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The New York Times

For decades, the El Cortez Hotel & Casino in downtown Las Vegas has been known for single-deck blackjack.

Consumer Reports

People protesting police violence in the U.S. have faced tear gas, rubber bullets, batons, and the ever-present threat of COVID-19

Vanity Fair

Nicole Santero, a graduate student who runs the popular BTS fan account @researchBTS and is studying fan culture and BTS for her dissertation, says that the BTS fandom, for one, “regularly organizes and participates in charity efforts and service projects worldwide.”

Consumer Reports

Despite the ongoing threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, people in cities around the U.S. have been turning out night after night to protest police violence and racism in the wake of the alleged murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

Care.com

In the wake of millions of people taking to the streets to protest police brutality against black Americans — the most recent example of which involved the killing of George Floyd — and demand racial justice, white parents raising white children want to know how they can encourage the next generation to do better. The key: teaching anti-racism. As activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis has stated, “In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”

P.B.S.

After the death of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter activists have taken to streets across the country, protesting police brutality.

In Nevada, peaceful protests have escalated into violent clashes, with both officers and protesters reporting injuries. In the midst of chaos, we sit down with both sides to discuss the history of police brutality and the best way for our state to move forward.

Las Vegas Sun

As protesters continue taking to the Las Vegas streets to speak out against police brutality against black Americans following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police last month, there have been quite a few risks to consider.

Las Vegas Sun

As protesters continue taking to the Las Vegas streets to speak out against police brutality against black Americans following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police last month, there have been quite a few risks to consider.

K.N.P.R. News

On May 21, during an otherwise business-as-usual meeting, the Southern Nevada Water Authority board of directors voted to indefinitely defer its groundwater development project, which opponents had dubbed the “water grab.”

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