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Northern Ireland elects a Black woman as mayor of one of its largest cities
Lilian Seenoi-Barr arrived in Northern Ireland as a refugee and is now the first Black woman to be elected mayor of Derry, also known as Londonderry and Strabane, a town in County Tyrone. This is believed to be the first time a Black politician has been elected to public office in Northern Ireland, although Rotimi Adebari, a…
Read MoreCoretta Scott King was born in April
Coretta Scott King, born April 27, 1927, was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until he was murdered on April 4, 1968. She died on January 30, 2006.
Read MoreMumia Abu-Jamal praises pro-Palestine student activists
In an address to students at the City University of New York on Friday night, the incarcerated Black political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal praised the pro-Palestinian growing at U.S. colleges as being on the right side of history. “It is a wonderful thing that you have decided not to be silent and decided to speak out…
Read MoreJalen Rose will deliver the keynote address for the symposium concerning Black men and boys
Jalen Rose
Read MoreCongressman Donald Payne Jr. dies
Rep. Payne dies
Read MoreThe issue is key in a Sundown Town, where Blacks couldn’t live
The U.S. Supreme Court is taking on the issue of homelessness, which affects large numbers of Black people nationwide because, as a group, we comprise the nation’s largest homeless population. On Monday, the court argued whether local officials could ban homeless men and women from sleeping in the city’s public parks by charging them a…
Read MoreChicago police shot a driver 96 times for not wearing a seat belt
Chicago police shot at Dexter Reed 96 times
Read MoreO.J. Simpson is dead
O.J. Simpson has died
Read MoreWillis can pursue Trump, but Nathan Wade, the Special Prosecutor, is forced to step down.
Fulton County Georgia District Attorney Fani T. Willis can continue to prosecute former President Donald Trump for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election in which voters elected Joe Biden president, but Willis must dismiss Nathan Wade who went before the grand jury to indict 18 of Trump’s followers. Judge Scott McAfee ruled that Willis’s relationship with special prosecutor Nathan…
Read MoreJeffery Wright deserved the Oscar he didn’t win
Jeffrey Wright
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