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To some people, Valentine’s Day encourages the notion that there is a blueprint for experiencing love—a pink greeting card, an appreciation post on Instagram, or a prix-fixe dinner. I find this notion stifling. To me, the holiday should instead provide an opportunity to rethink the rote role of romantic love …
Read More »‘My Sweet Valentine’: Tyrese’s Mother Has Died After A Battle With COVID-19 and Pneumonia
Fast & Furious actor and singer Tyrese got heartbreaking news on Valentine’s Day that his mother Priscilla Murray has died. According to an Instagram message, Tyrese told his 15 million fans his mom’s fate after battling COVID-19 and pneumonia, and other health complications, according to reports. (Instagram @Tyrese) He posted …
Read More »Snoop Crip Walks, Eminem Kneels, Thandiwe Cries & Chappelle Puts His Foot Down
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Read More »The Next Pandemic Could Start With a Terrorist Attack
In 1770, the German chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele performed an experiment and noticed that he’d created a noxious gas. He named it “dephlogisticated muriatic acid.” We know it today as chlorine. Two centuries later, another German chemist, Fritz Haber, invented a process to synthesize and mass-produce ammonia, which revolutionized agriculture …
Read More »NFL Players and Former Juvenile Offenders Team Up for Super Bowl Pop-Up Dinner
Café Momentum — an award-winning nonprofit restaurant that provides 12-month paid internships and life-changing support to young people exiting the juvenile justice system — teamed up with the Players Coalition, a nonprofit founded by NFL players Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins. The restaurant is dedicated to making an impact on social …
Read More »'Yes, I Am Back': Whoopi Goldberg Returns to The View Following Two-Week Suspension
Whoopi Goldberg attends Tyler Perry Studios grand opening gala at Tyler Perry Studios on October 05, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia.Photo: Paul R. Giunta (Getty Images) On Monday, longtime co-host of The View, Whoopi Goldberg, made her return to the famous desk following her two-week suspension. As previously reported by The …
Read More »The COVID Strategy America Hasn’t Really Tried
It is common knowledge that COVID risk goes up with age, but how steeply it rises is still astounding to see after two years of living and dying with this coronavirus. Compared with someone in their 20s, a person over 65 years old is not slightly more likely to die …
Read More »Black Twitter Erupts About the 2022 Super Bowl Halftime Performance
Congratulations to the Los Angeles Rams for edging out the Cincinnatti Bengals in Sunday’s NFL Super Bowl victory at the SoFi Stadium in California. Perhaps most of the attention given to this year’s football championship was arguably the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show. Typically, people are excited to see …
Read More »Super Bill? Is the NFL Contributing to Inglewood's Gentrification?
On the field for Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, preparations for the game are taking place. In the stadium south of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Rams will play the Cincinnati Bengals for the NFL championship.Photo: Maximilian Haupt/picture-alliance/dpa/ (AP) Way back in 2004, I flew from Boston …
Read More »Latinos Will Never Vote as a Bloc
Latinos and their ancestors have lived in the Americas for 500 years, yet it feels like many Americans are perpetually in the act of discovering us—especially when elections are looming. We are instrumental to the emerging Democratic majority that Blue America longs for, that Red America fears, and that never …
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