Students in a Florida high school had to halt distribution of a student-run yearbook following a wave of complaints about coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement, Local 10 News reported. Students at West Broward High School in Pembroke Pines, Florida, started to receive their yearbook last week, but by Friday, June 4, the administration told…
OPINION: While the 10-episode season is beautifully shot and adequately written, you’ll be hard pressed to find the show entertaining How do you make slavery boring ? Despite strong performances, Barry Jenkin‘s The Underground Railroad is plodding and rudderless. The Underground Railroad is a new Amazon prime drama directed by Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could…
Toni Braxton disclosed on June 5, that her youngest son Diezel Braxton-Lewis would be attending Howard University. Toni uploaded a post regarding Diezel’s high school graduation, with an image showing Diezel posing alongside Toni and his older brother Denim. Diezel graduated from Fusion Academy, a private school based in Los Angeles, California, that customizes in-person, virtual, or hybrid…
No longer burdened by keeping up the pretense of bipartisanship, former President Barack Obama says that some right-wing media feed off fear. In an interview Monday with Anderson Cooper, Obama discussed the topic of race and the difficulty some white Americans seem to have with reconciling their pride in America and immoral acts done in…
“We are dealing with some critical issues. And we need bold, courageous leaders to deal with those issues. And the bottom line is, too many times Marco Rubio did not show up. And when he did, he did not have enough courage to fight for Florida,” said Florida Rep. Val Demings. Rep. Val Demings (D-FL)…
On Monday, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and four other GOP senators penned a letter to Attorney General Merrrick Garland, complaining that those who participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack received unfair treatment compared to demonstrators who took part in protests following the death of George Floyd last summer. The letter comes as 513 people…
Marcus Hicks had faced sharp criticism from many lawmakers who called for his dismissal, citing his handling of problems at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women New Jersey’s embattled corrections commissioner announced his resignation Tuesday, a day after Gov. Phil Murphy said the state would shutter its long-troubled and only women’s prison. Marcus Hicks had…
When it comes to actress Gabrielle Union and former NBA player Dwyane Wade’s family, it’s clear that their daughter Kaavia James is the star on social media, despite the couple’s Hollywood and professional basketball accolades. Kaavia James has stolen the show yet again. A post over the weekend on her mother’s personal Instagram page showed…
In South Africa, which has the continent’s most robust economy and its biggest coronavirus caseload, just 0.8% of the population is fully vaccinated In the global race to vaccinate people against COVID-19, Africa is tragically at the back of the pack. In fact, it has barely gotten out of the starting blocks. In South Africa,…
The White House has launched a month-long blitz to combat vaccine hesitancy and a lack of urgency to get shots, particularly in the South and Midwest For months, President Joe Biden has laid out goal after goal for taming the coronavirus pandemic and then exceeded his own benchmarks. Now, though, the U.S. is unlikely to…
