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Helene was forecast Wednesday evening to become a dangerous Category 4 hurricane before it makes landfall in Florida's Big Bend area Thursday night. This is the biggest storm in the history of the city of Tallahassee to hit us head-on,” Mayor John Dailey told NBC News on Wednesday evening. “If the city of Tallahassee is hit directly by a Category 3 hurricane, it’ll be the strongest hurricane in recorded history ever to hit our community. Tallahassee State College professor Pamela Andrews helps prepare for possible flooding as Hurricane Helene heads toward the Florida Gulf Coast in Tallahassee on Wednesday. Three major colleges, Florida State University, Florida A&M University and Tallahassee State College, have canceled classes for the rest of the week.

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☆ Janet Jackson tells interviewer she's heard Kamala Harris is not Black, echoing election disinformation
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Dennis-Romero-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Dennis Romero | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Echoing well-trodden disinformation that has infected the U.S. presidential election, pop icon Janet Jackson said she has heard Vice President Kamala Harris is not Black. Jackson is quoted as saying during the interview in her adopted hometown of London. The author wrote that she responded with a correction, telling Jackson that Harris does have Indian heritage but is also Black. Father Donald J. Harris, an economist and Stanford University professor emeritus, was born in Jamaica and is Black. "I think either way it goes is going to be mayhem," Jackson is quoted as saying.

Persons: Janet Jackson, Kamala Harris, Jackson, Harris, “, ” Jackson, ”, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Trump, Shyamala Gopalan, Father Donald J, Joe Jackson, Brother Michael Jackson, LaToya, Justin Timberlake Organizations: The Guardian, Resorts, National Association of Black Journalists, Stanford University, Guardian, Super Locations: London, Houston, India, Jamaica

☆ Tito Jackson, member of the Jackson 5, has died at 70, his sons say
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

AP —Tito Jackson, one of the brothers who made up the beloved pop group the Jackson 5, has died at age 70. “It’s with heavy hearts that we announce that our beloved father, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Tito Jackson, is no longer with us. The Jackson 5 included brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael. Born on Oct. 15, 1953, Toriano Adaryll “Tito” Jackson was the least-heard member of the group as a background singer who played guitar. Michael Jackson died at age 50 on June 25, 2009.

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☆ More and more Gen Zers are struggling to stay in work or school. With $350 monthly, a New Orleans guaranteed income program hoped to change that.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-07 | by ( Allie Kelly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewFor some young New Orleans residents, guaranteed basic income helped them afford a ride to work. The New Orleans guaranteed basic income pilot was a collaboration between Mayor LaToya Cantrell's Office of Youth and Families and the national advocacy network Mayors for a Guaranteed Income (MGI). AdvertisementResearchers, however, noted that the individualized impacts of guaranteed basic income are difficult to capture in a dataset. For Howlette, the New Orleans pilot results show that housing, work, and transportation-related costs are major barriers for opportunity youth. She said guaranteed income is just one way to help alleviate these challenges and prevent long-term poverty.

Persons: —, would've, LaToya, Howlette Organizations: Service, SNAP, Medicaid, Business, New, LaToya Cantrell's, Youth, The Center, University of Pennsylvania, Orleans Mayor's Locations: New Orleans, America, Los Angeles, Birmingham, Chicago, Denver, , New Orleans, Louisiana, Orleans

☆ What are the best galleries in New York? Artists choose their favorites
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Lucy Handley | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

CNBC asked artists to name their top New York galleries, ranging from the well-known to the underground. London-based screen-printing artist Diego Arellano likes Manhattan's Chelsea galleries for their large rooms and high ceilings. Hauser & Wirth has two Chelsea galleries, and both are currently showing work by Hungarian-born U.S. artist Rita Ackermann. The Dia Chelsea gallery in New York City will show an exhibition by British filmmaker Steve McQueen in September. Dia Chelsea | Elizabeth FelicellaBrooklyn resident and artist Zhuo Xiong also favors Chelsea galleries.

Persons: Sean Zanni, Patrick Mcmullan, Diego Arellano, Dia, Arellano, Dia Chelsea, Steve McQueen, Wirth, Rita Ackermann, The Dia, Elizabeth Felicella, Zhuo Xiong, Chelsea —, David Zwirner, Xiong, Wendy Olsoff, Penny Pilkington, Edward Akrout, Akrout, Sasha Maslov, Solomon, Eugene Gologursky, Kate Lewis, Matisse, Hopper, Degas, Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, Edward Hopper, Lewis, Whitney, Metropolitan Museum of Art Xiong, —, gallerists Akrout, Rob Kim Organizations: Whitney Museum of American Art, Getty, Metropolitan Museum of Art, of Modern Art, Art Newspaper, CNBC, Chelsea, Hauser & Wirth, Hauser, The, Tribeca, New, Arellano, Whitney, MoMA, Guggenheim, Whitney Museum of American, Guggenheim Museum, Solidarity, Museum of Modern Art, Maison, Broadway, Swiss Institute Locations: New York City, York, New York, London, Hungarian, The Dia Chelsea, British, Elizabeth Felicella Brooklyn, Chelsea, Tribeca, Ukraine, Mriya, Meatpacking, Manhattan, Midtown, Inner Mongolia, Chinatown, East, Chinatown , New York

☆ French voters will decide between Macron and far-right candidates
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Latoya Scott | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Mechanical elephant used for rituals at Indian temple
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Latoya Scott | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ U.S. offers assurances to Israel this week in the event of full-blown war with Hezbollah
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Latoya Scott | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Barbara Gladstone, 89, Dies; Art Dealer With a Personal Touch and Global Reach
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Will Heinrich | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Barbara Gladstone, an art dealer whose eye for spotting talent and knack for nurturing it helped her to build one of the largest and most influential contemporary art galleries in New York, died on Sunday in Paris. She was 89. Her gallery said her death, in a hospital, was caused by an ischemic event, whose symptoms are similar to those of a stroke. Ms. Gladstone, who was on a working trip to Paris, lived in Manhattan. What brought these disparate artists together on her list was her abiding interest in them personally and the devoted way she husbanded their work.

Persons: Barbara Gladstone, Gladstone, Robert Rauschenberg, Keith Haring, Elizabeth Murray, Matthew Barney, Mario Merz, Alighiero Boetti, Richard Prince, Robert Bechtle, Shirin Neshat, Wangechi Mutu, LaToya Ruby Frazier Organizations: Italian Arte Locations: New York, Paris, Manhattan, Italian

☆ Mexico’s next president will face a long list of domestic issues
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Latoya Scott | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Zelensky pushes for peace and support at Shangri-La Dialogue forum
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Latoya Scott | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Life in Kharkiv as Russia presses on with offensive in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Latoya Scott | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Record-breaking flooding from Pakistan to UAE
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Latoya Scott | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Elon Musk laid him off. Now he’s aiming to build a social network that’s better than X
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

They wanted it to be everything most social media struggles to be: positive, safe and inclusive. And as the user base of the platform now known as X splinters, so does Black Twitter, the community of Black users that was a big part of Twitter’s growth and culture. Legacy social media platforms have repeatedly failed to anticipate how their products might be manipulated or misused until something goes wrong. Alphonzo Terrell, co-founder of the social media app Spill, demonstrates how the platform works during an interview with CNN. CNNEven with AI content moderation models, other social media companies often fail to catch harmful content that makes it onto their platforms.

Persons: Alphonzo Terrell, he’d, Terrell – who’d, –, Elon Musk, Terrell, DeVaris Brown, “, ‘, ’ ” Terrell, who’s, Brown, Musk, ”, Maya Umemoto Gorman, …, ” Terrell, Brown —, Kenya Parham, weren’t, Elon, Maya Iman ‘, they’ve, “ That’s, Alphonzo Terrell “, Paul Barrett, they’d, it’s, — don’t, Jalaiah Harmon, Taylor Lorenz, Latoya Lee, ” Lee Organizations: New, New York CNN, Twitter, Elon, CNN, Spill, Washington Post, HBO, Showtime, YouTube, Intel, Cisco, Microsoft, NYU Stern Center for Business, Human, Apple, Kapor Center, Social, Mac Venture, Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime, VH1, Pew Research Center, New York Times, California State University Fullerton Locations: New York, Los Angeles, Kenya, Spill, Georgia

☆ Can You Pay a Mortgage with a Credit Card?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Michelle Lambright Black | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +10 min

“Eventually something is going to blow up.”That said, paying your mortgage with a credit card can make sense in a few circumstances, such as when you’re trying to earn a credit card sign-up bonus. How to pay your mortgage with a credit cardIn general, mortgage companies and mortgage loan servicers do not accept credit cards as a form of payment. If you plan to buy gift cards with your credit card and use them to pay your mortgage, it’s important to review your credit card issuer’s policies first. Most people consider paying their mortgage with a credit card for one of two reasons—they want extra time to make their mortgage payments or they want to earn credit card rewards. Potentially, yes: You want to earn credit card rewardsThere is one scenario where paying a mortgage with a credit card may make sense.

Persons: Michelle Lambright, ”, Jeff Rose, Plastiq, it’s, LaToya, “, You’re, Cash, Kevin Payne Organizations: Mastercard, Western Unions, Chase, Capital, Federal Reserve Locations: Plastiq, Birmingham, It’s

☆ New Orleans braces for drinking water emergency from drought-stricken Mississippi River
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Denise Chow | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell signed an emergency declaration Friday in response to concerns that salt water encroaching upriver could affect the availability of safe drinking water in the coming weeks. Treasure hunters comb the shoreline of the Mississippi River after it was exposed by low water levels on October 18, 2022 near Portageville, Missouri. Around 2,000 residents in Plaquemines Parish, south of New Orleans, were already relying on bottled water this summer after salt water infiltrated the area's water systems. The mouth of the Mississippi River sits substantially below sea level, which means some salt water from the Gulf of Mexico naturally creeps inland. Salt water is denser than fresh water, so it flows like a wedge along the riverbed underneath the fresh water of the Mississippi.

Persons: Stephen Murphy, LaToya Cantrell, Murphy, we've, John Bel Edwards, Nature, Col, Cullen Jones, We've Organizations: Tulane University's School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine, Louisiana Gov, Army Corps of Engineers, Army Corps, Corps, New, New Orleans District Locations: Mississippi, Tiptonville, Tenn, New Orleans, Louisiana, Gulf, Mexico, Portageville , Missouri, Belle Chasse, Plaquemines Parish, Lower Mississippi

☆ Saltwater in the Mississippi Threatens Water Supply in New Orleans
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Colbi Edmonds | More About Colbi Edmonds | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Drought-like conditions in the Midwest over the summer have created a growing water problem in the New Orleans area this fall. Water levels of the Mississippi River have dropped low enough to make the river less resistant to a mass of saltwater flowing north from the Gulf of Mexico. This circumstance, known as saltwater intrusion, is endangering the drinking water systems in and around the city, as well as smaller municipalities to the south. Many water treatment facilities cannot handle water with high salinity levels, which corrode pipes and cause metals in the pipes to leach into the water. He said he was requesting a federal emergency declaration, and Mayor LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans signed an emergency declaration for the city on Friday.

Persons: Gov, John Bel Edwards, LaToya Cantrell, Edwards Organizations: Officials, U.S . Army Corps, Engineers Locations: Midwest, New Orleans, Mississippi, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana

NEW YORK (AP) — Historical novels by Jayne Anne Phillips and Paul Harding and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s dystopian prison novel “Chain-Gang All-Stars” are among the nominees on the National Book Awards long list for fiction. The judges, who include authors, critics and booksellers, will narrow the lists to five next month, and winners will be announced Nov. 15 during a dinner ceremony in downtown Manhattan. The foundation also will present honorary awards to poet Rita Dove and bookseller Paul Yamazaki of the famed City Lights store in San Francisco. Drew Barrymore had been scheduled to host the ceremony but was dropped by the foundation after she resumed her talk show in the midst of the Hollywood actors and writers strike. The foundation has not yet named a replacement.

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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Varshan Brown was charged with murder and taken to trial after sheriff's deputies fatally shot his cousin in a violent drug raid at Brown's southeast Georgia home. But jurors concluded the death of his cousin, Latoya James, wasn't Brown's fault. James was killed May 4, 2021, after deputies with a search warrant for drugs came to Brown's darkened home at about 5 a.m. Body camera video released prior to the trial showed deputies announcing themselves and then immediately forcing their way inside. He was the only deputy equipped with a body camera during the raid, Higgins said.

Persons: — Varshan Brown, Brown, Latoya James, wasn't, James, Breonna Taylor, ” Harry Daniels, “, wouldn’t, Casey, Michael Blaquiere, Keith Higgins, “ Brown, ” Higgins, Varshan Brown, ”, Tobe Karrh, Karrh, Higgins, Roger B, Lane Organizations: Sheriff's, Brunswick Judicial, The U.S . Justice Department Locations: SAVANNAH, Ga, Brown's, Georgia, Camden, Kentucky, Brunswick, Louisville , Kentucky, The, Louisville

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Monday that she has chosen Anne Kirkpatrick, a former chief of police in Spokane, Washington, and Oakland, California, to head the New Orleans Police Department, a nomination subject to the approval of the City Council. Kirkpatrick, if approved, would be the permanent replacement for Shaun Ferguson, who retired from the job last year. The post has been held on an interim basis by Michelle Woodfork, a longtime veteran of the New Orleans department, who had also applied for the job. She was tapped to help with police reform efforts in Chicago under then-Mayor Rahm Emmanuel in 2017. Voters approved a measure last year granting the council the right to approve or reject a nominee for police chief.

Persons: LaToya Cantrell, Anne Kirkpatrick, Kirkpatrick, Shaun Ferguson, Michelle Woodfork, Cantrell, Rahm Emmanuel, Helena Moreno, Moreno, ” Organizations: ORLEANS, — New, New Orleans Police Department, City Council, New, U.S . Justice Department, Voters Locations: — New Orleans, Spokane , Washington, Oakland , California, New Orleans, Spokane, Chicago, Oakland

☆ Black Business Month: Major retailers drive $14B of revenue to Black-owned brands
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Brandon Gomez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBlack Business Month: Major retailers drive $14B of revenue to Black-owned brandsNordstrom, Macy's, Sephora, Gap & Ulta Beauty among the retailers who have taken the '15 Percent Pledge', dedicating 15% of their annual purchasing power and shelf space to Black-owned brands. Brandon Gomez speaks with '15 Percent Pledge' Executive Director LaToya Williams Belfort about the organizations work to close the racial wealth gap and plans to drive $1.4 trillion of wealth generation to Black entrepreneurs by 2030.

Persons: Brandon Gomez, LaToya Williams Belfort Organizations: Nordstrom

☆ Major retailers bring $14 billion in revenue to Black-owned brands
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Brandon Gomez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Major retailers and brands have driven $14 billion in revenue to Black-owned businesses since May 2020. The group asks companies to reflect the Black community that makes up 15% of the U.S. population by dedicating 15% of their shelf space to Black-owned brands. Prior to taking the pledge, many of the group's current partners had less than 3% of their shelf space dedicated to Black-owned brands. Now all partners are committed to attaining their 15% pledge over a 10-year contract. Fifteen Percent Pledge has committed to generating $1.4 trillion in wealth for Black entrepreneurs by 2030.

Persons: Nordstrom, LaToya Williams Belfort, Sephora, Aurora James, George Floyd's, James, InStyle Organizations: Federal, CNBC, JUST Capital, Vogue Locations: Brooklyn, Black, U.S

Washington, DC CNN —Florida is America’s inflation hotspot, thanks to a persistent problem with sky-high housing costs. The Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach area has the highest inflation rate of metro areas with more than 2.5 million residents, with a 9% inflation rate for the 12 months ended in April. Urban Hawaii had the second lowest inflation rate at 2% — mirroring the Federal Reserve’s target for its preferred inflation gauge, the Personal Consumption Expenditures index. A vexing inflation problem in the Sunshine StateIn Florida, the state’s growing population has been pushing up inflation — particularly via housing costs. Even though the Twin Cities’ inflation rate is currently the lowest among major cities, it might not feel that way to residents, Schipper said.

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☆ Relentless heat wave scorches US South, air quality deteriorates over Midwest
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Brendan O'Brien | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Meanwhile, in Chicago, children, the elderly and people with respiratory diseases were being cautioned to stay indoors for a wholly different reason: polluted air. "It is essential to have a way to cool down and interrupt your heat exposure." The stationary high pressure system across the South that is trapping the heat and humidity, known as a heat dome, has been lingering for the last few weeks, causing the sweltering weather. The heat wave claimed the life of a 14-year-old boy who was hiking in the Big Bend National Park in Texas on Friday when the temperature reached 119 degrees. Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Chicago; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Mark PorterOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Callaghan, LaToya Cantrell, Brendan O'Brien, Chizu Nomiyama, Mark Porter Organizations: U.S, National Weather Service, NWS, REUTERS, New, Big, Thomson Locations: Chicago, Arizona, Texas, Florida's, Dallas, New Orleans, Mobile , Alabama, Houston , Texas, U.S, Canada, United States, Arkansas , Tennessee, Oklahoma

The Department of Justice and FBI on Wednesday announced a civil rights inquiry into a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, that preceded the death of a Black man. Tyre Nichols, 29, died three days after being taken to a hospital in critical condition following the Jan. 7 stop. Nichols' family has retained civil rights attorney Ben Crump and have demanded the public release of body camera and any other surveillance footage from the stop. Crump did not immediately respond to an NBC News request for comment regarding the civil rights investigation Wednesday. Sierra Rogers, holding her daughter Khloe Rogers, wipes away tears as she speaks during a memorial service for her friend Tyre Nichols on Tuesday.

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