OPINION: Financial incentive programs to bolster U.S. vaccinations, albeit not perfect, are a step in the right direction. Vaccination rates in Black communities continue to lag, but a recent uptick spurred by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio‘s cash incentive plan is giving some public health officials hope. As of Aug. 12, over 50,000 new…
Yandy Smith-Harris appeared to have competition regarding her husband Mendeecees Harris after the music producer gained an unsuspected admirer while visiting Kandi Burruss‘ family restaurant Old Lady Gang. In the initial Instagram reel shared on Wednesday, Aug. 18, Harris is seen standing in between Burruss’ two aunts Bertha Jones and Nora Wilcox, as Jones began…
Source: EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ / Getty In today’s episode of When Keeping It Racist Goes Wrong, a former ice cream shop owner in New York has been ordered to pay $4,500 after being accused of calling the police on peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters and falsely claiming they threatened him with violence. According to the…
Bureau Veritas, the STEM Educational Institute and Madison Square Boys & Girls Club have partnered to launch the STEM Scholars Program. Looking through the lens of setting students up for success in a future career, access and income directly correlate to one’s ability to advance. Children from a low socioeconomic background can struggle to not…
Former rapper-turned-Belizean politician Shyne set foot on United States soil this week for the first time since 2009, and Diddy and other friends who’d been lobbying for his return are celebrating. The former Bad Boy artist, born Jamal Michael Barrow, was deported to his home country of Belize following his prison release in connection with…
Source: Twitter / Twitter.com/ryanjreilly/ Washington D.C.’s Capitol Police found themselves in a tense standoff on Thursday afternoon around 2 p.m. as a man with a pickup truck threatened to bomb places at and around the U.S. Capitol. He was apprehended parked outside the Library Of Congress after uploading a video to Facebook under the name…
The tennis champ also opened up about how the state of the world adds to everyday stress, especially during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic After Naomi Osaka‘s viral press conference at the Western & Southern Open earlier this week, where she cried and left briefly after being asked about her relationship with the media, the tennis…
A complaint from the Minneapolis branch of the National Labor Relations Board states that an employee of The Home Depot who wore a Black Lives Matter logo on his apron and spoke to colleagues about racial discrimination was suspended after he declined to remove the logo. According to the complaint issued Aug. 12, the employee…
“I believe everything happens for a reason, so I wouldn’t take it back for the world,” said Biles in a new interview. Simone Biles publicly withdrew herself from competing in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and chose to put her “mind and body” first. The superstar athlete now says she has no regrets about pulling out…
Source: Ignatiev / Getty Micheal Williams was just trying to help a neighbor in need when his life was completely upended by a horrific incident and some shady police technology used to detect the sound and location of gunshots. Yes, it sounds like something from a Sci-Fi murder mystery, but the 65-year-old Chicago resident knows…
