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After being elected by the American people to lead the nation for the next four years, President-elect Joe Biden has been getting his staff and administration together to start the official transition to the Oval Office. In the process of doing so, according to reporting by the DailyMail, three contributors …

Shane McKinneyPhoto: East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office A Louisiana pediatrician was arrested in Baton Rouge Wednesday and charged with punching and verbally assaulting a Black student-athlete at Southern University. KATC 3 reports that 54-year-old Shane McKinney, a pediatrician at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, has …

Judy: Yeah. You get in the mode. If I’m out for a walk or a hike and I see things, I start thinking in haikus. Lisa does it too. We might send three in a day as opposed to just one. Beck: Could you read me the ones you wrote …

George Floyd is no longer with us but his legacy lives on. Texas A&M, where Floyd played college basketball, will now have an internship in his honor. Bridgett Floyd, his sister and president of the George Floyd Memorial Foundation, said in a statement, “We are honored to launch the ‘Be …

After working diligently to turn Georgia into a Democratic stronghold and helping the country dump President Trump, many close to Stacey Abrams say she is mulling a second run at governor. Abrams lost the 2018 governor election to Brian Kemp, who was accused of widespread voter suppression. While Abrams has …

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Starletta DuPois in Waiting to Exhale (1995)Screenshot: 20th Century Fox/YouTube It’s time to exhale because the long wait for a continuation of Waiting to Exhale is here! But it’s not the previously discussed feature film sequel; it’s a different format altogether. Terry McMillan, who wrote the 1992 novel Waiting to …

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📚 Hark, by Sam Lipsyte (Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic) How I came to love my epic quarantine reading project “I felt as though an ocular dial had been tweaked and the details of my life—objects, surfaces, textures—began to intensify.” 📚 In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel …

Kirsten Corley Bennett, Chance the Rapper’s wife, took a moment to be transparent about her marriage with the couple’s fans on her Instagram. On Tuesday (Nov. 10) the mother of two shared a fall-themed family portrait featuring her husband and their two daughters, Kensli and Marli. Captioning the post, the …