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17-Year-Old Nigerian Scholar Earns Over $5 Million In Scholarship Offers from Top Universities In United States and Canada

May 10, 2021
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Having received 19 scholarship offers from top universities across the United States and Canada, 17-year-old Victory Yinka-Banjo has a world of opportunities opening up to her, and is carefully considering where she wants to take her academic talents next. (L-R): Victory Yinka-Banjo and two students she inspired/ Photo Credit: @VictoryYBanjo/Twitter Victory, a Lagos, Nigeria, native…

Publix pharmacies offer walk-in COVID vaccines in 7 states

May 10, 2021
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The supermarket chain said on its website that customers have the choice of the two-dose Moderna vaccine, or the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine Publix pharmacies are now accepting walk-ins for the COVID-19 vaccine at all of their locations across seven states. The Lakeland-based supermarket chain said on its website that customers have the choice…

Top nominee The Weeknd to perform at Billboard Music Awards

May 10, 2021
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The show will air live on NBC from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles The Weeknd will celebrate his whopping 16 nominations at the Billboard Music Awards with a performance at the show. Dick clark productions announced that the pop star will hit the stage at the May 23 event. It will air live on…

‘My Wife and Kids’ star Parker McKenna Posey welcomes baby girl

May 10, 2021
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Posey shared the news in a video post on Instagram, where the former child actress spoke directly to her new daughter, who’s named Harley. It’s always amazing to see kid actors grow up. Cute little Kady Kyle from My Wife and Kids, played by Parker McKenna Posey, is now an adult — and she recently…

Sentencing set in insulin injection deaths of 7 VA patients

May 10, 2021
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Mays pleaded guilty last year to intentionally killing the patients with wrongful insulin injections at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg Sentencing is set this week for a fired nursing assistant who admitting to killing seven elderly veterans with fatal doses of insulin at a West Virginia hospital. Still a mystery is…

Reversing Trump, US restores transgender health protections

May 10, 2021
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The action by the Department of Health and Human Services affirms that federal laws forbidding sex discrimination in health care also protect gay and transgender people The U.S. will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in health care, the Biden administration announced Monday, reversing a Trump-era policy that sought to narrow the scope…

Planted Drugs, Stolen Evidence, Arrested Cops, Trumped Up Charges: Hundreds of Cases Dismissed After Black Baton Rouge Narcotics Officer Reports Corruption In His Own Unit

May 10, 2021
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More than 700 criminal cases have been thrown out and local prosecutors say hundreds more may be tainted after corruption was recently exposed in the Baton Rouge Police Department Narcotics Division. An officer at the center of the scandal has been arrested twice, four high-ranking narcotics officers have been reassigned to different divisions, and the…

Black Twitter drags troll who said Phylicia Rashad ‘enabled’ Cosby

May 10, 2021
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It was a different kind of Mother’s Day “gathering” when Black Twitter formed like Voltron to school a user trolling “Cosby Show” mom Rashad. It was a Mother’s Day “gathering” of a different kind when Black Twitter formed like Voltron to school a self-proclaimed “Twitter historian” who trolled beloved The Cosby Show actress Phylicia Rashad…

Central Park Karen Part 2: Woman Falsely Claims 2 Black Women Threatened Her While Refusing To Return Phone Charger

May 10, 2021
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Source: Screenshot / YouTube A simple day outing morphed into a racist encounter for two Black women after they were falsely accused of assault and stealing their own property. A Black vlogger in New York City named Alana Lambert shared her experience on YouTube after she and a friend were accosted by a woman in…

‘Mama Was Finna Tell It All’: Fans Get a Kick Out of Kandi Burruss’ Mom Mama Joyce’s Reaction to ‘Verzuz’ Battle Between Xscape and SWV

May 10, 2021
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The “Verzuz” battle between R&B groups Xscape and SWV was the talk of social media on Saturday, May 8. After the battle, Xscape member and “Real Housewives of Atlanta” reality diva Kandi Burruss met with her mother, Mama Joyce. “Look who was screaming for me tonight,” said Burruss while holding the camera facing herself and…