A Ballin' Doctor!

An excerpt from Black Enterprise - 

COLLEGE BASKETBALL STAR BECOMES FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO EARN DOCTORATE IN BIOCHEMISTRY AT FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

By Jeroslyn Johnson

FIU

Chantrall Frazier made her way through college as a star player on the women’s basketball team. But she’s leaving the school having made history in another area.

As part of Florida International University’s 2022 graduating class, Frazier became the first Black woman at the university to earn her Ph.D. in biochemistry. Frazier brought her passion for biochemistry to the school after obtaining her bachelor’s degree at the HBCU–Savannah State University.

Through her groundbreaking research, Frazier received departmental funding and funding from the Dubai Police. The Florida Education McKnight Fellow and Florida AGEP Pathways Alliance (FL-AGEP) scholar’s work helped to pave a lane for collaborations with the FIU research community. She also created optimized protocols for examining human odor profiles to understand the odors that attract mosquitos.

https://www.blackenterprise.com/college-basketball-star-becomes-first-black-woman-to-earn-doctorate-in-biochemistry-at-florida-university/

World's Funniest Flight Attendant Leaves Passengers In Hysterics

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Flight attendant performs funniest safety routine

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Ray Charles Let It Be

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just the two of us - joseph solomon (bill withers cover)

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Oye Como Va ft. Carlos Santana & Cindy Blackman Santana | Playing For Ch...

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Google Career Certificates: Interview Warmup

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Interview Warmup

The “Impossible” Conversation About Guns In America - Between The Scenes...

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Dinner With Dad

 

@yourprouddad

Happy Sunday❤️. Is school out for you??

♬ gymnopédie no.1 - Edits

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What a Kid!

 

A 5th-grade boy is going viral for his beautiful rendition of Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come.’ Jordan Hollins' performance won him Best of Show at a local talent contest in Shreveport, Louisiana. If you have 60 seconds, this might be just the video you need to watch today. pic.twitter.com/gelGiO9SxU

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 26, 2022

The Same Story 21 Times

An excerpt from Buzzfeed - 

Every Time There's A Mass Shooting, The Onion Writes The Same Story. Today, It Featured All 21.

The Onion's editor-in-chief, Chad Nackers, explained why after the Uvalde shooting it reposted every variation of its story "'No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens."

By David Mack, BuzzFeed News Reporter

It jokingly bills itself "America's finest news source," but for years now the Onion has done exceptional, biting coverage of a very American phenomenon.

Each time there is a high-profile mass shooting, the satirical website publishes a variation of the exact same story.

Starting with the 2014 attack in Isla Vista, California, that killed six people, the Onion published a piece titled "'No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens."

In the years since, it has published that same headline 20 more times.

"It's just incredibly draining and it's hard to actually find like new angles on it," Onion Editor-in-Chief Chad Nackers told BuzzFeed News in an interview on Wednesday. "And this kind of encompasses everything and it just works so well and it captures the helplessness of it."

On Wednesday, the Onion published its 21st variation of the story — this time in response to the murder of 19 elementary school children and two adults in Uvalde, Texas, the previous day.

For the first time ever, the Onion devoted its entire front page to all 21 past stories and linked all the past pieces in a long Twitter thread.

"Today, it kind of shows how powerful that looks when the entire homepage is filled with showing that nothing has been done for eight years," Nackers said.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/onion-mass-shooting-story-no-way-prevent-this-uvalde

Goede Hoop Marimba Band | Education Africa

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Disgraceful

From Newsweek-

See the whole list @

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-senators-nra-funding-texas-school-shooting-uvalde-1710332

Senators bankrolled by the NRA:

Mitt Romney: $13,648,000

Richard Burr: $6,987,000

Roy Blunt: $4,556,000

Thom Tillis: $4,421,000

Marco Rubio: $3,303,000

Joni Ernst: $3,125,000

Josh Hawley: $1,392,000

Mitch McConnell: $1,267,000

Ted Cruz: $176,000

An absolute disgrace.

— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) May 25, 2022

AFRICA - Toto x Peter Bence (Piano Cover)

From Upworthy - 

https://www.upworthy.com/peter-bence-plays-toto-on-piano?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2

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Adam Ben Ezra - AWESOME UPRIGHT BASS SOLO

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Black-Owned AirBnBs

An excerpt from Newonyx - 

Black Couple Launches ‘Black Airbnb,’ One Of The Largest Lists For Black-Owned Airbnb’s On The Platform

“It didn’t take us long to realize that there should be an easier way for Black travelers," Jessica E. Boyd said.

by Jahaura Michelle 

Photo Courtesy of Travel Noire

The couple explained how difficult it was to find Airbnbs that Black people owned. However, they were determined to start the initiative due to the discrimination many encountered on the app. 

“It didn’t take us long to realize that there should be an easier way for Black travelers to book Black-owned or hosted Airbnbs. So, we decided to put together an extensive list of Black-owned stays all over the country, not only for ourselves but for the benefit of the Black travel community,” Boyd added. 

Earlier this year, the couple broadened their list by searching cities and listings on the platform, narrowing it down to a list with more than 200 plus Black-owned or hosted Airbnb stays across the nation. 

The company has launched Project Lighthouse, an initiative that partners with other organizations such as NAACP to dismantle the growing discrimination on the app. However, Boyd and Hughes believe their list is much easier for Black guests and Black hosts to find, offering a quick and immediate solution to the problem. 

“We’ve kept in touch with many of the Black hosts we’ve stayed with over the last seven months. We launched a separate Instagram account, @blackairbnbs, to amplify the Black-owned Airbnb listings from our blog and also share tips from the guest perspective to help [Black] hosts attract more bookings on the app,” Hughes said via press release. 

https://www.newsonyx.com/black-couple-launches-black-airbnb-one-of-the-largest-lists-for-black-owned-airbnbs-on-the-platform/

What's the Lesson Here?

An excerpt from Business Insider - 

There are 7 self-made billionaires under 30 on Forbes' billionaires' list this year, and more than half of them are Stanford dropouts

By Marielle Descalsota 

Left to right: Henrique Dubugras, Andy Fang, and Ryan Breslow.
Brex; Marijan Murat/picture alliance via Getty Images; Cindy Ord/Getty

Seven self-made individuals under the age of 30 were named in Forbes' World's Billionaires List this year. And of those seven, four dropped out of Stanford University.

The world's youngest self-made billionaires all built their fortunes by founding startups. All but two individuals are US citizens. They are collectively worth $16.1 billion, reported Forbes.

Brazilian-born corporate credit-card startup founders Pedro Franceschi, 25, and Henrique Dubugras, 26, are the world's youngest self-made billionaires named in Forbes' list this year. The pair founded Brex in 2017 after quitting Stanford eight months into their freshman year. Franceschi and Dubugras are worth an estimated $1.5 billion each, per Forbes.

https://www.businessinsider.com/richest-self-made-billionaires-under-30-stanford-dropouts-forbes-2022-4

Nikole Schools Chris

Nikole Hannah-Jones teaches Chris Wallace about white people

OPINION: Either CNN host Chris Wallace doesn't know history, or he thinks Nikole Hannah-Jones shouldn't discuss how America's 'greatest generation' fought against democracy for Black people.

By Michael Harriot

https://thegrio.com/2022/04/08/nikole-hannah-jones-teaches-chris-wallace-about-white-people/

Chris Wallace Goes At Nikole Hannah-Jones for Claim Greatest Generation 'Violently Suppressed' Black Voters in Heated CNN+ Exchange https://t.co/6q1RyKcwzi via @mediaite pic.twitter.com/X95MhXtt7e

— Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher (@tommyxtopher) April 7, 2022