culture
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What Martin Taught Us About Relationships
In the 1990s, Fox’s Thursday-night lineup featured a young, black couple for the hip-hop generation attempting to make their relationship work amid a changing world. In the comedy Martin, Martin Payne (played by comedy icon Martin Lawrence) is the loudmouthed brother following his passion at a local radio station. The college-educated Gina Waters (played by Tisha…
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Haiti’s ‘Baby Doc’ Dies at 63
Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier died of a heart attack Saturday at his home in Port-au-Prince, the New York Times reports. He was 63. Michel J. Martelly, the president of Haiti, announced the death in a post on Twitter. He was the son of François Duvalier, known as Papa Doc, the feared dictator,…
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CDC: What You Need to Know About Ebola
On Tuesday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States was that of a man who traveled from the West African country of Liberia to Dallas in September. And on Friday a person with Ebola-like symptoms was admitted to Howard University Hospital in Washington,…
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Police: Bali Slaying Linked to N-Word Slur
A 21-year-old man became enraged after his girlfriend’s mother used the n-word against him, the girl told Indonesian police investigating the death at a hotel in Bali in August, where the three were guests, according to the Associated Press. Heather Mack, 19, and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, 21, are being held as suspects in the…
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Dallas Workers Race to Contain Ebola
In an effort to contain the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, a hazardous-materials crew Friday decontaminated the Dallas apartment where a visitor from Liberia was staying when he fell ill, the Associated Press reports. Residents of the apartment unit where Thomas Eric Duncan had stayed were moved to a private residence in a gated…
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Jahi McMath Moves on Command in Video
Just days after the family of a 13-year-old Oakland, Calif., girl petitioned the courts to have an Alameda County judge declare the teen alive, the family’s lawyer released a video clip showing her responding to verbal commands. In video released Friday, Nailah Winkfield, the mother of Jahi McMath, asks her daughter to move her hand,…
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How the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Hopes to Heal America’s Race Problem
America has a race problem, and one of the best ways to deal with it is to acknowledge the systemic and structural manifestations that help reinforce the country’s contentious racial history. This is what the vice president for policy and senior adviser at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Gail Christopher, says is the focus of the…
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Mentally Ill NC Inmate Died of Thirst, Autopsy Shows
An outraged Invanhoe, N.C., woman is demanding answers after her mentally ill brother was shown to have died from dehydration while serving time, WNCN reports. Last week Brenda Liles told reporters that anyone involved in her brother’s death should go to jail. That was the same Friday that seven people, including nurses and a captain,…
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How to Get Away With Murder Can Make You Feel ‘Lost’
First, a note: This review is filled with spoilers, but if you have clicked on this story, it’s assumed that you, dear reader, are up-to-date on the goings-on of How to Get Away With Murder. If you aren’t, I have two questions that may take some deep thought: The first is “Why aren’t you caught…
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Patient With Ebola-Like Symptoms Being Treated in Washington, DC
A person with Ebola-like symptoms has been admitted to Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., reports NBC 4. According to the news station, the patient had recently traveled to Nigeria and was admitted to the hospital in stable condition. Doctors are working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta to determine whether…