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Nike and Columbia Sportswear says all unvaccinated employees will be terminated. Unvaccinated employees with medical or religion exemption will not be terminated. Nike put in place a vaccine mandate back in October of last year. Nike is taking action with terminations on January 15th and Columbia Sportswear is pushing for February 1st. Click Here To […]

ABC’s Black-ish is in it’s eighth and final season and the Emmy-nominated sitcom finishes its run with celebrity guest stars. Simone Biles, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Magic Johnson, Vivica A. Fox, Andrew “KingBach” Bachelor, Stephen A. Smith, Dwight Howard, Isaiah Mustafa and many more. Actor Daveed Diggs will also be reprising his role as Johan Leo Johnson, […]

The United States Mint’s first coins in the American Women Quarters (AWQ) Program. Writer, poet, performer, social activist, and teacher Maya Angelou will be on the US quarter. Angelou rose to international prominence as an author after the publication of her groundbreaking autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Angelou’s published works of verse, […]

Legendary Philadelphia born musician James Mtume passed away over the weekend at age 75. One of Mtumes biggest hits was the 1983 classic song “Juicy Fruit”  Which was sampled multiple times From Hip Hop and R&B artists. Click Here To Read More. Source: BET

Movie Legend Sidney Poitier, the first Black man to win the Oscar for Best Actor, has died at 94. Bahamas Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell confirmed to CBS News. Mitchell was told of Poitier’s death by the family but had no other details. Poitier’s life was a series of “firsts.” In 1958, he was the first […]

Iconic Novelist Toni Morrison completed plays, poems, essays, and short stories, one of which is coming out as a book on Feb. 1. “Recitatif,” written by Morrison in the early 1980s and rarely seen over the following decades, follows the lives of two women from childhood to their contrasting fortunes as adults. Recitatif, includes the […]

All this week, 103.9 WDKX and Jazzy T are helping you prepare for the new virtual reality known as the Metaverse. Even though it may seem like a far-away fantasy land dreamed up by the makers of Facebook, the Metaverse is already here and you need to be prepared to take advantage of it. Just […]

Due to the rise of recent COVID-19 cases across the country, the 64th annual Grammy’s has been postponed. The 64th annual Grammys was supposed to take place in Los Angeles at the Crypto.com arena on January 31st. This is the 2nd year in a row the grammys have been postponed. Last year the award show […]

In Oregon the popular travel rental company Airbnb will no longer post the full names of guest that try to reserve a place to stay to avoid discrimination against black renters. This a 2 year experiment and starts at the end of January. Landlords of the Airbnb won’t see guests full names only their initials once the […]