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There is currently a lot of talk about nuclear war as conflict escalates between the United States and its NATO allies with Russia over its ongoing war in Ukraine. The Russia-Ukraine war has raged on for more than two years after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the “special military operation” in Ukraine in February 2022. […]
By Ananya Mariam Rajesh (Reuters) -Total Black Friday U.S. retail sales online and in stores rose 3.4% year-over-year as shoppers snapped up merchandise the day after U.S. Thanksgiving, according to preliminary estimates by payments processor Mastercard. Black Friday U.S. e-commerce retail sales increased by 14.6%year-over-year as consumers shopped for deals online, while in-store sales increased […]
(Reuters) – U.S. shoppers used their mobile phones, laptops, desktops and other devices to make roughly $10.8 billion in purchases online on Black Friday, an updated tally from Adobe (NASDAQ:) Analytics showed. Black Friday, the day after American Thanksgiving, marks the official start of the holiday shopping season for retailers and competition has intensified among […]
As NASA scientist Chad Greene flew over northern Greenland with a team of engineers in April, they never expected their radar to find something manmade buried deep within the ice. Greene and his team were flying above the Greenland Ice Sheet on a NASA Gulfstream III plane, scanning the barren expanse of ice that’s more […]
This article is also a weekly newsletter. Sign up for Race/Related here. The buyers flocked to the slave auctions held at the Georgia estate, eager to inspect the human property on display. There were cooks, carriage drivers, washer women and ladies’ maids. The trader — a woman named Annie Poore — paraded the Black captives […]
Poor Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Amid their North American tour last week, the band had to cancel a series of US concerts in Nashville, Knoxville and Atlanta due to what opener Alan Sparhawk described as an “unexpected health issue” within the group. Despite seemingly recovering enough for their November 16 gig in Charleston, SC (apparently […]
Spelman College A new report is revealing encouraging statistics about Black women and education. According to findings compiled in a study by the National Center For Education Statistics, Black women have been obtaining degrees at a consistently high rate for the last eight years and counting. Information collected about the higher education among African-Americans between 2009 […]
This is an adapted excerpt from the Nov. 9 episode of “Velshi.” Politics is easier for most of us when the democratic ideals we cherish triumph — or at least persist. However, to be politically engaged is to not only risk losing in an election, but also to be prepared, and willing, to lose. It’s […]
With less than 48 hours to go in the US election and more than 77.6m votes already cast, new polling shows Kamala Harris leading among early voters in the country’s battleground states. The Democratic candidate has an 8% lead among those who have already voted, while her opponent, Donald Trump, is ahead among those who […]
Overview: The Instagram post James put on social media juxtaposes racist rhetoric of Trump and his supporters with historic and currnet-day images of violence perpetrated against Black Americans. All hail King James. Four days before the Nov. 5 presidential election, His Highness — a.k.a. LeBron James, the legendary Los Angeles Lakers guard — dropped a […]