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Michigan State’s head football coach has been suspended for sexual harassment
Mel Tucker, the Michigan State head football coach, has been suspended without pay for allegedly sexually harassing a colleague. Tucker, one of the highest-paid coaches in college football, is accused of sexually harassing Brenda Tracy, a prominent sexual assault prevention advocate who has made educating athletes about sexual violence her life’s work. In a December…
Read MoreAlpha Phi Alpha rejects Florida as its 2025 convention venue
The nation’s oldest Black Fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, will move its 2025 convention out of Florida because of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s racist comments. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., will also relocate the fraternity’s 99th General Convention and 119th Anniversary Convention from Orlando due to DeSantis’s racist comments and insensitive policies against the Black community,” according to…
Read MoreThe late Congressman John Lewis gets a stamp of perfection
The U.S. Postal Service recently honored the late Congressman John Lewis and a civil rights icon by issuing a Forever Stamp in his honor. The John Lewis Commemorative Stamp will sell for 66 cents. The stamp was unveiled at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Congressmen Lewis died on July 17, 2020, of stage four pancreatic cancer. A…
Read MoreRev. Jackson, who will step down as head of the Rainbow Push Coalition, names his successor
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, who is mostly confined to a wheelchair because he is suffering from Parkinson’s disease, announced that he is stepping down as founder and president of Rainbow PUSH Coalition, which he founded in 1971. He also named his successor, Rev. Frederick Douglas Haynes, III, pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church of Dallas. The…
Read MoreThe news media made all the news today
Tucker Carlson has been fired by Fox News and Don Lemon has been fired by CNN after 17 years at the cable station. Lemon, 57, who earned $4 million per year, said he was stunned by the firing. Lemon issued a statement on the same day saying he regretted his “inartful and irrelevant” comments. He…
Read MoreTrump faces the music Tuesday
Former President Donald Trump will be arraigned Tuesday in New York after being indicted by a Manhattan New York grand jury, making him the first former president to face criminal charges. Trump will be booked and fingerprinted and have the charges read against him. This is the first time we will learn the full extent…
Read MoreMore earthquakes strike Turkey and Syria
A shallow magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the Turkey-Syria border region after it was devastated earlier this month by temblors that killed tens of thousands of people. The quake hit the town of Defne at 8:04 pm and was strongly felt in the cities of Antakya and Adana, 200km (300 miles) to the north, according to…
Read MoreThe staff of the 118th Congress is short on diversity
The 118 Congress, which opened Monday, is falling short relative to staff diversity, according to the Joint Center for Political Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank for Black elected officials. The Joint Center noted there are 1,599 top positions, including chief of staff, legislative directors, and communications director for returning members of 118 Congress. …
Read MorePolice have put targets on Black men’s backs
In 2022, U. S. police killed 212 Blacks, though Blacks make up only 13 percent of the nation’s population, according to the report Mapping Police Violence. Police killed Black people in 37 states and the District of Columbia. Overall, the police killed 1,183 in 2022. A database run by the Washington Post reported that it was…
Read MoreWorld Health Organization pushes nations for clean water and sanitation
The World Health Organization reported that accelerated action is needed to ensure safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene to prevent devasting impacts on the health of millions of people. “We are facing an urgent crisis: poor access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene claim millions of lives each year, while the increasing frequency and…
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