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Real Estate News & Market Insights: How long does a short sale stay on your credit report? It’s pretty cut and dried with foreclosures: they stay on your credit report for seven years … or more. However, it gets a little more complicated with a short sale. As with foreclosures, short sales remain on your credit report for seven years, although it’s not as cut and dried. For example, if you were late on your mortgage payments, a short sale will remain on your credit report for seven years from the delinquency date. But if you were never late, the…
From Hollywood to Home: Black Voices in Entertainment Nigel Sylvester‘s wheels are spinning. Such a statement likely elicits less than a shrug given his prominence as one of the preeminent BMX athletes of a generation. Commonalities aside, that observation speaks more to his mind than his cyclical stunts, as the former phenom is taking inventory of the pieces that make up the 38-year-old man he’s grown into over the past two decades. It’s a mid-summer afternoon, and Sylvester and I are in deep conversation about the improbability of a Black teenager from Jamaica, Queens, turning the world of extreme sports…
From Hollywood to Home: Black Voices in Entertainment TikTok could eventually turn a casual direct message into a place where users can send money without ever leaving the app. The potential TikTok payments feature is still far from an official launch. According to TechCrunch, code discovered inside the current version of TikTok’s U.S. iPhone app suggests the company is exploring a way for users to send and receive money through direct messages. TikTok reportedly told Bloomberg the feature is not being tested, meaning there is no guarantee it will reach users. According to the same report, the proposed system appears connected…
Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights Alabama A&M head coach Sam Shade believes the Bulldogs are better positioned for a breakthrough entering his second season on the sidelines. Shade saw firsthand at Miles College how much a program can change between its first and second seasons. Now he hopes to replicate that formula at Alabama A&M. “There are some similarities between myself and my coaching staff,” Shade said Thursday during the MEAC/SWAC Challenge press conference. “Our first year at Miles and the first year here at Alabama A&M.” Shade went 1-9 in that first year at…
Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week. This week’s topics include boarding in the emergency department (ED), attempts to clear secretions in ventilated patients, cold-stored platelets, and devices to do CPR. Program notes: 0:35 Devices to do CPR versus manual 1:37 About 60% of U.S. population 2:32 8% to 9% survive with favorable neurologic status 3:15…
Tomorrow’s Tech, Today: Innovation That Moves Us Forward The shape of an indie SaaS team in 2026 looks nothing like the shape of an indie SaaS team in 2022. Five years ago, a solo founder shipped a polished product by hiring a designer, a frontend engineer, a backend engineer, and a part-time marketer — then waiting nine months to charge the first dollar. Today, the same product ships in a long weekend, with one person, and the bottleneck is no longer engineering capacity. It is taste, distribution, and the ability to keep shipping iterations after the launch dopamine has worn…
Stay Informed: Latest News from Across Georgia Thirteen-year-old Kari Pankonin faced typical junior high issues: being moody, emotional, and insecure. Then her world turned upside down. Her parents went from having a strong marriage to a marriage on the rocks. Her peaceful household turned unstable and tumultuous. To cope with the disruption, Kari started running with the wrong crowd and developing unhealthy habits. She slipped into deep depression. She found herself in her room at night fantasizing about her death and funeral. She wrote, “I had my suicide all figured out. I had my funeral planned and my obituary typed…
Black Travelers: Explore Culture, Adventure & Connection Nia Gilliam wasn’t a captain yet on Sept. 11, 2001. At just 25 years old, she was sitting in the co-pilot seat on the runway at Newark Liberty International Airport, waiting for air traffic controllers to clear them for takeoff. “Smoke was already coming out of the North Tower, but we didn’t know at the time what was going on,” she recalls. “Pilots were asking air traffic controllers, and we heard them make comments about how, ‘We know at this time, but we’d rather not say.’” It was the first sign that…
Global Black Voices: News from around the World As the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport’s (GDRT) provincial traffic signals repair and restoration programme gains momentum, MEC Kedibone Diale-Tlabela has called on communities and road users to help protect critical road infrastructure from theft and vandalism. The department stated that following the appointment of contractors last month, it has intensified the repair, restoration, maintenance and upgrading of traffic signals at priority intersections across the provincial road network. According to the department, the programme will be implemented over the next 36 months. It will focus on restoring vandalised infrastructure, modernising existing…