By Aya Elamroussi, With coronavirus cases surging once again, frustrated Americans are struggling to get tested days before Christmas as long lines and increased demand overwhelm some facilities across the country. The catalyst has been the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, which has become the dominant strain in the US in a matter of weeks and has led
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By Paul LeBlanc and Manu Raju, President Joe Biden on Tuesday insisted that he and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin will “get something done” on the Build Back Better Act after Manchin defied his party by torpedoing the key piece of Biden’s domestic agenda. “Some people think maybe I’m not Irish because I don’t hold a grudge. But
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By Wayne Sterling, The National Basketball Association (NBA) will allow teams dealing with Covid-19 issues to add replacement players due to the rising number of cases, according to a memo dated Sunday and obtained by CNN on Monday. The NBA and National Basketball Players Association have agreed to allow teams to sign a replacement player for each
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by Jackson State University The day has come. The long-awaited 2021 Fall Commencement ceremony took place on Friday, December 10., at the Lee E. Williams Athletics & Assembly Center. The college experience for these graduates has been different than years past. As a product of a prolonged pandemic, many students endured great obstacles to get
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Written by Howard University newsroom Howard University’s Center for African Studies and the Department of African Studies welcomed assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Molly Phee, to a U.S. Policy Toward Africa. Assistant Secretary Phee recently traveled with Secretary Blinken to Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa. The trip included a major
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By Morehouse College Morehouse College will share in a $2 million gift contributed by the Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation to support new scholarships for Black students at 12 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation contribution aligns with and builds on Ralph Lauren Corporation’s commitments to address systemic racism and racial
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Written by Texas Southern University Princess Jackson, a freshman at Texas Southern University (TSU) is on a mission to stamp out poverty in Houston – one sock at a time. Jackson founded Sock Out Poverty, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit organization when she was nine years old and has given out over 15,000 pairs of socks
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By Dave Cera and Claire Colbert, A special prosecutor asked to investigate the initial resolution of the case against actor Jussie Smollett for making false reports of a hate crime to the Chicago Police Department determined last year that the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and State Attorney Kim Foxx engaged in “substantial abuses” in the case.
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By Pete Muntean, The world’s biggest commercial airplane manufacturers are telling the Biden Administration to delay the rollout of 5G cell service next month. Boeing CEO David Calhoun and Airbus Americas CEO Jeffery Knittel sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to say the January 5 rollout could cause interference that could “adversely affect the ability
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By Kevin Liptak and Nikki Carvajal, President Joe Biden will announce Tuesday a purchase of a half-billion at-home rapid Covid-19 tests and a plan to distribute them free to Americans who request them through a website, one of a series of new steps he’ll unveil as the country faces a potentially crippling wintertime surge of infections. The 500
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