Monday Notes: Sports Roundup, Meta GPDR Fine, Beyoncé x Kendrick Lamar, Senator Tim Scott, NAACP x Florida

Today's Events

• Denver Nuggets (3) at Los Angeles Lakers  (0), Monday, May 22nd, 2023, at 8:30 PM E.T. on ESPN

Civil rights groups warn tourists about traveling to Florida

The NAACP over the weekend issued a travel advisory for Florida, joining two other civil rights groups in warning potential tourists that recent laws and policies championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers are "openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals."

Civil rights groups warn tourists about traveling to Florida

The NAACP joined a Latino civil rights organization and a gay rights advocacy group in issuing travel advisories for the Sunshine State, where tourism is one of the state’s largest job sectors.

NPRThe Associated Press

Meta hit with record €1.2BN privacy fine and ordered to suspend Facebook EU data flows

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) confirmed today that Meta has been fined €1.2 billion (close to $1.3BN) — which the Board confirmed is the largest fine ever issued under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). (The prior record goes to Amazon which was stung for $887M for misusing customers data for ad targeting back in 2021.)

Meta ordered to suspend Facebook EU data flows as it’s hit with record €1.2BN privacy fine under GDPR

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has been hit with a formal suspension order requiring it to stop exporting European Union user data to the US for processing

TechCrunchNatasha Lomas

Sports Roundup: Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics, Nuggets - Lakers preview, Joe Mazzulla, Brittney Griner, Kylian Mbappe

Sports Roundup: Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics, Nuggets - Lakers preview, Joe Mazzulla, Brittney Griner, Kylian Mbappe

Today’s Events * Denver Nuggets (3) at Los Angeles Lakers (0), Monday, May 22nd, 2023, at 8:30 PM E.T. on ESPN Boston Celtics (0) at Miami Heat (3): Spoelstra flexes Heat’s depth, ‘will to win’ vs. C’s (Watch the Recap) With names like Gabe Vincent, Duncan Robinson and Caleb

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Jim Brown’s legacy, as told by his Cleveland Browns teammate John Wooten: ‘He never thought the job was finished’

Jim Brown’s legacy, as told by his Cleveland Browns teammate John Wooten: ‘He never thought the job was finished’

On June 4, 1967, the Cleveland Summit, which is also referred to as the Muhammad Ali Summit, occurred on the East Side of Cleveland. Legendary former NFL supers…

AndscapeJason Reid

NYC Assembly Member Anderson launches barber shop talk series, beyond the stigma

All hail the sanctuary that is the barbershop. Throughout the African diaspora, Black men habitually gather in these safe spaces to do something they can’t always do elsewhere: be themselves. It’s at a series of barber shops in Queens that State Assemblymember Khaleel M. Anderson chose to introduce his new Barber Shop Mental Health program.

Barbershop talk series goes beyond stigma

The Barbershop Mental Health Program was launched is Queens by State Assemblymember Khaleel M. Anderson to spark conversations and build.

New York Amsterdam NewsARIAMA C. LONG Report for America Corps Member / Amsterdam News Staff

Uber’s Diversity Chief Put on Leave After Complaints of Insensitivity

The executive hosted sessions about race and being a white woman that were titled “Don’t Call Me Karen,” prompting an employee uproar.

Uber’s Diversity Chief Put on Leave After Complaints of Insensitivity

The executive hosted sessions about race and being a white woman that were titled “Don’t Call Me Karen,” prompting an employee uproar.

The New York TimesBy

Beware of the Food That Isn’t Food

UPF is typically defined as anything with one or more ingredients that you wouldn’t tend to find in a home kitchen: stabilizers, modified starches, industrial sweeteners, glycerine, xanthan gum. (A more comprehensive classification system, the NOVA scale, has been developed by Brazilian researchers.) These industrial additives keep food fresh for longer, making supply chains work, and tend to be cheaper than the natural ingredients they replace. They allow food companies to make a profit, and consumers to spend less of their disposable income on food: In the U.S., that figure was 10.3 percent in 2021, down from 16 percent in the 1960s. Ultra-processed People begins with a scene in which van Tulleken gives his 3-year-old daughter, Lyra, a tub of ice cream in a park. When she runs off to play, he realizes that the snack isn’t melting into liquid; it has instead become “tepid gelatinous foam.” The culprit is xanthan gum, a substance made from the slime that bacteria excrete to cling to surfaces.

Beware of the Food That Isn’t Food

The podcaster Chris van Tulleken has strong opinions about soft bread and candy that never decays.

The AtlanticHelen Lewis

Sen. Tim Scott files paperwork to run for president in the 2024 election

Why Black Workers in NYC Are Unemployed at Critical Levels and What Can Be Done

Why Black Workers in NYC Are Unemployed at Critical Levels — and What Can Be Done

The Black jobless rate of 12.2% is nine times the white unemployment level, a far wider gap than elsewhere in the U.S.

The CitySafiyah Riddle

Beyoncé x Kendrick Lamar “America Has a Problem” Remix