Archive for May 2023
Remembrance held for Buffalo’s 2022 mass shooting victims
A remembrance was held Sunday for the Black man and Black woman who were gunned down while either shopping or working at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo by a White supremacist who wrote “Nigger” on an AK-15 automatic weapon. Each time the names of the innocent victims murdered by Peyton Gendron were mentioned, a bell…
Read MoreDaniel Penney’s murder of Jordan Neeley has raised $2 million
Daniel Penny who is charged with killing Jordan Neeley, a Michael Jackson impersonator, on May 1 by putting him in a chokehold on the subway as two other men also held him down, raised $2 million for his defense fund. Some of the money came from Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy who donated $10,000 to…
Read MoreWhite man sentenced to 25 years for the murder of Black Lives Matter protestor
A White man who killed a White Black Lives Matter protestor has been sentenced to 25 years in prison although Governor Greg Abbott has said he will pardon him. The former U.S. Army sergeant Daniel Perry shot Garrett Foster, an Air Force veteran Garrett Forster, during an Austin, Texas, racial justice rally two months after…
Read MoreFormer President Trump ordered to pay Elizabeth Jean Carrol $5 million
Former President Don Trump today has been ordered to pay journalist Elizabeth Jean Carrol $5 million dollars for sexually abusing her in a Fifth Avenue, New York, department store. Carroll alleged Trump raped her in the Bergdorf Goodman department store and then defamed her when he denied her claim, saying she wasn’t his type. He suggested…
Read MoreGrace Ann Melzia Bumbry, a leading mezzo-sopranos, dies
Grace Ann Melzia Bumbry died May 7 was an American opera singer, considered one of the leading mezzo-sopranos. She was a member of a pioneering generation of African-American opera and classical singers, beginning with Leontyne Price. She was 86 when she died in Vienna, Austria.
Read MoreBlack women state’s attorneys are being forced out
Two progressive Black women state’s attorneys in St. Louis and Chicago have either thrown in the towel or have been forced to retire early. Kimberly M. Gardner, 48, is the circuit attorney for the city of St. Louis, Missouri, until she resigned early Thursday. She will remain in office until June 1, although Republicans are attempting to push her out early. Kimberly…
Read MoreVida Blue, left-hander, for the Oakland Athletics has died
Vida Rochelle Blue Jr., a left-handed pitcher for the Oakland Athletics who lead the team to three World Series titles, died on May 6 of cancer. Blue pitched from 1969 to 1986, most notably as an integral member of the dynasty that won three consecutive won three World Series Championships from 1972 to 1974. He won the…
Read MoreA mall gunman, who murdered eight, has been identified
A gunman tied to neo-Nazis and white supremacists, murdered eight people and wounded six others during a shooting spree at an outdoor shopping mall in Allen, Texas, police said. Police identified the shooting suspect as Mauricio Gracia, 33, who worked as a security guard and has no criminal record, according to television stations in the…
Read MoreJoe Biden selects a fighter pilot as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
President Joe Biden has named Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Quinton Brown Jr., a Black Airforce fighter pilot as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs Staff. He will succeed American General Mark Milley, according to multiple reports. General Milley is scheduled to retire in October. If confirmed by the Senate, Brown would become the…
Read MoreGrand Jury lets the police walk concerning Jayland Walker’s murder
A Special Ohio Grand jury failed to indict eight Akron police officers who fired 46 shots at Jayland Walker, a delivery driver, as he ran his life in a hail of bullets before died. The toxicology screen was negative for drugs or alcohol, according to the Summit County Medical Examiner Lisa J. Kohler, M.D. The medical…
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