How Old Are Your Members of Congress? Today the average American is 20 years younger than their representative in Congress. In 1981, the average age of a Representative was 49 and the average of a Senator was 53. Today, the average age of a Representative is 57 and the average of a Senator is 61. There are 44 congressional districts…
Read More Lagniappe4 Things You Can Do to Make Your Flu Shot More Effective Get vaccinated by the end of October for it to be most effective, according to the CDC A study in International Journal of Behavioral Medicine found that those who did not get more than five hours of sleep per night leading up to their flu shot made…
Read More Effective Flu ShotsWhen I moved back to the South, I rediscovered sweet tea. Now y’all know I’m diabetic, so sweet tea shouldn’t be on my radar, let alone on my dinner table. In spite of that, I have lots of black tea bags (no green or white for me) for making sweet sun tea, and it needs…
Read More Is There More to Tea than Sweet Tea?BeyGOOD & NAACP Grants for Black-Owned Businesses Amid COVID-19 BeyGOOD is on a mission to spread hope. Beyonce and her philanthropic company, BeyGOOD Foundation, and the NAACP have joined together to introduce The Black-Owned Small Business Impact Fund, offering $10,000 grants. The goal is to provide a lifeline for small businesses at the epicenter of…
Read More Grants for Black-Owned BusinessesBy Charlotte Cowles@charlottecowles Illustration: Lauren Tamaki In 2012, Alua Arthur quit her legal career to become a death doula. The problem was that she had no idea such a job existed. “All I knew was that there had to be a better way to give support during one of the most lonely and isolating experiences a…
Read More How Death Doula Alua Arthur Gets It DoneThe panel by the renowned Black artist, part of his “Struggle” series, was last seen in 1960. But someone had a hunch where it was. Read article HERE.
Read More Jacob Lawrence Painting, Missing for Decades, Is Found by Met VisitorBy Nate Chinen Oct. 21, 2020, 5:00 a.m The last time Keith Jarrett performed in public, his relationship with the piano was the least of his concerns. This was at Carnegie Hall in 2017, several weeks into the administration of a divisive new American president. He had been scheduled to return to Carnegie the following March for another of…
Read More Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the PianoI happen to like spinach, although eating the tinny, metallic green slop masquerading as spinach when I was a child certainly put me off my spinach-feed for a long time. When I was coming up, our vegetables were fresh in season – for us, not another continent – and if they were out of season…
Read More Spinach – Maybe Popeye Had Something!Americans have endured economic crises before but none quite like this one. To capture the depths of the suffering, The New York Times teamed up with 11 local news organizations across the country to document the lives of a dozen Americans who found themselves out of work. Read the full special report here. From “The Week” Pandemic poverty:…
Read More Out of Work in AmericaHARTFORD, CT – The University of Connecticut will pay $249,539 to resolve alleged pay discrimination at its Storrs, Connecticut, campus following a routine compliance review by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). OFCCP found that the public university and federal contractor discriminated against five female employees in Specialist IA and Specialist…
Read More UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT TO PAY $249,539 TO FEMALE EMPLOYEES TO SETTLE PAY DISCRIMINATION ALLEGATIONS IN U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR INVESTIGATION