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As concerts will likely not resume until the final phase of reopening in many places, (which could still be a ways off for most), here are some virtual live performances to get excited about and as a bonus, most are for charitable causes:

Michelle Obama will co-host the virtual Roots Picnic on June 27.

Dave Matthews, Pearl Jam, Macklemore, Ben Gibbard, Sir Mix-a-Lot and other Seattle musicians are playing a June 24 (starts at 10pm ET) concert to raise money for Covid-19 relief in Washington state.

Deadmau5 and musicians from the Lumineers are collaborating with e-sports stars Halifax and Hambinooo to raise money for No Kid Hungry in a June 24 Twitch livestream that begins at 3pm ET.

Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Quavo, J Balvin, Jennifer Hudson, Chloe X Halle, Shakira, Usher, Chris Rock, David Beckman and others will perform at June 27s Global Goal: United for Our FutureThe Concert, hosted by Dwayne Johnson and organized by Global Citizen and the European Commission to highlight the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on marginalized communities; stream it via NBC and iHeartMedia at 8pm ET.

Michelle Obama, Lil Baby, Lin-Manuel Miranda, SZA, Tom Hanks, Janelle Monae, H.E.R., Roddy Rich, Kerry Washington and others will also play for streamers on June 27 at 8pm ET at the virtual Roots Picnic in partnership with the former First Ladys nonprofit When We All Vote.

Another June 27 event: At 4pm ET Josh Groban is throwing an intimate concert event for attendees who pay $20 (for $55 hell throw in a t-shirt) to hear him croon new ballads and old favorites.

122. Thats how many concerts, festivals and conferences have been canceled or postponed due to coronavirus, according to Vulture.

On March 17, The Rolling Stones postponed their No Filter tour that was scheduled to resume in May. The tourwhich kicked off in 2017has generated upwards of $416 million in revenue. Though the financial impact of this cancellation is unknown, other high-grossing headliners like Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift have similarly canceled their summer stadium tours.

Over 83 million people have bought tickets or made plans to attend events canceled by coronavirus, according to Forbes. Some of the biggest of these include Coachella, the Palm Springs, California, music festival that attracted 99,0000 attendees per day in its six-day 2019 run, and Belgium EDM fest Tomorrowlandattended by 400,000 last year.

Coronavirus Cancellation Tracker: More Than 83 Million Affected After Events Cancelled Or Rescheduled (Forbes)

All the Live Events, Movie Releases, and Productions Affected by the Coronavirus (Vulture)

Heres What Happened at Arkansass Socially Distanced Concert (Vulture)

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Justin Bieber, Michelle Obama, Chloe X Halle Live From Your Couch: Virtual Events To Stream This Week - Forbes

A close adviser to former US Vice President Joe Biden has begun forming a team to oversee the transition if the Democratic presidential candidate wins November's election and unseats President Donald Trump, according to a statement on Saturday.

Longtime Biden aide Ted Kaufman has recruited six people, including several former Obama administration officials, to an initial team that will later be expanded, a person familiar with the transition team said.

Major party nominees set up transition teams before a general election to coordinate with the incumbent administration.

In a statement, Kaufman said the work would "ensure continuity of government" in the event that Biden must prepare to take over amid the coronavirus pandemic and ensuing economic crisis.

"No one will have taken office facing such daunting obstacles since Franklin Delano Roosevelt," said Kaufman, adding that Biden was ready to begin that work "the day he is sworn in as President".

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Biden gets the old Obama team back together in case he wins the presidency - Newshub

Someone who is not on board is local asshat Ted Nugent, however, who, as usual, doesn't seem to have a clue.

Instead of self-reflecting on his own use of Confederate flag imagery or his own possible racist attitudes, the Motor City Madman is engaging in some deeply misguided whataboutism, writing in a Facebook post that he thinks a statue of Barack Obama and his daughter Malia should be removed.

"This offends me and I'm sure I speak for millions," he wrote on Thursday. "Can we tear this shit down?"

We think the Nuge should think about why the sight of a successful Black man offends him so much. And anyway, the tearing down of racist and problematic monuments isn't about people being offended it's about rethinking what it says about our culture that we continue to glorify these things.

Plus, if merely being perceived as "offensive" was enough of a reason to tear shit down, the Motor City Madman would have no career that's his whole thing.

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In late 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin prevented former U.S. President Barack Obama's attempt to pass a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution demanding Israel relinquish the West Bank territories and accept a two-state resolution based on 1948 borders, freshly declassified documents appear to show.

The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday that phone conversations between U.S. President Donald Trump's former adviser Michael Flynn and former Russian UN Ambassador Sergey Kislyak confirm that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lobbied both the Kremlin and the incoming Trump administration to curb the initiative he perceived as incompatible with Israel's long-term security needs.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and then-U.S. President Barak Obama during a G20 meeting in 2016

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Israel, it appears, learned of the planned move while working against the Obama administration-coordinated UNSC Resolution 2334, the first resolution since 1979 to condemn Israel over its settlement policy. Memorably, the U.S. abstained from voting, enabling the resolution's passage, in one of Obama's last acts as president.

Then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in Davos in 2016

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The U.S. has traditionally served as Israel's diplomatic protector, shielding it from resolutions it opposes; the abstention thus came as a shock, drawing harsh reactions from Israeli officials, who described it as an endorsement of "an extreme anti-Israeli resolution behind Israels back which would be a tailwind for terror and boycotts.

Israel Hayom reported earlier this week that Netanyahu contacted Putin after learning about Obama's plan, saying such a development could destabilize the ever-fragile power equilibrium in the Middle East. The two leaders had been in close contact to coordinate military and security issues relating to Russia's presence in Syria.

Former U.S. adviser Michael Flynn

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Transcripts of the Kislyak-Flynn conversations cited by the Jerusalem Post quoted the Russian official as saying "we wanted to convey to you and through you to the president-elect that we have significant reservations about the idea of adopting now the principles for the Middle East that our American colleagues are pushing for."

Obama's Secretary of State John Kerry subsequently realized that a Russia veto spelled the end to their hopes of passing the resolution.

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Report: Putin nixed Obama initiative to create Palestinian state within 1948 borders - Ynetnews

I'm a change-maker. There is a point in every change-maker's life when she decides that she's going to stop complaining about the current state of affairs and do something about it. I was fed up hearing statistic after statistic about the gap in access to capital for women-led businesses, so I decided to do something about it. Based on my passion, we were able to attract enough investors, team members, capital providers, and supporters to gather $500 million in financing for women-led ventures through EnrichHE

EnrichHER is a tech-enabled platform that provides training, resources, and business financing to help women-led businesses grow. In 2019, we launched the business financing platform component so that we could fund traditional women-led companies in both consumer products like dog treats, health and beauty as well as services such as salons and accounting. Within the first few months, EnrichHER deployed its first $3 million in financing and was ready to scale up to $50 million+ in 2020.

We didn't have any data yet. But what we did have was passion, purpose, and validity in the market.

But before we launched, we had to get capital providers on board to finance women-led business. Our initial goal was to access $10 million for our first set of companies; but we were ecstatic to find that we could create pathways to so much more. Our strategy included meeting with executive-level teams at tech-enabled business financing platforms to see if they wanted to work with us. They already had the data that corroborated women's lower loss risk as compared to our male counterparts. As such, we met with several tech-enabled companies, shared our statistics and mission, and they were happy to work with us.

This strategy took a while to implement, because EnrichHER's financing platform was still in pre-launch. This means that we didn't have any data yet. But what we did have was passion, purpose, and validity in the market. We were able to use these traits to secure meetings, partnerships, and the capital that we needed to grow. But we didn't stop there.

I was fed up hearing statistic after statistic about the gap in access to capital for women-led businesses, so I decided to do something about it.

Our platform is regulated by the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) and FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) to allow retail investors to lend directly to women-led ventures on our platform. But we wanted qualified everyday people to be the ones to decide if a business is worthy of financing. By doing this, we would open up small business investing to an often overlooked set of consumers. This means that communities could decide which businesses they would support, and those discriminated against by the typical financing ecosystem would have a new way to access capital.

It wasn't easy accomplishing this. Not only is it strategically difficult, but it's hard to find people who are willing to open up their mind to working with businesses that are not run by white founders. In my article, How Discrimination in Venture Capital Led me to Techstars, I share how when I presented myself to white male decision-makers, they would automatically assume I wasn't qualified. I would start off each meeting telling them about my Ph.D. in computer engineering and finance, that I was the youngest director at a consulting firm managing a staff of 50 by the age of 27, and that I had won numerous awards ranging from 40 under 40 to the Top Disruptors in Tech. However, more often than not, I was told that I needed the help of someone else to enact my visionmaybe a white male who just finished his undergraduate degree, someone more "technical," or one of their friends.

So although the industry acknowledges that change is needed, the belief persists that the only ones who can successfully create that change are the same type of people who created the problem. I accepted that this was and is still true even if people are mission-aligned. As such, I recognized that my path wouldn't look like anyone else's. I decided to use my superpowers to access the capital that we needed so we could get money into the hands of women in business.

One of my superpowers is being loud online.

With my 72,000 followers, I created a campaign to attract supporters of women-led businesses that would advocate for our mission. By doing that, we were able to attract qualified women-led ventures, investors, supporters, and media opportunities.

Another one of my superpowers is that I love public speaking.

I love being on stage and sharing my passion with others. I started traveling around the country speaking at events and pitching in pitch competitions to drum up support for EnrichHER. We received an investor and/or strategic partner from 100% of my speaking engagements.

Also, you'd don't obtain a PhD in engineering and finance without knowing how to impress people with your schoolwork. I used my straight-A superpowers to create compelling decks, materials, and email responses so that I had the best shot possible with people who made decisions based on the quality of materials.

Another superpower that I have is that I'm generally an excellent candidate for recognition through awards. With my history of awards, my intelligence, my educational background, and my likeness, I'm typically overqualified for external recognition. As such, for organizations that have a scoring rubric that matches what I'm about, I created a strategy to collect as many awards as possible. This additional validation opened up doors to potential strategic partnerships and capital providers.

All that I know is that I've been underestimated my entire life and no award, recognition, salary achievement, or external factor has changed how the masses will treat a black woman in FinTech. However, I decided to go around the masses and find my own advocates so that I could achieve my goals without them. This is the way that I've made everything in my life, and this is the way I will continue to win.

For other entrepreneurs, while it's good to learn about the journey of others on their paths to success, it's also important to remember that your way may or may not resemble that of anyone else. What this means is that it's best to look inwards and use your superpowers to get what you want.

This article was originally published in January 2020.

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