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The United States Postal Service has reached an agreement with the NAACP on a lawsuit related to mail-in ballots for the 2020 presidential election. The civil rights organization filed the lawsuit last year over mail delays affecting election ballots, NBC News reports. In August 2020, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) warned state election officials that the agency would not be able to fulfill requests for mail-in ballots before the Nov. 3 presidential election, theGrio reported. The letters were...
The annual Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign begins Friday and lasts through New Year's Day. Additional officers will patrolling for intoxicated drivers, along with normal patrols. The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning says 326 people died in over 9,000 alcohol-related crashes statewide in 2020. Eighty-four people died in crashes around Christmas and New Year's from 2016 to 2020, including 34 involving drunk drivers. Michigan police arrest 200 intoxicated drivers during three-week...
Each night, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History will present songs and dances, storytelling, poetry reading, and more to mark the occasion. Be prepared to take in the festive sights and sounds of the holiday! Exploring 7 principles for 7 nights at 7 pm EST, join us in person and online as we celebrate Kwanzaa! Songs and dances, storytelling, poetry reading, our Vendor Marketplace, and more will mark the occasion. WHAT IS KWANZAA? Kwanzaa is an African-American holiday...
Black Press photojournalist and social media maven Anthony Tilman assessed the death of President Joe Biden's Build Back Better legislation this way: "[Fifty] Republicans in the Senate don't care about children in their own communities and want them to remain in poverty, and yet they still get re-elected. That's the sad truth." While Tilghman accurately assessed the GOP blocking popular and needed legislation, the most consequential "no vote" came from a Democrat. In an appearance, Sunday, Decem...
The Honorable John Conyers, who represented Detroit in Congress from 1965 until 2017, introduced HR 40 every congressional session from 1989. He worked to get cosponsors for the legislation for nearly thirty years, but not even the entire Congressional Black Caucus would cosponsor. Upon his retirement from Congress, he passed the baton to Houston Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Thanks to her efforts and those of reparations organizations, including the National African American Reparations...
A couple common mistakes entrepreneurs make when setting goals, and a couple suggestions to get better at the goal setting and achieving process. #1. Setting goals without a goal achievement plan is like a throwing up a prayer, absent the works behind it. You're left with nothing but empty promises. #2. Goal setting is skilled trade. And like most skilled trades, there is a process to becoming mediocre, good, than great at it. Accept that you may suck at it in the beginning, and that's OK. Commit to the process. #3. Be careful of what you wish...
Sorting through the tasks involving the end of a life has been his life's calling for Gregory McClary, owner and manager of Chapel of the Chimes Funeral Home in Westland. At the age of nine, McClary recalls his decision to one day become an undertaker, the term used at that time, while he and his mother tended to his great-grandmother's funeral. A year later at the age of 10, McClary's mother engaged him in an afterschool job at a local funeral home in South Carolina, where he was raised. He...
Tis the season to be giving. Fancy bags, gift boxes, longer store hours and more tip jars makes their appearance around the winter holidays. While this all is normal, tipping etiquette has now changed since Covid-19. "The pandemic has completely upended tipping etiquette," says Jodi Smith, owner and president of Mannersmith Etiquette and Consultant. Tipping is dependable and situational. Tips are generally given to workers in the service industry- sectors that produce intangible goods- like...
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And...
*Many city offices will be closed December 24, 30, and 31. Call ahead if you have business with your city offices. Dearborn The city of Dearborn urges all residents to cooperate when a Snow Emergency is declared whenever three inches or more of snow is expected to fall. Please move all parked vehicles off the streets to allow snow plows access. Parked vehicles left on the streets will be ticketed. Police will not issue warnings. Tickets are $80. Find out more at the Snow Emergency Hotline at 313-943-2444. Dearborn Heights The John F. Kennedy...
