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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Go ahead and rinse your cranberries, potatoes and green beans. But food experts say don’t — repeat don’t — wash the turkey before popping it in the oven on Thanksgiving Day. They say that could spread the germs lurking on your turkey in the …

New York Jets Linebacker Brandon Copeland. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) Brandon Copeland is one NFL player who plans to avoid going broke after his football career is over. Although he hopes that’ll happen later than sooner, Copeland is preparing for the end game by saving up his coins from his …

Photo by Aude Guerrucci-Pool/Getty Images) Our favorite president and first lady are now homeowners on Martha’s Vineyard. Guess who’s coming to dinner? (I mean, we can wish) Barack and Michelle Obama reportedly plunked down $11.75 million to buy the 6,892-square-foot home in Edgartown this week, according to the Vineyard Gazette. …

Washington is about to consider legislation that will impose a 36 percent interest rate cap on loan options which could adversely impact the Black community. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) With 12,000 brick-and-mortar stores already shut down since 2010, and 4,000 more on the way, the trend that has ravished …

Photo Credit: Deneka Peniston Happy Kwanzaa! Dec. 26 marks the first day of the seven-day non-religious holiday created in 1966 by California State University Pan-African studies professor and Black nationalist, Maulana Karenga. Kwanzaa pays homage to African-Americans’ legacy and roots. The holiday is distinguished by seven principals known as the …

Darias Brown speaks to a recruiter at a job fair in Chicago. At 3.6 percent, the overall April unemployment rate is at its lowest since 1969, but among Blacks it’s 6.7 percent, 86 percent higher than the national average. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) While data shows the unemployment rates …

Adobe Stock Images The video went viral and inflamed nerves almost instantly: a little white girl who screamed and flung away her Black doll Christmas gift while her family recorded and chuckled at her. Now the girl’s older sister has gone on social media to try to explain that the …

147 million people are eligible to receive part of the Equifax settlement.(Photo: Adobe Stock) Many Americans may qualify for compensation as a result of a $700 million settlement Equifax reached with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this week for its 2017 data breach. The breach affected 147 million Americans, and …

Getty Images An Ulta Beauty Store in New Jersey has been called out by a Black woman who claims an employee said her “skin was too dark for most colors in the store.” In Instagram and Facebook posts, Ebony Kankam London detailed her Dec. 28 experience at an Ulta store …

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