WHO said 9 million cases were reported, a 16% weekly decline, and more than 26,000 new deaths from COVID-19. GENEVA (AP) — The number of coronavirus cases reported globally has dropped for a second consecutive week and confirmed COVID-19 deaths also fell last week, according to a World Health Organization report issued Wednesday. In its…

Ralph said that directors and producers would ‘tell you how to be Black’ earlier in her career. The star of the breakout hit comedy series, Abbott Elementary, Sheryl Lee Ralph, says that she was once fired from a TV show because she wasn’t “Black enough.” Ralph recently spoke with People about an instance in the…

President Joe Biden and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson watch together as the U.S. Senate votes to confirm her to be the first Black woman to be a justice on the Supreme Court in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on April 7, 2022, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Realizing their…

Earlier this year, the AMC Church halted pension payouts to its thousands of retired pastors, bishops and others. The African Methodist Episcopal Church is the target of a class-action lawsuit filed on March 22 by as many as 5000 eligible beneficiaries of its pension fund that has lost at least $90 million due to irresponsible…

Ethiopian federal authorities strongly refute allegations they have deliberately targeted Tigrayans for violent attacks. KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Widespread abuses against civilians in the western part of Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have charged in a new report. The crimes were perpetrated…

The FDA’s vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks said during a recent meeting, “we simply can’t be boosting people as frequently as we are.” WASHINGTON (AP) — More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials are beginning to grapple with how to keep the vaccines updated to best protect Americans from the ever-changing…

Tracy Lauren Marrow, also known by his stage name Ice-T, is recognized for his rapping and acting skills, having sold millions of records worldwide and starring in numerous hit projects, including NBC’s “Law & Order SVU.” But on April 3, Marrow had millions of his followers talking for a different reason after the 64-year-old showcased…

OPINION: Getting to this moment was difficult to watch as Republicans attempted to malign Judge Jackson’s record. But now we can celebrate the first Black woman in the history of the United States to ascend to the high court. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read…

There is a new pivot in sports, and it’s not just the podcast with the same name, but it does involve one of its primary hosts: Channing Crowder. Through his uninformed bloviating about another fellow professional football player and his wife, the third more vocally rural leg of The Pivot podcast has officially christened himself Channing “Cry Baby”…

Veteran rappers Lil Wayne and T.I. took the stage together during the Dreamville Festival in North Carolina Sunday, April 3, for the first time in over five years since the pair stopped speaking. The rap feud sparked in 2016, after T.I. slammed Wayne over his remarks on the Black Lives Matter movement.  The two emcees were…