By Homero De la Fuente and Jason Hanna, CNN Maia Chaka will make history when the new National Football League season starts this year. The NFL said Friday it has added Chaka to its roster of game officials for 2021, making her the league’s first Black woman named to the position. Chaka, a Virginia educator
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By Amir Vera and Kevin Dotson, CNN While Team LeBron defeated Team Durant 170-150 to win the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, the real winners of the night were historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Team LeBron represented The Thurgood Marshall College Fund and Team Durant played for the United Negro College Fund. Both funds
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By Jasmine Wright and Naomi Thomas, CNN The White House coronavirus task force coordinator on Sunday wouldn’t set a timeline on when Americans can expect to be vaccinated following President Joe Biden‘s announcement last week that the US would have enough Covid-19 vaccine doses for every adult by the end of May. “The first step
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By Manu Raju, Clare Foran, Ted Barrett and Alex Rogers, CNN The Senate passed President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan on Saturday, after an all-night “vote-a-rama” and a 12-hour struggle to get one Democrat to support the party’s plan on a critical issue. The vote was 50 to 49 on a party-line vote.
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By Jacqueline Howard and Ashley Ahn, CNN Dutch Mandel’s cell phone lit up with messages: “It’s open, it’s open, it’s open!” The 62-year-old South Carolina resident told CNN on Thursday that his friends and he — all older than 55 but younger than 65 — had been anxiously monitoring the South Carolina Department of Health
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By Clare Foran, CNN The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved legislation aimed at preventing police misconduct that Democrats named in honor of George Floyd, whose death in police custody sparked nationwide calls to overhaul policing and address racial injustice. House Democrats originally introduced and passed the bill — titled the George Floyd Justice in
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Analysis by Lisa Respers France, CNN Sisters are doing it for themselves. In the year of our Lord 2021, it feels like female directors are finally getting more opportunities — and more acknowledgment. Take, for example, this past Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards. Three women were nominated in the best director category for the first time.
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By Dan Merica, CNN The political organization founded by NBA superstar LeBron James and a host of other Black athletes and artists will kick off its post-2020 work with a focus on the wave of Republican-backed legislation aimed at restricting voter access in the wake of the latest presidential election. More Than A Vote will
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By Jen Christensen, CNN As more patients and friends get fully vaccinated, Dr. William Schaffner’s phone has been ringing constantly, his email box flooded. The fully vaccinated — people who are two weeks past their second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines, or after a single dose of Johnson & Johnson’s — have
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The American job market is nowhere near fixed. Nearly one year into the pandemic, the nation is still down nearly 10 million jobs. Another 745,000 Americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits on a seasonally adjusted basis last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. It was a slightly smaller number of
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