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I have some interesting updates about the MLB schedule. They have released the MLB schedule prior to the covid-19 cases in Florida. The schedule says that the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies will be playing on Monday, and the Miami Marlins and the Baltimore Orioles are scheduled to play on Tuesday. They also noted that the Phillies players may have false positive tests which is definitely a good sign for Philly fans and the Cardinals and the Brewers game has been postponed to Saturday’s game (Today).
In other news… The MLB and the MLBPA have agreed to 7-inning doubleheaders starting in August (Today). They will last for the rest of the 2020 season when games are rained out. The doubleheaders will feature two seven-inning games. Even a few days without games for one team can drastically impact the schedule in a division in a division race since teams are playing 40 of their 60 games against division opponents. The union asked its players to consider a handful of rule changes in an effort to make it through the season as healthy as possible, including hosting seven-inning games during doubleheaders. The Miami Marlins and Philadelphia Phillies, who represent 40 percent of the National League East, as well as the New York Yankees, who already saw their schedules altered because of a Covid-19 outbreak among Marlins players.
There was a rumor that the MLB season could shut down as Rob Manfred told MLBPA the season may end if the league doesn’t do a better job of managing Covid-19. The issue is that the covid-19 pandemic is still spreading rapidly in the United Stated, with 65,406 cases confirmed Friday alone (Yesterday). The vast majority of MLB teams haven’t had players test positive for Covid-19 through one week, but as the past few days have shown, one team’s outbreak can have a ripple effect on other teams. Games are postponed, schedules are altered, and previous opponents have to be on high alert for positive tests. In the matter of fact, there have been 29 positive tests through Thursday. This includes 21 Marlins and the other eight include two players, one player at an alternate site and five staff members. All of this information came from the MLB Bleacher Report.
Stay tuned for MLB updates.
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It might be hard to believe, but it has been five whole years since Mad Max: Fury Road dropped like a megaton bomb onto movie theaters and rocked our world. (2015 sure seems like a lifetime ago now, doesn’t it?) As a way of celebrating five years of her now-iconic role as the badass Furiosa in the fourth Mad Max film, Charlize Theron is participating in a very special drive-in movie screening of of Fury Road. And it’s all to benefit The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project.
As a way of celebrating the screening, which takes place on Friday July 31st, the Oscar winner shared a special flashback video via Twitter of the day the magic happened. That is, the very day she shaved off her legendary locks and began her onscreen journey as Furiosa. You can watch the video below.
In honor of our @CTAOP drive-in screening of #MadMaxFuryRoad tonight, throwing it back to the point of no return with creating Furiosa. A huge thank you to @TheGroveLA and @ChadHudsonEvent for making tonight happen! So excited to see this movie on the big screen again
— Charlize Theron (@CharlizeAfrica) July 31, 2020pic.twitter.com/tIZzRw64Gv
For those lucky enough to attend the charity screening, the show will include dinner and a live Q&A with not only Theron, but also her co-star Nicholas Hoult. This screening will happen on Level 8 at The Grove, Los Angeles’ famous shopping center. The Level 8 setting will offer audience members an incredible view of LA at sunset. As if watching Fury Road with its stars wasn’t epic enough!
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Theron’s CTAOP charity champions young people living in Africa, and does so by investing in organizations that prioritize and advance the health, education, and community support for youth. When COVID-19 broke out earlier this, CTAOP partnered with Entertainment Industry Foundation and CARE to launch a campaign called Together for Her. The campaign is designed to help in the fight against campaign gender-based violence during the pandemic.
A Furiosa prequel is on the way from director George Miller. Unfortunately, it won’t star Theron. According to the director, the role will be assumed by an actress two decades younger. As cool as a prequel sounds, we’d give anything to see Theron become Furiosa again.
Here’s hoping it happens eventually in some capacity once this prequel has been made. Because we’re not sure anyone out there can beat the original.
Featured Image: Warner Brothers
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Man....is time flying fast! It's Wednesday already and therefore, it's time for you to set your clocks for the latest installment of Afronerd Radio's Mid Week in Review, thanks to our new platform at BTalk 100. The topics up for discussion this (mid) week are: current polling data asserts that the new Black Lives Matter movement is more popular than POTUS (and truth be told, its more popular than many things) and this is not sitting well with FOX News pundit, Tucker Carlson; and in a rather mysterious manner, post the George Floyd protests/riots, there has been an uptick in hangings (suicide vs millennial lynchings?); and in further in BLM related news, Black Hollywood is starting to open up with personal tales of racism, discrimination and apathy all while attempting to garner a foothold within the industry; and speaking of blacks in Tinseltown, Flash actress, Candice Patton advocates for black women on the CW as the network commits to blocking racist, misogynistic and homophobic remarks on social pages; legendary actor/rapper, Will Smith may be doing a slave themed movie entitled, Emancipation (with a black director) after all, when he purportedly nixed the role that eventually went to Jamie Foxx in Django; shock jock and radio industry icon, Howard Stern answers critics regarding his now problematic past pertaining to race humor and blackface; Long Island, NY's famed Nassau Coliseum, home of the Islanders hockey team has indefinitely closed its doors pending its billionaire owner's ability to garner investors; singers Alicia Keys and John Legend face off against each other for a special Juneteenth edition of Instagram Verzuz; and speaking of Juneteenth, also referred to as Freedom Day, is it possible that it might be tracking toward becoming a national holiday? a young black doctor may be getting his Congressional closeup as a Democrat in a largely Republican stronghold in Virginia; And lastly our thoughts about President Trump's proposed Tulsa "race speech" which has since been moved to the day after Juneteenth (whew). Call in LIVE at 508-645-0100.
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Maeva Heim, who chemically straightened her 4C hair texture for years, admits she had no idea what to buy or how to wash her hair when she decided to go natural. She made the decision a few years ago after her hair relaxer exploded in her suitcase on a flight from New York to Colorado. “ I didn’t have access to get another one because we were in the middle of nowhere. And so I decided to go back to my natural texture, which is something that I had no idea about,” she tells ESSENCE.
After the fiasco, she made it her mission to find products for her hair texture, but she became overwhelmed with multicultural hair care offerings. “I had no idea what to buy, and I just wanted to wash my hair, but I didn’t feel any brands were taking me through the process in a simple, easy way,”says Heim.
Heim realized that there were probably other women out there looking for the same thing, and that’s when she started building BREAD, a line of clean hair care basics for not so basic hair.
Photo: Courtesy of BREADHeim says she created the brand for millennial women like her and centennials who don’t view beauty as glossy, completely done up hair. “I’d like to think that we’re here for the essentials and the must-haves like bread. That’s where the name comes from.”
The whole point of this brand is about embracing casual hairstyles and embracing lazy girl hair because Black women already have textured hair.
While building the hair care line, Heim, who is an Australia native and former L’Oréal brand manager, immersed herself in the hair care space and noticed that “frizz,” and other characteristics of natural hair, were being demonized. So not only did she make it the brand’s mission to simplify the way Black women care for their textured hair, but embrace it too. “The whole point of this brand is about embracing casual hairstyles and embracing lazy girl hair because Black women already have textured hair.”
In terms of products, Heim said she wanted to start at the very beginning of the routine with wash day, and uncomplicate the process with three products:Hair Wash, a gentle milky cleanser (that smells like Fruit Loops cereal), Hair Mask, a creamy deep conditioner that moisturizes textured hair without weighing it down, and Hair-Oil, a smoothing and shinning formula that Heim refers to as “lip gloss for your hair.”
Photo: Courtesy of BREAD” I really wanted to go from step one of the routine and really target the problem that I first encountered, which is ‘how do I wash my hair?’ And I felt like if we had started anywhere else, it wouldn’t be authentic to BREAD,” says Heim, who notes thats this is just the beginning. When it comes to embracing your natural hair, “you have to slowly immerse yourself in it, one step at a time” she says.
“I remember getting to that point where I was like, ‘well, I’m going to brush out an entire fro and go to dinner with 10 girlfriends.’ It was liberating. I look back now and think ‘far out.’ I’m the same person that couldn’t go to school with my hair out. And now I’ve got a full fro and hanging out with my friends in restaurants. It’s been such a journey, but I think that that’s a really important point. Just take it slow and go at your own pace and just be forgiving with yourself.” And BREAD is the new hair care line at Sephora that is here to help you with the process.
“Sephora is thrilled to partner with BREAD and continue our commitment to bringing innovative, differentiated products to our clients, as well as supporting all hair types, textures and concerns,” said Jennifer Lucchese, VP Haircare Merchandising at Sephora. “We are so excited to finally introduce BREAD to our clients and know that it will be a wonderful addition to Sephora’s hair assortment.”
I love that it’s resonating with the people it’s supposed to resonate with.
Heim says she’s very intent on BREAD being an aspirational brand that people want to buy into, and so it was important for her to feature faces on the packaging. ” I think that’s the one reason why when people see it, they relate to it. And I love that it’s resonating with the people that it’s supposed to resonate with.”
BREAD hair care products are now available at Sephora.com and BreadBeautySupply.com.
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