The Church’s Black Exodus Pastors’ silence on racism and COVID-19 is driving Black parishioners away from their congregations. DARA T. MATHIS OCTOBER 11, 2020 Across the country, Black Americans feel under siege from the coronavirus pandemic and raw from the police brutality fueling Black Lives Matter protests. But some are nursing another intimate wound: their church’s…
Read More For Pastors of White Churches with Black MembersBy Channon Hodge, CNN Updated 4:00 AM ET, Sun October 11, 2020 A new documentary, “Driving While Black,” digs deep to untangle a twisted reality. Black people continually face danger behind the wheel, and it’s rooted in history. The two-hour film, premiering October 13 on PBS, winds its way from slavery to Jim Crow to the advent…
Read More Filmmakers unearth a long trail of racism in ‘Driving While Black’Drink more water Eat slower Don’t drink your calories Eat more vegetables, less meat Have your burger without cheese Snack mindfully, on healthier foods (not chips) Don’t eat sweets or dessert every day AVOID MY RECIPES which use butter and sugar in copious amounts
Read More How to Cut Calories Almost PainlesslyWhen asked to reflect on their lives, the participants older than 40 felt that time elapsed slowly in their childhood but then accelerated steadily through their teenage years into early adulthood. There are good reasons why older people may feel that way. When it comes to how we perceive time, humans can estimate the length…
Read More Why Does Time Seem to Speed Up with Age?In late February, the Trump administration was publicly playing down the severity of the worsening coronavirus epidemic. But in private, White House officials had a different story — and that information was shared with top traders who made fortuitous bets against the market. Trump advisers conceded concerns about the coronavirus in private meetings with board members…
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Read More Kamala Harris Reading Guide: The Best Reporting on the Vice Presidential Candidateby Joseph Cranney, The Post and Courier Nov. 27, 2019, 5 a.m. EST This article was produced in partnership with The Post and Courier, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network Welcome to the magistrate courts of South Carolina, where citizens often must fend for themselves before judges lacking formal training in the law and whose…
Read More These Judges Can Have Less Training Than Barbers but Still Decide Thousands of Cases Each YearBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business Updated 9:00 AM ET, Sat October 10, 2020 Black Americans pay more than any other group to own a home, a disparity that contributes to roughly half of the $130,000 retirement savings gap between Blacks and Whites, according to new study from MIT. Black homeowners pay more in mortgage interest, mortgage…
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