News11/1/19Nov 1 20195News11/1/19NewsBlack Health Advocates Want US Government to Take on Menthols As Hard As It’s Taken on Other Flavored TobaccoDara Sharif66African American health advocates are taking aim at the Trump administration’s decision to go after flavored…
Politics11/1/19Nov 1 20191Politics11/1/19PoliticsDemocratic Party Leader Maya Rockeymoore Cummings Mulls Run for Her Late Husband’s Congressional SeatDara Sharif4Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, head of Maryland’s Democratic Party, says she’s considering running for the 7th…
Politics11/1/19Nov 1 20191Politics11/1/19PoliticsBeto, His Campaign Pockets Light and His Poll Numbers Low, Bows Out of His Run for the Oval OfficeDara Sharif32Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke on Friday took himself out of the running for the Democratic presidential…
News10/31/19Oct 31 20193News10/31/19NewsMidwestern Brewery Whose Manager Basically Claimed He Didn’t See Black People Settles Racial Discrimination LawsuitDara Sharif34A prominent Midwestern brewery has settled a discrimination lawsuit with a former employee who claimed he was fired…
Education10/31/19Oct 31 20191Education10/31/19EducationGeorgetown Sets Goal to Raise $400,000 to Fund Reparations for Descendants of Those It Enslaved, but Effort’s Getting the Side Eye From Student ActivistsDara Sharif28When Georgetown University students voted this spring to use student fees to pay reparations to descendants of the en…
International10/31/19Oct 31 20191International10/31/19InternationalRussian Operatives Are Apparently Taking Their Disinformation Campaign on the Road—Moving From African Americans to the African ContinentDara Sharif35The Russians targeted African Americans in the run-up to election 2016 with deceptive social media accounts and…
LGBTQ10/30/19Oct 30 20192LGBTQ10/30/19LGBTQNot Only Does Facial Recognition Software Often Get Racial ID Wrong, a New Study Finds It Misgenders Trans and Nonbinary Folks Almost All the TimeDara Sharif54Nonbinary and transgender identities are increasingly being accepted and normalized throughout society, but not when…
Politics10/30/19Oct 30 20194Politics10/30/19PoliticsIlhan Omar Draws Fire for Opting Out of House Vote to Acknowledge the Armenian Genocide—and Rile TurkeyDara Sharif140Rep. Ilhan Omar is drawing fire for basically abstaining on a House vote taken to formally acknowledge, for the…
Politics10/30/19Oct 30 2019SavePolitics10/30/19PoliticsBarack Obama Calls Out ‘Cancel Culture’ in the Era of Donald TrumpDara Sharif261For all eight years of his presidency, Barack Obama was the epitome of class and grace, ever speaking to how to…
Politics10/29/19Oct 29 20192Politics10/29/19PoliticsIrony: Harris, Booker and Castro Face Uphill Battle in Race for the Democratic Nod for President Despite a Diverse FieldDara Sharif92Despite fielding one of the most diverse groups of presidential candidates, based on most recent poll numbers, the…
Education10/29/19Oct 29 20197Education10/29/19EducationDetroit Students Are Making a Federal Case Out of What They Say Was an Education So Poor, It Violated Their Constitutional RightsDara Sharif57An eighth-grader teaching his fellow students math for a month when the teacher quit. Third- and fourth-grade…
Sports10/29/19Oct 29 2019SaveSports10/29/19SportsNCAA Opens Door to College Athletes Being Able to Make Their Own Coins Off Their Own Names and ImagesDara Sharif43The NCAA on Tuesday opened the door to college athletes being able to profit from their own names and likenesses,…
Music10/28/19Oct 28 20191Music10/28/19MusicT.I. Says Iggy Azalea ‘Switched Up’ Once She Figured She Didn’t Need Black Folks AnymoreDara Sharif58T.I. on Monday continued his regrets tour when it comes to former protégé Iggy Azalea, saying that the…
Politics10/28/19Oct 28 20194Politics10/28/19PoliticsDonald Trump Takes His ‘Buffoonery’ on the Road, Trashing Chicago and Its Top Cop in Speech Before Law Enforcement GroupDara Sharif23As he has a tendency to do—especially when it comes to black or brown strongholds, from San Juan to Baltimore—Donald…
Politics10/28/19Oct 28 20191Politics10/28/19PoliticsIt’s About to Get Really Real: House to Take Formal Vote Thursday on Rules of ImpeachmentDara Sharif71House Democrats want to make one thing very clear to Donald Trump: The impeachment inquiry into his tenure in the…
News10/26/19Oct 26 20192News10/26/19NewsTrump Organization Is Thinking of Selling the Lease to Its Controversial DC HotelDara Sharif15Amid criticism that Donald Trump has been wrongly profiting from his swank Washington, D.C., hotel, the Trump…
HBCUs10/25/19Oct 25 20193HBCUs10/25/19HBCUs‘What the Hell ...’?: Trump Touts Himself as the Best to Ever Do It for Black America Before an Audience of Allies at Benedict College Criminal Justice ForumDara Sharif72Donald Trump kicked off a three-day criminal-justice forum at South Carolina’s Benedict College on Friday, giving a…
News10/25/19Oct 25 20194News10/25/19NewsAwkward! Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Spills the Tea After Butt-Dialing a ReporterDara Sharif37Maybe Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani needs to learn how to lock his phone.
Politics10/24/19Oct 24 20192Politics10/24/19PoliticsDOJ Is Reportedly Making Its Review of How Russia Probe Came to Be a Criminal MatterDara Sharif49Donald Trump has long derided as some “hoax” the Mueller probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election that…
Health10/24/19Oct 24 20194Health10/24/19HealthBot Bias: Study Finds a Medical Algorithm Favors White Patients Over Sicker Black OnesDara Sharif25An algorithm used by major hospitals and healthcare providers misjudged how sick black patients were compared with…