The Faith Hour

Racial covenants, or clauses in real estate contracts that prohibit the sale or rental of a property to a person who is not Caucasia an, can still be found in modern contracts. These covenants specifically batted non-whites from buying property undesirable, affluent neighborhoods .

Caroline Flack, the 49 yr old former host of the wildly successful British reality show ‘Love Island’, committed suicide the day free Valentine’s Day . Her death came on the heels of a public breakup with her boyfriend,27 yr old Lewis Burton,, who had accused her of assaulting him; the accusations resulted in Caroline being charged with his assault.. At the time of her death,she was facing an upco...

A recent NBC News investigative reporting reveals the number rod Native American Indigenous women who are dying in childbirth . In this episode Harriet tellers her own story of implicit bias that impacted her pregnancy and almost caused the death of her and her baby in a Florida Hospital.

The island nation has a long and shocking history of it’s residents identifying as white. More than three quarters of Pierre Ricans identifies as white on the last census, even though a large portion of the island has roots in Africa.

The National Center for Homelessness in Education is reporting an increase in homelessness among public school children for 2017-2018 school year. There ‘a been a 137%increase in students who described living in unsheltered spaces like abandoned buildings and cars

School districts across the country are incorporating the controversial software despite objections from citizens and parents. The Lockport School District in Lockport, New York (20 miles east of Niagara Falls) has incorporated facial recognition software to monitor people on the property of it’s eight schools, becoming the first known public school district in New York to adopt facial recognition...

Behavioral psychiatrist, De. Rhonda Mattox joined me to discuss why do we choose the SAM eMate over and over and what to do with our toxic relationships

White slavery has its roots in slavery that took place after ‘chattel slavery’ The myth of white slavery surrounds the forcible use of white women who were abused and violated and the outcry against their treatment , but the same Christian evangelicals who cried out against ‘perceived white slavery’ did not cry out against chattel black slavery of black women who were sexually abused and violated.

While Christians are largely of one kind that human and sex trafficking are wrong, the strategies we use to accomplish an end to these horrors vary. Social purity movements led by middle-class Christian evangelicals are after all rooted in assumptions that a woman’s natural moral nature should be pure, pious and submissive.

The human trafficking of indigenous peoples in the Americas, began with Christopher Columbus, and continues today where indigenous women and children are disproportionately affected by human trafficking and primarily sex trafficking .

Why are we criminalizing entire neighborhoods. 30 years after the ‘broken window’ form of policing?

The people least surprised by medication mix-ups are the pharmacists working in some of the country’s biggest retail chains. Many pharmacists at popular drugstores like CVS, Rite-Aid, and Walgreens describe understaffed and chaotic workplaces where they say it has become difficult to perform their jobs safely., putting the public at great risk of medication errors.

Advocates for slavery reparations have spent decades calling on the U.S. government to assess how such a policy could be implemented. A 30 year old Bill in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 40) , has never reached a vote. According to an Associated Press poll, while 74% of African Americans favor reparations payments , 85% of White Americans oppose it. Although the public remains unloved, fo...

A recent study shows how neighborhoods are impacted by race and income disparities

Why as a Christian country are so many of our people locked up? What happens to the children of incarcerated parents. A non-religious organization in Detroit aims to fix that . There are 2.7 million children in America whose parents are incarcerated.

According to data from statisticians at the Census Bureau, while Americans will be the minority in 2044

While driving through a dangerous curve in East Texas in 2016, James Fulton turned into oncoming traffic and killed 20 yr old Haile Beasley. Despite James crossing over two lanes of traffic, at the scene, the detective failed to take a blood draw of James and he was subsequently let go.

A tech startup in Australia developed a facial recognition software sold to American law enforcement agencies. The company uses your pictures uploaded to sites like google, facebook and YouTube . This makes your privacy a thing of the past

More than half of luxury condo units remain unsold after five years on the market. While 80,000 homeless people sleep in New York City’s shelters or on it’s streets, the average price of a newly listed Manhattan condo is $3.77M.

At the height of the #opiscrisis, should California lawmakers classify a common painkiller as a carcinogen. A state law known as Proposition 65 says California must warn people of any chemical known to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity. Acetaminophen, an over-the-counter painkiller is the basis for more than 600 prescription medications, could be added to that list. Over 133 studies about acet...

Jealousy is defined as resentment against a person enjoying success or advantage while envy is defined as covetousness towards someone else’s advantages, success, possessions, etc. These emotions lie at the very antithesis of all that Christ taught us. As Christians, our goal is to love one another, as Christ loves us.

Angola is a southwestern African country rich in diamonds and oil preserves but mired by corruption, grinding poverty, widespread illiteracy and high infant mortality rate. Angola is the native country of one of the world’s richest women, Isabel Dos Santos, a billionaire whose father was president rod Angola from 1975-. Her father under his tenure gave her access to the country’s resources which s...

Political divide shape what students learn about American history. Conservatives fight for schools to promote patriotism, Christianity, and the founding fathers. The political left pushes for focus on marginalized groups of history, like women, enslaved people, and Native Americans. Analysis king some of the most popular textbooks used in California and Texas a New York Times analysis discovered h...

Although most college-educated people follow political updates by reading articles online, they mostly consume political information only as way of satisfying their own emaotional and intellectual needs. Political hobbyists learn and talk about big, important things, and debate the issues on their abstract merits, as opposed to engaging in politics via being a member of union, belonging to an orga...

With immigrants and refuge populations growing across the U.S. the conversion of vacant Christian churches into new places of worship can preserve historic architecture. But what of instances where those former churches are now used as community centers. It begs the question did the Christian Church miss it’s mark in addressing the needs of the community it serves. Was the church relevant to it’s...