Politics
Kamala 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 MoreDr. Nathan Hare, the father of Black Studies, has died
Dr. Nathan Hare, the founder of “Father of Black Studies,” died Monday, June 10. He was 91. Dr. Hare was hired by San Francisco State College, now San Francisco State University, as the first program coordinator for the institution’s Black Studies program in 1968. The program was the first of its kind in the United…
Read MoreFormer President Donald Trump has selected Ohio Senator J D Vance as his running mate
JT Vance, Republican VP nominee
Read MoreAmerica’s top Black think tank has a new leader
America’s top Black think tank has selected Dedrick Asante-Muhammad as president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, succeeding Spencer Overton, who served as president for 10 years before stepping down on June 14, 2023. Jessica Fulton, vice president of policy, was named interim president on June 14. She will remain in this…
Read MoreAmerica’s top Black think tank has a new leader
America’s top Black think tank has selected Dedrick Asante-Muhammad as president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, succeeding Spencer Overton, who served as president for 10 years before stepping down on June 14, 2023. Jessica Fulton, vice president of policy, was named interim president on June 14. She will remain in this…
Read MoreJerod Mayo is named the Patriots’ head coach
Linebacker coach Jerod Mayo has been named New England Patriots Bill Belichick’s replacement, which are tough cleats to fill since Belichick won six Super Bowls as head coach. Mayo is the first Black head coach in team history, and at 38 years, he is the youngest of all NFL coaches. The Patriots feel that team…
Read MoreFormer leader of the Proud Boys sentenced to 22 years in prison.
A judge sentenced Enrique Tarrio, the former national chairman of the Proud Boys, a far-right neo-fascist organization, to 22 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Tarrio was one of six Proud Boys leaders charged with conspiring to stop the 2020 certification of presidential election results…
Read MoreYusef Salaam of the Central Park Five wins the New York primary to represent Harlem
Yusef Salaam, who seven years in prison for a crime he did not commit, declared himself the winner of the New York City primary to represent Harlem in the city council. As of Wednesday, Salaam won 50.1 percent of the vote, although mail-end ballots remain to be counted. New York has a ranked voting system,…
Read MoreA member of Central Park Five is running for New York City Council
When Yusef Salaam and the other four members of the Central Park Five were cleared after another man confessed to the 1980 brutal rape and beating of Trisha Meili, the Central Park jogger, Donald Trump didn’t like it one bit. Trump took out a full-page ad in four New York newspapers, calling for the boys…
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…
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