Archive for November 2025
Cop acquitted in the murder of pregnant Black woman
An Ohio jury of eight women and four men acquitted a policeman of murdering a pregnant woman and killing her unborn child, due this month, after shooting her in a supermarket parking lot for shoplifting $600 worth of liquor. The verdict set off jubilation for the cop, Connor Grubb, who smiled after the verdict was…
Read MoreLast survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, died at 111 years old on November 24, surrounded by family in a Tulsa hospital. Fletcher was just 7 years old during the attack that destroyed Tulsa’s prosperous Black Wall Street; her memoir recounts the terror and devastation she witnessed. She spent her life…
Read MoreH. Rap Brown has died
H. Rap Brown, also known as Jamil Abdulllah Al-Amin, one of the most charismatic leaders of the Black Power Movement, died Sunday in the Federal Medical Center in North Carolina. He was 82. He was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s, and he later served as the Black Panther Party‘s Minister…
Read MoreRev. Jesse Jackson has a brain injury
Jesse Jackson sufferming brain disorder.
Read MoreMacKenzie Scott donated millions to Howard Medical School
MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, who worked and helped him build Amazon into a billion-dollar company, on Wednesday donated $17 million to Howard University College of Medicine to train needed physicians and another $63 million to Howard University. Her gifts come on top of a $64 million donation she made in 2020–$40 million–…
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