Posts Tagged ‘Black History’
The death of Nolan Xavier Wells are inconclusive
Nolan Wells was found dead on a remote island
Read MoreGeorge E. Johnson has died
George Johnson, cofounder Johnson Products Company, has died.
Read MoreDanny Glover says he is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, a form of dementia
By Frederick H. Lowe Actor Danny Glover said that he is suffering from Alzheimer’s, a disease that affects twice as many Blacks as Whites. But many Blacks believe that getting older causes forgetfulness and memory loss, not a disease like Alzheimer’s, which accounts for 60 to 80 percent of dementia-related cases. The Alzheimer’s Association reports…
Read MoreA Black man was found hanged on a Mississippi college campus
A Black man was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi, a state that has an abhorrent history of lynching Black men and boys and Blck women. Officials claim, Demartravion “Trey” Reed, died by suicide, not lynching, but not everyone accepts the official story because it keeps changing. Reed was found hanging from a tree on…
Read MoreSpike Lee and his wife, Tonya, are named ambassadors to Benin
The country or Benin has appointed American filmmaker Spike Lee and his wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, a seasoned producer and author, as its ambassadors for African Americans in the US, which coincides with the country offering people of African descent a chance to visit and claim their citizenship if eligible. Benin’s southern coast has a…
Read MoreBlack men fought both the Viet Cong and the White Klansmen in Vietnam
Honoring Our Black Veterans on Memorial Day More than 300,000 Black Americans served in Vietnam, but it reminds me of what Muhammad Ali said when he refused to be drafted. Ali said “No Viet Cong ever called me Nigger.” Black men who fought in Vietnam also battled the Ku Klux Klan there. It was as…
Read MoreNation’s only Black governor says no to reparations
The country’s only Black governor vetoed reparations for Blacks in the state…because? Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland, said he doesn’t need another commission report. He vetoed a bill that would have created a commission to study and recommend reparations for African Americans who were impacted by slavery. In a letter to Senate President Bill Ferguson, the…
Read MoreThe movie “Patton” makes Black soldiers invisible
General Patton. awards Silver Star to Private Ernest Jenkin
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 MoreJudge claims wife helped kill her husband, the Haiti president
Martine Moise has been charged along with 51 others for killing her husband, Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise. President Moise was shot dead in his bedroom on July 7, 2021. The 47-year-old Moise was shot twelve times and killed. His wife suffered gunshots to her arms and thigh, along with other injuries to her hand and…
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