The U.S. Education Department will allow government-issued relief funds to cover the salaries of school employees whose districts are penalized for implementing mask mandates The Biden administration has offered to use federal relief funds to replace financial penalties incurred by Florida K-12 school districts who defy Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ban on mask mandates. DeSantis, who…

Source: The Washington Post / Getty Lingering concerns around vaccine safety and comparisons to the Tuskegee syphilis study prompted a new campaign encouraging vaccination. A collaboration between the descendants of the original Tuskegee Study, the Ad Council, and the COVID Collaborative hopes to provide people with useful information in deciding whether to get vaccinated.    …

The 19-year-old woman has been charged with negligent use of a weapon A Wisconsin woman accidentally shot a friend while using the laser sight on a handgun to play with a cat, authorities said. A criminal complaint charging the 19-year-old woman with negligent use of a weapon said she was visiting a Kenosha apartment on…

Three-time NBA champion and Phoenix Suns center JaVale McGee and his mother, former USC All-American basketball player Pamela McGee, have made history as the first mother-son duo to both earn gold Olympic medals. Pamela, a retired WNBA player and two-time Women’s Basketball Hall of Famer, earned her gold as a member of the U.S. women’s basketball team…

For the past four years, Chicago has been the backdrop for Showtime’s hit series The Chi, and the network is paying it forward through the creation of a social good initiative that will empower Chicagoans who are embedded in the fabric of the city. According to the Chicago Defender, the television network recently donated $500,000…

The husband is now on a ventilator in New Orleans A family faced the harsh reality of traveling without being vaccinated after three members tested positive for COVID-19 before boarding their flight back to Louisiana. Yolanda Comager says that she and two of her daughters had to leave her husband David — who is now…

Marian Anderson’s career spanning 1924 to 1966 to be captured in a digitally remastered collection On a chilly Easter Sunday 82 years ago, a tall, elegant Black woman walked down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before an integrated crowd of 75,000 and sang her way into the history books. Marian Anderson performed for only…

A visitation for Cameron Burrell will be held on Sunday and his funeral service was set for Monday The death of former NCAA national champion sprinter Cameron Burrell has been ruled a suicide, a medical examiner’s office announced Friday. The University of Houston, where Burrell starred from 2013-2018, had said he died Monday. He was…

The new moratorium was announced this month and is set to expire Oct. 3 A three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is expected to rule this week on whether a moratorium against evictions imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will stand. The court late Saturday…

Tropical storm warnings were issued for the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and part of the Dominican Republic The National Hurricane Center said Fred regained its tropical storm status in the Gulf of Mexico early Sunday as parts of the Caribbean were gearing up for impacts from Tropical Storm Grace. Fred was forecast to move across…