Archive for April 2023
Kenyan men and women left the other Boston Marathoners in the dust
It’s all Kenya all time as runners from the African country won both the women’s and men’s Boston Marathon. Evan Chebet won the men’s marathon at 2:05:54, and Hellen Obiri won the woman’s marathon at 2:21:38. The 127th running of the Boston Marathon began in Hopkinton and ended in Boston. The race was held on April…
Read MoreDriving down the wrong driveway or knocking on a stranger’s door can get you killed in America
Several days after 16-year-old Ralph Varl went to the wrong house to pick up his 11-year-old twin brothers, the homeowner shot him in the head and the arm on April 13. Varl, whose wounds were treated in the hospital for four days, has been released from in-patient care. In Washington County, New York, Kaylin Gillis,…
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Six men have now been arrested in Alabama for four murders Police initially arrested two teenage brothers and charged them with killing four people at a Sweet Sixteen Party in Dadeville, Alabama. Four other young men have subsequently been arrested and charged in the mass shootings well. The two initially arrested are Ty Reik McCullough,…
Read MoreFour members of the African People’s Party and the Black Hammer Party have been arrested for collaborating with Russia
Four members of the Africa People’s Socialist Party and the Black Hammer Party have been arrested and charged with aiding Russia. The activists are Omali Yeshitela, the founder of the People Socialist Party, Penny Hess, Jesse Nevel, and Augustus Romain Jr. Roman, also known as Gazi Kodzo, founder of the Black Hammer. The Black Hammer Party…
Read MoreTyre Nichols’ family sues Memphis police for $550 Million for beating death of their son
The parents of Tyre Nichols, who was beaten by five Black Memphis police officers and left to die by an ambulance driver who refused to get out of her truck, sued the city of Memphis and the Memphis Police Department for $550 million. Nichols was beaten on January 7, 2023, and died three days later…
Read MoreAn 85-year-old White man shoots and wounds a boy who rang the wrong doorbell to pick up his two brothers
Demonstrators stormed the home of a White man in Kansas City, Missouri, who shot and seriously wounded a Black teenager who went to the wrong house to pick up his twin brothers. The gunman shot 16-year-old Ralph Yarl in the head and arm. Yarl was found near the yard of the mistaken house by a…
Read MoreCongressman Jim Jordan will hold a hearing attacking Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg about crime in New York City
Congressman Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, is scheduled to hold a hearing Monday in New York City concerning what he calls Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s anti-crime policies, which he claims have led to increased violent crime for New York City’s residents. In reality, however, there has been a drop year-over-year in crime in the Big Apple. The…
Read MoreThe man who made Kansas City barbecue famous one delicious bite at a time
There is movement in Kansas City, Missouri, to name the city’s new airport after Henry Perry, the man who made Kansas City famous for the best barbecue in the country if not the world. An American writer was in Budapest. When someone asked him where he lived, the writer told the man he was from…
Read MoreBlack man honored for Leadership in Australia Gold Rush
Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. Ambassador to Australia, recently recognized John Joseph, a Black man from the United States who moved to Australia, and later became an American gold miner and a leader of the 1854 Eureka Rebellion at Ballarat, Australia, during the Victorian gold rush. Other than extensive fields of California, the gold output from Victoria was…
Read MoreRepublican senate members expelled two Black House members but they are back
Tennessee Republicans expelled two black lawmakers from the State Senate, but a white woman colleague, who escaped being thrown out by one vote, said the men were forced out because of the color of their skin. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones and Gloria Johnson, Democrats, were accused of disrupting the State Senate in Nashville to…
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