The Philadelphia Tribune

The nation's first COVID-19 vaccine will begin arriving in states Monday morning, U.S. officials said Saturday, after the government gave the final go-ahead to the shots needed to end an outbreak that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans.

Dr. James O’Neil Golson Jr. was the son of the late James Sr. and Theodosia Golson. He was the second born child and the first son of their five children: Elsie, Thelma, Eugene and Byron. James was educated in the parochial and public-school systems of Philadelphia and earned his bachelor’s degree from Benedict College. James went on to earn his master’s degree from Antioch University, and subsequently became a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Mu Omega Chapter in 1977.

While relatively low levels of testing obscure the full picture, death rates have been significantly lower; health systems, while sometimes strained, have not been overwhelmed; and the latest serological studies suggest that while infection rates in Africa have been high, a great deal of these infections have been asymptomatic.

The stress a woman feels during pregnancy can affect the developing brain of her unborn child as documented on fetal brain scans, according to a new study published Monday in the medical journal JAMA Open Network. Fetuses of expectant moms with higher anxiety levels were more likely to have weaker connections between two brain areas involved in executive and higher cognitive functions and stronger connections between parts of the brain connected to emotional and behavioral controls.

Adolescence is fraught with stressful changes, and the developing body can be one of those challenges, especially if a teen's body doesn't meet society's or that teen's standards. Negative body image can threaten mental health, according to new research that found teenagers who were dissatisfied with their bodies tended to experience depression as adults.

Mark Brave, who promised to increase transparency in the sheriff’s office and supports expanded use of body cameras, defeated Republican Paul Callaghan in Strafford County in Tuesday's election, according to New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office. He is currently a lieutenant who oversees standards and training for the Strafford County Sheriff’s Office.

A diversity report in the NFL assigned high grades for the league office but lagging scores at team levels for racial and gender hiring. Wednesday's report card from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at Central Florida assigned an overall B-minus grade for the league, with a B-plus for racial hiring and a C for gender hiring. The report examined a range of positions at the league headquarters and within franchises using data for the 2020 season.

A section of road that leads to the South Florida high school that Trayvon Martin attended now bears the name of the Black teenager whose 2012 death sparked a movement for social justice.

Think Bob Dylan’s Hurricane, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Fortunate Son, Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name or countless others throughout time. Now Lexington-based social activist and hip-hop artist Richard Spaulding, better known through his alias Devine Carama, is doing the same, focusing on Breonna Taylor, fatally shot in her apartment in March by Louisville police.

App-based companies like Uber, Lyft and Doordash have dodged a potentially devastating blow to their industry by carving out an exemption from a California law that required them to classify their drivers as employees instead of contractors.

As COVID-19 continues to force many schools to operate remotely, cities throughout the nation are stepping up to provide free internet service to public school students from families of lesser means.

Dr. Deborah Birx has a dire warning for Americans: The COVID-19 pandemic is going to get much, much worse before it gets any better.

Who remembers Baby Nancy? She was the first Black baby doll to have an Afro and other authentic features, was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame on Thursday, along with sidewalk chalk and the wooden block game Jenga.

The Philadelphia Eagles came together to honor and support members of the military as part of the NFL’s Salute to Service initiative. As part of the program, Toyota gave tickets to military families and displayed more than 200 local veterans and active service members on life-size cardboard cutouts in the stands for Sunday’s game at Lincoln Financial Field.

The ban, which goes into effect in May 2022, prohibits the type of bags customers get from restaurants that do takeout and from groceries and other stores.

More than a dozen middle schoolers and their families have filed a lawsuit seeking to block changes in the admissions process at an elite public high school in northern Virginia that has been ranked as the best in the nation.

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The reaction to the release of police body-camera footage of the fatal shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. has been swift. Officials in Pennsylvania took to social media to express their concerns about the incident.