Newark Mayor Ras Baraka tested positive for COVID-19, he said.
The mayor said he is asymptomatic, and so far his family has not tested positive for the virus/
I tested positive for COVID yesterday and thankfully my wife and son tested negative. By the grace of God I'm okay and have no symptoms at all. I'm going to retest on Friday and Monday as well, and I thank everyone for your well wishes. Please wear your masks and get vaccinated!
— Ras J. Baraka (@rasjbaraka) December 22, 2021
For some Broadway productions, even when the show goes on it does so without a full cast. That was particularly evident on Tuesday night, when Keenan Scott II, a playwright jumped in to take on a role of the play he wrote, ‘Thoughts Of A Colored Man’.
For the second year, Alpha Phi Alpha is teaming with ESPN and the V Foundation for Cancer Research to drive awareness and support for the Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund.
Stuart Scott, an Alpha Phi Alpha brother, was committed to advancing cancer research and as his Alpha brothers, we are honored to be a part of his continuing legacy to help others.
Stuart was a champion for cancer research and he was especially driven to improve outcomes for minorities disproportionally affected by the disease.
Through the Stuart Scott Fund, the V Foundation has invested more than 12.7 million dollars in grants that are designed to support the work of minority scientists and research that is dedicated to finding therapeutic treatments and positive outcomes for African Americans and other minority populations. Today, Stuart's legacy lives on in this fund.
Visit v.org/aphia for more information.
The juvenile court records of Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused in 1955 to give up her seat to a White person on an Alabama bus, have been sealed, destroyed and expunged following a judge's ruling.
Colvin, now 82, was arrested when she was 15 for refusing to give up her seat to a White person on a bus in Montgomery. The incident came nine months before Rosa Parks' far more famous arrest for a similar act of civil disobedience in the Jim Crow era.
Colvin was charged with two counts of violating Montgomery's segregation ordinance and one felony count of assaulting a police officer. She was convicted on all counts in juvenile court, and the segregation convictions were overturned on appeal.
Placed on an "indefinite probation" after her conviction on the assault charge, Colvin was never informed her probation had ended, her legal team said.
An Alabama family court judge in November granted Colvin's petition the prior month to expunge her record. Montgomery County Juvenile Judge Calvin Williams on November 24 signed the order for the records to be destroyed, including all references to the arrest.
He granted Colvin's motion to seal for good cause and fairness for "what has since been recognized as a courageous act on her behalf and on behalf of a community of affected people," Williams said.
During a CNN interview, member Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York ripped into West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin on Monday night, accusing Manchin of not caring about women, minorities or the poor.
When Joe Manchin showed us who he was, I believed him — and everyone else should have too. Gutting Build Back Better because special interests want it gutted is not an option. The people cannot be left behind. pic.twitter.com/D7GdHux7bf
— Jamaal Bowman (@JamaalBowmanNY) December 21, 2021
