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28 Days Of Black Joy: Connecting Mind, Body and Spirit Through Yoga
If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know that I love yoga. I am especially a fan of vinyasa yoga, an aerobic style of yoga that works your core, shoulder and hip joints in ways many of us aren’t used to moving. I do it at least three or four times a…
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Democrats Are Stuck With a Republican Party Rife With Conspiracy Theorists, Anarchists and Terrorist Sympathizers
I’m not sure if people have completely wrapped their minds around this, but we have an entire political party that has converted into an authoritarian—albeit Americanized version—style of politics that cares nothing about U.S. democracy or anyone who is not white. With the exception of a few dissenting Republican senators who aren’t up for reelection…
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28 Days of Black Joy: Mountain Hiking In Ukraine
Twenty years ago, you could not have paid me to sit on grass, touch anything outside that a bug or animal had itself rested its bottom on or consume something that had grown out of the Earth without it first being rinsed in a sink inside the walls of a well-sanitized building. Now, you can’t…
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Trump Impeachment Trial, Day 2: House Impeachment Managers Set to Unveil Unreleased Footage of Capitol Riot
House impeachment managers will release never-seen-before footage of rioters storming the Capital that will show elected officials were in far greater danger for their lives than previously known or realized, according to the Washington Post. An aide to the House managers told the Post that Democrats will outline the events that lead to the attempted…
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Impeachment Trial, Day 1: Senate Votes to Proceed With Trial, Rejecting Trump's Argument That It Was Unconstitutional
The first day of the historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump provided his lawyers an opportunity to prove that the trial was unconstitutional and therefore should not proceed, an argument the Senate rejected in a mostly party line vote of 56 to 44. Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) delivered…
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Georgia to Investigate Trump's Attempt to Overturn State's Election Results
The office of the secretary of state of Georgia is opening an inquiry into whether or not former president Donald Trump broke state laws when he tried to overturn the election results there, The New York Times reports. At the heart of the inquiry are a series of phone calls Donald Trump made to Secretary…
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Donald Trump's Second Impeachment Trial, Explained
Today, the U.S. Senate will begin the impeachment trial to determine whether former President Donald Trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection. This is the second time he has been impeached, the first time ever for a U.S. president. In 2019, he was impeached on two counts of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress…
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Missouri Man Dies After Being Denied Emergency Room Care 3 Times
A Missouri man died in a hospital parking lot after his third attempt to get emergency medical treatment, his wife says. According to St. Louis-area CBS affiliate News 4, Sadie Bell took her husband, David, to the emergency room at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Peters the week of Jan. 8 after he complained of chest…
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Arizona Repairman Captured on Camera Telling Black Customer He'd Beat Him Like a 'Slave'
All the brotha was trying to do was get his refrigerator fixed. But, alas, being Black in America makes the simplest of tasks difficult because some white people can be trash. This episode of “Racist-Ass White People” took place on Jan. 20 in Avondale, Ariz., when Ricky Barnes called Select Warranty to fix his refrigerator,…
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Senate Democrats Draft Resolution Condemning White Supremacy
In response to the Trump-encouraged coup attempt in Washington, D.C., last month, Senate Democrats are drafting a resolution condemning white supremacy. Axios reports that the resolution, whose lead sponsor is Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), will be introduced Tuesday. Keep in mind that Trump’s impeachment trial on the charges of “incitement of the insurrection” begins next…
