Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va., decided to clear the debt of 34 Howard students. 95 percent of Howard students are on financial aid. About 4,000 church members fasted and prayed for 30 days, ...
Major League Baseball is renaming its league-wide medical database from the commonly known “Disabled List” to the “Injured List”. “The principal concern is that using the term ‘Disabled’ for players who are injured supports the ...
In a video posted on Twitter that has more than 1 million views, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) says she doesn’t want to be “placated as a progressive.” On MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” host Chuck Todd asked ...
Candice Payne, a real estate broker from the South Side of Chicago, paid for 30 hotel rooms for over 100 homeless people to be sheltered from the extreme cold last week. Temperatures fell as low ...
Angela Davis, Ava DuVernay, Lena Waithe, Common, Steph Curry, LeBron James, Kevin Durant and more used social media to stand in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick on Super Bowl Sunday. Former Obama cabinet secretary, Chris Lu, ...
Marilyn Mosby, the state’s attorney for Baltimore, said on Tuesday that she would stop prosecuting marijuana possession cases regardless of quantity or prior criminal record. Mosby also urged state legislators to support a bill allowing ...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Tuesday afternoon that Stacey Abrams will give the Democratic response to Trump’s State of the Union (SOTU) address next week. “She is just a great spokesperson, Schumer said. ...
As mounting pressure grew, President Trump is ending the longest government shutdown in history, but only through Feb. 15. Earlier this month, Trump said he would was willing to continue the shutdown for “months, a ...
After two years of litigation, former Northwestern Ph.D. student Lawrence Crosby, who earned his doctorate, won a $1.25 million settlement from the city of Evanston, Ill. In 2015, Crosby was fixing his own car and ...
Kamala Harris’ announcement on “Good Morning America” on Martin Luther King Jr. Day was a stark reminder of what happened 47 years ago this week in a race for the presidency. Harris is standing on ...
