By Amir Vera J. Cole is having quite the weekend with not only the Friday release of his album, “The Off-Season,” but also his debut in the Basketball Africa League (BAL). Cole’s first points for the Patriots Basketball Club in Rwanda were
By Liz Stark The US Office of Special Counsel has concluded that Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge violated the Hatch Act, the law that limits the political activities of all federal civilian executive branch employees, when she commented on
By Chauncey Alcorn It’s been nine years since Michael Robinson of Columbus, Ohio, nearly lost a major part of his family’s legacy. He’s still fighting to regain full control of it. In 2012, the 57-year-old married father of four, who is Black,
By Will Godley and Charles Riley Book tickets. Schedule meetings. Obsess over your presentation. Pack a carry-on. Rush to the airport. Check out the lounge. Priority boarding. Take off. Land. Get to the hotel. Meet clients. Seal the deal. Fly home. Repeat.
By Melissa Alonso Delaware State University is cancelling more than $700,000 in student loans for recent graduates hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. DSU will cancel $730,655 for more than 220 people, the school announced this week. “The average eligible student will
By Jacob Lev Kobe Bryant was officially inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2020 on Saturday night. “I wish my husband was here to accept this incredible award,” Bryant’s wife, Vanessa Bryant, said
By Paul LeBlanc Congress has just two weeks to ramp up negotiations on a number of key Biden administration agenda items before the end of the current work period threatens to halt any meaningful progress. Legislation addressing the infrastructure, voting rights and
Analysis by Stephen Collinson Vaccinated Americans spent the most normal weekend for more than a year exploring restored freedoms to gather without masks but also dilemmas over personal and collective responsibility sparked by new government health guidance. After many months of being
By Marianne Garvey Oprah Winfrey is revealing that she once asked a celebrity a question that now makes her cringe. She was a guest on Rob Lowe’s “Literally” podcast on Wednesday, where she was struck by the memory after Lowe told a
By Don Riddell and Ben Morse On the court, six-time NBA champion and basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was famous for the goggles he used to play in. Off it, Abdul-Jabbar had his eyes on a very different prize — to