This Week's UPDATES

The day 4th of July holds so much meaning to me, each one is always memorable to me, as last year I lost my wallet on a bus ride home after seeing Spider-Man: Far From Home. That was at a time when there was no such thing as a COVID-19 pandemic and we were entitled to be large crowds. Of course, when losing my wallet on a bus and on the 4th of July, it made me realize that I needed to start making responsible decisions from here on in, though I feel like I made another bad decision last night on the 4th of July and now it will stick to me for years to come. Before then, I enjoy myself yesterday as I got eat at lot of food and see a ton of fireworks despite the pandemic still ongoing, and with that being said, let's go to the latest 7-Day Round-Up.

*7-Day Round-Up*
Sunday	Public Enemy opens the 2020 BET Awards with a performance regarding #BlackLivesMatter.	KlicK
Monday	LA Beaches will close over 4th of July weekend due to spike in COVID-19 cases.	KlicK
Tuesday	Blazers star Damian Lillard is chosen as cover athlete for NBA 2K21 – the video game.	KlicK
Wednesday	New York City decides to postpone indoor dining during Phase 3 in reopening after COVID spikes.	KlicK
Thursday	Former 2012 GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain tests positive for COVID-19.	KlicK
Friday	Washington Redskins will review their name after sponsors FedEx made the request to change it.	KlicK
Saturday	Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo set new world records in Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest.	KlicK

Our Main Story this week concerns a shocking domino effect that got started last Thursday. There was a lot pressure on the Washington Redskins who had been requested by FedEx, one of the NFL team's sponsors, to change its team name. Keep in mind, the Redskins' football field is named after FedEx, so imagine what would happened if the Redskins chose to ignore the request made and continue to call themselves the Redskins. But in the midst of this controversy, other sponsors like Nike and Pepsi announced that they would drop their sponsorships with the Redskins if the team did not change their name. To go back in time, the name and logo of the Redskins has been part of a larger controversy regarding the use of Native American names, images and symbols by a non-native sports team, and fact that the team is located in the nation's capital and the name itself being defined as "usually offensive","disparaging", and "insulting." The same thing can been said for the Cleveland Indians in baseball who have faced controversy over their name and logo for so many years. Then last Friday morning, the Redskins announced that they would "undergo a thorough review" of their team's name and it seems like they might change it before the 2020 NFL Season. Hours afterward, the Indians announced that they too would "determine the best path forward" regarding the team's name and emphasized the need to "keep improving as an organization on issues of social justice". This is what you call a domino effect because once the Redskins finally decided to take action, the trend would begin to catch on with another sports team, and from the looks of things, 2020 could be the time we'll ever hear of the Indians playing in a MLB season which will finally get started this month under different circumstances. In one honest opinion, I am blown away by this shocking development and wonder what the these teams will be called in the near future. Until then, let's take a deeper dive into these stories with a special edition of the Web Choice playlist, and I would like to say before I go that I have major announcement about how I'm going to expand this blog on a "much bigger platform."