Archive for August 2026
Gary, Indiana, has been without power for at least 12 days, but the power company promises to get it fixed by midnight today
A class action lawsuit was filed August 17 against Northern Indiana Public Service Company, or NIPSCO, following deadly storms on Aug. 11 that left the mostly Black residents of Gary, Ind., without electrical power, air conditioning and water for more than two weeks. A spokesman for NIPSCO said the company expects to restore most of the power by…
Read MoreNAACP joined Nolan Xavier Wells’ legal team
NAACP joined Nolan Xavier Wells’ legal team
By Frederick H. Lowe
BlackmansStreet.Today
The NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, has drawn a line in the sand to determine what happened to Nolan Wells, who went out with White friends on the 4th of July weekend and later was found dead near a remote Mississippi island.
Read MoreThe fall of Jason Arday
BlackmansStreet.Today Jason Arday, who became the youngest professor in the history of the University of Cambridge but was later charged with plagiarism and what some claimed was being hounded by the press over the allegations he angrily denied, was found dead in his home in Battersea, London, a week after he resigned. He resigned from…
Read MoreLuigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
By Frederick H. Lowe Luigi Mangione, who was considered by some to be a celebrity after shooting down and killing Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare CEO, today pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges that led to Thompson’s murder. He made the admission in front of Thompson’s mother, who was seated in the gallery along with several UnitedHealthcare executives. …
Read MoreAfter graduating from the University of Washington in Seattle, I took a job reporting for the New Pittsburgh Courier in Pittsburgh.
I was walking to a concert at Carnegie Mellon University, not far from where I lived. Police arrested me for no reason and took me to the police station. The first word out of the arresting cop’s mouth was “I hate you niggers.” I didn’t have a record, and my degree from the UofW couldn’t…
Read MoreKaroline Leavitt will depart as White House Press Secretary in August
President Donald Trump has announced today that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will step down at the end of August to focus on her family, but she will remain one of his top outside advisers. Leavitt is the youngest person to hold the position, having served since Trump’s return to the White House in…
Read MoreTrial finally opens in the murder of Tupac Shakur
By Frederick H. Lowe A man who participated in the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur went to trial Monday, 30 years after Shakur was killed.Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, faces a single count of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further, or assist a criminal gang in Shakur’s death. He has pleaded not…
Read MoreMumia Abu-Jamal seeks help from the United Nations to either release him or bring pressure to force a new trial
By Frederick H. Lowe Mumia Abu-Jamal’s lawyers are seeking a retrial, commutation, or release for Abu-Jamal, who has been in prison since 1981 for allegedly killing a Philadelphia cop. Abu-Jamal, a former reporter with whom I once worked, has exhausted his appeals in the United States courts and is taking his case to the United…
Read MoreLA wants cop jailed, but the DA is protecting the racists by citing the law
L.A. District Attorney
Read MoreBlack commercial airline pilots will meet beginning Aug. 12 in Chicago to celebrate the organization’s 50th anniversary
Frederick H. Lowe The Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals (OBAP) is holding its 50th anniversary at McCormick Place in Chicago. The organization represents Black commercial airline pilots in addition to encouraging young Black people to consider the airline industry as a vocation, such as aircraft mechanics. Before he was murdered by George Zimmerman in 2019,…
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