American Internet entrepreneur, programmer, and philanthropist who is the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Dorsey attended Bishop DuBourg High School. In his younger days, he worked occasionally as a fashion model.
By age 14, he had become interested in dispatch routing. Some of the open-source software he created in the area of dispatch logistics was still being used by taxicab companies as of May 2007 Read More...
US Navy via Getty ImagesThe USS Bonhomme fire in 2020 took four days to put outA 20-year-old US Navy sailor has been identified as the prime suspect charged with starting a fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard warship in 2020.
A newly unsealed search warrant shared by US media claims seaman Ryan Sawyer Mays had a grudge against the Navy. Mr Mays has denied any wrongdoing. Three firefighting stations on the amphibious warship were also possibly sabotaged, according to the warrant. Read More...
Questions of justice for Black Americans have understandably focused on major issues such as systemic racism or state violence. But another dimension to racial justice is perhaps too frequently overlooked: the right to pleasure. While Black abolitionist David Walker was already invoking the Declaration of Independence’s claim to the “pursuit of happiness” in the late 1820s, a formal centering of Black people’s legal right to pleasure became even more explicit at the Civil War’s end. Read More...