Source: JIM WATSON / Getty The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it would hear a controversial Mississippi abortion case leaving many to wonder if the Court would undo Roe v. Wade. As the experts over at the Boom! Lawyered podcast explained, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization involves a law that banned abortions beginning at…
The University of California has agreed to no longer take SAT and ACT test scores into consideration from school and scholarship applicants in a massive win for minority students and those with disabilities. The ruling, which was announced on Friday, May 14, signals the end of a drawn-out court battle between the University of California…
“Having lived through the plague, my question was always, “Why was I spared? Why am I living?” Well, I’m living so that I can tell the story,” said ‘Pose’ star Billy Porter. Billy Porter is done carrying a 14 year-old secret. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter that was published Wednesday, the 51-year-old performing…
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said it’s time for the change because colorectal cancer increasingly is appearing in younger adults Americans should start getting screened for colon cancer earlier — at age 45 instead of waiting until they’re 50, according to guidelines released Tuesday. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said it’s time for…
OPINION: Studies are now showing that up to 14.4% of people recovering from COVID-19 have been diagnosed with diabetes Since President Joe Biden’s April 28 address before a Joint Session of Congress, and Sen. Tim Scott’s rebuttal, there has been a debate about whether America is racist. The president has said Americans are not racist but acknowledged Black…
Less than four months after his parole, Dinkins allegedly kidnapped Breasia Terrell from a Davenport apartment complex, shot her to death and hid her body Iowa granted an early release from prison to a repeat offender just months before he allegedly kidnapped and killed a 10-year-old girl, according to parole documents released Tuesday. The Iowa Board of…
The dozen bills Inslee signed include outright bans on police use of chokeholds, neck restraints and no-knock warrants such as the one that helped lead to Taylor’s killing in Louisville Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday signed one of the nation’s most ambitious packages of police accountability legislation, prompted by last year’s outcry for racial…
Towanda Braxton made some damning claims about how difficult it’s been co-parenting with ex-husband Andre Carter on May 14 during an interview on “Get Into It with Tami Roman.” Braxton and Carter share two children, son Braxton, 15, and a 14-year-old daughter named Brooke. The “Braxton Family Values” star told the show’s host Tami Roman…
Mooney, revered as the Godfather of Comedy, died of a heart attack on Wednesday Legendary comic Paul Mooney, revered as the Godfather of Comedy, has died of a heart attack at the age of 79. Mooney’s representative Cassandra Williams told the Hollywood Reporter that Mooney died of a heart attack on Wednesday around 5:30 a.m….
Biden directed the DOJ to restore key functions of the shuttered Access to Justice Office and to reestablish the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable President Joe Biden took executive action Tuesday to ensure minorities, low-income Americans and others have better access to quality legal representation after services dwindled during the Trump administration. Biden signed…
