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There have been many opinions following “Lochte-Gate.” In summary, Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte flat-out lied about a robbery and confrontation he initially claimed to have experienced with teammates while in Brazil. The story has since been debunked but that hasn’t kept many in the media from finding unique ways to defend him anyway. Today host […]

On Monday, the United States officially closed its Jerusalem Consulate, the political conduit between Palestinians and Washington, because of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. The new embassy was controversial, with Palestinian leaders saying it showed the U.S.’s clear bias to Israel, and Israel killed over 60 Palestinians and injured 2,000 more during protests of […]

According to Egyptian state media outlet MENA, 75 people have been detained in connection with a human trafficking probe after a 14-month investigation by Egypt’s Administrative Control Authority. These 75 people reportedly include government officials, Egyptian citizens, and foreigners, who were captured in raids ranging from the Egyptian capital city of Cairo to Kafr el-Sheikh […]

A group of former and current NFL players are using their millions to invest in the future while also making smart business decisions. Together, nearly a dozen NFL vets got together and invested $810,000 into Me & The Bees Lemonade, a start-up run by 12-year-old Mikaila Ulmer. 

The Golden State Warriors are likely 12 hours into a non-stop celebration that won’t wind down for at least a couple more days. After winning the NBA Finals on Monday night, that’s to be expected. But the team is still making news in other, unexpected ways on the eve its second championship in three years. […]

For decades, a sign of true economic stability has been homeownership but it’s been a difficult checkpoint to reach for many citizens, especially those in the black community, following an economic crisis. To help , Wells Fargo plans to help 250,000 Black people become homeowners by 2027, according to a press release.

Tamron Hall has been a part of the NBC family for 10 years. Now, that relationship has come to an end. The news came less than a week after NBC announced that Megyn Kelly would be coming to host an hour of the Today Show, essentially replacing Hall and her co-anchor Al Roker, according to People.

Mikaila Ulmer is clearly a businesswoman far beyond her years. At the age of 10, she appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank and sold 25 percent of her lemonade business to Daymond John, the founder and CEO of FUBU, for $60,000. Now, she’s signed off on an expansion deal that will see the business that combined her […]

    The following piece is from RH Reality Check. It was written by Jasmine Burnett. By: Jasmine Burnett A politically hostile and anti-woman sentiment is playing out in Ohio, where local and state legislators are using women’s access to reproductive health care as a tool to jockey for power. We are seeing varying degrees of this in […]

When a group of Ferguson, Missouri protesters marched on the office of U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan on Tuesday, they expected to be arrested. Instead, they met with Callahan face-to-face for an hour.

The following post was published in the New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and Matt Apuzzo.  By:  Peter Baker and Matt Apuzzo The two men in open-collar shirts sat facing each other, papers and a BlackBerry strewn on a coffee table, sober looks on both their faces. One leaned forward, gesturing with his […]

The following post was written by Frank Simpkins, author of “The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement: Failure of America’s Public Schools to Properly Educate its African American Student Populations. Simpkins is co-author of “Between Rhetoric and Reality.” By: Frank Simpkins An overriding theoretical, philosophical and political consideration of the cross-cultural approach to education […]