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In June 2020, Aurora founded The Fifteen Percent Pledge, an initiative that urges retail giants to commit 15% of their shelf space to Black-owned businesses by creating clear business strategies and attainable goals. The Fifteen Percent Pledge has since been featured on Forbes, Fast Company, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Vogue. Within the first year, over 2 dozen major corporations dedicated to The Fifteen Percent Pledge, effectively diverting over $5B in capital to Black entrepreneurs in the United States.

Brother Vellies is worn regularly by dedicated followers including Beyonce, Meghan Markle, Zendaya, Rihanna, Serena Williams, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Chrissy Teigen and Solange.

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>The UK High Court has agreed to formally serve Prince Andrew with Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s sex-assault claim if his legal team refuses to accept the court papers, British officials told The Post on Wednesday.

https://nypost.com/2021/09/15/isis-bride-shamima-begum-would-rather-die-than-rejoin-group/

ISIS bride Shamima Begum says she’d ‘rather die’ than rejoin group

ISIS bride Shamima Begum apologized for joining the terror group and appealed to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to allow her to return to the UK, saying in her first live TV interview she’d “rather die” than go back to the jihadists.

“I know there are some people, no matter what I say or what I do, they will not believe that I have changed, believe that I want to help,” she told ITV’s “Good Morning Britain.”

“But for those who have even a drop of mercy and compassion and empathy in their hearts, I tell you from the bottom of my heart that I regret every, every decision I’ve made since I stepped into Syria and I will live with it for the rest of my life,” she said.

Begum was just 15 when she and two classmates set off for Syria to join ISIS. She has said she married an extremist from the Netherlands and had three children, all of whom have died.

Now 22 and living in a refugee camp in Syria, Begum has sought to return home, but the British government revoked her citizenship on national security grounds in 2019 and she has fought unsuccessfully to have her passport restored.

Begum, who wore lipstick, a gray tank top and a Nike baseball cap for the interview, said she had been misled when she went to Syria.

Addressing the prime minister, she offered a critical message: “I think I could very much help you in your fight against terrorism because you clearly don’t know what you’re doing.”

“I did not want to hurt anyone in Syria or anywhere else in the world. At the time I did not know it was a death cult, I thought it was an Islamic community,” she said.

Sajid Javid, who as home secretary made the decision to revoke Begum’s citizenship, stood by his choice, telling ITV News on Wednesday that it was “absolutely the right decision.”

“When I saw what I did and the information I received from my advisers and our intelligence agencies, in the end it was a very clear-cut decision,” Javid said.

Begum acknowledged that it might be difficult for some Britons to forgive her, as they have lived “in fear of ISIS and lost loved ones,” but noted that “I have also lived in fear of ISIS and also lost loved ones.”

Begum has described the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing — in which 22 people died when jihadist Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb — as a “retaliation” for military strikes on ISIS strongholds.

She now clarified her comments.

“I do not believe that one evil justifies another evil. I don’t think that women and children should be killed for other people’s motives and for other people’s agendas,” she said.

Begum added that when she initially made the remarks, she did not know that women and children were hurt in Manchester.

“I did not know about the Manchester bombing when I was asked. I did not know that people were killed, I did not know that women and children were hurt because of it,” she said.

https://nypost.com/2021/09/15/virginia-teacher-says-making-kids-behave-is-white-supremacy/

Virginia high school teacher says making kids behave in class is ‘white supremacy’

A Virginia high school teacher is under fire for calling efforts to make kids behave in class “the definition of white supremacy.”

Josh Thompson, an English teacher at Blacksburg High School, posted a since-deleted TikTok video attacking the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) program used in Montgomery County schools, Fox News said.

The teacher called the techniques that help reduce disruptive student behavior “white supremacy with a hug.”

“It’s things like making sure that you’re following directions, and making sure that you’re sitting quietly, and you are in your seat — and all these things that come from white culture,” he said in the video, which is being widely shared online after being saved before he deleted it.

“The idea of just sitting quiet and being told stuff and taking things in in a passive stance, is not a thing that’s in many cultures,” Thompson claimed.

“So if we’re positively enforcing these behaviors, we are by extension positively enforcing elements of white culture,” he claimed with a smug smile.

https://nypost.com/2021/09/15/justice-department-seeks-order-against-texas-abortion-law/

Justice Department seeks order against Texas abortion law

The Justice Department has asked a federal court in Texas to stop the enforcement of a new state law that bans most abortions in the state while it decides the case.

The Texas law, known as SB8, prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity — usually around six weeks, before some women know they’re pregnant. Courts have blocked other states from imposing similar restrictions, but Texas’ law differs significantly because it leaves enforcement to private citizens through civil lawsuits instead of criminal prosecutors.

The law went into effect earlier this month after the Supreme Court declined an emergency appeal from abortion providers asking that the law be stayed.

In Tuesday night’s emergency motion in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, the Justice Department said “a court may enter a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction as a means of preventing harm to the movant before the court can fully adjudicate the claims in dispute.”

The case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman.

Last week, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit in Texas asking a federal judge to declare that the law is invalid because it unlawfully infringes on the constitutional rights of women and violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which says federal law supersedes state law.

The department made a similar argument in seeking the restraining order or temporary injunction and said that it’s challenge would likely be successful.

“When other States have enacted laws abridging reproductive rights to the extent that S.B. 8 does, courts have enjoined enforcement of the laws before they could take effect. In an effort to avoid that result, Texas devised an unprecedented scheme that seeks to deny women and providers the ability to challenge S.B. 8 in federal court. This attempt to shield a plainly unconstitutional law from review cannot stand.”

Under the Texas law, someone could bring a lawsuit — even if they have no connection to the woman getting an abortion — and could be entitled to at least $10,000 in damages if they prevail in court.

The Texas law is the nation’s biggest curb to abortion since the Supreme Court affirmed in the landmark 1973 decision Roe v. Wade that women have a constitutional right to an abortion.

Abortion providers have said they will comply, but already some of Texas’ roughly two dozen abortion clinics have temporarily stopped offering abortion services altogether. Clinics in neighboring states, meanwhile, have seen a surge in patients from Texas.

https://nypost.com/2021/09/15/the-guardian-proclaims-dr-anthony-fauci-sexiest-man-alive/

The Guardian proclaims Anthony Fauci as ‘sexiest man alive’

Dr. Anthony Fauci was dubbed the “sexiest man alive” by The Guardian newspaper, prompting some on social media to question whether the British daily had shifted to satire.

Fauci, 80, was given the unofficial title by the paper in an Instagram post Monday highlighting a new film about the Brooklyn-born physician who has become an “unlikely” cult hero.

“The US diseases expert has been spoofed by Brad Pitt and lauded as the ‘sexiest man alive,’” the post read. “Now the pop culture phenomenon is the focus of a documentary appropriately titled: Fauci.”

The documentary co-directed by Emmy winners John Hoffman and Janet Tobias was released Friday. It’s billed as an intimate look into the life of Fauci, whose career spanned seven presidents and was bookended by two pandemics, including HIV and COVID-19.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTwK1S-qSfa/

'The sexiest man alive.'

Anthony Fauci, an 80-year-old scientist, doctor and public servant, has become an unlikely cult hero for millions of people during the Covid pandemic.

The US diseases expert has been spoofed by Brad Pitt and lauded as the ‘sexiest man alive’.

Now the pop culture phenomenon is the focus of a documentary, appropriately titled: Fauci.

“At the core of Tony’s popularity is that people intuit that this is a man who is speaking the truth and will not let anything stand in the way,” says John Hoffman, the co-director of a new documentary.

“Tony is the signal amid the noise. People are able to sense that there’s a lot of noise and their ears are trying to find the signal and Tony is the signal.”

Follow the link in bio to read our full feature on the man whose career has spanned seven US presidents and been bookended by the two great pandemics of the past century: HIV/Aids and Covid.

Col. Sean Kuester