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A view of the U.S. Embassy on Novinsky Boulevard on the day Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken are scheduled to meet for security talks in Geneva.Photo: Vladimir GerdoTASS (Getty Images) As the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow …
Read More »When the Setting Is the Story
The way a place looks, sounds, feels, and smells is a crucial part of how we experience and remember it. So it can be a challenge to make somewhere feel real with words alone. To bring the South to life in her most recent book, Imani Perry turned to travelogues, …
Read More »Formerly Incarcerated Black Entrepreneur Launches New Company Called 2nd Chance Fitness
Meet Secoy Reeves, a 33-year old ex-marine who was formerly incarcerated, but is now the founder of 2nd Chance Fitness, a personal fitness company that specializes in weight management, muscle gain and overall health and wellbeing in and around the greater Nashville, Tenn. metropolitan area. Reeves served two years in state …
Read More »NAACP Image Awards 2022: Will Smith, Angela Bassett, Issa Rae Among Winners
Will Smith, left; Angela Bassett, Issa Rae.Photo: Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times; LISA O’CONNOR/AFP; Amy Sussman (Getty Images) Over the weekend, the 2022 NAACP Image Awards went down airing live across BET, BET Her, VH1 and more. Hosted by Anthony Anderson, the two-hour-long show saw a plethora of …
Read More »Absolute Power
Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, is 36 years old and has led his country for almost five years. His father, the 86-year-old King Salman, has rarely been seen in public since 2019, and even MBS—as he is universally known—has faced the world only a few times …
Read More »With RescueData, Never Worry About Losing Valuable Files Again
These days, our personal computers and mobile devices double as personal safes as they typically contain troves of personal data that’s of the utmost importance to many. Everything from files that contain social security numbers, birth certificates, driver’s licenses, and passports to important email messages are stored on our devices. …
Read More »Jussie Smollett Seeks New Trial Citing Claims of Constitutional Rights Violation
Jussie Smollett arrives at the Leighton Criminal Court Building for his trial on disorderly conduct charges on December 6 2021 in Chicago, Illinois.Photo: KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP (Getty Images) Just ahead of Jussie Smollett’s sentencing following his guilty conviction of staging a fake hate crime, it appears the former Empire …
Read More »Nine Excellent Movies That Show What Ukrainians Are Fighting For
Although Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began last Thursday morning Kyiv time, President Vladimir Putin began his campaign against Ukraine’s legitimacy as a nation years ago. He has argued that Ukraine was an integral part of Russian civilization and blamed the country’s ruling class for convincing the world that Ukrainians were …
Read More »Black People Now Surpass White People In Drug Overdose Deaths
New studies show that the next phase of the opioid epidemic will have a larger fatal response within the Black community. A peer-reviewed study published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry found that Black Americans are now dying from drug overdoses at higher rates than white Americans. Based on drug …
Read More »Estée Lauder Executive to Retire After Posting Meme with N-Word to Instagram
John Demsey attends the 2019 WWD Beauty Inc Awards at The Rainbow Room on December 11, 2019 in New York City.Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris (Getty Images) Executive group president of Estée Lauder, John Demsey, has been forced to leave the company after sharing a meme on his Instagram account with the …
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