Black Women
Climate Change Conference opens in Azerbaijan
With flash floods in Spain, droughts in California, Asia, and Africa, back-to-back devastating hurricanes in Florida, and record high temperatures, the Climate Change Conference, COP29, opened today in Baku, Azerbaijan to address some of those issues and many others. The conference is being held following the election of President Donald Trump who does not believe…
Read MoreVoters elect two Black women to the U.S. Senate
They are Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware (Left) and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland. Blunt Rochester, a congresswoman from Delaware, will be the first woman and Black senator to represent the state. Alsobrooks, a former county executive and prosecutor who beat out the state’s former Republican governor in a tight race is the first Black senator from Maryland. Both women…
Read MoreKamala Harris demands a recount of last week’s election
The Harris Campaign, representing the defeated presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic National Committee, and state Democratic parties, are demanding a recount of last week’s election that will put former President Donald Trump back into the White House, according to the site’s fundraising page. The move comes after former president Donald Trump officially…
Read MoreVice President Harris concedes
Black men voted for Harris; White women and Latino men didn’t Vice President Kalama Harris conceded Wednesday’s election to Republican Donald Trump, who won the nation’s presidency for the second time. “I know some of you feel sad and disappointed,” Harris told Howard University students, their parents, and others who gathered on the school’s campus,…
Read MoreIllinois sheriff, who hired Sean Grayson, quits
Sonya Massey and deputy who killed her.
Read MoreHundreds Attend Airman Roger Fortson’s funeral
Hundreds of Air Force members in dress blues joined Roger Fortson‘s family, friends, and others at a suburban Atlanta megachurch on Friday to pay their final respects to the Black senior airman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home earlier this month by a sheriff’s deputy. People lined up well before the start of…
Read MoreMarilyn Mosby, former Baltimore State’s Attorney, has been convicted
Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby
Read MoreNorthern 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 MoreFani Willis said she didn’t take the witness stand to emasculate Black men
Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney of Georgia, was the surprise witness at her trial on Thursday, in which supporters of former President Donald are pushing to disqualify her for alleging Trump attempted to overthrow the 2020 election. Willis told Trump’s fleet of lawyers, “You think I am on trial, but you are…
Read MoreCongressman Sheila Jackson Lee loses race to become Houston Mayor
Even with support from national heavy hitters, Congressman Sheila Jackson struck out. She was defeated by a wide margin by State Sen. John Whitmire to become the mayor of Houston, Texas.  Whitmire received the largest share of votes with 43%, while Jackson Lee received 36%. The campaign focused on crime, affordable housing, and controlling…
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