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A 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…
Read MoreTrump kicks Kamala Harris’s Secret Service protection to crub
Trump is running a narcissistic vendetta President Donald Trump has dropped Secret Service protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party nominee in the 2024 election for president, quashing an 18-month extension ordered by President Joseph Biden after she left office. Trump, however, ordered the Secret Service detail to end on September…
Read MoreDocumentary shows the refusal to help Blacks during Hurricane Katrina
News media focused on looting, not Black residents being denied food, water, and shelter When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans 20 years ago on August 28, 2005, many of the city’s Black residents, especially those in the Lower 9th Ward, didn’t own cars or even know how to drive to flee the oncoming flood. The…
Read MoreBlack men’s participation in New Orleans Red Dress Run raises questions about their masculinity
The number of Black men wearing dresses to participate in the New Orleans Red Dress Run is beginning to alarm some observers. The Red Dress Run was held on August 9th in the New Orleans French Quarter. White men, White women, and Black women participate in the two-mile walk or run. The run started in…
Read MoreTrump fired the head of BLS based on the weak July jobs report
President Donald Trump on Friday fired Erika L. McEntarfer,the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, based on a weak July jobs report, after alleging that she manipulated the numbers to make him look bad. A stunning government report showed that hiring had slowed down significantly over the past three months. Taking to Truth Social, Trump took the report…
Read MoreHomeless drops in L.A. for a second year, but more housing is still needed
The Greater Los Angeles region experienced a second consecutive year-over-year decline in people experiencing homelessness, according to figures released July 14, but authorities warned that more housing will be needed to continue the downward trend. The annual point-in-time homeless count showed there was a 4% decrease in unhoused people across the county, while in the…
Read MoreBlack people in England are four times as likely to face homelessness, the Guardian reports
Black people in England are almost four times as likely to face homelessness as White people and substantially less likely to get social housing, according to the first major study into homelessness and racism in more than two decades. A three-year research project by academics at Heriot-Watt University found that ethnicity affects a person’s risk…
Read MoreFrench President and his wife sue Candace Owens
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, have filed a lawsuit against Candace Owens over her repeated claims that France’s first lady was born male. In a 219-page lawsuit filed Wednesday in Delaware Superior Court, the Macrons pointed to a March 2024 post on Xin, the website, in which Owens said that she would stake her “entire…
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