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2022 Sundance Film Festival Cancels In-Person Events And Goes Virtual Due to Rise Of Coronavirus Cases
Though still months away, the Sundance Film Festival is already planning its 2023 events, this time going for a hybrid…
/ August 31, 2022
Students who spent most of the time learning remotely during the 2020-2021 school year lost about half an academic year…
/ August 31, 2022
Whoopi Goldberg, Kevin Hart, Mo'Nique and other excellent actors appear on this list to help us close Black Comedy Month.
/ August 31, 2022
Brown's Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church of Hastings
A nonprofit group is working on a new art installation that will recognize a Black church that was destroyed by…
/ August 31, 2022
U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year from 2020, according to…
/ August 31, 2022
Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday at R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago after presenting two weeks of testimony.
/ August 31, 2022
Water pressure Mississippi
Mississippi's capital city of Jackson is grappling with multiple water problems, resulting in a state of emergency and economic challenges.
/ August 31, 2022
Venus Williams bowed out in the first round of the U.S. Open for the second consecutive appearance, losing 6-1, 7-6…
/ August 30, 2022
A paper reading "Student Loan" burning in a wastebasket
While most of the objections to student debt relief don’t hold up when facts and logic are applied, there's one…
/ August 30, 2022
An elementary school teacher is making headlines for turning Lizzo’s hit single “About Damn Time” into a catchy back-to-school jingle.
/ August 30, 2022
In 2016, responding to the fatal police shootings of two Black men just a day apart, Serena Williams joined a small chorus…
/ August 30, 2022
Jayland Walker's family wants more transparency as authorities continue to investigate the June 27 police shooting that left him dead.
/ August 30, 2022