Happiness; what is it? who has it?
Happiness by Vikki J. Aisiki, Staff Writer UIN It is an incredible consideration that I may not know what makes me happy. A statement by one of the United States framers, Thomas Jefferson, is the right to “pursue happiness”. While the naked eye may interpret this...
What’s your blood type? It may affect your risk for Covid-19
A growing body of evidence suggests that blood type may play a role in the risk of becoming infected with the coronavirus or developing life-threatening complications from the illness. But it does not mean that any single blood type is more protective or more...
Racism has cost US economy $16 trillion in 20 years
Kristin Myers September 23, 2020 According to a new report from Citi (C), systemic racism in the United States has had a huge cost to the economy: $16 trillion over the past two decades. That’s the combined cost of disparities in wages, education, investment in...
People of Color; uncommon interest
People of Color: An Artificially Inclusive Term –by Vikki J.Aisiki, UIN Staff Writer The organized struggle between people based on the color of their skinbegan with the introduction of race by European invaders in Africa, andother parts of the world, including the...
Why does Africa have the lowest Covid 19 death rates in the world while African Americans are among the highest?
APPARENT RESILIENCE Coronavirus: Unpacking the theories behind Africa’s low infection rate IN DEPTH This article is part of the dossier:Corona Chronicles: 4 May – 7 May By Olivier Marbot Posted on Tuesday, 5 May 2020 16:49 Two months after the first coronavirus cases...
Who’s better VP for this USA melting pot than the Mother of all humans; a Black woman
Who better for VP than the Mother of all humans, a Black woman The choice of Vice President is of critical importance to Joe Biden. While the wrong choice will not make the African American voting block support Trump, they won’t show up for Biden either. There is no...
Reparations to African Americans are Long Overdue.
THE TIME IS NOW TO PAY AFRICAN AMERICANS REPARATIONS Now that America and the world are learning that: The so-called Founding Fathers’ main reason for their Declaration of Independence was not “taxation without representation” as we were taught in school, but to...
African American, Neanderthal DNA and Covid 19
Carl Zimmer The New York Times•July 5, 2020 A stretch of DNA linked to COVID-19 was passed down from Neanderthals 60,000 years ago, according to a new study. Scientists don’t yet know why this particular segment increases the risk of severe illness from the...
Harriet: the Hollywood version or the real version, which did we get? Take a guess.
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 1. The conversations and controversy surrounding the movie “Harriet” of Hollywood seems, at first sight, to be simply about Harriet Tubman, the liberator, the Harriet Tubman of history. But in a larger sense, it is about Black people,...About Us
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