Florida K-12 curriculum still will say Black people gained 'personal benefit' from slavery The Florida Board of Education approved its 2024 social studies standards, including an African American history lesson that has caused controversy. 05/30/2024 - 9:12 am | View Link
‘Textbook Case of a Self-Hating Black Man’: Clarence Thomas Sparks Controversy with Critique of School Desegregation Ruling, Board v. Brown Amid last week’s 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently ... 05/24/2024 - 11:29 am | View Link
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Black leaders commemorate 70 years of Brown v. Board with call to action Some of the nation’s most prominent Black political leaders and advocates celebrated the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education Friday by calling for more to be done to end present-day ... 05/17/2024 - 10:57 am | View Link
Live Nation confirmed in a regulatory filing with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday that its subsidiary Ticketmaster has suffered a data breach.
The filing stated that on May 20, the company noticed “unauthorized activity” within a database that contained “Company data” and subsequently “launched an investigation with industry-leading forensic investigators to understand what happened.” The filing went on to describe that on May 27, a “criminal threat actor” offered to sell, what it alleged to be, Ticketmaster data on “the dark web.”
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What do we know about the Ticketmaster data breach and the force behind it?
Hackread reported on May 28 that the hacking group named ShinyHunters had claimed responsibility for the cyber-attack on the online forum BreachForums, a hacking website used to facilitate data breaches and the sharing of said data.
Summer is here! In the old days, that would mean heading to the multiplex to load up on big summer blockbusters. In the shakier movie climate we now find ourselves in, it could simply mean more of the same: more staying at home, in the air-conditioning, watching whatever’s streaming. But midyear is also a good time to reflect on the releases of the previous few months, and to catch up on some you may have missed.
BOULDER — Brad Lidge traveled to Italy in March to explore a remote, wooded section of southeastern Tuscany.
Brad Lidge uses a GPS/topographical survey station to map an ancient Etruscan site in Siena, Italy, in July of 2023. (Photo provided by Brad Lidge)
“We were surveying this area, looking for Medieval sites, when we came across an undocumented Etruscan tomb,” Lidge said last week, sitting on the patio of his 5 1/2-acre spread near Boulder.
It still hasn’t completely sunk in for Zeev Buium.
A year ago, Buium was the top recruit in the University of Denver’s incoming freshman class, but he arrived with a fraction of the hype of players like Macklin Celebrini at Boston University and the trio of Will Smith, Ryan Leonard and Gabe Perreault at Boston College.
Now, as Buium prepares for the NHL draft combine next week in Buffalo, N.
It’s usually after two rounds of playoff basketball that our collective NBA consciousness can start to take stock of the season’s big-picture lessons. Four teams remain, a small enough number for each of their respective roads to the conference finals to feel significant, but also still a more hearty sample size than the NBA Finals.
SAN FRANCISCO — California firefighters aided by aircraft battled a wind-driven wildfire that began Saturday and continued burning early Sunday morning in an area straddling the San Francisco Bay Area and central California, authorities said.
The Corral Fire began Saturday afternoon near the city of Tracy, 60 miles (96 kilometers) east of San Francisco, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the city of Livermore, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.
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Dark plumes of smoke traveled high into the sky over the fire area comprised mostly of grassy hills, where strong winds were expected to continue overnight.
Late Saturday, Cal Fire updated the size of the fire to 17.2 square miles (44.5 square kilometers) with 13% contained, which increased from an earlier report of 15.6 square miles (40.4 square kilometers).
Interstate 580, which connects the San Francisco Bay Area to San Joaquin County in central California, was closed in both directions from Corral Hollow Road to Interstate 5 due to the lack of visibility from the smoke, the California Department of Transportation said in a statement.
Cal Fire Santa Clara Unit Chief Baraka Carter said two fire workers were injured, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services issued an evacuation order, pinpointing the wildfire in an area east of Interstate 580.