Honoring our Black fighting women

Lt. Col. Charity

Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams was a member of the Women’s Army Corps and headed the 688th Central Postal Directory Battalion. These women delivered mail from the home front to troops in the European theater, processing an average of 65,000 pieces of mail per shift. By ensuring that all the mail was delivered, she helped maintain…

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We were there 

Cpl. Wavely Bernard Woodson was recommended by his commanding general to be awarded Medal of Honor. He saved more than 200 soldiers. The recommendation for award was lost.

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Nation’s only Black governor says no to reparations

The country’s only Black governor vetoed reparations for Blacks in the state…because? Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland, said he doesn’t need another commission report. He vetoed a bill that would have created a commission to study and recommend reparations for African Americans who were impacted by slavery.  In a letter to Senate President Bill Ferguson, the…

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Mayor Brandon Johnson responds to the DOJ investigation 

Mayor of Chicago

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson wants to provide opportunities for Blacks, but he is up against the Trump administration, which employs only one Black male in the cabinet among a sea of Whites, making Johnson’s comments sound like heresy, and the focus of a Department of Justice Investigation. In a May 19 letter, Harmeet K. Dhillion, assistant…

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Black men now run cities where White mobs once lynched Black men and burned Black neighborhoods

Mayor of Omaha

Black men have recently been elected for the first time as mayors in Omaha, Nebraska, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, two cities where historically Black men were lynched and Black neighborhoods and businesses were burned to the ground. Both cities suffered through extreme racial strife, including instances when White mobs joined with local police and federal troops…

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