Category : Lifestyle

‘Leaders’ Of COP28 Are Obstructing Progress On Climate Crisis

By Mel Gurtov Photos: YouTube International conferences almost always fall well short of meeting ambitious reform goals because the large number and variety of participants ensure hard bargaining over policy ideas and details. The annual COP28 meeti...

AAA Forecasts Second-Busiest Holiday Travel in Michigan Since 2000

The American Automobile Association (AAA) has released a statement forecasting that more than 3.6 million residents of Michigan will be traveling 50 miles or more from their homes during the upcoming Christmas and New Year’s holidays. This figu...

These Californians live in affordable housing. Why did their rent skyrocket?

(CALMATTERS) – When California lawmakers passed a rent cap four years ago to protect tenants from large and frequent rent hikes, they exempted hundreds of thousands of units reserved for some of the state’s poorest renters. Low-income hous...

Michigan Is Thinking About Giving Out Money To Increase State Population

To combat Michigan’s stagnating population growth, a commission initiated by Governor Gretchen Whitmer is exploring the idea of financial incentives to attract new residents. This concept has already seen varied applications in severa...

Michigan Contemplates Cash Incentives to Boost Population Growth

Is Claudine Gay a Plagiarist?

Harvard president Claudine Gay has problems. Touted as the first black woman to run the nation’s most prestigious university, she assumed leadership with high expectations, but her tenure, which began this summer, has been mired in scandal. As dean...

Man Accused Of Ordering Hit On His Family Member Was Arrested

Photo: Getty Images A 52-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly followed a family member from Kenya to the U.S. and sought to have them murdered. On Monday (Dec. 4), Leonard Thuo Mwithiga was arrested in Connecticut on charges of att...

Man Accused Of Hiring Someone To Murder His Family Member

The Moore Report: A memorial park for the Black Sox, one of Baltimore’s Negro League Baseball teams…imagine that

By Ralph E. Moore, Jr. South Baltimore City is getting a great deal of attention these days. The Black communities on the other side of the water– opposite the Inner Harbor area– are Cherry Hill, Westport and Port Covington (recently renamed Bal...

Woman Arrested After Allegedly Attempting To Burn Down MLK Jr.’s Birth Home

Photo: Getty Images A woman has been arrested after she was allegedly caught attempting to pour gasoline on the birth home of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta. On Thursday (December 7), Atlanta police responded to a report of vandalism at KingR...

Have a Berry Merry Holiday Brunch with Seagram’s Escapes

(NewsUSA) – The holidays are here, and you can be the host with the most by offering guests a truly distinctive and delicious menu to celebrate in style. A holiday brunch is a great way to relax and reconnect with friends and family, and a men...

Racial covenants limited housing options for Black residents in Champaign; a local group aims to repair that harm

Emily Hays Emily Hays started at WILL in October 2021 after three-plus years in local newsrooms in Virginia and Connecticut. She has won state awards for her housing coverage at Charlottesville Tomorrow and her education report...

How the Clean Energy Win in Michigan Provides a Roadmap for Other States

By Ben Jealous If you live in Detroit or another part of Michigan where there’s a looming threat of bodily harm from fossil fuel pollution, it just got a little easier to breathe a sigh of relief … and to maintain your ability to breathe in general....

AFRO publisher participates in panel on ‘cultivating a vibrant and winning workplace culture’

By Megan Sayles AFRO Business Writermsayles@afro.com Towson University’s Dr. Nancy Grasmick Leadership Institute hosted a free workshop entitled “Cultivating a Vibrant and Winning Workplace Culture” on Dec. 6 for professionals who have an impact...

Treating Cancer with Pills, Not Chemo

By Kim Norris, Founder/President of the Lung Cancer Foundation of America Imagine taking a pill to battle lung cancer—no need for chemotherapy or radiation treatments. As recently as mid-November, the FDA approved a pill to specifically treat ROS1-po...