont, Texas
By Joelle Goldstein

Group of ballerinas BRANDIE PERRY/BEE PHOTOGRAPHY


https://people.com/human-interest/young-ballerinas-pose-photoshoot-black-history-month-misty-copeland/

Monday, February 17, 2020

Valentine's Day Flowers

An excerpt from CNN -

What happens to the Valentine's Day flowers that don't get sold?
By Scottie Andrew

They're donated

There are dozens of charities in the US that accept unsold bouquets from florists, repurpose them and donate them again.

Take Random Acts of Flowers, a nonprofit that donates bouquets to patients in hospice or assisted living care facilities. And Valentine's Day is the nonprofit's equivalent of the Super Bowl, said Christina Sayer, Random Acts of Flowers' director of marketing and communications.

The charity has three branches in the South and Midwest, which each receive around 5,000 to 6,000 bouquets of flowers every month. That number will likely double this month counting post-Valentine's Day deliveries, she said.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/15/business/valentines-day-flowers-what-happens-trnd/index.html

Sunday, February 16, 2020

Stuck In The Middle With You

50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

The O'Jays - Use Ta Be My Girl

John Legend, The Roots - Wake Up Everybody (Video) ft. Melanie Fiona, Co...

Higher Ground | Playing For Change | Song Around the World

Charlie Wilson - I'm Blessed (Audio) ft. T.I.

Bruno Mars - Count On Me - Lyrics on screen

For All We Know

Blessed Assurance

Salute to Kobe

Top 10: Animal Encounters on the PGA TOUR

How All You Can Eat Restaurants Make Money

Dustin Brown's Magic Tennis Points/Winners | Part. 1

Dustin Brown's Magic Tennis Points/Winners | Part. 1

Front lawn becomes a stage for a house-ridden boy

How to Spot a Leader

From TheLadders.com -

How to spot a leader in 10 seconds or less, according to 3 experts
By Deborah Sweeney

https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/how-to-spot-a-leader-in-10-seconds-or-less-according-to-3-experts

Justin Bieber - Love Yourself (Lyrics)

Saturday, February 1, 2020

Speaking 5+ Languages with my Polyglot Grandma

Why Dubai Built An Underwater Floating Train

The Savitsky Cats: Super Trained Cats Perform Exciting Routine - America...

Meet The Oil Tycoon That Was Once A Janitor | Blue Collar Millionaires |...

Greensboro Sit-In Honored

From Mashable -

Google Doodle honors 60th anniversary of Greensboro Sit-in
BY NATASHA PIÑON

Sixty years ago, four young students in Greensboro, North Carolina, staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter — and started a movement, spurring sit-ins throughout the country to protest segregation.

Now, the famed "Greensboro Four" — David Richmond, Ezell Blair Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan), Franklin McCain, and Joseph McNeil — will be honored in a Google Doodle, debuting at 11 p.m. EST on Jan. 31 and staying up for 24 hours in the U.S., until Feb. 1, the sixtieth anniversary of the historic sit-in and the first day of Black History Month. (According to Google, the Greensboro Sit-in is the most searched sit-in in history.)

The design in the Google Doodle is the work of Karen Collins, artist and founder of the African American Miniature Museum. The Google Doodle will feature a photograph of a diorama that depicts the sit-in made by Collins.

https://mashable.com/article/google-doodle-greensboro-sit-in/

Meet Lizzo’s Back Up Dancing Ballerinas

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Hymn for the 81%



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daniel-deitrich-evangelical-anti-trump-song_n_5e3114ebc5b6e8375f64ce56

Monday, January 20, 2020

How It's Made: Rubber Balls

33,600 piece jigsaw puzzle time lapse

10 Genius Inventions That Should Be Implemented Everywhere

The World's Shortcut: How the Panama Canal Works

The Mechanical Genius of Big Ben | Blowing Up History

Remembering Stuart Scott

An excerpt from the Ringer -

Cooler on the Other Side: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Stuart Scott
Five years after his death, friends, family, and the athletes he covered reflect on the legendary ‘SportsCenter’ anchor and ESPN icon. Boo-yah!
By Bryan Curtis

Smith: African Americans throughout the history of this country have been told that we needed to conform, to assimilate. That we needed to be less street, be less hip-hop, be less hood. Just be less. We had to be less of ourselves in order to make the majority feel comfortable. For Stuart to come along and be every bit as good and professional, as sharp, as polished as any broadcaster doing it, but yet still be able to be as authentic and connected and representative of the culture as he was—it was just incredible.

https://www.theringer.com/2020/1/15/21066392/stuart-scott-espn-sportscenter-career-death-broadcaster