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Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Marshawn Lynch spreads Christmas cheer after Seahawks return

After injuries ravished its fleet of running backs, the Seattle Seahawks brought back running back Marshawn Lynch, who brought the holiday spirit to his first media appearance on Christmas Eve.

READ MORE: Oakland Raiders’s Marshawn Lynch sits during national anthem, scores touchdown, then sets the internet on fire with throwback pic

Lynch and the Seahawks agree to a deal that will return him to Seattle football for a run that will include the final game of the season against the San Francisco 49ers and the playoffs. The Seahawks have also brought back Robert Turbin, another former running back.

“Happy holidays. Merry New Year. You all have a great day. It’s a great feeling to be back,” Lynch said according to Fox Sports before leaving the podium.


The last time Lynch addressed the media as a member of the Seahawks was before Super Bowl XLIX where he would dance around questions, not wanting to participate in media interviews but knowing he had too. During those sessions, he coined the popular phrase “I’m just here so I won’t get fined.”

The year before that Super Bowl he won a championship alongside Russell Wilson and the Seahawks in a rout of the Denver Broncos. Against the Patriots the following year, head coach Pete Carroll was scrutinized for not giving Lynch the ball in a goal-line scenario to win the game.

ESPN details the Seahawks lost their starter Chris Carson and back up C.J. Prosise to season-ending injuries this past weekend. The battle this weekend with the Niners will crown the NFC West champion.

“He’s an extraordinary person,” coach Carroll said. “He’s just been through so much, and we know him as well as I think you could know a guy, and what he brings and what he offers and all. He brings a lot to the table. He’s as physical of a player as I’ve ever been around, as great of a competitor as I’ve ever been around.”

ESPN also details the Seahawks kept their eye on Lynch for a run-on in case of an injury situation like the one they are currently in.

READ MORE: Marshawn Lynch allegedly calls it quits, retires from the NFL

Prior to signing, Lynch took a physical and participated in a workout, but many are curious about how he will fare on the football field. He was last seen at the RingCentral Coliseum parking lot in Oakland before the last home game there for the Oakland Raiders. He was serving tequila shots to fans. The last time Lynch played was as a member of the Raiders.

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White Iowa woman who ran over teen because she ‘was Mexican’ also hit Black boy

Police say a Des Moines, Iowa woman who ran over a teen girl because she “was a Mexican” has also been charged in another attempted murder case, charged with hitting a 12-year-old Black boy on the same day.

The woman, Nicole Poole Franklin, admitted to intentionally running over a 14-year-old girl, Natalia Miranda, in her car. She was charged with attempted murder last week after the hit, which followed her making “a series of derogatory statements about Latinos,” CNN reports.

READ MORE: Brutal stabbing of Black veteran at Oregon truck stop probed as hate crime

The 14-year-old wounded in the attack by Franklin states she was walking to school. According to KCCI, she has no returned to school after being in the hospital to take care of her injuries.

“I didn’t do anything,” Miranda said. “I’m just a girl just walking to a basketball game.”

Des Moines Police Sgt. Paul Parizek said before Franklin hit the 14-year-old, she hit the 12-year-old Black boy by jumping a curb. She ran over the boy’s leg and fled the scene. He sustained minor injuries from the attack.

CNN details an hour-and-a-half after hitting the girl, Franklin would use racist slurs at a clerk at a West Des Moines store then throw things at him. The clerk noticed that she was stealing from the store. That incident resulted in an assault, theft and public intoxication charges. Franklin would detail to officers she smoked meth within the past five hours.

The Des Moines Adult Public Defender’s Office has withdrawn from Franklin’s case, but she will receive a new attorney during her hearing for the first attempted murder charge on December 30.

READ MORE: Black Missouri man, 20, killed in shoe sale gone awry

“Looking at the three incidents collectively, the hate-filled motivation is apparent,” Sgt. Parizek said in a statement received by email.

“There is no place in our community (or any other) for this kind of hatred and violence,” Clive, Iowa Police Chief Michael Venema said in a statement.

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Black Missouri man, 20, killed in shoe sale gone awry

A 20-year-old Missouri man was killed in a deal for a pair of shoes that went bad. The Grandview Police Department were called to a home in the Kansas City metropolitan area at 9 p.m. Sunday and discovered Jaylen Blackmon on the sidewalk dead of a gunshot wound, according to The Daily Mail.

READ MORE: Slain Baltimore salon owner feared for her ‘life and business’

Blackmon and his girlfriend had gone to the home to purchase shoes from a teenage boy, the report says. They met outside the house, but upon realizing the shoes were likely fake, Blackmon requested a refund. He was killed while trying to get his money back, the report says. Police are still searching for a suspect in the shooting.

“There are no words to adequately express the heartache we are walking through at this time,” the family said in a statement. “Jaylen was the most tender-hearted, caring, fun-loving and joyful people you could ever meet. He was a friend to everyone and a best friend to all his siblings.”

His family said Blackmon loved cars, basketball, and music. The statement also notes that he loved his family, and going to church, among other things.

Blackmon was also a practical joker.

“He was a complete goofball and would light up a room. This senseless murder is a huge and devastating lose [sic] to our family and so many more. The only comfort we have is knowing that he is with Jesus.”

The family told KSHB the murder was “senseless” and have started a GoFundMe page to help with funeral expenses. So far the campaign has raised just under $6,000 of the $8,000 goal.

“Jay’s family and those whom loved him need our prayers and financial support during this terribly hard time,” the campaign reads. “They are unexpectedly having to plan and pay for a funeral. All finances raised will go directly to the Blackmon family for this very purpose.”

READ MORE: Missouri brothers, ages 8, 7, drown in frozen pond after going on bike ride

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President Obama’s tweet prompts ‘Merry Christmas, Mr. President’ to trend on Twitter

President Barack Obama issued a holiday message on Twitter, showing former First Family’s Christmas tree, alongside the message, “From the Obama family to yours, Merry Christmas!”

READ MORE: Obama family Christmas card wishes everyone ‘sparkles with magic’

The 44th president of the United States received an outpouring of well-wishes from Twitter fans, who returned the sentiment and let him know that his leadership was missed. The virtual love for President Obama caused “Merry Christmas, Mr. President” to trend on Twitter on Christmas Eve, and most of Christmas Day.

Don’t spill your eggnog, but here is a sample of tweets from fans:

While celebrating the Obama family, some Twitter users seized the moment to poke fun at Donald Trump, who was impeached last week by the House of Representatives. Trump complained after a Christmas Eve talk to the troops that he was being treated unfairly by Democrats during the impeachment process. He added that Senate Republicans would conduct the impeachment trial “however they saw fit,” The New York Times reports.

On Christmas Eve, former First Lady Michelle Obama shared the family Christmas Card on Instagram, showing Barack and Michelle Obama with their daughters, Sasha and Malia. Also in the image were their two dogs, Sunny and Bo.

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Missouri brothers, ages 8, 7, drown in frozen pond after going on bike ride

The tragic deaths of two young brothers are “going to be hard to get over for a long time,” said Opal Kamper, a neighbor that often spoke to the boys who died over the weekend after drowning in a pond.

READ MORE: Slain Baltimore salon owner feared for her ‘life and business’

Cleveland “C.J.” Hicks, 7, and Terrance Hicks, 8, went for a bike ride together on Sunday but when they didn’t return home when they were supposed to, family members went searching for them. That’s when the younger of the two siblings was found floating in a pond on private property in St. Clair, Mo. Divers found Terrance soon after, and both boys were pronounced dead later at the hospital, PEOPLE reports.

Sheriff Steven Pelton told CNN that one of the boys may have slipped into the water and the other attempted to rescue him.

“Ice is not safe until you have approximately 4- to 5-inch thick ice,” St. Clair Fire Protection District Chief Craig Sullivan told KWCH. He noted that the thickness of ice on ponds can be hard to determine as temperatures warm, “and with the weather temperatures we’ve been experiencing, we have not had a long stretch of extremely cold weather to thicken that ice,” he added.

“It’s just a shock to me, it’s going to be hard to get over for a long time,” said 93-year-old Kamper.

“They would stop by in the evenings and visit with me and I would always give them a hug and they would hug me,” she said. “I would always say ‘I love ya.’ I told them, ‘I love you,’ they knew I loved loved them.”

READ MORE: Brutal stabbing of Black veteran at Oregon truck stop probed as hate crime

The tragedy occurred just days ahead of Christmas.

“I had their Christmas gifts ready for them,” Kamper said. “And I thought, ‘Oh I won’t get to give it to them.'”

The Hicks family are reportedly in the process of setting up a GoFundMe page.

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Michael Bloomberg severs ties with firm that hired prison laborers to make campaign calls

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says his presidential campaign has cut ties with a firm that used prisoners to make calls on the candidate’s behalf.

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Bloomberg said his campaign used a third-party vendor to contract a call center company named ProCom to conduct calls for his 2020 presidential run. But when a report by The Intercept noted that two of the company’s Oklahoma centers operate out of prisons, Bloomberg said his campaign immediately ended the arrangement, The Huffington Post reports.

“We do not support this practice and we are making sure our vendors more properly vet their subcontractors moving forward,” Bloomberg said in a statement he posted on Twitter.

He entered the 2020 Democratic race late in the game, on Nov. 24. A source told The Intercept that some of the female inmates at the women’s prison Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center in Oklahoma have made calls for his campaign.

“The people were required to end their calls by disclosing that the calls were paid for by the Bloomberg campaign,” wrote reporter John Washington. “They did not disclose, however, that they were calling from behind bars.”

Bloomberg, founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP (parent company of Bloomberg News), claims he knew nothing about prison laborers being used to make calls on his behalf.

As The Grio previously reported, soon after announcing his Democratic presidential run, Bloomberg apologized for his support of the “stop-and-frisk” strategy, employed by the New York Police Department while he was mayor.

READ MORE: Bloomberg: I ‘regret’ impact of police tactics on minorities

The targeted harassment of Black and Latino residents across the city was supported for a decade by Bloomberg.

In a speech, the first since expressing interest in taking over the white house, Bloomberg stated “I was wrong” and “I am sorry” and acknowledged that he “can’t change history.”

He apologized to those wrongly stopped as a part of the policing efforts.

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Slain Baltimore salon owner feared for her ‘life and business’

A 21-year-old Baltimore, Md., business owner reportedly told police she feared for her life days after her salon was robbed of hair bundles worth $3000. Now, police are investigating here murder after she was shot in the head Saturday night, report says.

READ MORE: Baltimore on track to reach highest per-capita murder record as two women are slain

The incident occurred at Madam D Beauty Bar the 200 block of North Milton Avenue in southeast Baltimore. Police were called to the scene shortly after 6 p.m. for a report of a shooting. When officers arrived, they found Destiny Harrison suffering from gunshot wounds to the head, WMAR Baltimore reports. The victim was taken to an area hospital where she later died.

Earlier this month, Harrison filed charges against two individuals she caught stealing merchandise from her business. Upon confronting them, one of the suspects held her down while the other physically assaulted her. The couple then fled with $3,000 worth of hair extensions that Harrison sold at her salon.

In her written testimony, Harrison noted that one of the thieves had a violent background and she was “scared for my life and business.”

The suspects have been arrested and charged with assault, theft and burglary.

But police have not arrested anyone in Harrison’s murder. They, however, witnesses who were inside the salon at the time of the shooting will come forward with information.

“It’s unbelievable that some evil soul would do something like this,” said her uncle Dewine McQueen.

“Somebody gotta know something. Please come forward. We need to get these demonic souls here. They need to pay for their crime. There’s no doubt about that, in the name of Jesus, there’s no doubt,” he added.

READ MORE: Three Baltimore men have been exonerated after serving 36 years

In a GoFundMe page dedicated to the new mom, Harrison’s mother said: “We lost a angel due to tragedy that broke hearts all over Baltimore . We are asking that if anyone have any monetary donations we would greatly appreciate the help to lay my beautiful daughter in peace.”

Anyone with information about Harrison’s death should contact homicide detectives at 410-396-2100 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7Lockup.

 

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Obama family Christmas card wishes everyone ‘sparkles with magic’

The Obama family wishes everyone a “holiday season that sparkles with magic and wonder and a new year filled with peace and hope.”

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The heartwarming message appears on the family’s Christmas card, which Michelle Obama shared online Christmas Eve. The card features a tree and a red flower on the inside, and is signed by the former First Lady, former President from Barack Obama, and daughters Sasha and Malia. The family’s two dogs, Bo and Sunny, are even included, as their paw prints appear on the card, The Huffington Post reports.

Michelle Obama posted the card on Instagram, and she captioned the post, “Wishing you a holiday season filled with friends, family, and joy.”

“Thanks to so many you for sharing your hopes and goals with me these past few weeks in the comments and on my Instagram Story,” she added.

“This type of positive and thoughtful engagement from my ‘Becoming Family’ is a reminder that there are millions of us out there constantly striving to become more mindful, compassionate, and caring people,” Obama wrote.

She concluded by encouraging Americans to “continue working to become even better — for ourselves and for each other. #IAmBecoming.”

The Christmas card comes days after President Obama was spotted spending the holidays golfing in Hawaii. Video has gone viral showing him greeting spectators and cuddling babies.

READ MORE: Barack Obama makes case for more women in leadership: ‘It’s old men not getting out of the way’

In an adorable video that has racked up over 1 million views on Twitter, Obama is heard saying, “Who is this cutie pie?” to a family and their 3-month-old daughter, Riley Lewis. He then holds the baby and gives her a kiss.

President Obama’s is expected to drop his memoir next year ahead of the 2020 election.

Michelle Obama bagged her first Grammy nomination for the audiobook version of her bestselling memoir “Becoming,” receiving a nod for best spoken word album — an award her husband won twice in the past.

Now that both their daughters are off to college, the Obamas are staying busy working on film projects with Netflix through their Higher Ground production company.

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ESPN reporter Edward Aschoff, 34, dies of pneumonia on birthday

Weeks after sharing he was battling pneumonia, ESPN college football reporter Edward Aschoff died Christmas Eve on his 34th birthday.

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The University of Florida graduate detailed his sickness is several posts on Instagram and Twitter. In one post, Aschoff noted that he had a virus for two weeks, which later turned into multifocal pneumonia, an infection of the air sacs in both lungs, heavy.com reports.

“Covering #TheGame was a lot of fun. Getting pneumonia … not so much. But, hey, I’m a hockey player,” he wrote in a Dec.2 post while covering the Ohio State vs Michigan game.

Aschoff’s final post on Instagram on December 4 featured a photo of his fiancée Katy Berteau, along with the message, “Having pneumonia is pretty terrible. Like the absolute worst. But it helps having this sweet angel taking care of you even when she’s risking getting this soul-crushing illness herself.”

The Oxford, Miss. native worked for ESPN since 2011 and previously covered Florida football for The Gainesville Sun. He and Berteau lived together in Los Angeles and were planning to marry after she proposed to him while celebrating her 30th birthday last December.

Several of their friends and his colleagues and co-workers are sharing their condolences on Twitter.

“We are very sorry to have to share the devastating news of the tragic passing of friend and ESPN colleague Edward Aschoff,” ESPN said in a statement. “He died earlier today, his 34th birthday. Our thoughts are with his loved ones, including his fiancée, Katy.”

The network didn’t announce his cause of death, but as noted by the New York Post, Florida sports reporter Steven Abolverdi indicated on Twitter that Aschoff passed “after a battle with pneumonia.”

“Devastated to hear my friend @AschoffESPN has passed away after a battle with pneumonia,” Abolverdi tweeted before ESPN announced his death. “Ed was a big reason I decided to pursue journalism. He took me under his wing at the Sun and I’m forever grateful. Incredible reporter and an even better person. You will be missed!”

Jared Stillman, host of Jared & the GM on ESPN Nashville sang Aschoff’s praises on Twitter:

ESPN’s Jeff Borzello called Aschoff  one of the brightest young talents at ESPN.”

“For as good of a reporter Ed was, he was an even better person,” said ESPN executive editor Lauren Reynolds.

Aschoff mostly covered sports as an SEC reporter but he once opened up about racism and growing up biracial in the South during ESPN’s 30 for 30’s Ghosts of Ole Miss.

“Growing up a biracial person in Oxford, I’ve been around plenty of racial incidents, both good and bad,” he said. “There are always going to be people who say ignorant things. No one is perfect, but people need to realize that there are right-minded people in the state. It’s not the 1960s anymore.”

READ MORE: Brutal stabbing of Black veteran at Oregon truck stop probed as hate crime

In the same interview, he noted that his parents, who passed away years ago, “arrived in Oxford in the 80s as an interracial couple and stayed there until they passed away,” adding, “They never thought about leaving Oxford.”

Aschoff’s passion for his work and excitement about his upcoming marriage were mentioned several times in the tributes online.

“He was so happy about getting married. He was just a remarkable soul. I can’t find the words tonight,” Neil McCready tweeted.

Aschoff and Berteau were planning to marry in New Orleans in April.

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What Is Rihanna’s Net Worth?

Rihanna Net Worth

Robyn Rihanna Fenty is just a machine that doesn’t seem to stop! The Barbadian singer, songwriter, fashion designer, actress, philanthropist, and businesswoman has the type of work ethic that anyone who claims to like working would be envious of her efforts. She appeared on the scene with her debut album Music of the Sun (2005) and followed up with her second offering, A Girl like Me (2006), but her career really took off with the release of her third release, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007). The third album is where she abandoned her more Caribbean sound and trended into a more dance, pop, R & B album where her smashing single, “Umbrella” took on a life of its own. Good Girl Gone Bad received seven Grammy Award nominations and won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “Umbrella” in 2008. This started the successful runaway train that we know of today.

The Wealthiest Female Musician is what this singing beauty is according to Forbes. As the first black woman in charge of a major luxury fashion house, she has made most of her fortune outside of her music. “Most of that comes not from music but from her partnership with LVMH, the French luxury goods giant run by billionaire Bernard Arnault. Rihanna and LVMH co-own the makeup brand Fenty Beauty. It launched in September 2017 at Sephora, another LVMH brand, and online at FentyBeauty.com, quickly becoming a viral success. Fenty Beauty racked up a reported $100 million in sales in its first few weeks, propelled by Rihanna’s fame and 71 million Instagram followers.” And that’s only a part of the story!

Most of her wealth comes from strategic partnerships, campaigns, and endorsement deals. She’s had deals with the likes of Puma, CoverGirl, Gucci, Clinique and most recently reported Amazon, which has shelled out $25 million for the rights to a documentary that features her.

In 2012, the superstar founded her own charity organization, the Clara Lionel Foundation, which supports health and education efforts in impoverished communities around the world. This young woman may become a billionaire sooner than we think!

Rihanna’s Net Worth:  $600M

 



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The 10 Tech Products That Defined This Decade

From talking computers to reusable rockets, here are our picks for the products that had the most impact in the last 10 years.

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Burkina Faso: Christmas Day in a Christian-Muslim household

Five-year-old Iris Ouattara goes to church with her dad and mosque with her mum in Burkina Faso.

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We Might Not Be Planting the Right Kinds of Forests

As the world scrambles to combat deforestation, experts warn our efforts could have far fewer benefits than we think.

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How Set Up New Devices: iPhone, Amazon Echo, Google Home, TV

You have a new thing. Now let’s put it together.

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How to Return Gifts to Amazon, Apple, Walmart, and More

You can't always get what you want. Here's how to get some cash (or store credit) instead.

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How The Dodo Became the Warmest, Fuzziest Corner of the Web

The media empire's heartwarming (and highly shareable) animal videos rack up 2.3 billion views each month. It might be our favorite website of the decade.

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Pope in Christmas message urges softening of 'self-centred hearts'

In his Christmas Day message, Pope Francis says a more compassionate mankind can help end suffering.

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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Baltimore on track to reach highest per-capita murder record as two women are slain

Carmen Rodriguez, 36, worked almost 16 hours every day of the week at the Kim Deli & Grocery near Patterson Park in Baltimore, Md., in an effort to support her children. But her life was cut short Sunday night when a gunman entered the store and opened fire, killing her, The Baltimore Sun reports.

Destiny Harris, 21, owner of Madam D Beauty Bar salon in Southeast Baltimore, was killed Saturday, when she was shot multiple times in the head, the report says.

READ MORE: Marilyn Mosby confirms 25 Baltimore officers have been accused of using excessive force

Two women were the latest names added to the list of murder victims in Baltimore, driving up the city’s per capita record to 338 homicides so far this year. The numbers, amid a widening population decline, has set a record for killings per capita, according to the news outlet.

The homicide numbers prompted the police union leader to call for police Commissioner Michael Harrison to take swift action to reduce crime, while City Council President Brandon Scott called for a complementary plan to help at-risk youth, the report says.

While the city grapples with ways to combat crime, friends and family mourned the loss of their loved ones.

Kim Deli & Grocery owner, Nidal Alshalabi, told The Sun that Rodriguez’s children were inside the deli when the shooting occurred.


Police said on the day Rodriguez lost her life, seven people were shot in Baltimore, including three teenagers outside of a downtown hookah lounge. Two people were shot and killed Saturday in East Baltimore.

Harris filed a police report saying she feared for her safety after her business was broken into twelve days before her death, according to Baltimore’s WMAR-TV. A couple was charged in the theft of $3,000 worth of hair bundles that Harrison sold at her salon, the report says. But there have been no arrests in her murder.

READ MORE: Courtroom Drama: Defendant hits Baltimore judge in the head with metal water pitcher

“She was my heart, loved her greatly… wonderful girl, entrepreneur, a go-getter. She built this [Madam D Beauty Bar] from the ground up,” her uncle Dewine McQueen told the television news outlet.

Harrison said, “Detectives are working tirelessly to identify the people responsible. We will continue through the holiday season with our planned, robust deployment throughout the city,” according to The Sun.

 

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Burkina Faso: Many women killed in jihadist attack

Burkina Faso has declared two days of national mourning after Tuesday's attack on a base and town.

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WATCH: Karan Kendrick and Brie Larson discuss their unmissable film ‘Just Mercy’

Just Mercy may be the most important film of the year and there are tons of reasons you should run, not walk to your nearest movie theater to see it. The film that stars Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx hits select theaters on Christmas Day and opens wide on January 10.

Jamie Foxx tears up while discussing his father at ‘Just Mercy’ screening at AFI Fest

In it, Jordan (whose company produced the powerful flick) portrays attorney Bryan Stevenson, the real-life hero who has been fighting to exonerate the wrongfully incarcerated through the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) he founded in 1995. Since then, he has saved more than 125 men from the death penalty. In 2014, he wrote Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, which is the basis of the film produced by Jordan’s Outlier Productions. 

Inclusion in action: Michael B. Jordan mandated hiring diverse staff for new film ‘Just Mercy’

Jamie Foxx co-stars as Walter McMillian, a death row inmate who insists he’s innocent. O’Shea Jackson, Tim Blake Nelson, and Rob Morgan delivered incredibly impressive performances and two fiercely talented women make a major impact as well. Karan Kendrick plays Minnie McMillan, a wife who refuses to lose hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Brie Larson plays Eva Ansley, EJI’s co-founder who has a passion for the plight of death row inmates and helps Stevenson in his quest for justice however she can.
TheGrio sat down with both of the actresses to find out how they tackled the crucial roles and showed how two very different women were able to support and strengthen two very different men.

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“One of the really powerful things about this film is that it gives us the opportunity to have uncomfortable conversations,” says Kendrick.

“Being a student of Bryan Stevenson, I learned so much. It wasn’t just me making those choices about that character,” she said. “That was very much part of the conversation with Dustin and Bryan from the very beginning.”

Check out the full interview above.

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Unpacking the brilliance of ‘Watchmen’ … the most important show of the year

This past June, Ta-Nehisi Coates sat before Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConell to testify about HR 40, which would commission a group to study reparations. In his remarks, Coates reminded McConnell and by extension the rest of the country, around the importance of the country addressing its whole history, citing how that White American history cannot be the 

It would take essentially, an imagination by the House to see the utility in studying reparations. Just studying it. But that’s the state of the country’s stagnation around collectively moving forward; it has required a reimagining of who we are required to be and what we could potentially become. Yet that’s continued to be a stalemate; regardless of the many entreaties to our conscience, no amount of protest, speeches, 

There was a belief that in certain arenas outside of politics there might be hope for charting such an imagination, this decade’s pop culture offerings have done little to reimagine what America could look like moving forward. This hasn’t been for lack of attempt. The 2010s have given us Ava DuVernay’s Black American trilogy of Selma, 13th and When They See Us which asked us to imagine what it says to the world about who America is and how long its campaign of terrorism has been against Black Americans. In between that trilogy came Black Panther and most recently Queen & Slim, the first imagining a world where Black people vibrated with a power and joy that reached out of the screen and into the Black zeitgeist. The latter sought to imagine telling an allegorical tale about Black love, police brutality, activism and the many ways that PTSD has nuzzled itself inside of the Black experience.

Disparately, these are patchwork statements about Black experiences and identities. They stretch narrative approaches, generations, and roles, and they’ve produced a variety of conversations ranging from the examination of Black justice, activism, pain, resilience and love. They’ve also dutifully sought to capture an accuracy around history and experience; serving as archival work in a society that tends to erase the granularity of our stories and injustices.

The REAL story of the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 depicted in ‘Watchmen’

But HBO’s Watchmen, which just completed what’s intended to be its singular season, is perhaps the only pop culture vessel we’ve had this decade that’s successfully woven all these elements together. Inspired by the Alan Moore and Dave Giboons 1986 graphic novel, the Damon Lindeloff series was a quilt of brilliance, weaving together our very real past and combining it with an alternate contemporary 2019, one where the notion of reparations, lineage, power and representation–all elements of the backbone of American conversations to and through Obama, right into our present Trump era–have been woven together to tell a comprehensive story. In its final chapter “See How They Fly”, the show’s hypothesis about American politics and sentimentality is made clear: for us to move forward, power must shift to the country’s “meek”, and Watchmen spends 9 chapters making play at the dismantlizaiton of white power and supremacy. It is, of course, the stuff of dreams and imagination, but that’s exactly what’s made this series so enthralling. Taking what we know about our past in terms of Tulsa and the Black Wall Street Massacre, turning it into a version of Black American 9/11, or telling us what we continue to know–that the ones sworn to protect and serve are just as often intentionally not interested in doing so–it made turned a collective angst and frustration and gave it something wildly radical and imaginative: justice.

5 Reasons HBO’s new ‘Watchmen’ series with Regina King is a MUST SEE!

In Watchmen, brilliant white men are sent to purgatory; they have their past haunt and claim their lives; they seek power through entitlement only to have it sometimes quite literally blow up in their faces. They lie. They kill. They build open coalitions in the light of day and convene in the thick of night and eventually all of that crumble. 

Watchmen got something right about these times that we’ve been in; for a very long time we’ve been a country of masks. We’ve long reveled in the notion of  justified white vigilantism; of a society that’s composed of hidden agendas, motives, identities, beliefs. We have had terror revisited upon us to maintain a sense of law and order for generations, and the show makes good on the notion of everything from grand conspiracies, manipulations and exquisitve planning for revenge, domination and maintaining power. Much of this is seen through Sister Night, Regina King’s character that proves to be the entire saga’s crux. King’s performance speaks to this notion of masks; literally donning one during the series, but also working through various ways that she must wear an emotional one at work, at home, in public, around family, peers, coworkers. What’s perhaps most revelatory about the series’ ending is that it’s a testament to Angela’s ability to sit on the identity of a much greater truth, and how much of that is grounded in not just power, but love too. 

In the thrall of all the mysteries about who, what, where and even when Dr. Manhattan is, Watchmen manages to also be a Black love story, and one about pulling together the trauma and relationships that span time and even disrupt the construct of it, to make a whole. The series has gotten some criticism for how it employs this; “This Extraordinary Being” was perhaps one of the finest hours of pop cutlure TV this decade, yet for some audience members its depiciton of generational trauma, the peril of being a Black police officer, of living a life covered in masks, was not as jarring as seeing that Hooded Justice was not only Black, but bisexual. The reaction, at least in social media circles, was akin to the type of outrage seen in response to The Last Jedi; a weakening of a superhero trope or narrative; a “lessening” of the heterosexual male image; further proof of a Hollywood agenda intended to weakend and discredit the Black man in mainstream media. It made for an ironic viewing of this series that steeped itself in conspiracies and masks as plotpoints; it suddenly made Watchmen, for some audiences, irrationally culpable for the same actions somehow. The show was somehow suddenly unmasked for something more nefarious than a racial justice and empowerment fantasy; it suddenly became a traitorous bait and switch by Hollywood media to further destroy the Black man. It proved that for all our sense of justice, repairing, civil rights and representation, there is still a segment of us that lack the imagination, even in fantasy, to see another world, another way forward.

But that sort of blame shouldn’t be put at the feet of Watchmen. Despite all the bluster made for and about representation, about a pop culture fantasy world that’s lurching forward, the Black experience and story still hasn’t quite taken hold in our households. Black Panther has been a lone standout, but the rest of the fantasy landscape for Black people has been woefully anemic, with the decade’s biggest fantasy and hero films–Avengers, Suicide Squad, the last Star Wars trilogy–still relegating Black people, mainly men as there have been no Black female heroes, to a familiar role of shepherding the white heroes to victory, playing the role of sidekick, or not being romantically or sexually realized. The biggest reward still is an ongoing sense of obligation and duty; of fighting a never-ending war inside and outside the story. What seems like a much greater insult is the notion that Black people–whether in space, in superhero HQs, in fictionalized African countries, in times of joy or distress–are not allowed to not only be fully in power, but in love too. Fantasy genres have still made our most persistent power invisibility. Watchmen, with Angela and Cal, Will and June, there are both stories of heroism and love, in a gener that regularly doesn’t afford commitment to anything other than violence and power.

What Watchmen does is akin to what we will likely need in the next decade; a sense of what Coates implored the House to consider in his remarks. To tell a new story, to create a new reality moving forward, to perhaps heal and feel whole, we should start with at least imagining being able to tell a wider pop culture history that includes the notion that quite anyone can be the hero. It was a series that reminded us that in so many ways, our truths are still so often hidden behind masks.

 

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Drake drops single on Christmas Eve, squashes beef with The Weeknd

Drake dropped a new single “War” on Christmas Eve and officially squashed his longtime beef with The Weeknd.

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On the song, Drake, 33, rhymes about the feud he had with The Weeknd as well as others. “OVOXO link up, mandem drink up, me in the drillers/Hawk and Stix and Cash and Baka, Gucci, P, and Gilla/And the boy that sound like he sang on Thriller/You know that’s been my n***a, yeah/We just had to fix things, family, 6 tings, we can’t split up,” Drake raps over the beat, which was produced by AXL Beats, according to Complex.

The track, a mixtape collaboration between Oliver El-Khatib of OVO and Kuumba International, is featured on the newly released El-Kuumba Tape Vol. 1. The video for the song was directed by Theo Skudra and Drake and his crew are seen at a ski resort, skiing, hitting up snowmobiles and having their own winter wonderland.

Hawk Marley, Stix, and Cash are down with XO and Baka Not Nice, Preme and Gilla are affiliated with Reps Up and OVO, reported Complex.

The song’s title belies its calm music video shots during the ski vacation. The video includes a bonfire and a skidoo, and Drake looks relaxed and chill – anything but at “war.”

He even concludes the song by rapping, “Everyone I know has code names, anyone I’m beefin’ with is a no name/N***as can’t even win home games/They just gotta fall in line like Soul Train.”

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Rumors spread that Drake and The Weeknd had a beef after both dated Bella Hadid, who Drake doesn’t mention by name on the track. He does however name-drop Bella’s sister, supermodel Gigi: “If man get beaky, ring ring, call up Gigi, do him up neatly.”

In other Drake news, he announced on DaBaby show early this month that he is finishing up his new album and it should be released in 2020.

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Lil Wayne ‘all goody’ after federal agents raid private jet

Federal agents raided a private jet that flew Lil Wayne into Miami’s Opa-locka Executive Airport on Monday and discovered cocaine and a weapon, law enforcement sources say.

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Wayne, whose birth name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., had to remain at the airport while the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Miami-Dade police, and other law enforcement agencies searched the plane on which he was a passenger, the Miami Herald reports.

But he was “cleared” to leave the scene Monday evening by federal investigators, Miami defense attorney Howard Srebnick told the news outlet.

The artist took to Twitter to inform fans that everything was straight. He even made light of the situation, referencing a previous tweet where he rooted on the Packers with a tweet that read: “GO PACK GO!!!!!” and said he thinks the feds got confused because he shortened the football team’s name to “Pack.”

It was unclear how many other people were on the private Gulfstream G-V jet, although the plane can hold up to 14 passengers and crew, according to Opa-locka airport officials, the report says.

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Miami-Dade police were tipped off that weapons and marijuana were on the aircraft as it headed to Miami from California, and the agency reached out to federal authorities so they could obtain a search warrant, according to law enforcement sources. Weezy, 37, was found to be a passenger on the plane, along with others.

Since cocaine and a gun were found, federal authorities will likely file charges in federal court, according to the Herald. If Lil Wayne or any of the other passengers had been charged Monday evening by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, they would have spent Christmas behind bars in federal custody until courts reopened on Thursday.

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What Is Bruno Mars’ Net Worth?

Bruno Mars Net Worth

Peter Gene Hernandez is professionally known as “Bruno Mars” is a popular singer from Hawaii who has been topping the charts the last several years as he was once signed to the legendary Motown Records. After being dropped by the label, Mars signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 2009 and hasn’t looked back since!

Mars amassed his fortune through the combination of producing for others such as Adam Levine, Brandy, Sean Kingston, and Flo Rida as well as for himself with his former production team, The Smeezingtons (Mars, Ari Levine, and Philip Lawrence). They found instant success with Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. aka B.o.B.’s “Nothin’ on You”, and Goodie Mob’s former rapper turned singer Thomas DeCarlo Callaway aka CeeLo Green with his hit single “F*** You.”

Mars also found immediate success with his Atlantic Records’ debut single, ‘Just The Way You Are’ from his album ‘Doo-Wops & Hooligans’ as the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Another song, “Grenade”, also topped the charts. Meanwhile, his second album, released in 2012, ‘Unorthodox Jukebox’ contained the single, ‘Locked Out of Heaven’ and it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for over six weeks in 20 countries.

The Hawaiian singer has invested in the NJOY Electronic Cigarette Company, helped launched the “Selvarey Rum” brand, was endorsed by Pepsi and invested in Chromatik. Mars started the Bruno Mars Scholarship Fund with the Hawaii Community Foundation, to help kids from Hawaii with tuition fees.

Mars has sold over 130 million records worldwide, which makes him one of the best selling artists of all time. He constantly stays on the road performing as Billboard named the singer’s tour the fourth highest-grossing of 2018, tallying more than $237 million for 100 shows. Earlier this year, Mars announced that he would venture to Sin City to play series of select dates at the Park MGM in Las Vegas.

Bruno Mar’s Net Worth: $150M



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Mariah Carey: Lawsuit accuses singer of firing nanny for complaints about wages, work conditions

Mariah Carey’s former nanny filed a lawsuit against the singer on Monday claiming she was fired last year after complaining about her $25 hourly pay and for working under stressful and threatening conditions.

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Maria Burgues, the ex-nanny, also claims in the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court that she was required to travel with the family when Carey was on tour without compensation for travel time. Further, the suit alleges that Marcio Moto, a bodyguard for the singer’s children, would frequently yell at her in a threatening tone, according to Variety.

The lawsuit also seeks compensation for emotional distress. The lawsuit describes a driving trip to Las Vegas in December 2017, when Moto allegedly began screaming at her and threatening to pull over and kick her out of the car. The suit says when she complained to Carey about the incident, nothing was done.

In another incident, the suit claims Moto used his phone to video chat his girlfriend while driving and nearly caused an accident. Once they got to the Sherman Oaks, California dance studio, with Burgues’ and Carey’s children in tow, one of Carey’s children allegedly left the class and no one noticed. Moto reportedly was still on the phone but she said he blamed her for the incident and screamed at her in front of children, dance instructors, parents, and other nannies, Variety writes.

After that incident, Burgues said she was fired, Variety reports. She also claims she has not been paid for outstanding wages due at the time of her firing, and that Carey never gave her regular wage statements. Variety reached out to Carey’s lawyer for comment but he reportedly told the magazine that he had not yet seen the suit and could not comment.

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Burgues lawsuit comes as Carey fights another suit filed by her former assistant, Lianna Shakhnazaryan, who claims the singer’s ex-manager, Stella Bulochnikov, was abusive toward her. Carey previously accused Shakhnazaryan of secretly recording her and attempting to extort her for $8 million.

In another lawsuit was filed last month against Carey, Maria Salazar, the singer’s former housekeeper, alleges Carey still owes her money.

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Colin Kaepernick’s Air Force 1 sneakers sell out quickly

Colin Kaepernick’s new Air Force 1 sneakers sold out on Nike’s website and app on Monday, the same day the sneakers were released in North America, reports say.

Some stores may still have some pairs of the sneakers, although they are sold out online, according to CNN.

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The Air Force 1 x Colin Kaepernick leather sneaker is low-top, black and white and features the letter “K” on the tongue and a headshot of Kap on the back tab. The sneaker also features the date “08 14 16” on the right sole, the first time Kap refused to stand during the national anthem at a preseason game to protest racial injustice and police brutality. Instead, he remained on the bench during the duration of the song. He began kneeling on Sept. 1, 2016, sparking a movement.

Kap, 32, premiered the new kicks last month during his football tryouts near Atlanta. And last year, he signed an endorsement deal with Nike and became the face of an ad campaign for his civil rights and social justice activism, even though he hasn’t played in the NFL for three years.

“Nike partnered with a collective of collaborators to design an AF1 that connects to their life personally,” a Nike spokesperson explained to CNN. “Colin was identified because we believe his voice and perspective inspire many generations on and off the field.”

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Nike’s collaboration with Kaepernick was ripped by Donald Trump and many conservatives who threatened to boycott the sneaker giant. However, Nike ultimately increased its sales as a result of the endorsement, according to Forbes.

So far, Kap has done a hit commercial for Nike where he utters: “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.” That ad campaign would go on to win an Emmy. Kap is also credited with stopping Nike from releasing the “Betsy Ross” American flag shoe out of concern that the sneaker appeared to glorify the timeframe before slavery ended.

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University of North Carolina police tracked anti-racism activists after deadly Charlottesville attack

University of North Carolina campus police and state investigators used tracking technology to surveil anti-racism activists for a protest at a memorial known as “Silent Sam”—a gun-toting Confederate soldier, according to NBC News.

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In the aftermath of the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., UNC Chapel Hill police began using the controversial tracking technology, known as “geofencing” after the FBI notified them that activists planned to protest at the “Silent Sam” memorial. The FBI warning to UNC police came a day after protestors met in Charlottesville, Va., to remove the Robert E. Lee statue from a city park, NBC News writes.

The tracking technology pulls information from unsuspecting people who are in a specific area, determined by their phones’ geolocation systems, and even captures a person’s social media posts as well as other personal data. The technology has been used by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and by certain retailers to send targeted ads to a person’s mobile device, the report says.

Because of the violent nature of the Charlottesville protest, where a white supremacist killed an anti-racism activist by ramming his car into her, police were on high alert to monitor the activities of protestors in North Carolina.

NBC News reported that an FBI agent sent the UNC campus police chief an email on Aug. 13, 2017, that read, “I’m sure you’re already tracking, but wanted to make sure,” before warning that activists were expected to protest at Silent Sam later that evening.

“We have no information of any planned violence at this time,” the FBI agent said in the email, according to NBC News. “Any intelligence we develop will be pushed your way.”

READ MORE: Former FAMU student killed by police after traffic stop scuffle

NBC News reported that UNC had entered a three-year contract with a company called Social Sentinel Inc. of Vermont to use the geofencing software. The contract reportedly ran through Oct. 31, 2019, although campus police are still using it to track information in designated areas, a university spokesperson told NBC.

The spokesperson, however, wouldn’t divulge for what purposes police are using the technology or when it was last used, outside of saying it is used to “ensure campus safety.”

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Brutal stabbing of Black veteran at Oregon truck stop probed as hate crime

Ronnell Hughes, a Black, military veteran who had recently moved to Ontario, Ore., from North Carolina to be close to his girlfriend, was stabbed multiple times by a white man in what police are calling a possible hate crime, reports say.

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Hughes, 48, was sitting at an Arby’s Restaurant on Saturday morning inside the Pilot truck stop applying for a job when Nolan Strauss, 26, reportedly approached him because he is Black and started to stab him in the neck, according to the Malheur Enterprise. Ontario is located near the Idaho border.

Police told media outlets that Strauss is believed to be a truck driver and is reportedly from Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was booked into the Malheur County Jail on charges of attempted murder, assault and intimidation.

Ben Esplin, lead detective on the case for the Ontario police, told the Malheur Enterprise that “the suspect made some statements that he did what he did because of the color of the victim’s skin.” Esplin said Strauss made the statements to police as he was being arrested.

The police affidavit adds that Strauss said he “hates black people,” according to the newspaper. The affidavit goes on to say that Strauss told police “his intent was to kill the victim.”

In October, Hughes moved to the area from Sanford, North Carolina to join up with his girlfriend, Nikita Apodaca, according to the Malheur Enterprise.

Police said Strauss and Hughes didn’t know each other and there was no indication that the incident was provoked. “The motive for the attack leans heavily towards a racially motivated crime,” police said in a statement.

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Employees at the Pilot truck stop pulled Strauss off Hughes, and subdued him until police arrived.

Hughes was listed in stable condition at Saint Alphonsus Medical Center in Boise. He was put in an induced coma on Sunday after undergoing hours of surgery on Saturday, according to the newspaper, which quotes Apodaca.

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'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' Is a Lesson in Military Opposites

The Resistance is outmanned and outgunned, but their adaptability wins the day.

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Eddie Murphy delivers highest ‘Saturday Night Live’ ratings in years

Nearly 10 million viewers tuned in to watch Eddie Murphy host Saturday Night Live—the most watched show since May 2017.

Nielsen Media Research reported that the episode nailed an average 2.5 rating for adults ages 18-49 and brought in 9.921 million viewers, according to CNN.

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Murphy, 58, proved he still has it as he brought back beloved sketches and characters, including “Mister Robinson’s Neighborhood,” “Buckwheat,” and “Gumby.” He delivered a stinging cold open where he questioned the likelihood that he would become a stay-at-home dad of 10 children, while Bill Cosby, America’s favorite dad, would wind up in jail.

“If you would have told me 30 years ago that I would be this boring, stay-at-home house dad and Bill Cosby would be in jail, even I would have took that bet,” he quipped before adding in a spot-on impersonation of Cosby: “Who is America’s Dad now?”

Andrew Wyatt, a Cosby representative, took offense to Murphy’s opening monologue and essentially called the whole performance a sellout to his race.“One would think that Mr. Murphy was given his freedom to leave the plantation, so that he could make his own decisions; but he decided to sell himself back to being a Hollywood Slave,” Wyatt said in a statement.

Murphy’s appearance marked the first time the comedian had been back to SNL in 35 years. To top it off, Lizzo was the musical guest, and some of the country’s top comedic performers joined Murphy on stage, including Tracy Morgan, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, and cast member, Kenan Thompson.

Prior to Murphy, the last time SNL had the highest rated comedy telecast was in May 2017, when Melissa McCarthy served as host, and HAIM performed as the musical guest.

In terms of entertainment series, Murphy’s SNL 2.5 rating tied Fox’s Masked Singer’s season premiere in September, ranking as the highest-rated entertainment series telecast this season, CNN notes. Murphy incorporated his Buckwheat character in a funny comedy sketch that spoofed the Masked Singer.

READ MORE: Kenan Thompson gears up for new NBC show

Wyatt didn’t mention, however, decades ago when the elder comedian would reportedly lecture Murphy about being too raunchy and not setting a good example. Murphy recently told Jerry Seinfeld, in an episode of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” that as a young comedian, Cosby always treated him mean. Many Murphy fans are now calling the comedian’s SNL monologue, as well as other recent comments, payback.

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2019's Weirdest and WIRED-est Photos

Highlights of our favorite photography to write about this year.

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