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Sunday June 21st, 2020 night edition

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What history flipped the script on slavery and the Africans kept slaves?

(AllHipHop News) The upcoming series "Cracka" is likely to cause a storm of controversy for the premise: "What if the roles were reversed in slavery?".

The movie offers a present-day so-called white supremacist who is magically thrust back in time to an alternate past where Africans enslave whites and rule the land known as America.

The movie is the brainchild of director Dale Resteghini, a white man born in Boston, Massachusetts that made his mark with rap videos.

After the lead character rains down blows on the motorist, the pseudo-Nazi returns to his home.

"Cracka" then relives all of the horrors of slavery such as rape, beatings, and even name changes.

The series stars a bevy of talents including Lorenzo Antonucci, Hakeen Kae-Kazim, rapper Saigon, Kathryn Kates, and James Darnell. »

'Heartbreaking,' Say Global Experts, Alarmed at Signs US Has 'Given Up' Fight to Stop Covid-19

Authored by commondreams.org

"U.S. Increasingly Accepts Rising Covid-19 Numbers," read a headline this week in the Swiss paper Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

The U.S. will endure much higher, persistent negative effects from something that other countries have solved; we'll normalize it and convince ourselves nothing can be done.".

"I can't imagine what it must be like having to go to work knowing it"s unsafe," Wiles said. »

Remote work: Employers are taking over our living spaces and passing on costs

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Employers argue they make considerable savings on real estate when workers shift from office to home work.

Though employers are backed by a chorus of remote work proselytizers, others note the loneliness, reduced productivity and inefficiencies of prolonged remote work.

Whatever the personal and productivity impacts of remote work, the savings of US$10,000 per year are the employer’s. »

Adobe wants users to uninstall Flash Player by the end of the year

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Once Flash Player reaches EOL at the end of the year, Adobe doesn't plan to provide new security updates, leaving Flash users exposed to new vulnerabilities and attacks.

The optimum scenario for Adobe would be to get as many users to uninstall Flash Player as possible before December 31, 2020.

It is unclear how this "prompt" will look like, but users can uninstall Flash Player right now by following these uninstall instructions for Windows and Mac users. »

Scottish man fined for calling an Irish man a leprechaun

Authored by irishcentral.com

A Scottish man has been taken to court and fined for calling his ex-girlfriend's new Irish boyfriend a "leprechaun" in a threatening email.

Love additionally said that Myers referred to the new partner as a "leprechaun" in the email.

In a similar case in 2008, a Liverpool court found that calling someone a leprechaun was not a racist insult. »