Golden State Valkyries win first WNBA championship, beating Dream in Game 7
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Valkyries owner Joe Lacob guaranteed a championship within the first five years for the franchise three years ago when the Bay Area was granted an expansion team.
“All we heard last year was we don’t have no stars. We don’t have no talent. Yeah right! We got good people. We got good people. We got winners. We got people who are ready to put their bodies on the floor to win a game.”
Gabby WilliamsSaid NOV 01Reported NOV 01verbatim · 1 source
Williams pushed back on doubts about the Valkyries' talent and emphasized the team's winning mentality.
During the 2014 Alaska Senate campaign, Sullivan said he would consider raising the retirement age or means-testing benefits to cut Social Security costs.
Shootings near five college communities kill three, injure at least 29
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Birmingham Police Chief Michael Pickett said most spectators and families had left the stadium property after the game when the shooting happened nearby where vendors were set up.
Bloomington, Illinois police responded just before 1:25 a.m. Sunday to a shooting near Illinois Wesleyan University and found multiple people with gunshot wounds.
“So those same people that had BLM flags in their yard and DEI and ‘Oh my God, I just discovered institutional racism and mass incarceration. How did that happen?’ are now like, ‘I’m done with it.’”
Karen BassSaid DATE NOT STATEDReported NOV 01verbatim · 1 source
Bass spoke at Nickerson Gardens in Watts about how public enthusiasm for racial justice issues has faded.
Barbados PM Burnham open to UK slavery apology but not reparations
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In 2006, then-Prime Minister Tony Blair expressed "deep sorrow" for Britain's role in the slave trade but fell short of apologising or speaking about reparations.
“We live in a world today where people call out people for everything, for misogyny, for sexual assault, for all kinds of behaviour. But yet we have not found the moral courage to state unanimously across humanity that this grave crime against humanity that persisted for centuries ought to be declared so by all,”
Mia MottleySaid DATE NOT STATEDReported NOV 01verbatim · 1 source
Mottley spoke at a conference in Ghana where she announced a 19-point manifesto on reparations.
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Multiple Halloween night shootings in Dallas kill four, injure fifteen
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Comeaux said some arrests were made in connection with the Dallas shootings.