Photo: Petty Officer 2nd Class Nathan Burke (AP) Black women keep making history and I, for one, love to see it. Next spring, Midshipman 1st Class Sydney Barber will become the first Black woman to serve as brigade commander at the U.S. Naval Academy. According to CBS News, brigade commander …
Read More »Joe Biden’s Debt to Black Voters Comes Due
Read: Why Biden won Americans patiently (and impatiently) waited for days as election officials counted ballots in Wisconsin and Michigan, and they continue to wait as officials count ballots in Pennsylvania and Georgia. Hillary Clinton lost all of those states in 2016, some of them by fewer than 11,000 votes. …
Read More »Haunting Last Words Of Teen Shot By Atlanta Cop
On Tuesday (November 10), the family of 17-year-old Vincent Truitt described what they saw on police body cam and dash cam footage of the teen’s final moments after he was shot and killed by an Atlanta-area police officer in July. Gerald A. Griggs, an attorney for the family, as well …
Read More »Neiman Marcus Adds African-Owned Skincare Brand To Its Premier Beauty Collection
0 Image via Yangu Beauty Since the start of the Black Lives Matter protests earlier this year, many have demanded that major corporations and institutions do more to advance diversity and inclusion within their business structures. Neiman Marcus announced this week that it will be adding to its premier beauty …
Read More »UN Criticizes US on Police Brutality, the Death Penalty and More After Human Rights Review
Photo: Shutterstock The United Nations basically told the United States to check its privilege after a human rights review Monday. Specifically, numerous countries, including U.S. allies, criticized the U.S. on its record for police violence against Black people, the death penalty and the separation of immigrant children from their parents. …
Read More »The Worst Day of the Pandemic Since May
Read: Wisconsin is on the brink of a major outbreak What we’re seeing in the Midwest could foreshadow what is in store for the rest of the nation. The current wave of COVID-19 infections stretches across the whole country, and hospitalizations are rising in every region. Per capita, hospitalizations in …
Read More »Detroit Stars React To Joe Biden Winning 2020 Election
President-elect Joe Biden will be the new Commander-in-Chief of the United States and a big reason for that win is the support he received our of Michigan which flipped blue with the help of massive Black voter turnout in cities like Detroit. RELATED: Donald Trump Refuses To Accept Election Defeat …
Read More »Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., Trump’s Evangelical Adviser, Dies At 66
Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., a Maryland pastor and evangelical adviser to President Donald Trump, has died at the age of 66. Jackson served as the senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, which released a statement after his death. “It is with a heavy heart that we notify …
Read More »Mike Tyson Reveals How He Dodged Drug Tests: a Prosthetic Penis and Pilfering His Own Child’s Urine
Photo: Noam Galai (Getty Images) If you’re looking for some slightly disturbing Mike Tyson trivia, urine luck. (I’m not sorry for that, not even a little bit.) The 54-year-old former heavyweight champion opened up—arguably a bit too much—on the latest episode of his podcast Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson, discussing how …
Read More »Democrats Have a Republican-Women Problem
Democrats’ progress in Maricopa is due, in part, to demographic changes. Liberal out-of-staters have settled in the county. The Latino community is growing—it now constitutes about one-quarter of the state’s eligible voters—and progressive groups such as Living United for Change in Arizona and Mi Familia Vota have spent years working …
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