Early in-person voting began this week and recent polls show many voters still undecided Atlanta mayoral candidates are talking about affordable housing, hoping to stave off a secession movement in a wealthy neighborhood and trading increasingly pointed jabs. But as in so many places across the country, the election is really about crime. News is…
Despite initiatives to make media outlets more inclusive, data on actual progress has proven elusive More than a year after George Floyd’s killing focused attention on efforts to diversify newsrooms, the ability to measure real progress is proving elusive. The News Leaders Association, a journalism trade group, extended the deadline for responses to its survey…
The FDA’s advisory panel recommends booster be offered at least two months after initial J&J shot U.S. health advisers endorsed a booster of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine Friday, citing concern that Americans who got the single-dose shot aren’t as protected as those given two-dose brands. J&J told the Food and Drug Administration that an…
Eric Adams says he would preserve the program, which enrolls disproportionately few Black and Latino children, and expand opportunities for advanced learning The Democrat who will likely become New York City’s next mayor says he does not intend to get rid of the city’s program for gifted and talented students, nipping plans that outgoing Mayor…
Raven-Symoné’s career spans almost her entire life, and is filled with memories from countless productions except for one: “The Cosby Show.” The former child star gained her first taste of stardom at the age of four when she joined the iconic show as the witty toddler Olivia Kendall. Though she spent three years starring alongside…
The weeklong FESPACO festival showcases works by African filmmakers and works produced on the continent Africa’s largest film festival kicks off Saturday in Burkina Faso amid both the COVID-19 pandemic and a growing jihadi insurgency in the West African nation that has killed thousands of people and displaced more than 1 million in recent years….
The former ‘Empire’ star will face charges that he filed false police reports after alleging he was attacked in Chicago A judge on Friday denied a last-ditch effort to dismiss a criminal case against actor Jussie Smollett, who is accused of lying to police when he reported that he was the victim of a racist,…
With car crashes on the rise, the Biden administration’s delay in implementing measures designed to prevent them has activists wondering why After their 16-year-old daughter died in a car crash, David and Wendy Mills wondered whether she would be alive if federal rules on rear seat belt warnings had been issued on time. Four years…
Netflix says terminated employee leaked confidential budget information to Bloomberg News Netflix said Friday that it had fired an employee for disclosing confidential financial information about what it paid for Dave Chappelle’s comedy special The Closer, which some condemned as being transphobic. The employee, who wasn’t named, shared “confidential, commercially sensitive information outside the company,”…
Olympic medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos shocked the world when they threw up a Black Power fist while being awarded at the podium during the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. The photograph of the Black track and field stars was taken right after their impressive win in the competition’s 200-meter race. Smith struck…
