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Michelle Obama’s memoir, is coming out Nov. 13. The former first lady tweeted that info on Sunday and that it is called “Becoming.” By Sunday night, her memoir was in the top 20 on Amazon.com. Michelle Obama tweeted: “Writing ‘Becoming’ has been a deeply personal experience,” she said in a statement. “It has allowed me, […]
As of Thursday evening, BB&T Bank customers were unable to use ATMs and digital banking after a problem at the bank. The first notice of the outage was sent out Thursday afternoon. The Winston-Salem-based bank acknowledged the outage on its website and Twitter account but did not specify what caused the outage. The bank said on its website “At this time, many of […]
On Wednesday, a wave of demonstrations took over the country reaching from Arizona to Maine, students at dozens of U.S. high schools walked out of class to protest gun violence and honor the victims of last week’s deadly shooting in Florida. Students shared plans for their demonstrations over social media, in which many lasted 17 minutes in […]
You can say that singer Fergie from the Black-Eyed Peas’, performance of the Star Spangled Banner during the 2018 NBA All-Star game was interesting in a not so good way. It brought on much criticism from many on social media, the sports arena and those in Hollywood. Now the US singer has apologized for her […]
Former Carolina Panthers Rae Carruth, who was convicted for conspiracy in killing girlfriend wants custody of their son. Carruth has spent the past 17 years in a North Carolina prison for conspiracy to murder his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams. Now Carruth is asking for responsibility to raise his son in a handwritten letter to the […]
19-year-old former student Nikolaus Cruz opened fire at a South Florida high school killing at least 17 people. According to Broward County Sherriff department Cruz, had been expelled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida for disciplinary reasons. Read more at EURWEB.com
A second grade teacher from Texas, 38-year-old Heather Holland, died fom the flu after she skipped treatment for the virus because it “cost too much.” In addition to a classroom of second graders, Holland left behind husband Frank Holland, a 10-year-old daughter, and a 7-year-old son. Holland fell ill about a week ago and planned to […]
The National Portrait Gallery unveiled portraits of President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as part of the Smithsonian group of museums and complete collection of presidential portraits. Barack Obama’s portrait was painted by Kehinde Wiley — an artist best known for his vibrant, large-scale paintings of African-Americans. Michelle Obama’s portrait, the gallery commissioned […]
The first Friday of February has been designated by the awareness campaign, Heart Truth, as National Wear Red Day ® in the United States. On this day, men and women are encouraged to wear red as a symbol of their support of women’s heart health. Why Go Red? Cardiovascular disease in the U.S. kill approximately […]
The products in question had images of pyramids above the slogan “Slavery gets s–t done. The offensive clothing was being sold as part of the Amazon Marketplace program, which allows individuals to sell what they’d like on Amazon. The seller, Styleart, had an entire line of t-shirts, mugs, baby bibs, tote bags and sweatshirts with the phrase. […]
