The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards celebrated all things television. As always, there were fashion hits and misses, touching speeches, and plenty of joy and disappointment. Director Ava DuVernay arrived at the ceremony in style, wearing a stunning Reem Acra gown and with five dashing men as her dates. The men were the Exonerated Five –…
There are some products it’s hard to envision in a new way until somebody comes along and reimagines it. The Link Flip shoe takes the whole concept of footwear and changes everything. These unique shoes offer ventilation and comfort without sacrificing safety and support, making them an ideal choice for life in fast-paced and crowded…
On September 20, Apple CEO Tim Cook traveled to Manhattan and surprised shoppers lined up outside the tech giant’s Fifth Avenue retail location, which he personally reopened after a period of renovation. This particular Apple Store, which is essentially a giant glass cube, welcomed hundreds of customers eager to get their hands on the iPhone…
With more enterprises choosing public cloud solutions such as Microsoft Office 365 and Amazon Web Services, it is easy for some of them to become overconfident with regard to data access. Let’s say a law firm enables two-factor (2FA) authentication for Office 365 access. What happens when the login credentials and smartphone of a senior…
As a child, Taraji P. Henson felt helpless watching her father, a Vietnam veteran, struggle with mental health issues. Eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder, he had war-themed nightmares, would regularly self-medicate with excessive alcohol consumption, and even attempted suicide. Today, she is honoring her father’s memory and working to improve life for her community. The Boris…
Ilhan Omar is no stranger to conflict. From a refugee childhood to being a favorite target of an increasingly acerbic POTUS, the self-described feminist remains optimistic and fiercely single-minded in trying to do her best at her job in Congress. A New Life in the US At age eight, Ilhan and her family were forced…
There was a time when professional athletes made financial headlines based on their disastrous investment decisions and lack of money management skills. In 2012, Miami film studio Rakontur released “Broke,” a documentary focused on the various ways athletes lose vast amounts of money, often through questionable real estate and restaurant investments that seemed to be…
Each year over 14 million tons of discarded plastic waste goes into oceans around the world. Tons of garbage made up of large amounts of plastic washed up on the coast of Jakarta, Indonesia. Plastic waste has been discovered in distant places such as the Pyrenees mountains and the ocean depths of the Mariana Trench.…
Is Prime Minister Boris Johnson the European Trump? The prospect of Brexit, the referendum expected to separate the United Kingdom from the European Union on October 31, has turned into a political Rubik’s cube in the hands of newly elected Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a controversial leader who is often compared to United States President…
Since October 2018, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, a nation home to more than 100 million people, has been managed under the political leadership of President Sahle-Work Zewde, the first woman elected as head of state in that country. Even though women have been previously elected to the highest office of other African nations,…
