Courtesy: Isaiah Martin's instagram

Students, faculty and voting-rights advocates repeatedly urged the board to keep the campus locations used in 2024. Critics say removing sites serving large numbers of young and Black voters, while adding locations elsewhere, creates unnecessary barriers and continues a troubling pattern in North Carolina.

Because the vote was not unanimous, the proposed early-voting plan now goes to the North Carolina State Board of Elections for the final decision.

During the 1960s and 1970s, tens of thousands of American service members were stationed there, and relationships between U.S. servicemen and Korean women were not uncommon. Many children of these relationships faced severe discrimination in Korea, especially those who were Black and Korean. Some were abandoned, placed in orphanages or sent abroad for adoption because mixed-race families were often rejected by Korean society at the time.

Hines Ward’s mother, Kim Young-hee, met his Black American father, a U.S. serviceman stationed in South Korea, during the 1970s. After Hines was born in Seoul in 1976, the family moved to the U.S. when he was still very young. His parents later divorced, and his father was largely absent from his life. His mother spoke limited English, had very little money and raised Hines largely on her own in the Atlanta, Georgia area.

Ward went on to play college football at the University of Georgia before the Pittsburgh Steelers selected him in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft. He spent his entire 14-year NFL career with Pittsburgh, recording 1,000 receptions, 12,083 receiving yards and 85 receiving touchdowns. He was selected to four Pro Bowls, won two Super Bowls and was named MVP of Super Bowl XL.

He retired as the Steelers’ all-time leader in receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns and is remembered as one of the toughest and best-blocking wide receivers of his generation.

From the 51 national teams between North, South, Central America and the Caribbean, Argentina is the ONLY country that DOESN'T have black players.

lol went on NBC News today and decided to pull no punches. Pay Black women, that is all!

(Anchors shouldn't be dragged, this question is asked ALL THE TIME lol)

UPDATE: Also released an op-ed today about this very thing with Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley in case people wanted numbers and evidence lol.

UPDATE: "Is this a thing? Maybe Black women don't deserve higher wages?" lol yeah.... no. Sources galore:

• Yes, this is a thing.
  • https://www.aauw.org/resources/article/equal-pay-day-calendar/
  • https://iwpr.org/articles/black-womens-equal-pay-day-2025/
  • https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/RI_DoubleGap_Report_202003.pdf
  • https://nationalpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/african-american-women-wage-gap.pdf
• There's ALSO a concentration of Black women in low-paying jobs:
  • https://www.epi.org/blog/black-womens-labor-market-history-reveals-deep-seated-race-and-gender-discrimination/
  • https://www.epi.org/blog/separate-is-still-unequal-how-patterns-of-occupational-segregation-impact-pay-for-black-women/
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00346446241301677
• Despite Black women having higher labor force participation rates than (white) women
  • Historically: https://dash.harvard.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/7312037c-500c-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3b/content
  • In Present Day: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm

Letoya needs to hire him he hopped right in lol.