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Devastating photos show the extent of the unprecedented freezing amid widespread power outages across the large state of Texas from Winter Storm Uri.

Brown, who went viral after using Gorilla Glue on her hair, plans to donate the majority of the $23,000 raised to a foundation founded by the doctor who removed the adhesive.

Sen. Ted Cruz didn't apologize after he was captured boarding a flight to Mexico in the middle of a power crisis that crippled his fellow Texans, compounded by a series of winter storms.

Wilkes, 30, an activist and movement leader, recently launched her second campaign to run for Maryland's 5th Congressional District, in hopes to unseat Rep. Steny Hoyer, the longest-serving House Democrat.

Business & Economy

As the cannabis industry continues to grow into a viable business model, many obstacles exist for Black and brown communities. But diversity is about more than just expanding opportunities for people to enter the industry.

Lightfoot's administration squandered $281.5 million in federal COVID-19 relief money on personnel costs for the CPD during a pandemic which has disproportionately affected Black community members in Chicago.

Black Twitter promptly ran back a variety of moments recounting Limbaugh's racist, sexist, xenophobic rhetoric which continually harmed Black communities.

A Florida sheriff said Vincent Jackson's family thinks the 38-year-old former NFL star was suffering from a brain injury called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) that statistics suggest is widespread among former football players.

As the pandemic continues to wage war on Black and brown communities, Mother Nature's relentlessness adds an additional layer of concern as winter storms surge throughout the midwest and southwest.

Health

Racial and ethnic minority communities that lack internet access have been left behind in the race to get a COVID-19 vaccine. For the almost 13.8 million older adults in the U.S. who live alone, asking for help may not be an option.

A student at HBCU Fort Valley State University accused one of her professors of trivializing the killing of Trayvon Martin by making an "insensitive" and "humorless" comment about a "hoodie" and "Skittles," according to a viral tweet.

The NAACP, the nation's oldest civil rights organization, filed a lawsuit citing the nation's oldest hate group - the KKK - alleging that Trump, his lawyer and far-right extremist groups violated the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.