The bill is the Senate’s response to nationwide protests calling for police reform and an end to racial violence. Source
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Titans Season Ticket Rep Spotlight: Keith Bremer
Meet Keith Bremer, in his second season as a Titans Fan Services Assistant after joining the club from the Buffalo Bills. Source
Netflix CEO donates $120 million to HBCUs, says he wanted “to really go big”
Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings and his wife Patty Quillin are personally giving $120 million dollars to be split among Morehouse College, Spelman College and the United Negro College Fund. The donation, announced first on “CBS This Morning,” is the largest single individual gift ever made to support scholarships at historically black colleges and universities. Source
Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell on tipping point for police reform and social justice
Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell has written extensively on the issue of policing and race. He joins “CBS This Morning” with more on whether the U.S. has reached a tipping point on social justice issues and talks about what’s on tap for the newest season of his hit podcast, “Revisionist History.” Source
Classic venues that launched music legends may vanish thanks to COVID-19
The music industry has all but given up hosting music festivals this summer, and there are no big tours filling stadiums. The bands who headline these events usually cut their teeth in small live clubs, but most of those stages, according to a recent survey, are in danger of never reopening. Lee Cowan reports. Source
Netflix CEO gifts $120 million to HBCUs, largest donation of its kind
The donation, the largest of its kind, will be split among Morehouse College, Spelman College and the United Negro College Fund. Source
North Korea threatens to send troops into the demilitarized zone
The Kim regime, speaking through a prominent new power player, has already made good on one threat, and the next move could be more than symbolic. Source
Titans LB Rashaan Evans Ready to Do Even More in 2020
Evans led the team in tackles (139) in 2019, posting double-digit tackles in half of the team’s contest. He recorded sacks, made tackles in the backfield, scored a touchdown, and in the team’s playoff win at New England, was a force at the goal-line in a critical series of plays. Source
Five years after Emanuel AME massacre, church’s reverend and daughter of victim call for change
Wednesday marks five years since a white supremacist killed nine people at the predominantly black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. As tens of thousands of people across the U.S. have taken to the streets this past month to protest racial injustice, the daughter of one of Emanuel AME’s killed members says, “The country is in a place of reckoning.” Source
6 states report record-high jumps in new coronavirus cases
The United States may be at a crucial point in the coronavirus pandemic. Source