Thursday 08.29.2019

Rihanna’s Diamond Ball Will Honor Shaun King, Mia Mottley

This year, Rihanna’s Diamond Ball will honor Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley and civil rights activist Shaun King. Both will receive the Diamond Ball Award at the fifth annual event, set to take place September 12.

Billionaire Investor Ray Dalio On The 3 Big Issues And The 1930s Analogue

In other words now 1) central banks have limited ability to stimulate, 2) there is large wealth and political polarity and 3) there is a conflict between China as a rising power and the U.S. as an existing world power. If/when there is an economic downturn, that will produce serious problems in ways that are analogous to the ways that the confluence of those three influences produced serious problems in the late 1930s.

Reframing History: Slavery Came To America Much Sooner Than 1619

If you accept that slavery started in America in 1619, you’re ignoring a significant chapter of American history — the Spanish-Afro-American historical experience in Florida — says Stetson Law School Professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy.

After Preying On Black Community, Juul Now Under Investigation By FTC

Juul, the Silicon Valley-based maker of enormously popular vape products, has been blamed for a teen vaping epidemic that has been called an addiction crisis.

10 Things to Know About the N’Cobra Position On Reparations

N’Cobra is marking the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans on the shores of the Virginia Colony in 1619 in a unique way. The organization stepping up its demands for reparations and has themed this anniversary “N’Cobra – 400 Years of Terror: A Debt Still Owed.”