Mike Henry has stepped down from playing the character Cleveland on “Family Guy,” the latest in a slew of White actors abdicating roles voicing animated characters of color. Henry, who also voiced the character on the now-canceled “The Cleveland Show,” made the announcement Friday evening on Twitter, writing that it’s been an honor to play
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Click here for updates on this story PERDIDO KEY, FL (WALA ) — Not even two months after re-opening, some businesses across Florida must take a step back as leaders across the state shut down alcohol sales at bars as coronavirus cases soar to record-breaking numbers statewide. Effective immediately establishments that make 50% of their
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WILKES-BARRE, PA (WNEP ) — Government Leaders gathered in city council chambers to address a serious problem they’re facing in the streets of Wilkes-Barre. “We have illegal fireworks are being set-off in the city with no regard for our elderly, the people with PTSD, our children and even
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New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday will celebrate its first public Mass since March, when it stopped in-person attendance during the coronavirus pandemic. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Catholic Archbishop of New York, will celebrate the Mass at 10:15 a.m. at the cathedral in Manhattan. Attendance on Sunday, and until further notice, will be
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLINT, MI (WNEM ) — Children will be rolling along this summer on new bikes courtesy of Flint Community Schools and Krystal Jo’s Diner. They teamed up for a bike giveaway featuring light refreshments at the end and smiling faces on the children. “Today is one of my
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLORISSANT, MO (KMOV ) — A man was seriously injured after being shot outside of the Waffle House in Florissant overnight. While patrolling the area of North Lindbergh and Charbonier Road, officers spotted an altercation erupting in the parking lot of the Waffle House around 4 a.m. One
Continue Reading Milton Glaser, co-founder of New York Magazine and famed graphic designer behind the “I ♥ NY” logo, has died, according to the magazine. Glaser died Friday on his 91st birthday, the magazine’s obituary says. His wife, Shirley Glaser, told The New York Times the cause of death was a stroke and that he also suffered
Continue Reading Police arrested six people Friday night at a protest near the Robert E. Lee monument in Virginia’s capital, after some people fired paintballs and threw things at officers trying to disperse the gathering, authorities said. The protest, a mile from downtown Richmond, was the latest in a string of daily gatherings near the monument, where
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Honolulu, HI (KITV ) — He spent his life fighting fires for the Honolulu Fire Department and for the last 88 days Jack Denis has been in the hospital fighting COVID-19. On Friday he is finally home. Both he and his wife tested positive for COVID-19 in March.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GWINNETT COUNTY, GA (Gwinnett Daily Post ) — Gwinnett County Solicitor General Brian Whiteside is asking the county commission to remove a controversial confederate memorial from the Lawrenceville Square that the prosecutor said has been the target of vandals multiple times recently. Whiteside’s request comes one week after
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, LA (KTBS ) — The reopening of a Bill Cockrell Park revealed a creepy problem — vultures — and a lot of them. “I was mostly answering questions about — ‘please get rid of these vultures,’ and ‘do whatever you can to get rid of them,’” says
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Facebook has removed at least four videos posted by a group accused of targeting California public health officers over their directives to stay home and wear face masks to prevent spread of the coronavirus. The move comes as health officers across the state say they have been harassed and received death threats from people angered
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EL PASO, Texas — As the week drew to a close on Saturday, El Paso had posted nearly 1,000 new coronavirus cases in that span, set a record for hospitalizations and saw its death toll grow to 127. Newly released health department data Saturday morning reflected 113 new daily cases and one additional death. The
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In the picturesque market town of Llangefni on the Welsh island of Anglesey, almost all the shops are closed and the town is empty amid the ongoing lockdown. The local Aldi and Lidl stores are being avoided by locals due to their proximity to the 2 Sisters poultry processing plant that was forced to close
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, NC (WLOS ) — Each morning, MANNA FoodBank calls a flurry of activity “organized chaos.” The frenzy peaks to the record-breaking need during the pandemic. “We have so much food right now our building is bursting at the seams,” says Tim Williams, MANNA’s receiving and inventory manager.
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Lewis Hamilton said it was “sad” and “disappointing” to see the former head of Formula 1, Bernie Ecclestone, claim that “in lots of cases, Black people are more racist than what White people are.” Hamilton — the lone Black driver in Formula 1 — took to Instagram to reply to the comments made by the
Continue Reading The BET Awards announced this week that Beyoncé will be honored with their prestigious Humanitarian Award at Sunday’s 20th annual show. The superstar singer and actress will receive the award in recognition of her BeyGOOD initiative, through which she has established several scholarship and philanthropic foundations. Most recently, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Beyoncé
Continue Reading Animal rights groups in Italy are calling on authorities to lift a death sentence on a brown bear that attacked a father and son last week on a hiking trail in the northern region of Trentino. Fabio Misseroni, 59, and his son Christian Misseroni, 28, were hiking Monday on a path on Mount Peller when
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, NE (WOWT ) — A thief who hit numerous businesses is now doing time. While several agencies investigated the cases, one of the victims worked hard to put the crook behind bars. Replacing a stolen piece of lawn equipment isn’t something Rob Elder would just blow off.
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Dixie. It was once a catchall word for the South. There are countless songs about it. Streets still carry the name, as do restaurants and grocery stores. But Dixie has also been a problematic label, carrying with it the ugly remnants of slavery and the exploitation of Black people. As America once again reckons with
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El Paso, Texas- Temperatures will be hot today, but some areas will escape the triple digits. Our main threat this afternoon and into the evening will be the possibility of seeing thunderstorms develop. Isolated at best for Las Cruces and El Paso, with our east counties having the better shot of seeing widespread storms. El
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Every morning, Dr. David Fajgenbaum takes three life-saving pills. He wakes up his 21-month-old daughter Amelia to help feed her. He usually grabs some Greek yogurt to eat quickly before sitting down in his home office. Then he spends most of the next 14 hours leading dozens of fellow researchers and volunteers in a systematic
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Champions League winner. Check. Club World Cup winner. Check. English Premier League winner. Check. Winning it all with your boyhood club. Check. For players and fans around the world such an extraordinary feat would be far beyond their wildest imagination. But for Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold, his fairytale dream has become a reality — all at
Continue Reading Twenty three people have been hospitalized and 206 have lab-confirmed infections after eating a bagged salad mix, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The cases, which are in eight states mostly in the Midwest, are infected with Cyclospora, the CDC said. The US Food and Drug Administration had been warning customers not
Continue Reading On February 14, 2018 brothers Adam and Josh Buchwald’s lives changed forever. “I truly believed that this would be the day I died,” Josh told CNN. Josh was a 15-year-old freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and Adam was a 16-year-old junior that day a gunman walked into their school and killed 17 people.
Continue Reading The British government says it will announce travel agreements with countries such as France, Greece and Spain next week as it reviews its policy of imposing a 14-day quarantine for travelers arriving in Britain. The UK decided to slam its border shut as it emerged from one of the continent’s worst coronavirus outbreaks in early
Continue Reading “The Simpsons” will no longer use White actors to voice non-White characters, according to the show’s producers. “Moving forward, The Simpsons will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters,” Fox spokesman Les Eisner said in a statement Friday. Over the three decades since the animated sitcom began, it has used White actors to play
Continue Reading Police are investigating video of an alleged assault that occurred at a Yogurtland in California where a woman is seen coughing in the face of a baby, allegedly because the mother was not maintaining proper social distance. The incident took place June 12 when a White woman described as being in her 60s was standing
Continue Reading Three people died and one is permanently blind from methanol poisoning after drinking hand sanitizer in New Mexico, health officials said. An additional three people are in critical condition, the New Mexico Department of Health said in a statement. “All seven people are believed to have drunk hand sanitizer containing methanol,” it said. The cases
Continue Reading On a blue-sky day in May, as the coronavirus raged across the world, the Chinese flag was raised on a remote nation with a total population of 116,000, thousands of miles from Beijing. The opening of a Chinese embassy on Kiribati, a nation of 33 atolls and reef islands in the central Pacific, might have
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