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Monday, August 30, 2021

FedEx + Nascar + HBCUs?

Proud to take this special #FedExCares Toyota to @DAYTONA, promoting the long-standing relationship between @FedEx and HBCUs. Driving change and helping raise awareness. Now let's go get this W! pic.twitter.com/z6k0oobBfa
— Denny Hamlin (@dennyhamlin) August 25, 2021

She Made Spam Callers Pay Up. Check Out How.

From Bored Panda -

Woman Reveals How She Makes Spam Callers Pay Her Money In This Viral Thread

By Rokas Laurinavičius and Mindaugas Balčiauskas

Unwanted calls, including illegal and spoofed robocalls, are the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) top consumer complaint and its top consumer protection priority. So as you can imagine, Americans receive plenty of them. But a Twitter user who goes by the name Miss Odessa has just posted a thread, explaining how Americans can make money off of them.

The Californian mother walked everyone through the multi-step process but some people, even though they appreciated the detailed guide, said the task seems a bit too demanding for their comfortable butts. Everyone wants free money.

https://www.boredpanda.com/making-money-from-spam-calls-usa/

Casino Workers Spill the Tea

From Buzzfeed -

Casino Workers Are Sharing Secrets Of Casinos And It's Super Fascinating

These secrets are the jackpot.

by Ryan Schocket

1. "What we don't want you to know is how many people die in our hotels. Gamblers are risk-takers by nature — people come to casinos to tear it up. We bus in seniors by the thousands. Drugs and alcohol, nonstop consumption of cigarettes, lights, noise, spectacle!"

—u/Meet_the_Meat

2. "Slot machines are created by teams of mathematicians in a way that will always favor the casino, but at the end of the day are still purely up to luck."

—u/Apprehensive-Sir1988

3. "At the majority of casinos, they will state that there's a house advantage either posted on the walls or on the slot machines themselves."

—u/Apprehensive-Sir1988

For more, check out the link below.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanschocket2/casino-worker-secrets-reddit

Body Hacks That Actually Work!

https://youtu.be/KvP5p-xAflc

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

How They Retired at 40 and Moved to Portugal

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/19/how-this-couple-retired-at-40-and-moved-their-family-to-portugal.html

Young Lady caught on CCTV dancing outside her new place of work after ge...

https://youtu.be/wtqIwsCFTbY

Reparations Owed to HBCUs? Yes, But Don't Hold Your Breath

An excerpt from Black Enterprise -

A NEW BOOK MAKES THE ARGUMENT THAT HBCUS ARE OWED REPARATIONS

by Derek Major

Adam Harris' book The state must provide.
(Image: Goodreads)

While a student at Alabama A&M University, Adam Harris took a short drive to the University of Alabama-Huntsville and was shocked by the difference in the school and HBCUs.

Harris saw nothing but smooth roads, tree-lined streets, and new buildings. It looked nothing like the campus he called home.

“They had new and newly renovated buildings,” Harris told NBC News. “The library had longer operating hours and a more extensive collection. Potholes had been filled — if they’d ever been there. And very few of the students I saw that day were Black, which was interesting for a regional school because Huntsville is roughly 30% Black. But just 10% of UAH’s campus was Black.”

The visit made Harris wonder why the facilities at a white school founded in 1950 were better than an HBCU founded 75 years earlier?

Harris spent the next decade figuring out the answer to that question in his book “The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always Been Unequal—and How to Set Them Right.”

Harris, a reporter for The Atlantic, examined the history of how racial discrimination against HBCUs led to decades of underfunding and undermining that supplemented many of their struggles. Due to decades of bias and neglect by the federal government, Harris concluded that HBCUs are owed reparations.

https://www.blackenterprise.com/a-new-book-makes-the-argument-that-hbcus-are-owed-reparations/

Hospitals and Insurers Are Hiding Something

From the NY Times - (Make sure you're calm when you read this because it will likely cause your blood pressure to rise. - Faye)

Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Here’s Why.

By Sarah Kliff and Josh Katz Produced by Rumsey Taylor

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/22/upshot/hospital-prices.html?referringSource=articleShare

HBCU Young Entrepreneurs

An excerpt from Essence -

These HBCU Students Are Taking The Business World By Storm

THESE 4 ENTREPRENEURS ARE NOT ONLY YOUNG, SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS OWNERS, BUT THEY ARE USING THEIR PLATFORMS TO MAKE POSITIVE CHANGES WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITY.

Here are a few young entrepreneurs from HBCUs who are shattering glass ceilings, making an impact, and are well on their way to exceeding greatness. And you should definitely want to know about them.

COURTESY: BYKD

Tahir Murray, Howard University C/O ‘21

LegacyHistoryPride, also known as LHP, is a collegiate lifestyle brand that designs and develops apparel inspired by HBCUs and Black culture. The CEO of the company, Tahir Murray, is a 22-year-old graduate of Howard University’s School of Business. LHP offers a variety of apparel options from varsity jackets, crewnecks, t-shirts and more. With every sale, a portion of the proceeds specifically benefits the College or University through their Licensing Agreements. Beyond that, LegacyHistoryPride partners directly with the students and alumni of these institutions to develop collaborations toward the growth of scholarship opportunities. LHP has been featured on some celebrities such as Chance the Rapper and Chris Paul.

See more at the link below.

https://www.essence.com/festival/2021-essence-festival-of-culture/women-in-the-sports-business/

Black Creatives Leaving America

An excerpt from NY Times Style Magazine -

The Black Artists Leaving America

Building on the legacy of luminaries such as James Baldwin and Josephine Baker, many Black creatives are seeking out new possibilities abroad.

By Emily Lordi Photographs by Manuel Obadia-Wills

The poet and rapper Mike Ladd,
photographed at his studio in St. Denis, France,
on July 1, 2021.Credit...Manuel Obadia-Wills

“STEAL AWAY,” goes the traditional slave spiritual, a song that enshrouds a call to escape the plantation with an appeal to the afterlife; and Black Americans have responded to the original theft of the slave trade by stealing themselves back and away from the United States in myriad ways — to places beyond America, and to autonomous worlds within it that are defined by region and family rather than the nation-state. In the antebellum period, enslaved people who escaped joined Indigenous people to form secret maroon colonies in North and South America and the Caribbean, and white supremacist agencies found some free Blacks eager to join the cause to repatriate them to Africa. When Reconstruction policies aimed at social reform sparked violent backlashes and an increase in lynchings, thousands of Black Americans left for Liberia, a free nation with an elected Black government. Decades later, the Jamaican-born leader Marcus Garvey claimed to have inspired millions of adherents to his Universal Negro Improvement Association, a global benevolent association with its own dreams of African return. And throughout the 20th century, Black American artists and intellectuals including the sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois, the performers Paul Robeson and Nina Simone, the visual artists Augusta Savage and Romare Bearden and the writers Jessie Fauset, Richard Wright and James Baldwin traveled to Europe, the Caribbean and Africa seeking political alliances, creative opportunities and personal safety and sanity. Even when, in the 1960s, leaders like Malcolm X reconceived racial separatism in domestic rather than international terms — demanding that the U.S. government cede some states to Black citizens as reparations — activists like Amiri Baraka and Angela Davis sought refuge and revolutionary education in Fidel Castro’s Cuba, while writers like Julian Mayfield and Maya Angelou moved to newly independent Ghana. Many Black Americans have subsequently made new lives abroad for personal, creative and political reasons: the conceptual artist Adrian Piper in Berlin; the writer Andrea Lee in Torino, Italy; Tina Turner in Zurich; Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) in South Africa, among others. Earlier this year, Stevie Wonder announced his plans to move to Ghana, where the tourism ministry recently ramped up its decades-long outreach efforts to Black Americans by hosting a Year of Return in 2019.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/t-magazine/black-artists-expatriates.html?referringSource=articleShare

Sunday, August 22, 2021

The GBs do the BeeGees #stayinalive #dance #shorts

https://youtu.be/la93zRHulBk

Friday, August 20, 2021

Dubai Is A Parody Of The 21st Century

https://youtu.be/SacQ2YdVOyk

MIND BLOWING MOMENTS CAUGHT ON CAMERA!

https://youtu.be/j5ST4y9c900

Rules Former Presidents Have To Follow

https://youtu.be/to_hR0QJl80

Blood Brothers | Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali Official Trailer | Netflix

https://youtu.be/gvOAuxFCGeU

Thursday, August 19, 2021

61st Street Official Trailer | Coming Soon to AMC+ and AMC

https://youtu.be/QQpfF9trmi4

Who Needs a Hair Appointment?

From In the Know -

LINWOOD DARKIS WANTS TO CHANGE WHAT’S TAUGHT IN COSMETOLOGY SCHOOL

By Katie Mather

@getglamfam
Reply to @user4221449952744 honestly, the beauty industry kinda benefits on that ignorance, in my opinion.
♬ original sound - LINWOOD

https://www.intheknow.com/post/linwood-darkis-hair/

Fuddruckers Owned by HBCU Alum

An excerpt from Essence -

The Fuddruckers Franchise Is Now Owned By A Black HBCU Alum

THE ACQUISITION MAKES NICHOLAS PERKINS THE LARGEST FRANCHISE OWNER AND THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO HAVE TOTAL OWNERSHIP OF A NATIONAL BURGER BUSINESS.

BY CHANEL STEWART

COURTESY: NICHOLAS PERKINS

If there’s anything that Black HBCU grads are going to do, it’s take over corporate America.

Nicholas Perkins acquired the Fuddruckers franchise for an estimated $18.5 million dollars, making him the largest franchise owner and the first African American to have total ownership of a national burger business. Perkins’ Black Titan Franchise Systems LLC reached a deal with Luby’s earlier this summer to take over ownership of the Fuddruckers brand from Luby’s, a Houston-based reported cafeteria chain that last year began liquidating its assets and dissolving the company.

“We’re excited to be purchasing Fuddruckers and look forward to working with Fuddruckers’ many dedicated, highly capable franchisees to further build this brand,” Perkins said. “As a Fuddruckers franchisee, I have a vested interest in ensuring that all Fuddruckers franchisees have the resources, infrastructure, and operational and marketing support they need to maximize their return on investment. This strategic alignment, when combined with the fact that we sell the ‘World’s Greatest Hamburgers’™, will ensure the long-term success of the brand and our franchisees.”

https://www.essence.com/news/money-career/fuddruckers-franchise-owned-by-black-hbcu-alum-nicholas-perkins/

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