Month: September 2020

The University of Maryland has honored Harriet Tubman by renaming an academic department after her. “It is my honor to announce a major milestone in our university’s history: the first honorific naming of an academic department at UMD, the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies,” UMD president Darryll J. Pines said in

The search for the crew of a cargo ship that went missing during Typhoon Maysak was suspended Saturday due to bad weather, according to Japan’s Coast Guard. The Gulf Livestock 1, with 43 crew members and almost 6,000 cows onboard, went missing near southern Japan on Wednesday. The area in the East China Sea was

The oldest living American to serve in World War II is turning 111 years old, and you can join the celebration. Lawrence Brooks served as a support worker in the predominantly Black American 91st Engineer Battalion stationed in New Guinea and then the Philippines and reached the rank of private first class during the war.

In the American South, in the tiny town of Spivey’s Corner, North Carolina, the hills are alive with sound of some good ol’ timey hollerin’. And, yes, that’s “hollerin’” without the “g,” mind you. For nearly 50 years, the town was home to the National Hollerin’ Contest, celebrating a tradition that dates back centuries. But

A family member of the George Washington University professor who revealed that she had been lying about being Black for years says they’re outraged. University officials have said Jessica Krug will no longer teach classes this semester. She was a professor of African and Latin American studies. Krug’s sister-in-law, who did not want to be

Prosecutors have accused a man of stealing a firearm from a Seattle Police vehicle during protests in May. Jacob Little, 24, of Everett, Washington, appeared in US District Court in Seattle on Friday charged with possession of a stolen firearm. He’s accused of breaking into a damaged police vehicle on May 30 and taking a

After the pandemic left him jobless, catering chef Barney Corrigan quickly recognized the effect Covid-19 was having in his community in Westville, New Jersey — so he transformed his home’s garage into a food pantry. “People are being forced to choose between paying their bills or feeding their kids. No one should have to make

The moon is getting rusty. Scientists had the same reaction you probably did when they reached this conclusion. It shouldn’t be possible — after all, there’s no oxygen on the moon, one of the two essential elements to create rust, the other being water. But the evidence was there. India’s lunar probe, Chandrayaan-1, orbited the

Sunshine Mills has issued a voluntary recall of three dog food products due to high levels of aflatoxin, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Aflatoxin is a naturally occurring mold by-product and can be harmful to pets if consumed in significant quantities. Family Pet Meaty Cuts beef chicken & cheese flavors premium dog food,

A police officer was killed in the line of duty in Cleveland, Ohio, on Thursday night. The FBI has identified him as Detective James Skernivitz and said reward money is available for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Three persons of interest have been identified and taken into custody, arrested on unrelated charges, according

Prosecutors in Mississippi are dismissing the case against Curtis Flowers, a Black man who was tried six times in a murder case by a White prosecutor and spent 23 years in prison, a spokeswoman for the state’s attorney general said Friday. The indictments against Flowers over the deaths of four people were dismissed, Colby Jordan,