Paperwork mishaps among other issues plague distribution of funds to landlords in New York Nearly $1 billion meant to cover back rent for New Yorkers who suffered economic hardship because of the coronavirus pandemic still hasn’t made it into the hands of tenants six months after the program launched. That’s led to exasperation, especially as the…
Civil unrest has erupted on the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe in response to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, heightened by distrust of the French government. Demonstrators burned barricades, looted stores and attacked police early Thursday in Martinique, shuttering the island. It is a trend that followed a week of protests in Guadeloupe, including makeshift…
Hip-hop artist Cardi B shared a video of her 3-year-old daughter Kulture Kiari Cephus reacting to the news that she was getting a baby brother. Cardi B and her husband Offset had a son on Sept. 4, and the couple caught their daughter’s reaction on video when they gave her the news she was getting…
Source: RAJESH JANTILAL / Getty The announcement of a new COVID-19 variant raised alarms in several countries as members of the European Union block travel from South Africa and several other southern states. Called Omicron, the new variant has multiple mutations raising concerns about vaccine effectiveness and increased transmissibility. But some say the new variant is…
After working 26 years as an assistant coach, Al Holcomb is still seeking his first interview for one of the NFL’s coveted 32 head coaching jobs As an African American growing up in Queens, New York, Al Holcomb spent his fall Sundays watching Tom Landry and the Dallas Cowboys on television, and dreaming of one…
Christina Burns plans to use more than $75,000 in funds raised in a GoFundMe page to cover the late six-year-old’s medical bills and open a restaurant in his legacy The viral “Where we bout to eat at?” internet star known as Antwain Fowler may be gone, but his mother is well on her way to…
Some Black lawmakers say new district maps put their numbers in jeopardy Adam Hollier is a lieutenant in the Army Reserves, a paratrooper, Detroit native, a Democrat and a Black man. He is also a state senator who represents a majority-Black district that stretches across the northeastern edge of his economically battered and resilient hometown….
OPINION: Sophia A. Nelson writes that Rep. Lauren Boebert, who recently apologized for calling Rep. Ilhan Omar a “jihadist,” is one of the silliest and repugnant, members to ever serve in Congress. America is really in a dark place. And I think we all know it to be true. Congress used to be a safe…
Social media is ablaze after video emerged on Friday, Nov. 19, of police pepper-spraying and tasing a Black teenage student during a wide-scale disruption at a high school in suburban Dallas-Fort Worth. The boy, who has not been identified, was part of a demonstration at the school in support of a female schoolmate who has…
Countries around the world have been taking a safety-first approach with so much uncertainty about the omicron variant Britain became the latest country Saturday to report cases of the new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus as governments around the world sought to shore up their defenses by slapping restrictions on travel from…
