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Reuters interview: Amin Abdullah died protecting others during the Islamic Center of San Diego attack, leaving behind eight children and a community calling him a hero.

Texas man arrested after driving Cybertruck in lake to test Wade mode

May 19, 2026 Club Can’t Handle Europe tour

The food has gotten so much better

Running select nights from June 12 through August 30, the event transforms the park with live bands, resident DJs, vibrant food booths, interactive games, and festive evening lighting

“Slave to the Rhythm” came out in 1985.
and still sounds ahead of its time. Today is Grace’s 78th birthday.

Grace Jones was born on May 19, 1948, in Spanish Town, Jamaica. She moved to Syracuse, New York when she was still a child and attempted modeling. American agencies didn’t really know what to do with her look at the time. After that she moved to Paris, where her modeling career exploded and she became part of the fashion/art scene there in the early 70s.

racist 🤮

108-year-old Susan Young Browne grew up on a 40-acre farm in Delaware without electricity or indoor plumbing, but never gave up on her dream of becoming a teacher. She earned a college degree and taught grades 1–8 in a one-room schoolhouse, becoming a living example of perseverance, education, and Black history spanning more than a century.

They should put this as a course in high school💈

One of the reasons I love visiting New Orleans is because of people like Big Chief Demond Melancon.

The man literally lost his home while spending years making his Mardi Gras Indian suits by hand bead by bead, and still kept going because preserving the culture meant that much to him. That’s the kind of dedication and pride behind Black New Orleans culture that you can actually feel when you’re there.

He forgot the last bit: "... as cheaply and as quickly as possible."

“Everybody Everybody” by Black Box is a classic, but a lot of people still don’t know the vocals were actually sung by Martha Wash.

She also sang “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now),” another massive 90s hit, and wasn’t properly credited there at first either.

After years of labels using her voice while putting other people in the videos, Martha Wash sued over it and ended up changing the industry. Her case pushed labels to start properly crediting singers in songs and music videos.

One of the greatest voices of that era and most people had no idea who she was.

AZ and NAS perform a medley of “Life’s a Bitch” and “So High” on last night’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon💫✨

1970s — Texas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Michigan, Florida, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland

1960s–1970s — California, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York
1960s — South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada

1950s — Arkansas, Tennessee, Kansas, West Virginia, Wyoming, Colorado, Indiana, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii

Already largely integrated or without formal statewide school segregation laws before Brown v. Board — New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, California, though many still had major de facto segregation tied to housing patterns and local districting.