Usain Bolt What's the Fastest Man in the World Up to Lately? Working on Music We caught up with Olympic recordholder Usain Bolt about what he’s been up to since retiring from competition – and which superheroes he thinks he could beat in a race. Bolt has been enjoying time with family and working on some songs.
driving while black Why Philly Wants to End Police Traffic Stops for Minor Offenses Philadelphia police disproportionately pull over Black drivers for minor offenses like a broken taillight, but those stops don’t do much to reduce violent crime – a gun or drugs are found about 1% of the time. Under the Driving Equality Bill that recently passed City Council, drivers would get a ticket in the mail for those minor violations –...
coronavirus pandemic COVID Questions Answered: Vaccine Boosters, Colin Powell It’s OK to mix and match vaccines when scheduling your booster shot, Dr. John Torres explains. And he answers your other coronavirus questions about Colin Powell and police officers dying from the virus.
colin powell Colin Powell's Death Offers Important Lesson About the Immunocompromised “It’s important to vaccinate the immunocompromised…but also the people around the immunocompromised, so that they don’t end up spreading the infection to them. So that we create a protective cocoon around these people until we reach herd immunity,” says Dr. Sravanti Teegavarapu of the Baylor College of Medicine.
ahmaud arbery Jury Selection Begins in Trial for Ahmaud Arbery's Murder Warning: this clip contains video of the encounter that killed Ahmaud Arbery. Attorneys in the trial of Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William Bryan will have to ask whether jurors have already seen the viral video of the men fighting Arbery before he was killed. Ronald Carlson, law professor at the University of Georgia, says people who have seen the...
HBCUs This Former Nike Designer Is Reopening Michigan's Only HBCU Former Nike designer D’Wayne Edwards will reopen the Lewis College of Business, the only Historically Black College in Michigan, which closed down in 2013.
Military Remembering Colin Powell, a Black Military Trailblazer The late Colin Powell was the first Black Secretary of State and deeply studied African American military history, says Brandeis University’s Chad Williams. “We need to remember him as part of that tradition. A tradition that is rife with struggle, with pain, with institutionalized racism, but also with heroic achievement and accomplishment,” Williams said.
vaccine research WHO Honors Henrietta Lacks, Whose Cells Helped in Vaccine Research “She never knew she was a participant, and that’s the tragedy here, but her contribution to the fields of science and biology is without question and really, unrivaled.” Dr. Ugo Iroku talks about Henrietta Lacks, a Black cervical cancer patient whose cell samples were used in decades of biological research, including for the COVID-19 vaccines. Lacks’ cells were taken without...
labor laws Everything You Need to Know About ‘Striketober' “We have huge favorability numbers [for unions]…so that’s also an indication of the pulse of society, that everyone’s sick and tired of watching workers getting abused during the pandemic.”...Jane McAlevey of the UC Berkeley Labor Center talks about recent labor strikes at Kellogg’s, John Deere and the IATSE film and TV union, where workers are fighting for a weekend. The...
covid-19 vaccine Doctor Hopeful Patients Won't Need to ‘Mix and Match' Vaccines While health authorities say “mixing and matching” vaccine brands is OK, and good news for those who received the J&J vaccine, one Texas doctor believes the supply will allow for those who received Pfizer to get a 3rd booster dose of Pfizer, and so on. We spoke to HHM Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Michael Lyons about the vaccine rollout,...
