Chicago mayor delares Fred Hampton Day

Mayor Brandon Johnson declared August 30th Chairman Fred Hampton Day in the City of Chicago to honor the slain leader of the Chicago Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Chairman Fred Hampton’s commitment to racial and economic equality was the driving force that fueled his every action. Around 4:30 a.m. on December 4, 1969, plainclothes…

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Bill Pickney dies

Bill Pickney, the first Black man to circumnavigate the Earth from pole to pole, died on Thursday in an Atlanta hospital. Mr. Pickney, who was raised on the South Side of Chicago, was 87.  Mr. Pickney boarded his 47-cutter prior to his 55th birthday and began sailing around the world in August 1990, departing from Boston…

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The jobless rate for Blacks drops

By Frederick H. Lowe  The jobless rate for Blacks dropped, but not far enough to catch up with other ethnic groups. The August jobless rate for Black men fell to 5.0 percent compared to the seasonally adjusted average in August 2022 to 6.0 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate…

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Rosalind Brewer is out at Walgreens

By Frederick H. Lowe Rosalind Brewer, the CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, which owns Walgreens’ pharmaceutical Brewer chain, has been given the sack.  The company’s stock also dipped with Brewer’s departure. Her last day on the job was effective Friday, September 1. Brewer resigned after three years on the job as the result of a…

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Back-to-Schoolers Face Teacher Shortages, Polarization and Learning Gaps

By Selen Ozturk At an Aug. 18 EMS briefing, teachers and education officials discussed three challenges K-12 students face as they head back to school: teacher shortages, polarized curricula, and pandemic-era learning gaps. K-12 students returning to school this month face teacher shortages, pitched battles over curricula, and pandemic-era learning gaps, teachers and education officials explained…

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Former leader of Black Voices for Trump remains in jail

Harrison Floyd, former leader of the Black Voices for Trump, will remain in Fulton County Jail for the foreseeable future after claiming he could not afford an attorney. “An attorney would cost $40,000 to $100,000. I can’t afford it,” Harrison told Judge Emily Richardson.  Harrison requested a public defender but he didn’t qualify to be…

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Yevgeny Prigzhin dies in an airplane crash

Yevgeny Prigzhin, 62, who led an armed rebellion in June against Moscow, but turned back within 125 miles of the capital, was killed in an airplane crash Wednesday with ten people aboard. The plane was an Embraer Legacy 600 jet, according to the passenger list. The Pentagon said Thursday that initial intelligence indicates that the…

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Republican senator alleges the Fulton County District Attorney is persecuting Donald Trump

A Republican state senator has called for a special session of the Georgia Legislature to investigate Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who charged former President Trump and 18 others this week with attempting to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election results. State Sen. Colton Moore, who represents the northwest corner of Georgia, said Willis’s’ political persecution of…

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