President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a first-time nonviolent drug offender, a week after Kim Kardashian West pleaded her case during an Oval Office meeting with Trump. Johnson has already served 21 years of a life sentence after she was convicted on charges of conspiracy to possess cocaine and attempted […]
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Six takeaways from the biggest primary night of 2018
In California, Democrats are hopeful they’ve avoided the potential nightmare of being locked out of winnable House races due to the state’s unique primary system that allows the top two candidates of any party to advance. Still, some of those races remained too close to call Wednesday morning, with many more ballots to count. Democrat Gil […]
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Kate Spade, fashion designer, found dead in apparent suicide
Kate Brosnahan Spade, who created an iconic, accessible handbag line that bridged Main Street and high-end fashion, hanged herself in an apparent suicide Tuesday at her Manhattan apartment, according to New York Police Department sources. Police responded at 10:10 a.m. after Spade was found by her housekeeper, NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said. […]
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Blacks underrepresented in ‘Life And Death’ clinical research, study finds
A new study has underscored the serious consequences for the underrepresentation of African-Americans in medical research. Doctors have been depending for years on inaccurate research to determine cardiovascular risks, which helped them to decide which treatments individual patients needed, the study published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine found. The inaccurate guidelines missed the mark particularly […]
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Ava DuVernay to turn Colin Kaepernick’s high school experience into TV series
The “Wrinkle in Time” director told Vanity Fair the series would be comedic. GETTY Ava DuVernay told Vanity Fair that she is planning a TV series based on Colin Kaepernick’s high school days. Ava DuVernay said she’s working on a TV comedy series with Colin Kaepernick that focuses on his high school life. In an interview […]
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Georgia cop who was fired after ramming suspect with car hired by nearby county
Taylor Saulters is the subject of a probe by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations for last week’s incident. A Georgia police officer fired a day after video captured him hitting a suspect with his patrol car during a chase has been hired by a nearby sheriff’s department. Taylor Saulters, who was a rookie in the […]
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‘Being While Black’ : A forum for stories of racism
From the #StarbucksWhileBlack series – Courtesy of The Philadelphia Tribune About 100 men and women shared their intimate thoughts and experiences of racial incidents at a community discussion on “Being While Black” at the African-American Museum in Philadelphia on Wednesday. The discussion was organized by WURD Radio and the Courageous Conversation Global Foundation as a platform for […]
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Business economists worry about possible recession in 2020
The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) says in its latest quarterly outlook that its panel of 45 economists expects the economy, as measured by the gross domestic product, to expand 2.8 percent this year. That is down slightly from the panel’s March forecast, which put GDP growth this year at 2.9 percent. The NABE […]
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Georgia cop fired after video shows him hitting a suspect with his car
Police Officer Taylor Saulters claimed the suspect ran into his car and bounced off. A Georgia police officer has lost his job after dashcam video from his patrol car captured him plowing into a suspect with his car during a chase. Taylor Saulters of the Athens-Clarke County police department, who was initially suspended after the […]
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HUD effectively suspended the ‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing’ rule on May 18
Civil rights groups announced this week that they are taking the next steps in a lawsuit against the Department of Housing and Urban Development that claims it unlawfully suspended an Obama-era rule intended to promote racial integration and combat discriminatory housing practices. HUD effectively suspended the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, a 2015 regulation that required any […]
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Working from home might take a toll on your mental health
More and more people are choosing to work from home either part time or full time. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 22 percent of employed people worked from home at least some of the day in 2016. And while the idea of sending emails from your kitchen table sans pants might sound appealing, it’s […]
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French Open: Serena Williams pulls out of Roland Garros due to injury
Serena Williams’ much anticipated clash with Maria Sharapova at the French Open didn’t happen after all, the 36-year-old American pulling out because of a pectoral injury at the last minute. The 23-time grand slam winner had played herself into form through three rounds in her grand slam comeback, but she took to the main interview room Monday […]
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What to expect at Monday’s Apple event
Apple is expected to launch an exciting new iPhone feature to address a problem it helped create: phone addiction. CEO Tim Cook will announce the company’s latest software updates and roadmap for the future on Monday at the Apple’s annual developer conference in San Jose. WWDC is a software-focused event for developers, and this year […]
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House farm bill seeks to restrict food stamp benefits while allowing subsidies for billionaires
Provisions inside the delayed House farm bill would roll back restrictions on the wealthy obtaining federal farm subsidies, as well as allow extended family members to receive lucrative payments. The language has generated opposition both from fiscal conservatives who say the payments amount to welfare for wealthy people and critics who note that the same […]
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“Stiff competition” – Annie’s story (Part 2) – Up with ATL
I checked back in with Annie Price* a week later to see what kind of progress she was making in her house hunt. Annie had found a real estate agent, a lender and was busily surfing several home sites for the kind of property she wanted. The agent she chose came though a personal recommendation […]