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  • Last week, WNYC and the Apollo Theater hosted the 14th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration. The event featured music, spoken word, and discussions with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Taylor Branch, the National Youth Director for National Action Network, Mary-Pat Hector, and professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Radcliffe Institute, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and many more. You can watch/listen to the whole event here.
  • Thousands of protesters, some of them heavily armed and wearing body armor and camouflage, descended on Richmond, Virginia to protest gun restrictions the state legislature recently passed. The regulations included a one-handgun-a-month-rule that had previously been repealed, a law allowing localities to ban firearms in certain public places, and another requiring universal background checks for all gun sales.
  • The New York Times Editorial Board endorsed both Senators Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren as their picks for the Democratic presidential nomination. But don't try and vote for two candidates on primary day—your vote will get tossed out.
  • Speaking of the Times, this story on Clearview AI, the tech company that "could end your ability to walk down the street anonymously," is downright horrifying.
  • An MTA bus driver crashed into a Citi Bike station at West 95th Street and Columbus on Sunday, and West Side Rag has the photos to prove it (no one was injured).
  • Brad Pitt. Jennifer Aniston. Together (kind of) again.
  • A recent Streetsblog report discovered that 89.5 percent of jaywalking tickets went to Black and Hispanic New Yorkers during the first nine months of 2019. City politicians are demanding the NYPD stop the extreme racial disparities in jaywalking enforcement.
  • If you haven't seen this conservative professor DESTROY this sjw college student by now, well, you must!
  • Netflix just released a short film from David Lynch featuring a capuchin monkey named Jack Cruz. The 17-minute film is called "What Did Jack Do?"
  • And finally: yes, this cat's face is hilarious, but does anyone else feel bad for the dog in this video? No one gave him a heads up! Turn around, Howie!