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100 years ago, a white mob unleashed the deadliest Election Day violence in US history. It was the Ocoee Massacre, a dark and often overlooked chapter in American history. On November 2, 1920, African American residents of Ocoee, Florida, went out to cast their ballots in the presidential election. At the time, this was a […]

Gospel music star Bishop Rance Allen died over the weekend. “While recovering from a medical procedure at Heartland ProMedica, Bishop Rance Allen passed away around 3 AM”. Said Allen’s wife of 49 years, Ellen Allen, in a statement. “I wasn’t expecting to hear this news this morning,” Bryant Scott, the president of Allen’s record label, Tyscot Records, […]

A Florida man paid $150 for a full contact experience with a captive black leopard in a backyard zoo and was mauled, according to wildlife officials in South Florida. The package he paid for allowed him to play with the dangerous animal and take pictures. According to a report by the Florida Fish and Wildlife […]

New York State Assembly workers are introducing a new piece of legislation that aims to assist working parents who’s children are remote learning. “This would be aligned with the current paid family law. Parents would be able to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave, which is about two-thirds of the wage you have,” […]

Have you ever thought about living on the road? Well, Dale and DamiAna Trimble and family have been on a lengthy trip around the world since 2018. They’ve visited over a dozen countries including Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. “We got tired of living a routine”, DamiAna, 38, said on a call from Kenya, where the […]

Looking to Change Your Career? Business social network LinkedIn has launched Career Explorer feature. Which displays careers job seekers can transition into by finding skills that overlap with their previous jobs. The tool ranks the skills in order of importance depending on the job position. LinkedIn users can also identify skills that they would need to […]

There is a lot going on this weekend. It’s the last few days of early voting. Halloween is Saturday. And New York’s new seatbelt law goes into effect on Sunday. The current law does not require people age 16+ to wear a seatbelt while sitting in the backseat, but that changes on November 1, 2020. […]

El Paso County Texas is undergoing a two-week shutdown of all nonessential services starting Friday at midnight. The order comes from County Judge Ricardo Samaniego in response to skyrocketing hospitalizations of COVID-19. Voting will still remain open, as it is an essential service but hospitals are at capacity and the medical staff is overwhelmed. “There […]

Washington State has called in the heavies to remove the first reported nest of murder hornets discovered in the United States. A team assembled by the state agriculture department has been searching for the nest for weeks, using any technique possible. This includes tying tiny tracking devices to individual hornets with dental floss. The hornets […]