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Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott is running
Tim Scott, the lone Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, is seeking the 2024 presidential nomination, according to a filing with the U.S. election regulator on Friday. He represents South Carolina. But Scott needs to drop his colorblindness and appeal directly to Black men who are increasingly attracted to the conservative movement, said Felecia Killings,…
Read MoreThe nation’s largest and oldest civil rights organization is urging Black travelers to avoid Florida
Today, the NAACP Board of Directors issued a formal travel advisory for the state of Florida. The travel advisory comes in direct response to Governor Ron DeSantis’ aggressive attempts to erase Black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools. The decision by the NAACP follows the League of United Latin…
Read MoreRachael Rollins resigns as U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts
Rachael Splaine Rollins, the first Black woman to be named U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, resigned in the wake of an ethics probe. She was accused of giving a reporter non-public information and getting 30 free tickets to Boston Celtics games and getting free tickets to boxing matches. In a letter to President Joe Biden, Rollins thanked the…
Read MoreJim Brown taught us to question the Vietnam War
I followed Jim Brown as the leading running back for the Cleveland Browns, but what drew me to him was his having organized other Black men to support Muhammad Ali, who refused to be drafted to fight in Vietnam. It was a courageous position for Ali and the Black men to take. I would read…
Read MoreAfrica once ruled ancient Egypt
Comedian Kevin Hart was forced to cancel a planned show in February in Cairo, Egypt, after saying that the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt were Black, according to Middle East Eye, an online newspaper. Hart said, “We must teach our children the true history of when they were the Kings in Egypt and not just the era…
Read MoreRemembrance held for Buffalo’s 2022 mass shooting victims
A remembrance was held Sunday for the Black man and Black woman who were gunned down while either shopping or working at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo by a White supremacist who wrote “Nigger” on an AK-15 automatic weapon. Each time the names of the innocent victims murdered by Peyton Gendron were mentioned, a bell…
Read MoreDaniel Penney’s murder of Jordan Neeley has raised $2 million
Daniel Penny who is charged with killing Jordan Neeley, a Michael Jackson impersonator, on May 1 by putting him in a chokehold on the subway as two other men also held him down, raised $2 million for his defense fund. Some of the money came from Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy who donated $10,000 to…
Read MoreWhite man sentenced to 25 years for the murder of Black Lives Matter protestor
A White man who killed a White Black Lives Matter protestor has been sentenced to 25 years in prison although Governor Greg Abbott has said he will pardon him. The former U.S. Army sergeant Daniel Perry shot Garrett Foster, an Air Force veteran Garrett Forster, during an Austin, Texas, racial justice rally two months after…
Read MoreFormer President Trump ordered to pay Elizabeth Jean Carrol $5 million
Former President Don Trump today has been ordered to pay journalist  Elizabeth Jean Carrol $5 million dollars for sexually abusing her in a Fifth Avenue, New York, department store. Carroll alleged Trump raped her in the Bergdorf Goodman department store and then defamed her when he denied her claim, saying she wasn’t his type. He suggested…
Read MoreGrace Ann Melzia Bumbry, a leading mezzo-sopranos, dies
Grace Ann Melzia Bumbry died May 7 was an American opera singer, considered one of the leading mezzo-sopranos. She was a member of a pioneering generation of African-American opera and classical singers, beginning with Leontyne Price. She was 86 when she died in Vienna, Austria.
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