[aggregation-styles] AccuWeatherAllergy season is in full force across the United States, but this year it looks a bit different, as everyone is masked up to prevent the spread of the coronavirus after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended them more than a year ago, which now raises...
2020 was the Deadliest Year on Record for Transgender People in the US, Insider Database Shows. Experts Say it’s Getting Worse.
[aggregation-styles] InsiderLast year, as the coronavirus ravaged the United States, a less publicized epidemic took the lives of Americans. 2020 was the deadliest year on record for trans people in the US: 44 transgender people were killed, up from 27 in 2019 and 26 in 2018. This year is already...
How Views On Black Lives Matter Have Changed — And Why That Makes Police Reform So Hard
[aggregation-styles] FiveThirtyEight Daunte Wright was driving in his car through Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on April 11 when police officers pulled him over and later fatally shot him. This isn’t the first time cops have used excessive or fatal force against a Black person. In fact, just 10 miles away from...
Alumna’s Book Shines Light on Forgotten History of Armenian Genocide
[aggregation-styles] Daily Bruin Kay Mouradian’s mother survived the Armenian genocide at the age of 14.However, while Mouradian heard stories of her mother’s experiences as a child, the alumna wouldn’t really learn about the details of the horrific event until she began writing a book on the subject called “My Mother’s...
Zakaria: Biden is Right. It’s Time to End the Forever War in Afghanistan.
[aggregation-styles] Washington Post “To govern is to choose,” a French prime minister once said, and this week, President Biden made a difficult strategic choice. He announced a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, 20 years after they arrived. For several years, the United States had been unwilling...
Two Tiny Terriers Chase Very Large Bear Out of California Home
[aggregation-styles] SFGATE The brown bear thought he'd struck gold: an open door, an empty kitchen and a fridge stocked with food. The shaggy burglar took his time, even stopping for a drink from a fancy water feature on his stroll into the Pasadena home. Little did he know what awaited...
Black Football Player Told To Sit Near Banana Peels Says He Wants To Be Treated ‘as a Human First, Not a Victim’
[aggregation-styles] ESPNA Black football player at an Illinois high school who was seen on video sitting in a locker littered with banana peels after a teammate threatened to break his knees if he didn't comply, says he is "fine" and wants people to "stop talking about the incident.""I love the...
Against Rules, Israel Gap Year Program Rejects Applicant Because of non-Jewish Mother
[aggregation-styles] Haaretz In a rare, if not unprecedented decision, a young South African woman was recently rejected from a program sponsored by Masa – the umbrella organization that runs hundreds of educational, volunteer and internship programs in Israel – on the grounds that her mother isn’t Jewish. Masa, which is...
Gun Ownership Among Black Americans is Soaring
[aggregation-styles] The Hill Black people are buying guns at a record rate, partially due to fear and anxiety, according to The Guardian. The National Shooting Sports Foundation has reported a 58.2 percent increase. The Guardian noted that gun-ownership amongst Black people spiked both when President Trump lost his reelection campaign...
BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors Goes on Million-Dollar Home Buying Binge
[aggregation-styles] New York PostAs protests broke out across the country in the name of Black Lives Matter, the group’s co-founder went on a real estate buying binge, snagging four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the U.S. alone, according to property records.The self-described Marxist last month purchased a $1.4 million...