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Elon Musk carried a medicine box to pop pills
Elon Musk, former advisor to President Donald Trump, told reporter Don Lemon in 2014 that he took small amounts of ketamine. Ketamine is used as an anesthetic for surgery, a treatment for depression, and is a drug often abused. Matthew Perry, the actor on the TV show “Friends,” died from an overdose of ketamine administered…
Read MoreHarvard takes off its sheet, and White supremacy surfaces
The plaintiff, Tamara Lanier, wanted Harvard to acknowledge its complicity in slavery Harvard, a beacon of liberal education, has a racist past, and it is finally coming to light. And it goes much deeper than “Good Old Boys” attending a KKK meeting. It is based on scientific racism, including people wearing suits and dresses and…
Read MoreTrump commuted the sentence of Gangster Disciples leader Larry Hoover
President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, leader of the Gangster Disciples, a Chicago-based gang, who is in prison for murdering a rival gang member who, like himself, was involved in the illegal drug trade. Larry Hoover Jr. thanked President Trump and Ye (formerly Kanye West), a Trump backer, for advocating for his…
Read MoreFormer Congressman Charles B. Rangel has died
Former Congressman Charles Rangle has died
Read MoreBlack men fought both the Viet Cong and the White Klansmen in Vietnam
Honoring Our Black Veterans on Memorial Day More than 300,000 Black Americans served in Vietnam, but it reminds me of what Muhammad Ali said when he refused to be drafted. Ali said “No Viet Cong ever called me Nigger.” Black men who fought in Vietnam also battled the Ku Klux Klan there. It was as…
Read MoreHonoring our Black fighting women
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…
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreThe alleged murder of the UnitedHealth Group executive continues to reverberate
Luigi Mangione fired the shot heard around the world. Mangione allegedly shot and killed the UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson last December in busy New York City, according to police. Thompson was shot and killed as he walked to an early morning meeting in Manhattan. Though Mangione’s gun is said to have jammed, he cleared the…
Read MoreNation’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…
Read MoreFormer President Joe Biden is suffering from prostate cancer
Former President Joe Biden is suffering from prostate cancer, an ailment common in Black menFormer President Joe Biden has an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer that has spread to the bone, a spokesperson said on May 18.Biden, 82, was diagnosed on May 16. His test results indicate that the former president has one of the…
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