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Adidas Announces HBCU Student Athlete Ambassador Network
Adidas is announcing a new “name, image and likeness” network that’s open to student-athletes at NCAA Division One schools sponsored by the company.
The new network allows 50-thousand students throughout 23 sports and 109 schools to be come paid spokespeople for the brand.
Adidas says the program is set to launch in phases over the next 12 months, starting with historically Black colleges and universities and also Power Five conference partners in the fall.
“The adidas NIL network embodies our belief that sport has the power to change lives by upskilling athletes and giving them the ability to begin to experience an entrepreneurial path that will carry them beyond their college years,” Jim Murphy, Adidas NCAA program lead, said in a statement.
It will be available to other participating schools by April of next year.
Student athletes will initially be paid a percentage of the sales they drive at adidas.com or the adidas app, as well as the ability to be paid per social media post. The company didn’t disclose how much the student athletes would be making if they choose to participate in the new program.
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NJ Senator Cory Booker Brings Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson To Tears
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is standing behind Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson in an epic speech delivered yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The NJ senator even brought the historic candidate to tears during his six-minute speech on Wednesday.
At one point during that questioning, Jackson could be seen wiping away tears as Democratic Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey talked about what this moment in history means.
Senator Booker shared, he wouldn’t let Republicans steal his joy from the process, calling Jackson his “harbinger of hope.” He ended his speech by saying the greatest country in the world will be better once Jackson is seated on the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson just finished her final round of questioning Wednesday after being grilled by numerous members of the Senate Judiciary Committee over several days of confirmation hearings. If confirmed, Jackson would be the first Black woman to sit on the nation’s highest court.
The Committee is scheduled to vote on Jackson’s nomination on April 4th.
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Too Short Talks Trickle Down Economics With Rap Beef: “We Ain’t Thinking About The Big Picture”
Rapper Too Short went on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast Club Shay Shay to talk about how the violence in rap music is messing up the income for the people involved. The “Blow The Whistle” rapper said, that there’s a “trickle-down” economic impact on families and communities when rappers go to jail or are murdered. Beef Ruining […]
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First Woman To Serve U.S Secretary Of State Madeleine Albright Dies
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has passed away at the age of 84 from cancer. She was the first woman U.S. Secretary of State, under former President Bill Clinton. Prior to that, she was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. According to reports her family said she died surrounded by family and friends.
A native of Czechoslovakia Albright immigrated with her family to the United States in 1948 and she became a U.S. citizen in 1957. By 1976, she had received a Ph.D. from Columbia University and was working for former President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser.
Albright worked for several nonprofit organizations during the terms of former President’s Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush in the 1980s and early ’90s. She also served on the National Security Council then joined the academic faculty of Georgetown University in the 1980s.
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