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Nearly five months after 10-year-old Isabella “Izzy” Tichenor’s death by suicide, an investigation reveals just how long her school allowed bullying “on any ground” to go unchecked. A newly released investigative report commissioned by the Davis School District in Farmington, Utah, found that Tichenor had been bullied by her classmates and …

Idris Elba is seen at “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on April 05, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.Photo: RB/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images (Getty Images) Idris Elba, a.k.a. People’s Sexiest Man Alive in 2018, is just one of those guys who’s effortlessly cool. No matter what unexpected piece of info comes out about him (like …

0 (Image: Dallas Cowboys) Gary Brown, 52, a former running back coach for the Dallas Cowboys, has died after battling cancer. According to the Dallas Cowboys website, Brown died on Sunday in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The former coach was in hospice care for the past several weeks. He was afflicted with …

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Sign up for Derek’s newsletter here. The United States is experiencing an extreme teenage mental-health crisis. From 2009 to 2021, the share of American high-school students who say they feel “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” rose from 26 percent to 44 percent, according to a new CDC study. This …

For nearly a decade, the founder of the Jamaa Birth Village in Ferguson, Missouri has had one simple goal, and that is to improve maternity care for Black families in the St. Louis area. As reported by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Okunsola M. Amadou first began outreach efforts out …

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) announced the appointment of six corporate executives to its board of directors, effective immediately. Yahoo News reports corporate executives from Alaska Air Group, Citigroup, Chevron, ExxonMobil, General Motors, and Intel will join top executives from Walmart, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Procter & Gamble to …

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was confirmed to the Supreme Court last week, in her first official portrait.Photo: Lelanie Foster via the White House Several progressive organizations are launching a seven-figure ad campaign aimed at Black voters in the wake Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court last …

Ken Johnston describes himself as a “walking artist,” a term defined as one who uses walking as art. There is a vast network of walking artists whose career backgrounds and interests include — but are not limited to — architecture, archaeology, anthropology, cultural geography, history, spatial design, urban design and …

The things that destroy love and marriage often disguise themselves as unimportant. Many dangerous things neither appear nor feel dangerous as they’re happening. They’re not bombs and gunshots. They’re pinpricks. They’re paper cuts. And that is the danger. When we don’t recognize something as threatening, then we’re not on guard. …