Tennis powerhouse Serena Williams’ impact and influence goes far beyond the realm of sports, she is using her platform to uplift and empower women who are charting paths in entrepreneurship. According to CNBC, Williams is amongst a group of investors that has funded a Black-owned healthcare startup. Serena Williams, Female Founders Fund invest in startup…
Gunfire erupted during an isolated incident between two students at Washington Middle School, officials say One student was killed and another was taken into custody Friday after a shooting at a middle school near downtown Albuquerque during the lunch hour, police said. The gunfire at Washington Middle School marked the second shooting in New Mexico’s…
Former “Love & Hip Hop: Miami” star Jessie Woo reacted to the flak she received for her “I’m Dead” Whitney Houston quip on Aug. 13 following a recent appearance on “Wild ’N Out.” The reason behind the backlash is because many of the singer’s fans felt the joke was insensitive due to Houston’s tragic death. Whitney…
Alabama State Board of Education moves to limit how race is taught in K-12 The Alabama State Board of Education on Thursday voted to ban so-called critical race theory teachings from K-12 classroom and limit how educators can talk about race in the classroom. Board members approved a resolution titled, “Preservation of Intellectual Freedom and…
Alex Haley Museum renovation marks the author’s 100th birthday Find the good and praise it. It’s a phrase the late Alex Haley, author of the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, often said during his life, from his days residing in the small West Tennessee town of Henning through his world travels…
“I’m the one in paradise, don’t encourage me to go back to Babylon,” said Rashad McCrorey, an entrepreneur from Harlem, New York, about being in Ghana. Last year, while most travelers were scrambling to book the last available flights home before international airports shut down indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, McCrorey made the decision…
Hospitals in virus hotspots say they are clearly seeing more admissions and deaths among people under the age of 65 A young mother had just celebrated her first wedding anniversary and was one of six members of a Jacksonville church to die over a 10-day span. Another Florida woman had just given birth to her…
All 27 were vaccinated, had mild or no symptoms and were in isolation A Carnival cruise on which 27 people tested positive for COVID-19 just before the ship made a stop in Belize City this week was headed back to Galveston, Texas Friday after stopping in Mexico. The positive cases were among 26 crew members…
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich says new Biden moratorium is illegal, but hold can’t go in effect A federal judge on Friday refused landlords’ request to put the Biden administration’s new eviction moratorium on hold, though she ruled that the freeze is illegal. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich said her “hands are tied” by an appellate decision from…
It marked the first time the high court has weighed in on a vaccine mandate Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday refused to block a plan by Indiana University to require students and employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Barrett’s action came in response to an emergency request from eight students, and it marked the…
