New York (CNN Business)Just before the buzzer sounds on 2020, Washington has finally agreed on a $900 billion relief package that avoids driving the US economy off a cliff. But Uncle Sam’s work rescuing the economy from the worst pandemic in a century is not nearly done. Unemployed Americans, hurting […]
By Michael Cunningham Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” is a revolutionary novel of profound scope and depth, about a day in the life of a woman who runs a few errands, sees an old suitor and gives a dull party. It’s a masterpiece created out of […]
A 14-year-old painter has made it onto the latest cover of Time magazine thanks to LeBron James. Tyler Gordon’s painting of the NBA champion was featured on the magazine’s cover this week after the Los Angeles Lakers star was named, “Athlete Of The Year.” Gordon, who has […]
By Viviane Faver During the year 2020, the Trump administration was quick to put ten prisoners to death, more American civilians in a year than all states combined. The wave of executions surpassed historical norms and was contrary to the decline in the practice […]
Malvin R. Goode was a pioneer in broadcast journalism, becoming the first African-American news correspondent for a major television network in 1962. Goode arrived at the pinnacle of his career later in life, but his accomplishment serves as a testament to the work ethic he developed […]
(CNN)Eleven months after the earliest recorded case of coronavirus in the United States, medical workers are preparing to give the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, with deliveries set to arrive at administration sites from around 8 a.m. ET Monday. Thousands of vials of the […]
By Viviane Faver This weekend, pro-Trump protesters tore and burned Black Lives Matter banners at two African American churches in D.C., according to the Washington Post. According to the organization Black Lives Matter, the group had targeted the Ashbury United Methodist Church, which has […]
Federal moratoriums on evictions will expire at the beginning of the year, but a new bill introduced today may help The holiday season is supposed to be a time when families gather together to exchange gifts and appreciation. But this year’s holiday season has […]
A popular Denver bookstore that has fallen on hard financial times due to the coronavirus pandemic has announced that it is selling the business, and will become the country’s largest Black-owned independent bookstore in the acquisition. The Tattered Cover owners Len Vlahos and Kristen […]
The NAACP – the most prominent interracial civil rights organization in American history – published the first issue of The Crisis, its official magazine, 110 years ago, in 1910. For almost two and a half decades, sociologist and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois served […]
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