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Monday, May 3, 2021

Tornado Touches Down in Atlanta Area; 100 Million People Could Be at Risk as Severe Storms Headed Down South

A tornado–kind of like one the one that took Dorothy from her Kansas farm to Oz–touched down in the Atlanta area and severe weather is still threatening some 100 million people from “the southern Plains through the Mid-Atlantic.”

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Author Ibram X. Kendi Pivots to Podcasting With Be Antiracist Set for June

If you aren’t familiar with the name Ibram X. Kendi, you should be.

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'We Can Do Better, Improve, and Transform': Grammys Interim President Harvey Mason Jr. on Eliminating 'Secret' Nominating Committees

Though this year’s Grammys celebration proved to be a major moment for a couple of history-making Houston hotties, it wasn’t without its fair share of criticism and critique.

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Since VSB Is Changing, VSB Is Going to Change

Friday was a fairly emotional day for me. If I’m being honest, all of last week was. I’ve known Friday was Damon’s last day at VSB for quite some time; no decision as gargantuan as deciding to step away from something you created happens overnight. Yet, even knowing it was coming Friday just felt...huge. I couldn’t…

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Trevor Noah, H.E.R., Big Sean, Oprah and More Come Together to Recognize Mental Health Awareness Month

If we’ve learned anything this past year, it’s that life is too short and unpredictable to continue to put our sanity and safety on the back burner. Whether that realization manifested itself in a positive or negative way, it’s pretty safe to say that the events of 2020 (and its third cousin, twice removed, 2021) have…

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