From illiteracy, to the NBA, to a Master’s Degree
Nearly 100 employees are also taking time to quarantine.
The state trial of the officers has been moved to June 13th
Madea is coming back for another movie on Netflix.
Tyler recently explained why he’s bringing back the beloved character out of retirement.
Basically, he said we all need more laughter in our lives.
He said, “I was looking at the state of the world and how polarized it is… nobody’s laughing. Nobody’s getting the chance to belly-laugh anymore. And I’m like, ‘What tool do I have in my arsenal that can bring that kind of laughter.”
“A Madea Homecoming” will be on Netflix on February 25.
Does Madea make you belly-laugh?
According to TMZ, nine adults and eight children were killed in the fire, which is the deadliest fire the Bronx has seen in three decades, including Haji Dukuray’s niece, her husband, and three children.
Cardi paid for the funeral services for the five family members, Dukuray spoke with TMZ and thanked Cardi for what she’s done, calling her an “angel.”
Others such as Fat Joe, Jim Jones, and both New York Hip Hop stations have stepped up to help the families affected by the fire.
Has anyone ever stepped up for you unexpectedly? Share your story.
Old Man Winter is again delivering a mix of rain and snow on the DMV forcing schools closings and delays. Here’s a quick look of what’s happening in your jurisdiction.
Federal Government – two hour delay
DC Public Schools – two hour delay
Prince George’s County Public Schools – virtual
Montgomery County Public Schools – CLOSED
Howard County Public Schools – Closed
Anne Arundel County Public Schools – closed
Arlington County Public Schools – two hour delay
Fairfax County Public Schools – virtual
Fauquier County Public Schools – closed
Loudoun County Public Schools – closed
Manassas City Public Schools – closed
Prince William County Public Schools – virtual
Frederick County Public Schools – two hour delay
We have some important tips on how to keep your pet safe during this cold weather.
The Prince George’s County Animal Services Division has some temp for helping to get our animals safe during the winter. For more tips go here:
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A lawsuit over Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s executive order on masks in schools
The former creative director of Vogue was the first Black person to be given the role and rule the world of couture. According to Elle, Talley died of a heart attack at the age of 73.
‘Oh Andre! Heaven is not ready for you darling!!!!!! The whole afterlife is going to be just too fabulous now,” wrote Washington.
‘I feel so lucky to have been embraced in his warm glow so many times in my career because good people are few and far between in this business and you’re much more likely to meet a scowl when going places than his ever-present, all-encompassing loveliness. I send you so much love Andre. It was an honor and a privilege,’ wrote Paris.
What recent celebrity death really hit you want?
Words Beats & Life offers programs that equip our youth for success
Words Beats & Life is an arts education non-profit based in the Columbia Heights section of DC. The organization helps to break down the barriers that keep youth from taking full advantages of the opportunities in DC. For more information go here:
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COVID controversies, President Biden one year later, Senate vote on the vote, Trump factor
The wireless companies say 5G networks will be limited near airports. In a statement issued this afternoon, the two wireless carriers expressed disappointment that the FAA had not been able to resolve the safety issues.
It is not clear if the steps taken will alleviate the airlines’ concerns.
All students and staff will be provided KN95 masks and home test kits
That testing process will be in effect through the end of February. Additionally the district has announced that weekly testing of unvaccinated staff will continue and more students will be asked to participate in random testing.
Daily coronavirus fatalities in the U.S. are now averaging nearly 1,700. Health officials say while that number is still well below the 3,300 from last January, deaths are increasing at an alarming rate. Nursing homes are again seeing an uptick in deaths
Health officials say if the higher end of projections holds true, the COVID death toll will surpass one million by early Spring.
Experts say the wave of deaths heading for the U.S. will likely peak in late January or early February with weekly fatalities equal to or exceeding the delta spike.
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The Elks National Hoop Shoot is January 23
Camp Springs Elks Lodge is conducting a free throw shooting competition January 23rd at 10am in the Community Athletic Republic at 6417 Marlboro Pike in District Heights, Maryland. For more information go here:
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The 1965 Voting Rights Act and why the political clock appears to be turning back in 2022.
Tomorrow the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is hosting it’s annual National Day of Racial Healing
Tuesday, Jan. 18th the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) will virtually host its sixth annual National Day of Racial Healing, an afternoon of music, conversation and solidarity featuring leading advocates, artists and influencers engaging in critical discussions about racial equity and healing with a timely call to action for positive change. www.dayofracialhealing.org
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Restaurant week in DC kicks off with Covid vaccine mandates in place.
A man has been charged and arrested in the shooting death of a local boxer in a road rage incident.
Police say Markell Lewis confessed to killing 30-year-old Danny Kelly, Jr.
The shooting happened on Dec. 24, when Kelly was driving northbound on St. Barnabas Road with his girlfriend and three children. An SUV pulled up alongside Kelly’s truck, and someone inside the vehicle opened fire. A witness said Lewis and Kelly exchanged words as one allegedly cut off the other on the road.
Lewis was arrested on three days after Kelly’s killing after being found with a gun and drugs in a car he was traveling in. He was charged with possession but later released, not by the police, but the courts. Prince George’s County police chief Malik Aziz, said he did not know why Lewis was released. Later, police were able to tie Lewis’ gun to the fatal shooting of Kelly, Jr.
Barbie is honoring Black journalist Ida B. Wells with a doll.
The doll is part of the company’s “Inspiring Women” series.
A history lesson for you, Ida B. Wells was a slave born in 1862. She went on to write about the horrors of lynching and racism.
The doll goes on sale Monday.
Do you still collect Barbie dolls? What’s a toy that you’ll never get rid of?
“I wanted Mary to do a duet with Whitney [Houston],” Burrowes said. Burrowes was trying to leverage the relationship he had with Clive Davis by getting the two powerhouses on a track.
“He had Whitney and Aretha Franklin, but what Clive did was cut the baby in half. So he set it up for me and Mary to do the Whitney duet on Divas Live, so I could get the Whitney duet that I wanted.”
During the 1999 Divas Live, Mary and Whitney paid tribute to the “Queen of Soul,” by performing her song, “Ain’t No Way.”
What is your favorite Mary J Blige and Whitney Houston song?
Are too few children participating in organized sports, as access to physical fitness has plummeted during the pandemic? One doctor and author thinks so.
But recent studies have shown that school systems across the country are cutting back on sports programs for school aged children. And then there is the pandemic which has pulled many kids away from organized sports activities.
One leading expert says the lack of involvement in organized sports is a having a negative effect on kids physically, emotionally and academically. That expert joins us tonight for our conversation.
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Guest:
Dr. Dan O’Neill – Sports Psychologist/Orthopedic Surgeon
Author, Survival of the Fit: How Physical Education Ensures Academic Achievement and a Healthy Life
Jim Crow era laws cleared from Virginia’s legal records.
Most of the Jim Crow era laws and opinions are no longer in affect due to Supreme Court decisions. Still, State Senator Mamie Locke, a member of the Virginia Assembly’s legislative Black caucus, sees Herrings actions as progress.
Herrings says the laws struck from Virginia’s legal books supported Virginia’s Massive Resistance campaign which pushed back against federal desegregation efforts. Some of the tactics of the campaign included shutting down public schools rather than allowing integration.
The Biden administration’s mandate that businesses with 100 employees or more require its workers to be vaccinated has been rejected by the Supreme Court.
The court’s orders Thursday during a spike in coronavirus cases was a mixed bag for the administration’s efforts to boost the vaccination rate among Americans.
The court’s conservative majority concluded the administration overstepped its authority by seeking to impose the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s vaccine-or-test rule on U.S. businesses with at least 100 employees. More than 80 million people would have been affected.
In dissent, the court’s three liberals argued that it was the court that was overreaching by substituting its judgment for that of health experts. “Acting outside of its competence and without legal basis, the Court displaces the judgments of the Government officials given the responsibility to respond to workplace health emergencies,” Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a joint dissent.
When crafting the OSHA rule, White House officials always anticipated legal challenges — and privately some harbored doubts that it could withstand them. The administration nonetheless still views the rule as a success at already driving millions of people to get vaccinated and for private businesses to implement their own requirements that are unaffected by the legal challenge.
Both rules had been challenged by Republican-led states. In addition, business groups attacked the OSHA emergency regulation as too expensive and likely to cause workers to leave their jobs at a time when finding new employees already is difficult.
The vaccine mandate that the court will allow to be enforced nationwide scraped by on a 5-4 vote, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining the liberals to form a majority. The mandate covers virtually all health care workers in the country, applying to providers that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid funding. It potentially affects 76,000 health care facilities as well as home health care providers. The rule has medical and religious exemptions.
The challenges posed by a global pandemic do not allow a federal agency to exercise power that Congress has not conferred upon it. At the same time, such unprecedented circumstances provide no grounds for limiting the exercise of authorities the agency has long been recognized to have,” the court wrote in an unsigned opinion, saying the “latter principle governs” in the healthcare cases.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in dissent that the case was about whether the administration has the authority “to force healthcare workers, by coercing their employers, to undergo a medical procedure they do not want and cannot undo.” He said the administration hadn’t shown convincingly that Congress gave it that authority.
Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett signed onto Thomas’ opinion. Alito wrote a separate dissent that the other three conservatives also joined.
Decisions by federal appeals courts in New Orleans and St. Louis had blocked the mandate in about half the states. The administration already was taking steps to enforce it elsewhere.
More than 208 million Americans, 62.7% of the population, are fully vaccinated, and more than a third of those have received booster shots, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. All nine justices have gotten booster shots.
The justices heard arguments on the challenges last week. Their questions then hinted at the split verdict that they issued Thursday.
A separate vaccine mandate for federal contractors, on hold after lower courts blocked it, has not been considered by the Supreme Court.
Video surfaced online overnight of Madonna, Kanye, Antonio Brown, Floyd Mayweather, Evan Ross, Julia Fox, and Hollywood Unlocked’s Jason Lee, hanging out while listening to Drake’s 2013 song, “Come Thru.”
The video follows another one where Kanye was in the studio with Push T, The Game and DJ Premier where he was discussing releasing a song on Friday (December 14).
Kanye has hinted at dropping a follow-up to Donda, entitled Donda 2. Madonna is also working on her new album.
Why do you think this select group of celebrities were hanging out?
The lessons of our musical ancestors were not wasted on these two. ROE and Elijah Blake are here to show you how to own your own musical career. That’s what they’re striving for and we’re here for all of it.
Customers can type “Girl Scouts” into the search on the DoorDash app or online, if offered in your area, Dashers will bring your cookies straight to your door.
Proceeds still benefit the Girl Scouts and you can even get the two new flavors being added this year, Adventurefuls described as “A brownie-inspired cookie with a caramel filling and a sea salt drizzle on top,” and Toast-Yays described as “French toast-inspired cookies with cinnamon icing.”
What is your favorite Girl Scout Cookie?
The McLean Community Center presents a virtual reality experience
Traveling While Black connects technology, art, and social justice and will be virtually shown by the McLean Community Center thru February 12th. Patrons can sigh up for hour long appointments. The virtual reality experience is free and open to the public. For more information and for tickets, go here:
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Advocates in the District’s Wards 7 and 8 are working to increase Covid-19 resources in those communities.
But, the coronavirus has especially hit certain communities hard.
As the Omicron variant continues to infect a record number of people in the U.S., a goal of some health advocates is to figure out how to lesson the impact on undeserved communities which are often made up predominantly of people of color.
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Dr. Melissa Clarke Co-founder, Blacks Coalition Against Covid-19
CEO, The BHE Group-A Health
Mustafa Abdul-Salaam – Ward 8 Community Economic Planning
Prince Gorge’s County school officials say in an attempt to slow the spread of Covid, it will hand out free Covid take-home test kits and masks.
Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, Democratic chairman of the panel, requested that McCarthy, R-Calif., provide information to the nine-member panel regarding his conversations with Trump “before, during and after” the riot. The request also seeks information about McCarthy’s communications with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in the days before the attack.
“We also must learn about how the President’s plans for January 6th came together, and all the other ways he attempted to alter the results of the election,” Thompson said in the letter. “For example, in advance of January 6th, you reportedly explained to Mark Meadows and the former President that objections to the certification of the electoral votes on January 6th ‘was doomed to fail.’”
But it remains unclear whether the panel will be able to gain testimony from McCarthy or any other congressional allies of Trump. While the committee has considered subpoenaing fellow lawmakers, that would be an extraordinary move and could run up against legal and political challenges.
The committee acknowledged the sensitive and unusual nature of its request as it proposed a meeting with McCarthy on either Feb. 3 or 4. “The Select Committee has tremendous respect for the prerogatives of Congress and the privacy of its Members,” Thompson wrote. “At the same time, we have a solemn responsibility to investigate fully the facts and circumstances of these events.
A request for comment from McCarthy’s office was not immediately returned.
Democrats have been seeking more information about McCarthy’s call with Trump that day since the former president’s second impeachment trial in the days after the riot. At one point in the trial, Democrats said they would try and call Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., as a witness because she had described the call between the two men after hearing an account from McCarthy. In the end, Democrats read a statement from Herrera Beutler into the record. Trump, who had just left office, was acquitted by the Senate.
She said in the statement, “That’s when, according to McCarthy, the president said, ‘Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.’”
McCarthy had initially criticized Trump’s actions after the 2020 election, saying he “bears responsibility” for the deadly Jan. 6 attack, which remains the most serious domestic assault on the building in its history.
“The saddest day I have ever had” in Congress, McCarthy said the night of the attack, even as he went on to join 138 other House Republicans in voting to overturn Biden’s win.
The latest request from the panel also puts McCarthy face-to-face with its vice-chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, whom he dumped from the No. 3 House leadership position last summer as her very public criticism of Trump’s lies about his 2020 election loss reverberated through the Republican Party.
The GOP leader had counseled Cheney to stay on message, but as she continued to warn the party off Trump’s falsehoods, McCarthy groomed a newly transformed Trump acolyte, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., as her replacement.
The panel, comprised of seven Democrats and two Republicans, has already interviewed more than 300 people and issued subpoenas to more than 40 as it seeks to create a comprehensive record of the Jan. 6 attack and the events leading up to it.
The committee says the extraordinary trove of material it has collected — 35,000 pages of records so far, including texts, emails and phone records from people close to Trump — is fleshing out critical details of the worst attack on the Capitol in two centuries, which played out on live television.
The MLK Week of Service runs from January 15th – 22nd
The Montgomery County Volunteer Center strives to improve the quality of life in the county by fostering a culture of volunteerism and service. They have a host of volunteer opportunities for their 2022 MLK service event, which runs from January 15th – 22nd. For more information go here:
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Financial experts tells us how to get the best deal and make the right moves when buying a home and what we must do to make sure that we’re be able hold on to the home for years to come.
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Marcia Griffin Host, Smart Money Moves, WHUT-TV
Chuck Bishop Senior Vice President, Head of Diverse Segments for Wells Fargo Home Lending
