by Toter - 4 months ago
(Special to The Dallas Examiner) – An estimated 1 in 500 people in the U.S. are living with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy – the most common inherited heart disease – and many are unaware.HCM is a thickening of the lower main pumping chamber of the heart – the left ventricle. The disease is often under...
by Toter - 4 months ago
(Better Business Bureau) – Social media is an invaluable tool for making and maintaining connections, sharing memories and creating communities. However, it can also be used maliciously as an avenue for impersonation, bait-and-switch tactics, and social engineering attacks using emotional manipulati...
by Toter - 4 months ago
(CNN) – Eating at least five tiny servings of dark chocolate each week may lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 21%, according to a new observational study. In fact, as dark chocolate consumption increased from none to five servings, so did the benefits, the study found.Before you start s...
by Toter - 4 months ago
(NNPA) –& My story is a series of events and opportunities that likely would not have happened if not for Head Start. We lived in the George Legare housing development in North Charleston, South Carolina. My mom had me while she was in high school. My grandmother became my primary caregiver as m...
by Toter - 4 months ago
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – It is no secret how devastating the COVID-19 pandemic has been for marginalized communities in this country. The National Urban League quantified this impact in the 2020 edition of our annual capstone report, the State of Black America.As COVID-19 swept across the country, we...
by Toter - 4 months ago
(Children’s Defense Fund) – As parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles and adults everywhere are busy choosing holiday gifts for the children they love, books should always be at the top of the list. The right book can spark a lifelong love of reading and open up a whole new world for a child o...
by Toter - 4 months ago
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – I’m in full support of President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, as well as attorney Marilyn Mosby. But for the fact that Hunter Biden is Joe Biden’s son, this would have been unnecessary. Like Mosby, Hunter Biden hurt nobody but was selectively prosecuted. I can...
by Toter - 4 months ago
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Those who need proof of the true heart and soul of the majority of the American people need only look to the presidential election results and Donald Trump’s re-election as the next U.S. president. The outcome negatively reflects the American people rather than the candidate h...
by Toter - 4 months ago
(Sierra Club) – Reflections on God are common right now.We are about to enter a new year. Many of us are getting ready to celebrate Christmas or Hanukah. With 2024 “virtually certain” to be the hottest year on record, some may look at the symptoms of the climate crisis – the extreme heat, the fires...
by Toter - 4 months ago
(CNN) – NEW YORK – It’s been two years since OpenAI bestowed ChatGPT upon the world and set off a kind of gold rush for artificial intelligence. Billions of dollars are pouring into AI-focused and AI-adjacent companies on the promise that the technology is going to accelerate – or possibly obliterat...
by Toter - 4 months ago
(CNN) – Renowned poet, activist, author and professor Nikki Giovanni has died. She was 81.“The acclaimed poet, Black Arts Movement icon whose poems of wit, wonder, and wisdom were celebrated in children’s books, on keynote stages and television shows, and in more than two dozen bestselling poetry co...
by Toter - 4 months ago
Eleven months ago, many people set financial goals for the New Year. Maybe you planned to buy a new home, finance a new vehicle or start a new business. Whether you made New Year’s resolutions, pasted images on a vision board or crunched numbers on an official balance sheet, you had every intention...
by Toter - 4 months ago
(The Dallas Examiner) –In the film Six Triple Eight, Kerry Washington portrays Capt. Charity Adams, an army captain of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion – the only all-Black female WWII military unit to serve overseas. While break barriers, the U.S. Women’s Army Corps unit has been asked...
by Toter - 4 months ago
ProPublica(The Texas Tribune ) – Wrapping his wife in a blanket as she mourned the loss of her pregnancy at 11 weeks, Hope Ngumezi wondered why no obstetrician was coming to see her.Related Stories Over the course of six hours on June 11, 2023, Porsha Ngumezi had bled so much in the emergency depar...
by Toter - 4 months ago
(The Texas Tribune) – Republicans control both chambers and expanded their majority in the House and Senate after flipping a handful of seats during this year’s elections. Few of those lawmakers filed bills on Nov. 19, but it’s likely they’ll seek to push the Legislature’s already...
