Archive for August 2023
The late Congressman John Lewis gets a stamp of perfection
The U.S. Postal Service recently honored the late Congressman John Lewis and a civil rights icon by issuing a Forever Stamp in his honor. The John Lewis Commemorative Stamp will sell for 66 cents. The stamp was unveiled at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Congressmen Lewis died on July 17, 2020, of stage four pancreatic cancer. A…
Read MoreFounder of the Chicago-based African American Patrolmen League dies
Renault Alvin Robinson, the founder of the African American Patrolmen League, died July 8, 2023. Mr. Robinson was 80. During his career as a police officer, Robinson was responsible for bringing a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department for discrimination against minorities, primarily Blacks, and Hispanics. One of the few times I met him was when he…
Read MoreNelson Mandela Day is celebrated yearly
Nelson Mandela International Day is celebrated every July 18 and people are encouraged to volunteer for 67 minutes in their communities or virtually to honor this day. Mr. Mandala was born on July 18, 1918. This year, the United Nations called for supporting its ActNow climate change and sustainability campaign, recalling that Mr. Mandela said…
Read MoreHouse Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on UFOs
The House Oversight Committee will hold a conference on UFOs, or identified aerial phenomenon, this week, said Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn. who will chair the hearing. The hearing, which will be held Thursday, July 26, comes after Republican lawmakers have promised to look deeper into UAPs following the U.S. military allegedly found crashed alien spacecraft. The…
Read MoreBlacks continue to push for nuclear disarmament
 The film “Oppenheimer†which opened in theaters Friday, shows J. Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw the Manhattan Project, which created the atomic bomb, struggling with his creation and later proclaiming that he had “blood on his hands.†This follows President Harry Truman ordering atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, killing more than 240,000 people.…
Read MoreGovernor Ron DeSantis wants to whitewash Black History as though it never existed
The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for how Black history should be taught in the state’s public schools, but the head of the NAACP denounced the move, saying that it should not eliminate slavery, Jim Crow laws, police brutality, and the problems many Blacks face every day, including, for example,…
Read MoreCook County State’s Attorney put 275 police officers on a do not call for court list
The Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said she has released the names of 275 Chicago, suburban, and state police officers that were placed on the “Do Not Call List†which means they should not be allowed to testify in court because of their past misconduct, including unjustly framing people who went to prison. The list…
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