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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

How I Got Discovered: Models Share Their Stories | Teen Vogue

Time's Up Anti Harassment PSA

From the Fields to the Farm

An excerpt from USA Today -

Meet the farmworker's daughter who just landed a $350K scholarship to Stanford
By Cristian Ponce

SALINAS, Calif. — Everett Alvarez High School's valedictorian will attend Stanford University this fall, and one of the world's richest couples will be picking up the $350,000 tab.

Salinas-native Angela Gomez, 17, is just one of two Monterey County students to receive the Gates Scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this year.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/26/gates-foundation-farmworkers-daughter-stanford-scholarship/737077002/

'Lowlife' Colbert Video Chats With 'Lost Soul' Fallon & Conan O'Brien

Trevor Noah EVISCERATES the Civility Argument | The Daily Show

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Black Brew

An excerpt from the Root -

Meet the 1st Black Brewers of Georgia 
By Montana Couser

Chris Reeves and William Allen Moore of Down Home BreweryScreenshot: WXIA-TV

Here’s something you don’t see every day: a black-owned brewery.

Out of the 66 breweries in Georgia, only one is owned by black people: Down Home Brewing Co. Chris Reeves and William Allen Moore, the two men behind the brewery, started canning beer in March 2018 at BlueTarp, Georgia’s smallest production brewery, east of downtown Decatur.

https://www.theroot.com/meet-the-1st-black-brewers-of-georgia-1827105562?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-06-25


Another Day. Another Incident.

An excerpt from the Root -

Black Firefighter Conducting City-Mandated Inspections in Oakland Hills, Calif., Questioned by Residents, Reported to Police 
By Breanna Edwards

An Oakland, Calif., firefighter doing his duty to serve his community, conducting city-mandated inspections around Oakland Hills, actually had the police called on him, and on another occasion, he was harassed questioned and recorded by a resident who thought he was suspicious even though he was in full uniform and had his fire truck parked nearby.

Again, we are witnessing black people not being able to exist without being greeted by racial biases and sometimes the outright ugly face of racism.

“It’s extremely unfortunate,” Fire Capt. Damon Covington, president of the Oakland Black Firefighters Association, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “From the outside, it certainly appears to be unfair and unwarranted. The fire service is a microcosm of the world. Racism exists in the world, and it exists in Oakland and everywhere else.”

https://www.theroot.com/black-firefighter-conducting-city-mandated-inspections-1827099670

Saying It Without Saying It

From VerySmartBrothas -

40 Ways White People Say ‘White People’ Without Actually Saying ‘White People’
By Damon Young

https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/40-ways-white-people-say-white-people-without-actually-1827101126?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-06-25

The Ripple Effect of High Housing Costs

An excerpt from the New York Times -

San Francisco Restaurants Can’t Afford Waiters. So They’re Putting Diners to Work.
The city offers a case study of how high housing costs alter the economics of everything else, including restaurant service.
By Emily Badger

SAN FRANCISCO — Souvla, a Greek restaurant with a devoted following, serves spit-fired meat two ways: in a photogenic sandwich, or on a photogenic salad, either available with a glass of Greek wine. The garnishes are thoughtful: pea shoots, harissa-spiked yogurt, mizithra cheese.

The small menu is so appealing and the place itself so charming that you almost forget, as a diner, that you have to do much of the work of dining out yourself. You scout your own table. You fetch and fill your own water glass. And if you’d like another glass of wine, you go back to the counter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/dining/san-francisco-restaurants-service.html

If This is Low income . . .

An excerpt from SFGate -

A six-figure salary is considered 'low income' in San Francisco, and the threshold is rising
By Michelle Robertson

The Bay Area is so expensive, earning $117,400 a year qualifies you as "low income" in some counties.

Every year the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development releases "income limits," the minimum income level required to qualify for some affordable housing programs.

To be considered "low income" in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties, a family of four must earn $117,400 a year. "Very low income" is considered $73,300.

https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/low-income-families-sf-bay-area-hud-statistics-13024580.php

I Was There - Go Rattlers!

From the Tallahassee Democrat -

Rattler Redux: FAMU documentary celebrates 1978 championship
By Rory Sharrock




https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/famu/2018/06/22/famu-documentary-celebrates-1978-championship/723104002/

Dean Kamen’s FIRST Robotics Competition (Full Segment) | Real Sports w/ ...

How Norway Reinvented Prison

The Towns That Embraced Darkness to See Starlight

The world's most densely packed island - BBC News

Monday, June 25, 2018

Endeavour | Shaun Evans | Behind the Scenes | ITV

This 16-Year-Old Candy Salesman Is A Better Business Person Than You

Firemen Save the Day

From CNN -

These kids were carrying water in pots to fill up their pool. Then firefighters stopped to help.
By Amanda Jackson

Charlotte firefighters stopped to help fill up this pool on Sunday.
It was a hot summer day in Charlotte, North Carolina, and these kids just wanted to splash around in their kiddie pool. But the only way they had to fill it was to carry pots of water from the sink.

Thanks to their local firefighters with the assist on the water, the children were cooling off in no time.
"Today, after leaving a medical call, Engine 18 stumbled across a family desperately trying to fill up a kiddy pool by filling pots from the sink for a little boys birthday on this sweltering day," Charlotte Fire Station 18 posted on Facebook on Sunday.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/us/firefighters-fill-pool-trnd/index.html

Good Dog?

From CNN -

$10 million worth of pot found, thanks to police dog
By Amanda Jackson

Chicago police shared this image on Facebook showing the K-9 surrounded by the seized product.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/us/chicago-k9-officer-pot-bust-trnd/index.html

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