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THE ROOT - On Monday, Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib became the first active NFL player to come out as gay.

SENIOR MOMENTS - That link between age and wisdom — is it just a joke?

COVID WATCH - I’m feeling like a sitting duck these days, as are the other members of my family.

POLITICS IN RELIGION - A pastor in New York City is attracting people to his church with the promise of religious exemption letters to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, spurring a chicken-and-egg debate on religious exemptions: which comes first, the desire to break a law or the “sincerely held religious belief” used to justify that desire?

THE ROOT-Race is a funny thing. We all know that it’s a social construct, yet we still adhere to principles established by our forefathers, which looks something like this:

WORLD WATCH - We have been criticizing the Republican leadership over many issues, beginning with the fact that they have systematically opposed any legislation advanced by Democrats that would better the lives of American people, from healthcare to housing, minimum wages, renewable energy, labor unions, and more.

COVID POLITICS - In the strongest possible terms, the NAACP condemns the incendiary comments made by Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick in an interview with Fox News this past week

THE ROOT - In a move that may have national implications, one of South Carolina’s largest school districts asked the state’s highest court to determine whether state legislators have the constitutional right to prevent local school officials from protecting students from the COVID-19. 

COMMENTARY - As leaders of a city as diverse as Los Angeles, it is our responsibility to ensure the equitable distribution of city services and resources.

Chick-fil-A franchises in Alabama are limiting their services because they’re unable to find anyone that wants to work with them, their owners claim.

LGBTQ NEWS - Out MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has reportedly agreed to a new contract, meaning she will remain with the cable network after widespread speculation that she was considering an exit from her on-air home of 13 years.

NEW GEOGRAPHY - Post-millennium America does not look good at a glance.

LGBTQ POLITICS - Israel is ending all restrictions in place that limit men from donating blood in any way simply because they have sex with men.

LGBTW WATCH - Mary Trump, the lesbian niece of Republican former President Donald Trump, has criticized Meghan McCain, the conservative former co-host of the daytime talk show The View, for her rudeness and cowardice.

HUMANITARIANISM - One of the most important journeys in my life began when a tiny note posted in a church grabbed my eye. The note said that a priest who directed an orphanage in Mexico badly needed help.

LGBTQ NATION - A woman’s tweet about her coffee date has gone viral after she posted a photo of the warning note a gay man passed her after her date stepped away.

RECALL WATCH - Under the leadership of Governor Gavin Newsom, rich and poor Democrats have been watching the financial gap between them getting wider as his inflicts heavy energy costs onto the less fortunate in California.

EDUCATION PONZI SCHEMES - For the last decade and a half, I’ve been teaching ethics to undergraduates. Now — admittedly, a little late to the party — I’ve started seriously questioning my own ethics.

COMMENTARY-Priorities should be a thing again. However, in a modern-day peaceful world, affluenza continues to run rampant.

WORD ON WAR - Kabul, it's been noted, was not lost yesterday. It was the inevitable final fall of a calamitous, arrogant, 20-year, trillion-dollar, too-many-deaths imperial misadventure doomed, like too many before it, to failure from its inept start.

YouTube influencer Kevin Paffrath could become California's youngest governor to date.