Commentator Maisie Sparks proves that when fighting for your rights reveals something in common with your “enemy,” the outcome can be a win for both sides – and for society. Read HERE.
Read More Contesting a traffic stop leads to justice – and mercyGroup 1a is health care workers and residents and staff of nursing homes, regardless of age. Group 1b is elderly people who are 75 or older and essential frontline workers, i.e. people with jobs in grocery stores, bus drivers and other transportation workers, meat packing plant workers, teachers, people who work in prisons, postal workers,…
Read More Phase 1a, 1b or 1c? Do You Know Your Coronavirus Vaccine Group?The Founder’s Welcome Dr. Maulana Karenga As an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated by millions throughout the world African community, Kwanzaa brings a cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense. Given the profound significance Kwanzaa has for African Americans and indeed,…
Read More KwanzaaFor those of us who wear nail polish, there is much to discuss. Some of us make that weekly or bi-weekly trip to the nail salon. Others, who don’t have $25 or more (my last mani/pedi was $75!!!! natural nails, gel on fingers, special pedi ) to shell out for cute fingertips, do it at…
Read More Nails, Nails, NailsBY KRISTIN ROMEY PHOTOGRAPHS BY SIMON NORFOLK (This is why I subscribe to Nat Geo! This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.) Scholars who study Jesus divide into two opposing camps separated by a very bright line: those who believe the wonder-working Jesus of the Gospels is the real Jesus, and those who think the real Jesus—the…
Read More Who was the real Jesus? Here’s what archaeology tells us.By Rachel Koning Beals Dec. 19, 2020 The Rockefeller Foundation, a 107-year-old philanthropy built by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, says it will completely break with the fossil-fuel industry that seeded its wealth. The $5 billion endowment is pledging to drop its fossil fuel holdingsUSO and, notably, is promising to avoid new investments in the sector, its…
Read More Rockefeller Foundation built on a fossil-fuel fortune becomes largest philanthropist to shun oil investmentsMarissa Laliberte Under the mattress Bedroom closet Dresser drawers Portable safe Medicine cabinet Read more HERE.
Read More 10 Hiding Spots Burglars Always Look FirstFenit Nirappil – The Washington Post – Thursday, December 24, 2020 Struggling to breathe and pausing between sentences, Susan Moore mustered enough energy to record herself from her hospital bed, where she was being treated for covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. The message she shared: Not even her status as a doctor shielded…
Read More A Black doctor alleged racist treatment before dying of covid-19: ‘This is how Black people get killed’By Brian Wheeler BBC News, Washington DC Published 9 December 2016 In the overheated post-election atmosphere, Santa Claus is seen by some as another cherished cultural institution under attack by the forces of political correctness. The traditional image of Santa, as a jolly, rotund, and white, character is deeply embedded in American culture. “Going to a…
Read More The secret history of black SantasDec. 22, 2020, 6:42 p.m. ET Dec. 22, 2020 By Noam Scheiber Under the so-called tip pools authorized by the new rule, the tips of waiters and waitresses can be shared with back-of-the-house workers like cooks and dishwashers. But such sharing will be allowed only if the waiters and waitresses receive the standard minimum wage in…
Read More New Labor Department rule would let employers distribute tips more widely.