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Right-wing talk show host Wayne Dupree, who has repeatedly downplayed the COVID-19 vaccine, recently admitted he has been "battling COVID-like" symptoms over the course of several days.

Jelani Day, a graduate student from Illinois who went missing nearly a month ago, was found dead earlier this month before being positively identified on Thursday. The lack of media attention to his disappearance stood in contrast to cause célèbre Gabby Petito.

After actor and comedian Anthony "A.J." Johnson's widow gave an emotional plea for financial help following her husband's death, donations have poured into the GoFundMe account she initially suggested wasn't getting enough support.

#BlackLivesMatter

An incident involving Oregon high school students participating in a racist Snapchat group called "Slave Trade" is coming back to haunt some of its members.

Human Interest

Despite still-fresh images of white men on horseback rounding up Haitian migrants in Texas, the Biden administration is on the hunt for a new contract to operate a migrant detention facility at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Today, September 23, is the day of the incomparable Ray Charles' (pictured) birth 91 years ago.

After pledging a $500,000 donation towards Black organizations and activism groups as an apologly for using the N-Word, it now looks like country singer Morgan Wallen may have simply been pulling a PR stunt in the form of empty promises.

Over a year after massive racial justice protests demanding action, Congress comes up short. 

“We really also want to engage folks in our advocacy [work] which is really preparing them to understand and advocate to pass laws, like the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act, because all of this is connected.” 

Here is an in-depth timeline of the events before, during, and after the 1915 U.S invasion and occupation of Haiti.

One landlord recently found himself at a crossroads of either keeping his business afloat or having a heart for a tenant he hadn't received rent from since before the pandemic began. Surprisingly, he ended up choosing both options. 

News

Republican candidate for Nevada's lieutenant governor, Mack Miller, was violently thrown out of a Clark County Committee meeting where a resolution declaring misinformation on the COVID-19 vaccines a public health crisis was announced.