PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Lorraine Toussaint welcomes the idea of intimacy coaches on television and film sets, even if the actress wasn’t quite sure what the job entails. Informed that such coaches help stage scenes involving sex that are respectful to the actors, the 58-year-old star […]
Violette Neatley Anderson achieved a number of notable firsts for both African-Americans and women in the legal world. Chief among her achievements, she became the first African-American woman to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 29, 1926. Anderson was born Violette Neatley in […]
Sickle Cell disease has been a silent killer in the Black community for decades, but it appears that new gene therapy could hold the key to curing the disease. In a half-dozen clinical trials, researchers are testing strategies for correcting the problem at the genetic […]
Three militia members will spend at least 25 years in federal prison for their joint hate crime: attempting to blow up an apartment complex in western Kansas where a community of Somali Muslims reside. Patrick Eugene Stein, Curtis Allen, and Gavin Wright chose the apartment complex in […]
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and national security adviser John Bolton announced the sanctions against Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. — the parent company of the US-based Citgo oil company — on Monday afternoon from the White House briefing room. The measure blocks about $7 billion […]
Only 47% of firms surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics reported rising sales in the last quarter of the year, down from 61% the previous quarter, while the number of businesses reporting falling sales nearly tripled, from 6% to 17%. The holiday […]
