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LeBron James announced on Sunday that he is changing teams for the third time in his incredible NBA career, and it sounds as though his intention is to make a Los Angeles Lakers jersey the last one he wears.
Robert Littal of Black Sports Online said Sunday that he was told by a source that LeBron is “in it for the long haul” in L.A. He also indicated that LeBron could retire sooner than expected if he wins a championship with the Lakers.
For the third time in his career, LeBron James has used the power of free agency to switch teams.
But what's interesting about his latest move is it's the first time he's willingly joined a team devoid of a single star. By signing with the Lakers(for four years and $154 million), LeBron, for the first time in almost a decade, now finds himself on a team multiple moves away from contention.
Of course, that doesn't mean he'd be content to watch others collect rings or that Lakers team president Magic Johnson and general manager Rob Pelinka can now sit back and relax. No, with LeBron comes expectations, and responsibility, so the onus is now on them to surround LeBron with a suitable supporting cast.
The question is how to best do so.
Datin - Chh Aint Dead - https://open.spotify.com/track/5zlxo9KZ1vQi1F0GXjRr29?context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6FQOoT7CcEYPpMcF1mSKgX&si=H8LHr75-TECi6mUfFfjkdA
Sam Presti's gamble paid off.
One year after the Oklahoma City Thunder shipped Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis to the Indiana Pacers in exchange for Paul George, the five-time All-Star has reportedly agreed to extend his stay in the Midwest.
According to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, George agreed to a four-year, $137 million max contract that includes a player option in lieu of bolting for the Los Angeles Lakers.
"I'm here to stay," George said late Saturday night during a party hosted by Russell Westbrook, according to ESPN.com's Royce Young. "We can bring it home."
New Breed —consisting of brother and sister duo Rosario "Macho" Ortega and Elsie Vanclief— shocked the world with their brilliant premiere album, Stop The Music, belting out such trademark hits as the Latin salute, "My People" and the club banger, "Verse of The City" Defying odds, New Breed now drops a second set, Nine, that raises the bar even higher.
The Undefeated commissioned a study by the Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication on the history of black women in athletics and how racist stigmas and stereotypes, everything from insults about their sexuality and appearance to death threats from extremists, have affected their advancement.
We then asked several female artists of color to interpret this difficult history as well as their own experiences with how society views black women.
Rhodes to Rome track list
1. A Million and One
2. Agape
3. Act of Love
4. Theory of Self (feat. Joe Ayinde)
5. Siren Song
6. Foreshadow
7. Evolve (feat. Ralph Quasar)
8. Chapters
9. Rhodes to Rome
10. My Two Sense
11. Heart Headed (feat. Sintax the Terrific)
All tracks Produced by Nomis except, "Siren Song" Produced by KDaGreat & Roycee, and "Evolve" Produced by Dylan Kidd. "Act of Love" Co-Produced by Jordan Santana.
Video: Nomis "Theory of Self"
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THINGS we found along the way
NYC Private School Segregates Students According To Race
Would you pay a private school that placed your kids in a classroom away from the white children??
According to NYDN, parents at an NYC school have been unknowingly doing just that.
The celeb-kid-filled Little Red School House in NYC’s West Village has been practicing segregation in their classes right under unaware parents’ noses. School Director Philip Kassen announced that he would begin placing minority middle-school students all in the same homeroom classes starting this fall. However, parents report that they have learned that the racially-motivated class structure has already been in effect throughout the previous school year for 7th and 8th graders, with a planned expansion to 6th grade for the upcoming year.
For some perspective, the school is very small and costs parents $45,485 per year in tuition. Each grade consists of roughly 40 students and has only two homerooms. Students matriculate with their homeroom groups for 30 percent of the school day.
White parents were supposedly surprised and outraged when they learned of the policy, however, some minority parents report that they have been aware of minorities being lumped into the same classes since as far back as kindergarten.
Apparently, the segregation has been put in place to “help” the children, with a passage in the school handbook stating:
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Malachi @ The_Oracle_Mag
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