RIP Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. The legendary trans activist died on Oct. 13, surrounded by her loved ones, according to an announcement from her nonprofit, The House of gg. Here's [@19thnews](
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 )'s tribute to her. “When younger people call me mother, or grandmother, I feel as though it’s an honor. To them, it’s like, ‘Here’s an older trans woman who survived, and who’s out there still raising hell,’" she told Toshio Meronek, who collaborated with her on her 2023 memoir. “When you are constantly under attack, especially if you’re in this community, you can’t just retire and walk off into the sunset. You’ve got to stay and teach young people to fight.”
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Legendary transgender activist Miss Major dies at 78
Known as a surrogate mother of her community, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy leaves behind a legacy as a fierce advocate for trans and LGBTQ+ rights.
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D'Angelo, a master of soul music and the singer/songwriter behind three classic albums, has died at age 51 after a cancer diagnosis. Here's [@RollingStone](
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D’Angelo, Soul's Modern Visionary, Dead at 51
D'Angelo, the soul and R&B great whose three albums — 'Brown Sugar,' 'Voodoo,' and 'Black Messiah' — are all...
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An old tradition finds new life as Germans flock to forests to collect mushrooms. From [@AssociatedPress](
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 ): "Across Germany, the traditional forest art of mushroom hunting is enjoying a revival, fed by the coronavirus pandemic restrictions, which pushed people from cramped apartments into forests, and by the growing popularity of the vegan lifestyle."
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An old tradition finds new life as Germans flock to forests to collect mushrooms
Wolfgang Bivour, a renowned fungi expert in Germany, leads mushroom hunting tours near Potsdam. This activity, once a necessity after World War II,...
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Where does a racist slur come from? When a national conversation around the racist nickname of an NFL team sprouted up a few years ago, an author gained access to dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster’s Consolidated Files: 16 million citations of words that have been published for more than a century. “It boggled the mind that the team had gotten away with propagating the word for as long as it did,” Stefan Fatsis writes for [@Defector](
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 ). A great read that explains why the team finally dropped its nickname:
The Annotated History Of A Slur | Defector
A few years ago, when the conversation over the racist nickname and racist iconography of the NFL team that maintained racist hiring policies longe...
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When ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel last month, many critics implied or outright declared that late-night TV was dead. Not so fast, perhaps.” I saw bold proof that, despite all the talk about late-night TV losing its relevance, there sure seemed to be a lot of people who still cared about what hosts like Kimmel had to say,” Eric Deggans writes. Read his piece from [@npr](
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Diane Keaton’s death, less than a month after Robert Redford’s passing, “represents another stinging loss to the pantheon of New Hollywood in the decades before the major studios largely stepped away from making movies for grownups,” film critic David Rooney writes. The Oscar-winning star of “Annie Hall” and dozens of other movies “essentially reinvented the classic screwball heroine for a more socially evolved age.” Movie fans will appreciate Keaton even more after reading Rooney’s article for [@THR](
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Diane Keaton Modernized the Screwball Heroine: Critic's Appreciation
Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning star of ‘Annie Hall,’ ‘Manhattan,’ all three ‘Godfather’ movies, ‘Reds’ and ‘The First Wives Club...
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Sports betting has exploded across America, with a vast majority of states legalizing gambling in recent years. In fact, Americans gambled $150 billion through online sportsbooks last year. Far too many lost nearly everything. [@RollingStone](
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How FanDuel and DraftKings Have Helped Fuel Gambling Addiction
The rise of mobile sports-bet operators like FanDuel and DraftKings has coincided with a spike in problem gambling among young men in America.
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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)
Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The Oscar award-winning actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hal...
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Who's afraid of the big Bad Bunny? [@Defector](
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 )'s Lauren Theisen examines Kristi Noem, President Trump, Mike Johnson and Marjorie Taylor Greene's reactions to hearing that the Puerto Rican superstar will headline the Super Bowl halftime show. "It sounds like he's not someone who appeals to a broader audience, and you know, there's so many eyes on the Super Bowl, a lot of young, impressionable children, and in my view, you would have Lee Greenwood, or role models doing that, not somebody like this," says Johnson.
Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Bunny, And Why? | Defector
When the NFL announced that Bad Bunny would headline this season’s Super Bowl halftime show, it made all the sense in the world, because Benito M...
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