iStock/hxdbzxy (NEW YORK) — Brehanna Daniels says she thinks about how much her life has changed in just five years. During college, the Norfolk State women’s basketball point guard said she never once thought about NASCAR as a sport, let alone a career. But here she is, at 27 years […]
iStock/FatCamera (LOS ANGELES) — The Los Angeles Unified School District’s Board of Education will vote Thursday on a vaccine mandate for all eligible students in the nation’s second-largest district. The vote, slated for 2 p.m. local time, would be a landmark move for the district, which has over 600,000 students […]
iStock/adrian825 (NEW YORK) — Ah the microwave, a simple kitchen appliance that is either overlooked and underutilized or a frozen food fan’s best friend. But there are new practical reheating hacks for home cooks that are going viral online. Isabella Avilla has racked up over 900K likes and counting with […]
iStock/FatCamera (DEARBORN, Mich.) — Twenty years and 600 miles from Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, the nation’s largest Arab Muslim community is still quietly reeling from the 2001 terror attacks and a psychological blow dealt to Islamic American identity. “This is, perhaps, the unspoken tragedy of what happened two decades […]
iStock/Meinzahn (NEW YORK) — The sky was clear and blue. The gray towers stood, both guarding and welcoming, at the gateway to the nation. Out of nowhere came the impact, the blaze, the smoke — and then the towers were gone. When the dust and flames finally cleared, a new […]
iStock/Travel Wild (NEW YORK) — A wide-ranging lawsuit claims New York City’s education system is racist in design and operation — effectively separating largely white and Asian students from Black and Latino students through a discriminatory testing processes for its gifted and talented (G&T) programs and curriculum. Unlike other lawsuits […]
iStock/grafficx (NEW YORK) — In the two decades since the Sept. 11 attacks, forensic scientists have been hard at work trying to identify the 2,753 people who were killed at the World Trade Center — but the road hasn’t been easy. As of this week, the Office of Chief Medical […]
iStock/400tmax (CHICAGO) — A Black woman said she was walking out of a closed park in Chicago, adhering to police instructions, when a white police officer attempted to tackle her, allegedly unprovoked. On Aug. 28, Nikkita Brown said the officer drove up to her as she was walking her dog […]
iStock/ihsanyildizli (NEW YORK) — The last memory Scott Larsen has of his late father is eating breakfast together on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. He was only 4 years old when his dad, a New York City firefighter, left home for what would be the last time. Joshua Powell, […]
Ergin Yalcin/iStock (NEW YORK) — The United States is facing a COVID-19 surge this summer as the more contagious delta variant spreads. More than 651,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 while over 4.5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for […]
