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Read More »The Zone Teams Up With Morgan Stanley To Promote Financial Wellness For Athletes
The mental wellness platform The Zone and investment banking giant Morgan Stanley are teaming up to offer financial wellness for athletes. The partnership calls for integrating financial tools and educational resources provided by Morgan Stanley’s Global Sports & Entertainment division within The Zone’s app for athletes. The Zone was founded …
Read More »The Weeknd Announces New Album and Debuts Album Cover for Dawn FM
Screenshot: YouTube/The Weeknd It looks like the dawn has finally arrived for fans of The Weeknd who have been patiently waiting for the followup to his wildly successful 2021 album After Hours. Per Complex, on Monday the “Blinding Lights” artist announced “a new sonice universe” by the name of Dawn …
Read More »Eight Ghost Stories in Which the Dead Won’t Go Quietly
“I do not believe in ghosts,” Edith Wharton once wrote, “but I am afraid of them.” Writers turn to ghost stories not just for chills and fear but also because they’re a powerful medium for reckoning with memory and history. Many classic ghost stories involve a forgotten trauma that’s resurfacing …
Read More »With The TourBox Neo, You’ll Have An Extra Design Hand
If you’re a content creator, on more than one occasion, you’ve probably wished you could clone yourself in the hopes of completing more tasks and navigating the many programs you use for your projects. While the technology still has a ways to go before cloning is possible, TourBox Neo has …
Read More »Meet the Black Man Who Could Be PA's Second-Highest Elected Official
State Rep. Austin Davis, left, a Democrat from the Mon Valley, receives support from Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey after Mr. Davis announces his plans to enter the race to become Pennsylvania’s next lieutenant governor Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022, in McKeesport, Pa. At right is Democratic candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, …
Read More »Will Britain Survive?
The grim reality for Britain as it faces up to 2022 is that no other major power on Earth stands quite as close to its own dissolution. Given its recent record, perhaps this should not be a surprise. In the opening two decades of the 21st century, Britain has effectively …
Read More »Staten Island Councilman Complains About NYC’s ‘Racial And Ethnic’ COVID-19 Testing Plan
A councilman in New York City’s Staten Island area is calling out city health officials who have been using race to determine how COVID-19 testing gets distributed. City Councilman Joe Borelli spoke with reps for the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and said it was almost impossible for residents …
Read More »Cops Might Be Fired For Tasing a Black Man to Death
People stand at Freedom Corner before marching up Centre Avenue to demand justice for Jim Rogers, who died after being tased by Pittsburgh Police, on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, in the Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pa.Photo: Emily Matthews/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (AP) On the same day its first Black mayor took …
Read More »Aiming To Help Add More Black Women In STEM, Diana Wilson Launches $1 Million Fundraising Effort
Diana Wilson wants to diminish the scarcity of Black women in STEM-related fields. She has built Yielding Accomplished African Women (Yaa W). Per MSN, the nonprofit works to find and back Black women in college in tech and finance. Wilson is now raising $1 million to supply those women with …
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