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Kool & the Gang co-founder Ronald “Khalis” Bell died Wednesday, September 9 at his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands, his wife and agent Tia Sinclair Bell has confirmed. He was 68. The cause of death has not been revealed. Bell launched the group with his brother Robert “Kool” Bell …

0 Image via @chefrashad2.0/Instagram In light of COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus, pandemic, many restaurants around the country have had to learn new ways to adapt to the new reality of social distancing and suffering from lost revenue from mandatory quarantine closures for indoor dining. Now, one Black chef is …

Photo: Zendograph (Shutterstock) It wasn’t Black-on-Black crime. Violent video games and rap songs had nothing to do with it; nor did poverty, education, two-parent homes or the international “bootstraps” shortage. When a judge tasked researchers with explaining why Massachusetts’ Black and Latinx incarceration was so high, a four-year study came …

Photos: Wildfires are rage across the American west Fire has been part of the West for millennia. Ponderosa pines’ sweetly fragrant bark has evolved to shield the heart of the tree from frequent small-scale blazes. The wildflower-spangled meadows of Yosemite were maintained by Indigenous people through careful use of controlled …

A woman whose confrontation with a Black man attempting to use a public pier was captured on video last month has now been charged with a hate crime. 65-year-old Irene Donoshaytis of Northfield, near Chicago, turned herself into the Winnetka Police Department on Wednesday morning (September 9). Deputy Police Chief …

Screenshot: Coach (YouTube He has been called “the Radiant Child,” and in his brief life, amassed a body of work so distinctive that it has placed him among the most iconic names in contemporary art. “I’m not an elitist but an autodidact who would like to be a part of …

Why do I love the U.S. Constitution? This instrument formally converted the worth of my great-great-grandfather Sidiphus into three-fifths’ that of a free person. Living in the East Indies as a free man, Sidiphus had been tricked into enslavement—recruited to a Georgia farm just before the Civil War by the …

Michelle Obama has been dropping some major gems since he launched her podcast in July. During the latest episode, the former First Lady spoke with friend and former advisor to President Barack Obama, Valarie Jarrett, about some advice she had for her daughters, specifically 22-year-old Malia, about paying your dues …

According to a recent Gallup survey, more than 60 percent of Americans have been able to work from home during the Covid-19 pandemic thanks to high-speed internet connections. Since 1996, U.S. broadband providers have invested nearly $2 trillion to connect our communities, incentivized by sound, pro-investment policies. This private investment …

Photo: Alex_Alekseev (Shutterstock) One of the biggest issues facing meaningful police reform is the arbitration process. An officer could be fired for being a piece of shit but an arbitrator could say, “well, he wasn’t that shitty,” and order the officer to be re-hired. In New Hampshire, that exact situation …