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5 Germiest Places in a Home During the Holidays
‘Tis the season to party. Whether it is for Christmas or New Year’s Eve, getting ready to host your family and friends can be a chore – especially if you have ignored the dirtiest parts of your home over the last few months.
Texans Still Have Time to Sign Up for Affordable, Low-Cost Health Coverage
More than 15 million nationwide have signed up for a plan through the ACA Marketplace, a 33% increase over last year.
Uninsured Texans have until Jan. 16 to choose a health plan through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace. In a study released last month, Texas 2036 found that millions of uninsured Texans could obtain free or subsidized coverage on the ACA Marketplace.
Where Beauty Meets Advocacy This Holiday Season
For Your Holiday Gift Guide Consideration
Find Your Fabulosity, a 501c3 nonprofit organization founded by Domestic Violence Victim Advocate, Sheryl Kurland, believes in the power of beauty to boost a woman’s morale and self-worth. Since its 2017 inception, Sheryl’s Find Your Fabulosity has donated 95,000+ brand new packaged lipsticks to victims of domestic violence who are trying to rebuild their lives after unimaginable abuse at the hands of a spouse or intimate partner. Sheryl currently works with 300 women’s shelters across all fifty states, where donated lipsticks are shipped and gifted to these brave survivors of domestic violence.
Tony Award-winning Alley Theatre LIVE STREAMS the World Premiere of Little Comedies
Limited Live Stream Tickets Available Now!
League of Live Stream Theater and Alley Theatre partner to stream Little Comedies by Anton Chekhov October 27, 28, 29 LIVE from the Neuhaus Theatre. “ ‘Little Comedies' at Alley Theatre is theater at its best.” – Chron.com
Chevrolet Blazer EV Is Motortrend's 2024 SUV of the Year
The all-new 2024 Chevy Trax takes the podium with 3rd place
The all-new Chevrolet Blazer EV topped a field of 40 competitors to win MotorTrend’s prestigious “Golden Calipers” for 2024 SUV of the Year. MotorTrend credits the Blazer EV’s cutting-edge technology, dynamic design and unprecedented powertrain choices as the reasons for their selection. The Blazer EV continues Chevy’s legacy of delivering innovative electric vehicles for its customers, first seen by MotorTrend’s 2017 Car of the Year winner, the Chevrolet Bolt EV.
King Kennedy Debuts First Standalone Gallery in Los Angeles
The Fashion Industry’s Favorite Rug Dealer Officially Opens Doors to Flagship Location in Eagle Rock
Los Angeles, CA, October 2023 – King Kennedy is pleased to announce the opening of its first standalone gallery and flagship location at 5022 Eagle Rock Boulevard in Los Angeles this October. Featuring the brand’s industry-favorite footwear and garments alongside a compelling and ever-evolving collection of antique and contemporary rugs, the gallery marks King Kennedy’s first dedicated brick and mortar location. The space will serve as a showcase for an evolving artistic and sartorial exploration of imperfection and reinvention, made tangible through the growing assortment of garments and footwear crafted from remnants of rugs – symbolic of generations of slow craftsmanship.
GM Makes Vehicle-to-Home Bidirectional Charging Technology Available Across Portfolio of Upcoming Ultium-based EVs
Vehicle-to-Home (V2H) rollout across new Ultium-based EVs anticipated by model year 2026 Expanding access to V2H technology will allow customers to experience even more EV benefits V2H technology offers customers greater control over energy management, helping to strengthen energy independence
The Home Depot Announces Its 2017 Retool Your School Grant Award Recipients at The Home Depot Headquarters Winners Ceremony With Special Guests Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed And Actor Hill Harper
Nine Historically Black Colleges and Universities Were Awarded a Total of $360,000 in Campus Improvement Grants
This week, The Home Depot® held the winners’ ceremony to announce the 2017 Retool Your School Campus Improvement Grant Program recipients. This year, nine HBCUs were awarded a total of $360,000 to use towards funding sustainable campus improvement projects of their choosing. To date, the program has awarded more than $1.8 million dollars in grant money to HBCUs. In 2017 alone, 72 HBCUs participated in the voting phase of the program.
Tell Republicans: Stop Trump from Trashing Our Post Office
The post office is one of the most respected institutions in America, a lifeline for millions of Americans, and a source of good jobs for thousands of Black people—and the Trump administration is trying to destroy it. Senate Republicans have a choice to make right now: are they going to side with the Trump administration’s political corruption, or with Americans who rely on the post office?
Diverse Coalition of Students and Community Organizations Ask to Intervene in Suit to Defend Expanded Access to Elite New York City Public Schools
LatinoJustice PRLDEF, LDF, ACLU, and NYCLU File Motion to Intervene to Allow Students and Advocacy Groups to Join the Defense of Efforts to Improve Racial Equity at Specialized High Schools
The Potential Power of our New Supreme Court Justice
President Joe Biden is about to name the first Black woman ever nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court—in fact, he may have already done so by the time you read this. Based on the Black women President Biden has chosen to serve as federal judges, we know that the nominee will be brilliant. And we know she will be committed to a “justice for all” approach to the Constitution.
Giving Thanks
“In everything give thanks.” That Bible verse can be hard to put into practice. Just by being alive we can be sure of having moments of sadness as well as happiness. When you’re active in politics, you experience both wins and losses. Sometimes it can be hard to feel grateful.
Ahead of Hearing, CBC Sends Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Strongly Opposing Dreiband Nomination
Today, the Chairman of the 49-member Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Congressman Cedric L. Richmond (D-La.), and the co-chairs of the CBC Task Force on Civil and Voting Rights, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-Ala.), made public a letter sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee strongly opposing the nomination of Eric Dreiband to lead the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.
Rep. Ron Reynolds & the Texas Legislative Black Caucus Address the Murder of Jordan Edwards
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Virginia Tech marks 10 years since deadly rampage
Ten years after a stunning rampage on the Virginia Tech campus, family and friends of those slain returned to the school in the rolling hills of Blacksburg on Sunday for a Day of Remembrance.
Kandi Burruss, ‘No Scrubs’ Writers Given Credit For Ed Sheeran Song
On the website for performance rights organization ASCAP, Kandi Burruss, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle aka and Kevin Briggs have been added as co-writers of “Shape of You,” co-written by Sheeran, Steve Mac and John McDaid.
Mexico Beach Opens Temporary Welcome Center and Shares Post-Hurricane Update
Mexico Beach, a tranquil and serene slice of “old Florida” beloved by so many, was ravaged by Hurricane Michael this past October. Illustrating the community’s resolve and passion for its longtime visitors, many of whom made the community their second home, the Mexico Beach Welcome Center reopened its doors on Dec 4. Located next to the original Welcome Center at the west entrance to Mexico Beach adjacent to the canal, the structure serves as a meeting point for visitors, community members and workers all equally passionate about rebuilding Mexico Beach.
Brian Lamb Named One of the Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America
Brian Lamb, executive vice president, head of wealth and asset management, Fifth Third Bank (NASDAQ: FITB), has been named to Savoy Magazine’s 2018 list of the Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America.
North Carolina Has 6 Black Female Police Chiefs for the 1st Time in State’s History
North Carolina currently has six Black female police chiefs, the first time this has ever happened in state history, according to WRAL. Raleigh’s Cassandra Deck-Brown, Durham’s C.J. Davis, Morrisville’s Patrice Andrews and Fayetteville’s Gina Hawkins, three of the six chiefs, spoke to the station about their unique positions.
Marine Corps Recruiting Command Transitions to Digital, Telephonic Prospecting
Amid the national emergency caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, the Marine Corps Recruiting Command (MCRC) is taking steps to protect its recruiters, its applicants, their families and the communities where they live and serve by dramatically limiting face-to-face interactions with the public.
