Reparations
Congressional Black Caucus grows to 62 members
New York representative Yvette C. Clark will become chairman of the largest Congressional Black Causes in history with 62 members when 119th Congress convenes on January 3, 2025. Clark succeeds Representative Steven Horsford from Nevada. The caucus also will have two Black women U.S. Senators if they decide to join. They are Lisa Blunt Rochester of…
Read MoreGovernor Ron DeSantis wants to whitewash Black History as though it never existed
The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for how Black history should be taught in the state’s public schools, but the head of the NAACP denounced the move, saying that it should not eliminate slavery, Jim Crow laws, police brutality, and the problems many Blacks face every day, including, for example,…
Read MoreThe reparations committee proposes paying each Black person who lives in San Francisco $5 million
San Francisco has proposed to give the dwindling number of Black adults still living in the “City by the Bay†a $5 million payout, but the San Francisco branch of the NAACP, which is part of the nation’s largest civil rights organization, thinks it’s a bad idea and Supervisor Shamann Walton, who is leading reparations…
Read MoreBruce’s Beach was a place where Black people had fun and Whites were irked
It was a place where Black people could swim, lie on the beach, soak up the Sun, picnic, and just be happy. The Bruce family called it Bruce’s Beach. It was developed by Willa and Charles Bruce, a husband-and-wife team. Charles named the beach after his wife. The property at 26th Street and Highland Avenue was owned…
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