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Blackout Wednesday (also known as Drinksgiving) refers to binge drinking on the night before the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. Very few people work on Thanksgiving, and most college students are home with their families for the Thanksgiving holiday, [ 1 ] which means that high school friends can catch up at the local bar as they ...
Blackout Day was created as a 24-hour event that would expose the online Black community and others on social media to positive images of everyday Black individuals, through selfies, videos, gifs, and other media. Its goal was to shed a positive light on Black individuals and to combat stereotypes. The idea spread quickly once given a name, and ...
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, Crash of '29, or Black Tuesday, [ 1] was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It began in September, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) collapsed, and ended in mid-November. The pivotal role of the 1920s' high-flying bull ...
Some industry insiders call it "Blackout Wednesday" as data from more than 2,900 local beer, wine and liquor stores across the U.S. show sales leaping to 130% higher than a normal day on ...
Ecuador was hit with an hours-long nationwide blackout on Wednesday that left the South American nation’s 17 million people without power. The blackout — which affected hospitals, homes, and a ...
November 9—United States and Canada—The Northeast blackout of 1965 affected portions of seven northeastern U.S. states and Ontario.Most radio and television stations within the area lost power or lost teletype communications, so people within the blackout area relied on broadcasts from other areas to learn information about the blackout.
Amid the protests over the death of George Floyd, while in police custody in Minneapolis last week, an effort is underway to amplify black voices today — and its being demonstrated in different ...
The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, [12] was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist [13] [14] massacre [15] that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials, [16] attacked black residents and destroyed homes and ...