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LaVar Ball

ESPN will no longer feature LaVar Ball on any of its platforms after Ball's inappropriate comments to Molly Qerim on Monday, The Athletic's Richard Deitsch reported on Tuesday.

https://www.si.com/nba/2019/06/19/lavar-ball-wont-appear-espn-molly-qerim-comments

Juneteenth

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania is permanently recognizing Juneteenth, the cultural holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved black people in the United States.

T.I 

On Sunday, at 1 p.m. ET, Rev. Warnock, rapper T.I. and the men formerly known as the Central Park Five (now The Exonerated Five), will hold a press conference and participate in a massive Freedom Day Bailout, kicking off a three-day Ending Mass Incarceration Conference, which begins on Monday, June 17.

https://www.theroot.com/t-i-the-central-park-five-and-ebenezer-baptist-churc-1835543734Mitch 

McConnell

If you've heard of "40 acres and a mule," then you know that the concept of America paying reparations for the enslavement of black people is by no means a new idea. https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/opinions/slavery-reparations-hr40-mitch-mcconnell-love/index.html