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U.S. Congressional leaders have reached agreement on a $900B package to provide the first new aid in months to an economy hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, the Senate’s top Republican and Democrats said on Sunday, but it remained unclear when Congress would vote to seal the deal. After living in a global pandemic for almost a whole year, people have been evicted, experienced job loss, unspeaka...

The coronavirus pandemic had unleashed a bonanza for untested contractors riding a wave of unprecedented demand and scarcity of everything from hand sanitizers to ICU beds. So far the administration of Donald Trump has ah fed out at least $5.1 billion in no-bid contracts to address pandemic, federal data purchasing shows. The VA , far more than any agency appeared to be awarding contracts to littl...

Westport, Connecticut is one example of a wealthy suburb that has surrounded itself with invisible walls to block access to affordable housing. The otherwise politically liberal date has kept its low-income housing concentrated in poor cities, an imbalance that hasn’t budged in thirty years. Zoning boards rely on regulations often containing coded, racist language to block the construction of priv...

In past decades, families who have often declined to write an obituary how their relative died when there was stigma attached to the cause of death-AIDS, opioid overdose, or suicide for example. But as the public becomes more aware of mental illness, drug addiction, infectious disease, obituaries now give way to candor. Such is the case for deaths resulting from coronavirus. Families and friends w...

What message Does the historical date of 14 July 1789, Paris France hold for us today? A group of angry people, angry at the establishment, seething with resentment, attacked a state prison on the outskirts of Paris. The thing is the people were not attacking to set the seven prisoners free, the people wanted access to the bullets and ammunition stored inside the prison. Sounds familiar? People wa...

In a stunning rebuke,MasterCard and Visa have stopped allowing usage of their financial services at PornHub. MasterCard in a statement on Thursday evening said “ confirmed violations of our standards prohibiting unlawful content on their site” which prompted the company to terminate the acceptance of its cards on the site. In a separate statement, Visa said “We are instructing the financial instit...

Visa and MasterCard said they would investigate their financial ties to MindGeek, the parent company of the adult website, PornHub, after The New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof reported that the website included videos of child abuse and non consensual sexual violence.

A study on Christian living and faith. Dismissing the tropes associated with performative preaching.

The police department in Jackson, Mississippi is facing a sharp rise in homicides and a major budget cut. To combat these issues, city leaders are expanding police surveillance powers to allow residents to send live feeds from popular doorbell security cameras directly to the city’s command center. Citing concerns about privacy violations, civil liberties advocates warn that the technology could l...

Duncan Kirkwood is speaker, U.S. Army veteran, author and all-around empowerment speaker. A husband and father of three, Mr. Kirkwood uses the power of words and a resilient mindset to overcome life’s toughest adversities. From building a spirit of gratitude to letting go of the past and discovering your purpose, Mr. Kirkwood’s tools for leading a fulfilling and successful life are in high-demand...

In America 1 in 7 persons aged 13-24 is living with HIV and does not know it. Criminalizing sex workers, people who use drugs and people in same sex relationships does not stop AIDS. We need to take away the inequalities in healthcare and level the playing field so folks in Southern States with high infection rates can have access to testing and treatment. This is a #downtoearth approach to a pand...

Researchers at CNBC report that allowing to resume (after several jurisdictions lifted the short moratoriums imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic) led to as many as 433,000+ additional cases, and as many as 10,700 Coronavirus-related deaths in the United States between March and September

This year, our rituals have changed. Due to the trumpvirus, who has become the uninvited guest at our Thanksgiving table, has caused our annual family gatherings to look a little different. Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🦃🍽

Computers Are Creating Stunningly Real, Fake People Today, you can buy an image of a fake person online—and use that person’s appearance on real websites. Advances in technology allow artificial intelligence to create fake people. Computers can make these people appear old or young, with any gender or ethnicity of their choosing. These simulated people are popping up all over the internet as masks...

We talked to Marion Jones,an expert in drug abuse recovery who has a message, during this season for anyone struggling with addiction.. The elections are long over. What is left are administrative functions of certifying the results that take place in States’ Board of Canvassers. The president, however is probably the only person in the country who seems to think the results will be overturned as...

It was a Trump Campaign promise in 2016 to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) also known as ObamaCare. Republicans throughout his four year tenure in office had promised that ObamaCare would be repealed. In this lame duck session of Congress and now having packed the SCOTUS with their appointees, Republicans are about to further do themselves in; canceling the Affordable Care Act in the midst of...

The U.S. reported it’s 10 millionth case on Sunday, with the latest million added in just 10 days, as most of the country struggled to contain the outbreaks in the third and most widespread wave of infection since the pandemic began. Case reports have soared in the last week, shattering records. The U.S. alone accounts for about one-fifth of reported coronavirus cases in the world.

By now,we are all aware that the elections are over and the voice of the people have spoken. President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President Elect, Sen. Kamala Harris have won the necessary electoral college votes to propel them into the White House. The sitting President’s refusal to accept the Will of the people is problematic. His neophytes and surrogates are busy planning and strategizing to disr...

It ceases to amaze: immigrants and in particular, immigrants of color, consistently vote Republican, despite the Republican Party being anti-immigrant, racist, and prejudiced to those very same individuals.

With Biden’s narrow win in Michigan, many are looking to Wayne County, the Blackest county in America, for delivering the Midwestern state to the Democrats. Residents of Macomb County, a county outside of Detroit that is the third largest county in Michigan, found themselves in shock as Wayne County turned the entire state from Red to Blue.

In today’s final showdown between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, our country decides history- and chooses whether Black, Brown, poor, and immigrant people will live and have access to healthcare, a living wage, and affordable housing

With videos circulating all over social media of MAGA supporters using their cars to run potential Democratic voters off the road-and police nowhere to be found-research is showing that in 6 of the previous 7 elections, Democrats have won the popular vote. So how have Republicans managed to maintain their grip on political power? The answer is alarmingly simple: Voter Suppression. Concerted public...

We have been in the grip of a nightmare called a pandemic for several months. As 2020 draws to a close, we are seeing lockdowns, first experienced when the pandemic began in March and now at the end of the year, here we go again. America is on the brink of change. After a Summer of strife and marches and protests against racial i justice, the change will not just take place with the elections, but...

Jerry Falwell, Jr has sued liberty University, alleging the evangelical school founded by his late pastor father damaged his reputation in a series of public statements that followed his resignation as president and chancellor in August amid a series of scandals. The lawsuit filed in Lynchburg Circuit Court on Wednesday includes claims of defamation, and breach of contract. It alleges that Liberty...

With the recent revelation that Ice Cube-rapper,actor,and African-American icon is ‘working with’ Jared Kushner on a ‘Platinum Plan’ to supposedly enrich the Black community, many are calling into question the legitimacy of Ice Cube’s intentions. As a former rapper whose songs often decried White politics, now Ice Cube finds himself allying with- and legitimizing- the ‘rugged individualism’ narrat...