On April 20, 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant was fatally shot by Ohio, Columbus police officer Nicholas Reardon. The shooting has led to protests in Ohio and sparked nationwide outrage. The teen’s funeral procession — held in the city of Columbus — has prompted more calls for change to policing. On Friday …
Read More »White Man Sentenced 4 Years for Setting Police Station on Fire During George Floyd Protest
A 23-year-old white male has been sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to pay $12 million in restitution for setting a police precinct on fire during the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd. Dylan Shakespeare Robinson was also ordered to serve out two years …
Read More »For the D: How to Get More of the 'Sunshine Vitamin' Into Your System
Photo: Darren Baker (Shutterstock) Raise your hand if you have been told that you are vitamin D deficient! Never before have we heard so much talk about vitamin D, how important it is, and how many of us walk around with much less of it than we should have—seems like …
Read More »Willow Smith Talks Her Polyamorous Lifestyle
Who says “three’s a crowd?’ To Willow, it’s just right. Source link
Read More »Biden Administration Finalizing Plans To Clean Up Country’s Most Polluted Communities
Reuters – The White House Council on Environmental Quality expects to submit a plan for helping clean up the nation’s most polluted communities to President Joe Biden within weeks, according to the council’s new chair, Brenda Mallory. The widely anticipated blueprint is intended to help Biden execute a campaign promise …
Read More »NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Wants Justice Department to Suspend Police Grants Amid Investigation Into Policing Practices
Photo: sirtravelalot (Shutterstock) After former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation into the city’s police department to determine whether it “engages in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing.” …
Read More »The Books Briefing: How to be Happy
What Writing Has In Common With Happiness “The final line of an enigmatic Jorge Luis Borges poem became the title for Yasmina Reza’s latest book, Happy Are the Happy. For Reza, Borges’ poem suggests that happiness, which people tend to talk about as achievable and context-dependent, is dispensed more mysteriously …
Read More »LeBron James Not Included On Dr. J's Best Of All Time List
The NBA legend says James led the ‘superteam’ movement. Source link
Read More »Rick Ross Explains His Involvement With Healthcare Platform Jetdoc
Late last year William Leonard Roberts II, who is known professionally as Rick Ross, announced that he had entered into a strategic partnership with Jetdoc. The Grammy-nominated rapper signed on as an equity partner, adviser, and spokesperson for Jetdoc, a digital healthcare platform that connects people with a licensed healthcare …
Read More »Philly Museum Apologizes for Keeping Bones of a Black Child Killed in MOVE Bombing Raid for More Than 30 Years
In this May, 1985 file photo, a Philadelphia policeman is seen on a rooftop as flames rise from a row of burning homes beyond, in Philadelphia. The fire started when police dropped a bomb onto the house of the militant group MOVE, on May 13, 1985 and fire spread throughout …
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