Dara Sharif

News

Black Health Advocates Want US Government to Take on Menthols As Hard As It’s Taken on Other Flavored Tobacco

African American health advocates are taking aim at the Trump administration’s decision to go after flavored…

Politics

Democratic Party Leader Maya Rockeymoore Cummings Mulls Run for Her Late Husband’s Congressional Seat

Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, head of Maryland’s Democratic Party, says she’s considering running for the 7th…

Politics

Beto, His Campaign Pockets Light and His Poll Numbers Low, Bows Out of His Run for the Oval Office

Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke on Friday took himself out of the running for the Democratic presidential…

News

Midwestern Brewery Whose Manager Basically Claimed He Didn’t See Black People Settles Racial Discrimination Lawsuit

A prominent Midwestern brewery has settled a discrimination lawsuit with a former employee who claimed he was fired…

Education

Georgetown Sets Goal to Raise $400,000 to Fund Reparations for Descendants of Those It Enslaved, but Effort’s Getting the Side Eye From Student Activists

When Georgetown University students voted this spring to use student fees to pay reparations to descendants of the en…

International

Russian Operatives Are Apparently Taking Their Disinformation Campaign on the Road—Moving From African Americans to the African Continent

The Russians targeted African Americans in the run-up to election 2016 with deceptive social media accounts and…

LGBTQ

Not Only Does Facial Recognition Software Often Get Racial ID Wrong, a New Study Finds It Misgenders Trans and Nonbinary Folks Almost <i>All</i> the Time

LGBTQ

Not Only Does Facial Recognition Software Often Get Racial ID Wrong, a New Study Finds It Misgenders Trans and Nonbinary Folks Almost All the Time

Nonbinary and transgender identities are increasingly being accepted and normalized throughout society, but not when…

Politics

Ilhan Omar Draws Fire for Opting Out of House Vote to Acknowledge the Armenian Genocide—and Rile Turkey

Rep. Ilhan Omar is drawing fire for basically abstaining on a House vote taken to formally acknowledge, for the…

Politics

Barack Obama Calls Out ‘Cancel Culture’ in the Era of Donald Trump

For all eight years of his presidency, Barack Obama was the epitome of class and grace, ever speaking to how to…

Politics

Irony: Harris, Booker and Castro Face Uphill Battle in Race for the Democratic Nod for President Despite a Diverse Field

Despite fielding one of the most diverse groups of presidential candidates, based on most recent poll numbers, the…

Education

Detroit Students Are Making a Federal Case Out of What They Say Was an Education So Poor, It Violated Their Constitutional Rights

An eighth-grader teaching his fellow students math for a month when the teacher quit. Third- and fourth-grade…

Sports

NCAA Opens Door to College Athletes Being Able to Make Their Own Coins Off Their Own Names and Images

The NCAA on Tuesday opened the door to college athletes being able to profit from their own names and likenesses,…

Music

T.I. Says Iggy Azalea ‘Switched Up’ Once She Figured She Didn’t Need Black Folks Anymore

T.I. on Monday continued his regrets tour when it comes to former protégé Iggy Azalea, saying that the…

Politics

Donald Trump Takes His ‘Buffoonery’ on the Road, Trashing Chicago and Its Top Cop in Speech Before Law Enforcement Group

As he has a tendency to do—especially when it comes to black or brown strongholds, from San Juan to Baltimore—Donald…

Politics

It’s About to Get Really Real: House to Take Formal Vote Thursday on Rules of Impeachment

House Democrats want to make one thing very clear to Donald Trump: The impeachment inquiry into his tenure in the…

News

Trump Organization Is Thinking of Selling the Lease to Its Controversial DC Hotel

Amid criticism that Donald Trump has been wrongly profiting from his swank Washington, D.C., hotel, the Trump…

HBCUs

‘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 Forum

Donald Trump kicked off a three-day criminal-justice forum at South Carolina’s Benedict College on Friday, giving a…

News

Awkward! Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Spills the Tea After Butt-Dialing a Reporter

Maybe Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani needs to learn how to lock his phone.

Politics

DOJ Is Reportedly Making Its Review of How Russia Probe Came to Be a Criminal Matter

Donald Trump has long derided as some “hoax” the Mueller probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election that…

Health

Bot Bias: Study Finds a Medical Algorithm Favors White Patients Over Sicker Black Ones

An algorithm used by major hospitals and healthcare providers misjudged how sick black patients were compared with…

Dara Sharif's posts

Black Health Advocates Want US Government to Take on Menthols As Hard As It’s Taken on Other Flavored Tobacco

Democratic Party Leader Maya Rockeymoore Cummings Mulls Run for Her Late Husband’s Congressional Seat

Beto, His Campaign Pockets Light and His Poll Numbers Low, Bows Out of His Run for the Oval Office

Midwestern Brewery Whose Manager Basically Claimed He Didn’t See Black People Settles Racial Discrimination Lawsuit

Georgetown Sets Goal to Raise $400,000 to Fund Reparations for Descendants of Those It Enslaved, but Effort’s Getting the Side Eye From Student Activists

Russian Operatives Are Apparently Taking Their Disinformation Campaign on the Road—Moving From African Americans to the African Continent

Not Only Does Facial Recognition Software Often Get Racial ID Wrong, a New Study Finds It Misgenders Trans and Nonbinary Folks Almost All the Time

Ilhan Omar Draws Fire for Opting Out of House Vote to Acknowledge the Armenian Genocide—and Rile Turkey

Barack Obama Calls Out ‘Cancel Culture’ in the Era of Donald Trump

Irony: Harris, Booker and Castro Face Uphill Battle in Race for the Democratic Nod for President Despite a Diverse Field

Detroit Students Are Making a Federal Case Out of What They Say Was an Education So Poor, It Violated Their Constitutional Rights

NCAA Opens Door to College Athletes Being Able to Make Their Own Coins Off Their Own Names and Images

T.I. Says Iggy Azalea ‘Switched Up’ Once She Figured She Didn’t Need Black Folks Anymore

Donald Trump Takes His ‘Buffoonery’ on the Road, Trashing Chicago and Its Top Cop in Speech Before Law Enforcement Group

It’s About to Get Really Real: House to Take Formal Vote Thursday on Rules of Impeachment

Trump Organization Is Thinking of Selling the Lease to Its Controversial DC Hotel

‘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 Forum

Awkward! Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Spills the Tea After Butt-Dialing a Reporter

DOJ Is Reportedly Making Its Review of How Russia Probe Came to Be a Criminal Matter

Bot Bias: Study Finds a Medical Algorithm Favors White Patients Over Sicker Black Ones