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State Supreme Court denies new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court in September 2024 denied Mumia Abu-Jamal’s sixth petition to reverse his 1982 conviction for the alleged murder of a Philadelphia police officer after a judge ordered the District Attorney’s office to release all files related to Mumia’s arrest and conviction. A request to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for permission to appeal…
Read MoreCop 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–…
Read MoreThe last person rescued after 9-11
Genelle Guzman-McMillan was 30 years old and working as an administrate assistant on the 64th floor of the North Tower of the New York World Trade Center when the first of two hijacked passenger jets slammed into both buildings on September 11, 2001. American Airlines Flight 17 flew into the North Tower at 8:46 a.m.,…
Read MoreA physicist has found a way to travel back in time
One of my favorite movies growing up was “The Time Machine.” “The Time Machine” is based on a 1895 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the “Time Traveller” who travels to the year 802,701. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by…
Read MoreA Black man was found hanged on a Mississippi college campus
A Black man was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi, a state that has an abhorrent history of lynching Black men and boys and Blck women. Officials claim, Demartravion “Trey” Reed, died by suicide, not lynching, but not everyone accepts the official story because it keeps changing. Reed was found hanging from a tree on…
Read MoreTrump demands that Lisa Cook resign from the Federal Reserve Board. She says no way
President Donald Trump has demanded that the U.S. Central Bank force Lisa D. Cook, to step down as a Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, after Trumpofficials alleged that Cook was involved in a case involving mortgage fraud. Cook has not been charged with a crime. Cook angrily told Trump she is not leaving and that…
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