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‘I’m confident they’ll block it’: Premier League could STOP Saudi Arabia-backed takeover of Newcastle over murder row Jamal Khashoggi

‘I’m confident they’ll block it’: Premier League could STOP Saudi Arabia-backed takeover of Newcastle over murder row

The English Premier League is reportedly ready to reject the proposed $370 million takeover of Newcastle by a Saudi-led consortium after listening to an appeal from Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of murdered dissident Jamal Khashoggi. The completion of a takeover that would make Newcastle one of the richest clubs in…
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June 4, 2020
IndieWire Critics Roundtable: ‘#blackAF’ and the Dilemmas of Black Criticism Joker

IndieWire Critics Roundtable: ‘#blackAF’ and the Dilemmas of Black Criticism

In the wake of Kenya Barris' controversial "#blackAF" episode and Lena Waithe's commentary on black criticism, IndieWire invited four black critics to share their thoughts on the state of the industry. Reviews of Kenya Barris’ new Netflix series “#blackAF” have been mixed at best; critical consensus is that it’s uncertain…
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June 4, 2020
SUICIDE SQUAD Director Reveals Geoff Johns’ Change To The Movie Which “Broke My Timeline” Joker

SUICIDE SQUAD Director Reveals Geoff Johns’ Change To The Movie Which “Broke My Timeline”

Suicide Squad director David Ayer has indicated that comic book writer Geoff Johns interfered with his movie, making a change to the Joker and Harley Quinn's past that ended up breaking his timeline! Suicide Squad director David Ayer has indicated that Geoff Johns was responsible for some creative interference in…
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June 4, 2020
New material, modeling methods promise advances in energy storage Drones

New material, modeling methods promise advances in energy storage

The explosion of mobile electronic devices, electric vehicles, drones and other technologies have driven demand for new lightweight materials that can provide the power to operate them. Researchers from the University of Houston and Texas A&M University have reported a structural supercapacitor electrode made from reduced graphene oxide and aramid…
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June 4, 2020
Black History in Three Acts 1619 Slavery

Black History in Three Acts

Jun 5, 2020 3 Min read time Image: Andy Witchger / WikiMedia The story of how black people confront systems of racial capitalism and plot world liberation. A reading list from Robin D. G. Kelley. Police violence is only the enforcement arm of a system of racial domination and racial capitalism that was…
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June 4, 2020