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NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA (WDTV) -- Testing, applications and acceptance letters. Students are facing a new reality when it comes to college admissions.

It all starts before the application. The West Virginia Department of Education this morning announces SAT testing days scheduled in September to provide upcoming seniors with the chance to test before they apply.

While this will be a factor of WVU applicants.

"A majority of our West Virginia students have already completed an SAT in April of their Junior year," said George Zimmerman, Executive Director of WVU Admissions and Recruitment.

Students applying to Fairmont State University will not need to submit their scores.

"Per capita, Fairmont State has the highest percentage of West Virginians of any institution in the state," said Chris Sharps, Director of Fairmont State University Recruitment.

He says they will be working with local counselors to guide students through the application process.

WVU staff say their application process is student-oriented making it easy for students to apply.

"We are rolling admissions. That means there is no application deadline, per se, for students to apply to the University. A student can submit an application, send in their documents as they become available, whether that is testing or high school requirements," said Zimmerman.

FAFSA applications are still open and available for students. Sharps says they will help walk students through the process that have trouble.

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Tekashis legal team claimed via TMZ that his social media activity would be monitored, but it seems hes back up to his trollish antics. Tekashi is having fun online poking at his snitching reputation and took it to another level on Tory Lanezs Instagram Live show, Quarantine Radio, on Monday (April 13). Tory was in the middle of a broadcast with his fans when he noticed the 23-year-old had left him a message in the comments section.

Tekashi jokingly threatened to rat Tory out if he didnt play some of his new music. Lemme play this new s**t or ima snitch on [you], he wrote. You not even from America, [you] from Canada. Tory read aloud the message to his viewers and began laughing. 6ix9ine, guidelines! Tory reminded him. He jokingly added, Hold on, before 6ix9ine comes here, we got to make sure that we dont get any more fives. We dont need anymore fives."

Tory then attempted to gas Tekashi up to go live, but he didnt take up the offer.

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While Torys response was good-natured as he took Tekashis trolling in jest, some parts of the Twitterverse are tired of his shenanigans. Hes already doing too much with the snitching thing, one person commented on Twitter. That wasnt even funny, a second chimed. This s**t so lame. I hate the fact n***as still rocking with master splinter, a third added. If u play the game, play by the rules.

See what else people are saying about Tekashis sudden appearance on Quarantine Radio.

The new thugs dont do enough. 6ix9ine just doing what he wants to do and George Zimmerman still roaming. Im fed tf up forreal.

My thoughts are that you should stop talking about that multicolor-haired fool.

hes already doing too much with the snitching thing

I can't co sign the snitching. I'm diffrent. Carry on

this shit so lame. I hate the fact n*ggas still rocking with master splinter. If u play the game play by the rules

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Patrick Mahomes is a name that's been in sports headlines for decades. However, Patrick Mahomes II took that name and made it a global headline. Mahomes has only been in the NFL for three seasons and has worked his way to becoming the NFL MVP, NFL Offensive Player of the Year, two-time Pro Bowl selection, Madden 20 Cover, Super Bowl MVP, and Super Bowl Champion.

He's the fourth African American quarterback to win the AP MVP award. In a matter of three years, Mahomes has worked his way from a backup quarterback to the face of the entire NFL franchise. But these are all things you already know about Patrick Mahomes, the football player. At the end of the day, Patrick Mahomes II is still a human being outside of a helmet, shoulder pads, and a uniform.

After George Zimmerman was acquitted from second-degree murder and manslaughter for the death of Trayvon Martin, Patrick Mahomes II made tweets in support of Zimmerman being acquitted. For a very controversial case like Zimmerman and Martin, not many people were in support of Zimmerman, which is not good for Mahomes' reputation.

One night, Patrick Mahomes II was dropping off his girlfriend, however, they were met with unexpected guests of Michael Blake Pinkerton and Billy Ray Johnson who robbed the NFL star of his wallet. Pinkerton will serve 12 years for 3 charges of aggravated robbery and Johnson was charged with tampering of evidence and two counts of possession of a controlled substance.

At the NFL Combine, reigning Heisman trophy winner and NCAA National Champion, Joe Burrow's hands were measured at just 9 inches, which is considered "tiny" hands for an NFL quarterback. Patrick Mahomes II, Super Bowl Champion and MVP,joked along with Joe Burrow, stating that having small hands in the NFL is no problem.

It's rare for an NFL team to have a franchise quarterback like Alex Smith, to use their first round pick on a quarterback, but the Chiefs reaped the benefits of that decision three years later. After a disappointing loss to the Colts in the 2014 AFC Wildcard game, Smith was traded to the Redskins and Mahomes became the starter.

Everyone knows how much of a successful NFL head coach that Bill Belichick is. Whatever playersother NFL teams reject, it's common for that player to receive a call from Belichick. Belichick has been a fan of Mahomes since he's entered the league, and whatever Belichick wants, he gets, which could be a problem for the Chiefs' franchise one day.

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Kliff Kingsbury was Mahomes' head coach at Texas Tech, but is now the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals. Another product of Kliff Kingsbury is Cleveland Browns' quarterback, Baker Mayfield. As of right now, Kyler Murray is the franchise Quarterback for the Cardinals, but don't be surprised if Mahomes one day decides to move to Glendale, Arizona to play for his college coach.

Aside from being Mahomes number one fan, Mahomes' girlfriend, Brittany Matthews, was a stellar soccer player at UT Tyler. Matthews finished her college career as the UT Tyler Patriots' second all-time leading scorer.After college, she signed to play professionally in Iceland for UMF Afturelding/Fram.

Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Matthews have been dating since the two were together at Whitehouse High School. The power couple both went to college and played professionally in their respective sports of football and soccer. The athletic couple motivates the NFL quarterback and certified personal trainer to new heights.

Patrick Mahomes II's father was a professional baseball pitcher mostly for the Minnesota Twins, however, he played for other organizations such as the Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, and Pittsburgh Pirates. Mahomes II grew up in the headlines and bright lights right by his father's side.

On October 30, 2016, after Texas Tech's double-overtime win over TCU, Pat Mahomes was taken into custody and booked into Fort Worth city jail. Mahomes was causing a disturbance and "acting belligerent" in the stands whentaken into custody, and was charged withpublic intoxication.

In high school, football, baseball, and basketball. During Mahomes II's freshman year at Texas Tech, he served as a dual-athlete in football and baseball. However, he quit during his sophomore year to focus on football. In 2014, Mahomes as a top prospect for the MLB draft, but wasn't expecting to be selected so high because of his commitment to Texas Tech.

In 2013, Mahomes II was named the MaxPreps Male Athleteof the Year in Texas, however, the only FBS schools that offered Mahomes a scholarship were Texas Tech, Houston, and Rice and some interest from Oklahoma State. Not a single school from the outside of the state of Texas offered Mahomes a scholarship.

As of a stellar season that Patrick Mahomes produced in the 2019-20 NFL season, it's safe to say that he has earned his way into a max contract. Rumor has it that the Chiefs are considering a contract that could make Mahomes the highest-paid quarterback in the NFL with a contract that would pay Mahomes as much as $400 million.

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Patrick Mahomes II is the mobile quarterback that every NFL team dreams of. He's not necessarily the fastest quarterback, but his strong body is able to take hits as well as throw the long ball. Last season, Mahomes suffered through a dislocated kneecap, which could be potential issues in Mahomes' future if he continues to be a dual-threat quarterback.

Mahomes suffered through ashoulder injuryduring his time at Texas Tech. His shoulder injury caused him to be sidelined for some weeks as a matter of pain tolerance. Hopefully, these injuries do not occur during Mahomes' NFL career because that could affect him reaching his full potential.

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Patrick Mahomes II's younger brother, Jackson Mahomes, has announced to the world that he is gay. Since then, Jackson has been receiving "hurtful" messages on social media, especially anti-LGBTQ+ remarks. Jackson Mahomes has created his ownidentity through dancing videos on TikTok without any inclusion of Patrick Mahomes, however, he receives thousands of hateful messages in his DMs, and he reads every single one of them.

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Irreversible Entanglements. (Photo by Bob Sweeney)

On November 20, 2014, Brooklyn resident Akai Gurley was getting his hair braided in his seventh-floor apartment in an East New York housing project. He was there with a friend, Melissa Butler; later that night, they decided to leave the building for a while. They waited for the elevator, but it was brokenas was often the case in the Louis Pink Housesso they decided to take the stairs. On the floor above, two members of the New York Police Department, Officers Peter Liang and Shaun Landau, were patrolling the stairwells and hallways to catch and question loiterers. But it was dark, and according to reports, Landau had to shine his flashlight to see anything at all. Liang, a rookie, also took out his flashlight, but he drew his service gun as well and walked down the dark stairwell armed. Thats when Butler heard a shot and saw a flash of light. Gurley was right behind her; Liangs bulletreportedly fired by accidenthit his sternum. After several attempts to revive him through CPR, Gurley was rushed to Brookdale Hospital and pronounced dead. He was 28.Ad Policy

It was an all too familiar story for black people in the United States: Gurley was unarmed and innocent but still fell victim to police brutality. His death came months after the highly publicized killings of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York, and it was only two years removed from the death of Trayvon Martin in Florida. Martins death, and the subsequent acquittal of his killer, George Zimmerman, sparked the rise of Black Lives Matter and waves of protests and activism across the country. Irreversible Entanglements, an experimental free jazz collective whose members reside in Philadelphia, New York City, and Washington, DC, was born out of those incidents and the demonstrations that followed.

Poet/vocalist Camae Ayewa (who releases solo work as Moor Mother), saxophonist Keir Neuringer, and bassist Luke Stewart performed together in 2015 at the Musicians Against Police Brutality rally in New York, which was organized after Gurleys killing. After the performance, the trio added trumpeter Aquiles Navarro and drummer Tcheser Holmes, both of whom also performed at the event. Then the quintet converged on a Brooklyn recording studio soon after and played together for the first time. The result was Irreversible Entanglements, an aggressive blast of screeching horns, volcanic drum fills, and surging bass, tied together by Ayewas scathing indictments of the police, American politics, capitalism, and racism. The album they recorded, released in 2017, was very much of the moment: Black people were angry, and rightfully so. For too long, theyd seen their peers murdered by law enforcement without justice, while living in a country that cashes in on black culture but doesnt pay any respect to black people. The band harnessed that rage into four songs, each one brimming with barbed lyrics. Sometimes you can get lost in the rhythm of oppression, Ayewa declares on Chicago to Texas, the albums combustible opener. The way they beat it into you, carve trees in your back, choke you out, fetishize your flesh.

The backing arrangement was equally urgent, a colossal blend of jazz evoking Afrocentric stalwarts like Sonny Sharrock, Brother Ah, and the New York Art Quartet. Theres a palpable weight to the music of Irreversible Entanglements; their sound hits with an earth-shattering force. That can cut both ways: Thanks to musicians like Robert Glasper and Kamasi Washington, who blend jazz with more marketable genres like hip-hop and R&B, jazz is once again considered a viable genre in the mainstream marketplace. But for a sonically ambitious band like Irreversible Entanglements, you either love the music or dont like it at all. It takes a patient ear to absorb the bands work; their songs are sprawling (sometimes clocking in at over 20 minutes long), mixing various subgenres of jazz along the way. The results are always compelling. We take the ugliest parts of the world and make them beautiful, Stewart told The Fader in February. Yet theyre able to do it without tapping into clichs. Through their frank critiques of political violence and organized religion, the band achieves something deeper and more emotional. Theirs is an artful blend of raw lyrical emotion and exquisite musicianship.

The bands new album, Who Sent You?, is just as serious, though its more introspective than confrontational. Theyre still urging actionfor us to give a shit, as Ayewa deadpans on the opening track, The Code Noir/Aminabut the tone is more reflective. Thats mostly due to the instrumentals: Where their debut album seethed, this one meditates, trading in the racket for restraint. On Who Sent YouRitual, Ayewa revisits the incident that brought the band together in the first place. Oh, you must be here to fix the elevator, she quips to an imagined Officer Liang, her voice dripping with contempt. Good policeman from the other side of town, you must be here to fix the lights in the stairwell.

The music behind her sounds like an alarm: All blaring brass wails, frenetic drums, and undulating bass, its the most unrestrained track on Who Sent You? and the one most aligned with Irreversible Entanglements three years ago. Eventually, the song eases into something more spiritual, like an old gospel hymn. Where the previous album was tethered to police brutality and the rise of Black Lives Matter, this one takes a step back to assess how we got here in the first place. Ayewa speaks of freedom as a tangible commodity, as something we can attain simply by staying the course. On Irreversible Entanglements, it was a thing to be taken forcefully; on Who Sent You?, its something we can enjoy through working together. As she says on No Ms: No longer will we allow them to divide and conquer, divide and oppress, define our humanity.

On an album of thick arrangements and sometimes opaque lyricism, No Ms and Blues Ideology are the clearest paths into the record and the most accessible tracks in the bands brief catalog. The former settles into a high-spirited groove that offers a mix of Latin and New Orleansstyle jazz, while the latter channels 1970s Nigerian Afrobeat. But if there was a notion that Blues Ideology would be an easy dance melody, Ayewas words quickly dispel that. The pope must be drunk, she asserts, manufacturing God in his own image. Blunt-force lyrics like these make Irreversible Entanglements one of the most fearless bands Ive listened to in recent memory; over the course of a single song, theyll compel you to rebuke the powers that be. At what point do we stand up? Ayewa asks on The Code Noir/Amina. At the breaking point? At the point of no return? At what point.

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Activist Alicia Garza posted Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter after George Zimmerman was acquitted of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin in July 2013. Soon after, Garzas friend Patrisse Cullors added the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter, which went viral, and a movement was born.

The co-founders of that movement Garza, Cullors and Opal Tometi were recently honored in a special double issue of TIME magazines 100 Women of the Year featuring 100 covers of women who defined a century. The issue was released to coincide with the celebration of International Womens Day this past weekend.

While critics called Garza, Cullors and Tometi terrorists and threats to America, the activists continued urging the public to pay attention to the spate of fatal shootings of unarmed black men and women that followed Martins, shutting down highways, blocking bridges and staging die-in demonstrations, TIME staff writer Melissa Chan wrote. We will continue to fight like hell, Cullors wrote on the groups website, because we deserve more.'

The list also includes people like Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Aretha Franklin, Chien-Shiung Wu, Beyonc, Serena Williams, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Marsha P. Johnson, and Toni Morrison.

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