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☆ A Baltimore Party, a Hail of Gunfire and a Neighborhood Shattered
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Kayla Guo | Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In videos from a block party on Saturday night, hundreds of teenagers and young adults are seen dancing in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Baltimore and singing along to the lyrics of local rappers. As they shout and move their hands through the air, many hold up phones to record the revelry on a hot summer night. A barrage of gunfire had torn through the Brooklyn Day party in South Baltimore, leaving two young people dead and 28 more people wounded. Even for a city plagued by gun violence in recent years, the number of victims was staggering, representing more people than would sit in an average high school classroom. Over the past decade, only 10 other shootings in the United States have resulted in so many gunshot victims, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a research group, though many mass shootings have taken more lives.

Organizations: Brooklyn Day Locations: Brooklyn, Baltimore, South Baltimore, United States

CNN —An 18-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man were killed and 28 others injured in a mass shooting at a Baltimore block party, officials said. Nine people were transported from the scene to hospitals and 20 people walked into hospitals in the area. The 18-year-old was pronounced dead on the scene and the 20-year-old was pronounced dead at a hospital, police said. Police received multiple calls after 12:30 a.m., and arrived to find one woman dead and another nine people suffering from gunshot wounds, according to Baltimore Police Acting Commissioner Richard Worley. There is no information on suspects or a motive at this time, but investigators are “working an extensive crime scene,” Worley said.

Persons: Adams Cowley, Michael Schwartzberg, Richard Worley, ” Worley, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, ” Scott, “, ”, CNN’s Victor Blackwell, Amara Walker, Scott, ” “ Organizations: CNN, Adams Cowley Shock Trauma, University of Maryland Medical Center, University of Maryland Medical, Police, Baltimore Police, Baltimore Mayor Locations: Baltimore, Brooklyn

☆ Baltimore Block Party Shooting Kills Two, Injures 28
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

How AI Is Being Used to Help Scout Upcoming Baseball PlayersThe 2023 MLB Draft is around the corner, and scouts have a new artificial intelligence tool at their disposal. The tool is said to generate data that can detect players’ flaws, forecast their potential, and even flag their likelihood for injury. WSJ reporter Lindsey Adler joins host Julie Chang to explain how it works. Photo Illustration: Timmy Huynh/The Wall Street Journal, Istock (2)

Persons: Lindsey Adler, Julie Chang, Timmy Huynh Organizations: Street

☆ Shooting in Baltimore Leaves at Least 2 Dead and Dozens Injured
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Tiffany May | Emma Bubola | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

At least two people died and dozens more were injured in a shooting at a block party in Baltimore early on Sunday, the police said. Just after 12:30 a.m., officers received multiple calls for a shooting at 800 Gretna Court, in Baltimore’s southern neighborhood of Brooklyn, the city’s acting police commissioner, Col. Richard Worley, said at a news conference on Sunday morning. An 18-year-old woman was found dead at the scene, and shortly after, a 20-year-old man was pronounced dead at a hospital, the police said in a statement. Multiple other people had gunshot wounds, Colonel Worley said, and three were in critical condition. Nine people were taken to hospitals, and 20 more took themselves to hospitals, he added.

Persons: Richard Worley, Worley Organizations: Gretna Court Locations: Baltimore, Baltimore’s, Brooklyn

☆ What Are Your Favorite Lesser-Known Hip-Hop Lyrics?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It’s hard to pinpoint the exact birth date of a musical revolution. But if you ask most experts when hip-hop burst onto the scene, they’ll tell you it all started with a block party in the Bronx on Aug. 11, 1973. Since that auspicious day, hip-hop has spread from Sedgwick Avenue to every corner of the globe, becoming a multibillion-dollar industry and a cultural touchstone for generations of music lovers. As The New York Times prepares to commemorate hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, we want to hear from you. Please share with us:

Organizations: New York Times Locations: Bronx, Sedgwick

☆ What is Juneteenth? History of US federal holiday and its celebration explained
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Juneteenth, long a regional holiday in the U.S. South, rose in prominence following protests in 2020 over police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks and other African Americans. Juneteenth, a combination of the words June and 19th, is also known as Emancipation Day. Connecticut, Minnesota, Nevada and Tennessee have made Juneteenth a permanent public holiday for the first time this year, according to the Pew Research Center. In Alabama and West Virginia, Juneteenth has been authorized as a state holiday for this year by a governor’s proclamation. People are also celebrating the holiday by organizing for civil rights, reading books about African American heritage and history, attending festivals and musical performances, and dining at Black-owned restaurants.

Persons: Crystal Howard, Read, Joe Biden, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, Abraham Lincoln's, Juneteenth, Aurora Ellis, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: Black Americans, U.S, District, Columbia, Pew Research, The U.S, Supreme, Thomson Locations: Texas, U.S, Nashville , Tennessee, United States, Connecticut, Minnesota, Nevada, Tennessee, Alabama, West Virginia, America, The

☆ San Francisco Mission District shooting: At least 9 shot in a 'targeted and isolated incident,' police say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Andy Rose | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —At least nine people were shot Friday in what police believe was a “targeted and isolated incident” in San Francisco’s Mission District neighborhood. All victims are expected to survive the shooting, which happened while “some sort of block party” was ongoing, San Francisco Police Department Officer Eve Laokwansathitaya said during a news conference. At least five of the victims were hospitalized, according to Santiago Lerma, a legislative aide to a San Francisco Board of Supervisors member. San Francisco Police Department officers were called to the Mission District around 9 p.m. local time. The Mission District, better known as The Mission, is a large and diverse neighborhood often known for its historic architecture in the east-central portion of San Francisco.

Persons: Eve Laokwansathitaya, Santiago Lerma, Lerma, “, ” Organizations: CNN, San Francisco Police, San Francisco, KPIX, San Francisco Police Department, Mission District Locations: Francisco’s, San Francisco

☆ Michael Block: The club pro set for a potentially life-changing payout after PGA Championship fairytale
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —It’s been a Block party all week at the PGA Championship, and the man at the heart of festivities is not done partying just yet. Michael Block, the 46-year-old club pro who teaches golf lessons at a public course in California, is schooling many of the game’s biggest stars on New York’s notoriously challenging Oak Hill East Course. In the 105 years of the PGA Championship, no PGA Professional has ever finished inside the top 10. Not since Steve Schneiter in 2005 has a PGA pro finished inside the top-40. Should he remain eighth at the end of play, Block will earn $545,000, according to CBS Golf – even 30th place would see him take home $110,000.

☆ Marijuana's black market is undercutting legal businesses
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Stefan Sykes | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Thriving, unregulated marijuana businesses across the United States are undercutting legal markets awaiting banking and tax reform. Unlicensed businesses are "taking a pretty hefty percent of the potential market share," according to Amanda Reiman, a researcher at cannabis intelligence company New Frontier Data. The problem is particularly cumbersome in New York City, Knowles said. Besides cease-and-desist letters, New York City has begun cracking down in other ways, too. "We will not let the economic opportunities that legal cannabis offers be taken for a ride by unlicensed establishments," the mayor said at a news conference.

☆ The Year in Pictures 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +57 min

Every year, starting in early fall, photo editors at The New York Times begin sifting through the year’s work in an effort to pick out the most startling, most moving, most memorable pictures. But 2022 undoubtedly belongs to the war in Ukraine, a conflict now settling into a worryingly predictable rhythm. Erin Schaff/The New York Times “When you’re standing on the ground, you can’t visualize the scope of the destruction. Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25. We see the same images over and over, and it’s really hard to make anything different.” Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 26.

[1/4] Rapper Nas poses for a photo at Sweet Chick restaurant in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 9, 2022. REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniDec 9 (Reuters) - As hip-hop prepares to turn 50 in 2023, U.S. rapper Nas wants to make sure the world understands its history, relevance and influence. Through his company, Mass Appeal, the native New Yorker is spearheading numerous events leading up to the anniversary. “Hip-Hop was never just music,” said Nas, adding it has always included elements of deejaying, dancing, fashion and other art forms. The dancing, rapping and deejaying elements grew out of an inner-city environment but it has since evolved into a multi-billion dollar part of mainstream global culture.

☆ How Yasmin Curtis turned her Chicago restaurant's seafood boil into a frozen product and made $2.6 million in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

During the pandemic, she broadened her customer base by selling her seafood boil in grocery stores. Creating a frozen product from her signature seafood boilTwo Fish sells seafood boil with shrimp and snow-crab legs. Two FishBefore the pandemic, Two Fish Crab Shack had an average wait time of 2 ½ hours to get a table. Two Fish Crab ShackBillboards to reach new demographicsWhen Curtis was first getting her frozen product into stores, she turned to an old-school marketing method: billboards. She's also expanded her frozen seafood boil to include corn and potatoes, which appealed to customers who wanted quick, complete dinners.

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