Good morning and welcome the kid news sponsored today by bamboo learning. I'm Tori. It's

Thursday June 18th, 2020 and we begin with an iconic breakfast brand about to disappear from grocery store shelves.

Quaker Oates is joining the widening conversation about race and bidding farewell to 131 year old

Aunt Jemima.

Acknowledging that the character's origins are based on a stereotype.

Company execs are retiring both the name and the image tied to its pancake mix and

syrup bottles.

Revan packaging with an as-yet unannounced logo will hit stores later this year.

Pepsi, Quaker's corporate boss, isn't stopping there.

It's pledging $400 million to lift up black communities and

increase company diversity. The makers of Uncle Ben's Rice and Land O'Lakes

butter are also rethinking their images and advertising.

Don't take any wooden nickels is good advice.

Unless you live in Tainno, Washington, the tiny rural town is taking a page from its past to help

out residents whose finances have been pinched by the pandemic.

Basically, the town is printing its own money, up to $300 per person on an 1890s printing press.

The currency comes out in thin slices of maple veneer and is accepted at local supermarkets and gas stations.

Business owners can then use it to make their own purchases or trade it in for real cash at

City Hall. Some merchants have even hit upon a third more lucrative option, coin

collectors trying to get in on a little piece of history. Arcade games, golf and swimming are a go. High fives, fist bumps and hugs, not so much.

As the NBA prepares to resume play at ESPN Sports Complex in Disney World on July 30th, it's released an exhaustive six-phase

113-page handbook regulating even the tiniest aspects of a player's life.

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