A raise in Minnesota: Vikings reached agreement today on a one-year $23 million extension that includes $22.4 million guaranteed for LB Andrew Van Ginkel, per his agents Drew and Jason Rosenhaus.
If we really want to @FixNOLA , stop the age old Louisiana corruption. More tax dollars go to private entities that appear to be governmental but are just ways to redirect tax dollars into private pockets. Citizens don’t know that the library Foundation is private. The Audubon Institute gets more tax dollars than the police, fire and EMT combined. The Business Alliance and GNO Inc. receive tax funding for economic development when the city has an OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. The redundancy is by design. And profit.
For the second time in 13 months, Panthers rookie RB Jonathon Brooks tore the ACL in his right knee. Brooks went down on a non-contact injury Sunday vs. the Eagles. He tore his ACL at Texas on Nov. 11, 2023.
Good morning everybody! Just wanted to share our campaign with you for the God Punch II anime! Please donate and share so that we can meet our goal! https://t.co/fkqVTmR8cG
2019 LSU Football was a moment in time which will not be repeated anytime soon.
It’s truly hard to fathom that 1 college team had a roster which featured the current:
Top 3 NFL QB
2 top 5 NFL receivers
Top 5 NFL CB
Top 5 NFL LB
Happy heavenly 30th birthday, Ahmaud Arbery! Nothing will bring Ahmaud back, but we are grateful we have received accountability for his death at the state level and in a federal hate crime trial. Today we remember a life that was unjustly taken from us.
#OnThisDay in 1955, the Rev. George Lee was shot to death in Belzoni, Mississippi, after using his pulpit and his printing press to urge other Black Mississippians to vote.
He became one of the first African Americans to register to vote in the mostly Black Humphreys County. And when he helped register more than 90 other Black voters, White leaders spoke with concern over growing African-American power in the Mississippi Delta.
Lee continued his work in the face of threats and electrified crowds of thousands with his speeches, according to Jet magazine.
“Pray not for your mom and pop,” he told the crowd. “They’ve gone to heaven. Pray you can make it through this hell.”
Weeks later, shotgun blasts hit Lee in the face as he was driving home one night, and his Buick smashed into a house. The sheriff claimed the lead pellets found in his shattered jaw were fillings from his teeth.
Mississippi NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers investigated the killing, and FBI tests concluded the pellets were buckshot. No one was ever prosecuted.
More than 1,000 attended Lee’s funeral, and his widow, Rosebud, decided to open the casket to show how her husband had suffered. Photographs of his body ran in Jet magazine. A few months later, Emmett Till’s mother would do the same for her teenage son when he was killed.
Lee is among 40 martyrs listed on the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. A museum in Belzoni now bears his name and that of civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer.
https://t.co/iCZCGTZHuZ
I expected to hear chatter about Kendrick and Drake in the barbershop and the locker room but hearing about it in the grocery story caught me off guard fa sho
Amazing: Grand Canyon’s Tyon Grant-Foster – who had multiple heart surgeries and has been cleared by Mayo Clinic docs as he lives with a cardiac defibrillator – is entering the 2024 NBA Draft. Grant-Foster was WAC Player of the Year and led GCU to its first ever NCAA tourney win.