Cummings was chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee investigating President Donald Trump He represented Maryland’s 7th District since 1996. U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee investigating the possible impeachment of President Donald Trump, died Tuesday in a Baltimore hospice. Representative Cummings, who represented Baltimore’s 7th Congressional District since 1996, was[Read More…]
Automation is quickly pushing black men out of the workforce Corporations are being pushed to include racial equity in their hiring Why aren’t black people talking about this crucial issue? By Frederick H. Lowe BlackmansStreet.Today Black men are predicted to suffer even higher unemployment then they do now because they work jobs that will be replaced by artificial intelligence. McKinsey[Read More…]
The former police officer charged with murder He shot her to death during a wellness check She will be buried Friday in Dallas Aaron Dean, a Fort Worth, Texas, police officer who shot to death a black woman during what was supposed to be a wellness check, has resigned from the police department. Interim Fort Worth Police Chief Ed Kraus[Read More…]
Led by and pushed by pacers, Eilud Kipchoge, who is the world’s best marathon runner and Olympic champion, ran the 26.2-mile course in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 40 seconds, becoming the first person to run the marathon under 2 hours. Although Kipchoge of Kenya broke the 2-hour record in front of a screaming crowd of onlookers that lined the[Read More…]
Fort Worth cop shoots to death black woman in her own home A wellness check proves to be fatal by Frederick H. Lowe BlackmansStreet.Today A Fort Worth, Texas, police officer dispatched to a home for a wellness check shot and killed the occupant. The cop, who has not been named, fired a fatal shot around 2:20 a.m. through a window[Read More…]
Black men comprise only 2 percent of the nearly 2 million public school teachers, according to Call Me Mr., an organization that wants to get more black men in front of the classroom. In 1954, there were 82,000 black teachers in American public schools. In the decade following the Brown v. Board of Education decision, nearly 40,000 black teachers and[Read More…]
Police claim Brown was murdered during a botched drug deal By Frederick H. Lowe BlackmansStreet.Today The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is pushing for an independent investigation into the murder of Joshua Brown, a key witness in the recent trial of Amber Guyger, a former Dallas cop, who shot to death Botham Jean and was sentenced to 10 years[Read More…]
Joshua Brown feared his testimony could lead to his murder Elected officials demand police find his killer or killers By Frederick H. Lowe BlackmansStreet.Today Botham Jean’s neighbor who testified courageously and tearfully as a prosecution witness in the murder trial of former Dallas cop Amber Guyger, was found shot dead Friday night in Dallas. Joshua Brown, who lived[Read More…]
By Frederick H. Lowe BlackmansStreet.Today I haven’t been able to sleep well at night since the outcome of the murder trial of former Dallas cop Amber Guyger, who shot to death Botham Jean. My wife is worried. The trial ended last week. The 12-person jury sentenced Guyger to 10 years in prison for the September 6, 2018, murder[Read More…]
The victim’s brother and the judge hugged the killer. Her racist comments about blacks don’t seem to matter to them By Frederick H. Lowe BlackmansStreet.Today Former Dallas cop Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for the 2018 murder of Botham Shem Jean, a sentence that was much shorter than prosecutors sought. Some[Read More…]
