Dawda Jawara, Gambia’s first president, dies at 95
BANJUL, Gambia (AP) – Gambia’s government says the country’s first democratically elected president, Dawda Kairaba Jawara, has died at the age of 95. The Gambian …
NATE PARKER apologizes for being ‘tone deaf’
PHOTO COURTESY OF HYPEFRESH.COM VENICE, Italy (AP) – Three years ago, filmmaker Nate Parker came under scrutiny for a rape allegation from his college days …
Dior stokes outrage with Sauvage fragrance ad
PHOTO COURTESY OF YOUTUBE.COM FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) – Dior has produced a fragrance called Sauvage since the mid1960s and used Johnny Depp in recent years …
Sweet or tart cherries you can grow
As a youngster, I never could get my fill of maraschino cherries. That is, until the day I got my hands on a whole jar …
Appeals court affirms Snipes on voting rolls
PHOTO COURTESY OF NEONNETTLE.COM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – A federal appeals court has sided with a former Broward County elections supervisor in a legal …
In Mississippi Delta, Catholic abuse cases settled on cheap
PHOTO COURTESY OF AP PHOTO GREENWOOD, Mississippi (AP) — The IHOP in Southhaven, Mississippi, was an unlikely place to settle a sex abuse claim against …
Federal judge blocks Missouri’s 8-week abortion ban
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A new Missouri ban on abortions at or after eight weeks of pregnancy won’t take effect Wednesday after a federal …
Book Tries to Show How US Democracy Hurt Native Americans.
PHOTO COURTESY OF VOICE OF AMERICA ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ A new book by a noted historian attempts to show how expanding American democracy hurt …
Biden: Racism in US is institutional, ‘white man’s problem’ visited on blacks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Racism in America is institutional and it is a “white man’s problem visited on people of color,” Vice President Joe Biden said …
Patient’s death may be first in America tied to vaping
CHICAGO (AP) — Health officials said Friday that an Illinois patient who contracted a serious lung disease after vaping has died and that they consider …