Photo: Nathan Howard (Getty Images) Portland is just weird, y’all. I don’t know how else to explain the fact eight people were arrested for damaging a Democratic Party office and an ICE facility after President Joe Biden was inaugurated on Wednesday. ABC News reports that while the majority of protests in …

Gabourey Sidibe is opening up about her struggles with mental health and says they began at a young age. The Empire star joined Taraji P. Henson on her Facebook Watch show Peace of Mind with Taraji, and says she first developed depression growing up, which snowballed into anxiety and eventually …

Marc Morial confirms the Black community has justifiable reasons to doubt the government, calls on Black politicians at the local level to act and shares his advice for Kamala Harris. Source link

(Image: Twitter) 0 This is a fast-paced world where things can change within 24 hours. Not even a full day after the  22-year-old inaugural poet Amanda Gorman swayed crowds with the beautiful poem, “The Hill We Climb,” that she performed during the ceremony honoring newly elected President Joe Biden, she …

A picture of what you shouldn’t bring to a work meeting. Photo: SolidMaks (Shutterstock) After being criticized for allowing members of the Proud Boys to speak at a previous meeting, a lawmaker in Michigan decided the most appropriate response was to grab his rifle during an online meeting. According to …

Kilpatrick resigned from office after a text messaging scandal revealed an illicit affair with his chief of staff. Further investigation revealed illegal activity and he was eventually convicted on 24 federal felony counts, which included mail fraud, wire fraud and racketeering. He was sentenced to 28 years behind bars. Over …

While the presidential inauguration went off without a hitch Wednesday, in Portland, protesters vandalized the state Democratic headquarters leading to eight arrests. Sgt. Kevin Allen, the spokesperson for the Portland Police Bureau said in a video statement that at least four protests were organized for Inauguration Day, two of which …

Screenshot: @isabelle_leyva/ Twitter On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, hundreds of demonstrators marched over New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge in honor of King’s legacy. The march—called the Black Liberation March—reportedly started out peaceful but ended in clashes between participants and police officers. Twenty-nine people were arrested, several officers reported suffering minor …

Singer and actress Kelly Rowland shared a video of her exercising on social media as she enters her ninth month of pregnancy. Read More: Kelly Rowland dresses up baby bump in bestie Beyonce’s Ivy Park collection Posted on her Instagram story, Rowland showed snippets of her workout routine with trainer …

Because of the way states report data for nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, and other long-term-care facilities, our figures for COVID-19 in these facilities refer to the week beginning January 8. These numbers remain very alarming: For the second week in a row, LTC facilities reported the highest death toll since …