City of yes: A little more housing in every neighborhood By Mayor Eric Adams Our city is facing a generational housing crisis with a vacancy rate at 1.4 percent, and half of all New York renters are paying more than 30 percent of their income […]
By Marilyn A. Fraser, MD Chief Executive Officer, Arthur Ashe Institute The health of a community is often about connecting. Connecting with our neighbors, friends, and family to recharge our souls. Connecting with information that empowers us to make positive change. Now we need […]
A North Carolina student was caught on video bullying another middle schooler on Friday at Conway Middle School, WRAL reports. The victim’s mother, Shontae Williams, said she’s concerned about sending her 14-year old son back to school. “I actually cried about the whole situation last night,” […]
Source: screenshot / iOne Digital Words are not always harmless. Sometimes they can be the catalyst to violence, especially if those words are derogatory and demeaning. Two Florida men had to learn this the hard way after an altercation left one dead and the other charged in […]
Dutch health authorities announced on Tuesday that they found the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus in cases dating back as long as 11 days, indicating that it was already spreading in western Europe before the first cases were identified in southern Africa. The RIVM health institute said it […]
There is little that brings me as much joy as the sound of my toddler’s chunky legs on our parquet floors as he makes that sharp right at the foyer and heads toward his shoes. The mere mention of the word “outside” and this kid […]
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day has fallen on Aug. 3, marking the day a Black woman earns what a white man earned in 2020. Yes, that’s correct, 2020. That means it takes a Black woman 579 days to earn what a white man makes in […]
Colin Kaepernick will soon release a children’s picture book which will be based on experiences from his own life. The NFL veteran said the book, I Color Myself Different, is deeply personal to him. “I hope that it honors the courage and bravery of young people everywhere by encouraging them […]
A version of this story appeared in the March 17 edition of CNN’s Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction newsletter. Sign up here to receive the need-to-know headlines every weekday. (CNN)After virtually all of western Europe temporarily suspended the use of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, the continent’s top medicines regulator […]
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