The day millions of people around the country and globe have been waiting for: Tuesday November 8, 2016. With a strong turnout in key states, early voting records, and Trump throwing some last-minute jabs to sway the voters count to his camp, Election Day 2016 was anything but a normal Tuesday. White Voters Missing…
Young Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton didn’t start off as the most powerful woman in U.S. history; in fact, she began her story as a lawyer. After obtaining her J.D. From Yale University, Clinton began her long and consistent journey to help those less fortunate. Hillary grew up on the East Coast, and while attending college,…
Soaring revenue that topped estimates from Wall Street to the tune of $7.01 billion for the third quarter of 2016, is Mark Zuckerberg’s early holiday present. Advertising accounts for more than 97 percent of Facebook’s revenue, with 84 percent coming from mobile engagement. The company’s laid-back CEO was quoted as saying, “We had another…
The Supreme Court has been down one position for nearly nine months now, and not because the current President of the United States has failed to nominate a replacement. In early March 2016, Obama announced his replacement candidate as judge Merrick Garland. Despite the fact that during the nomination nearly 63% of the American…
Proving a Negative Trying to prove a negative is impossible. FBI Director James Comey made the recent announcement that there was nothing more to reveal regarding the Clinton probe of Hillary Clinton’s emails. In July, the FBI director appeared before the investigative committee headed by Trey Gowdy, U.S. Representative for South Carolina’s Fourth Congressional District.…
Rachel Dolezal, the infamous Caucasian woman who portrayed herself as an African-American woman, now has a book deal for her memoirs entitled, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World. From 2014 to 2015, Dolezal was the president of the NAACP’s chapter in Spokane, Washington. She was an outspoken civil…
iMonitor is a smartphone app produced in collaboration with UNAIDS. It creates a unified dashboard for HIV/AIDS patients to locate nearby counseling and medication services, receive refills, and report inappropriate stigma from health care providers. iMonitor was first introduced in Jakarta, Bangkok, the Philippines, and India. It has provided real-time updates to government and…
We have a new psychological problem in this country. It’s called “Election Stress Disorder,” according to an article in Psychology Today. “The United States of Anxiety” is what NPR Radio calls it. Tuesday it will all be over, or will it? There seems to be no end to the charges, counter charges, insults, voter…
Whether systemic or personal attacks, the scourge of racism knows no societal or national boundaries. MC Soffia is a young Brazilian musical artist who has decided to take a stand against racism in her country. With racist views heavily circulating in Brazil, the fight this rapper is taking part in is not an easy…
Singer Mariah Carey’s high-profile engagement with Australian billionaire James Packer has ended dramatically, according to their representatives. And the drama hasn’t ended with their split. Carey is reportedly keeping the engagement ring, worth a whopping $10 million. Sources say she’s also demanding a $50 million settlement from her wealthy ex, including a lavish LA…
