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Leaders from the worlds of sports, business and politics are mourning the loss of Jimmie Lee Solomon, the trailblazer who broke barriers to become one of the highest-ranking executives in Major League Baseball. Among the most powerful sports executives during his 21-year tenure with MLB – from 1991 to 2012 …

Photo: Alex Brandon (AP) The President has returned to his campaigning activities despite his coronavirus diagnosis, delivering a speech from the White House on Saturday in which he called on the surprising number of Black and Latino people in attendance to vote Democrats “into oblivion.” At the event, billed by …

So the man understood, intimately, the threat of the virus; he chose not to wear a mask anyway. And he subjected everyone around him to the same logic. This is another way the Trump administration has eroded norms; the norm in this case is community itself. Notions of shared responsibility, …

Donald Trump’s first public rally since contracting COVID-19, held on the White House south lawn, raised red flags for a number of reasons. Despite the fact that the President is still infected with coronavirus and many in his inner circle are still sick from his last super-spreader event, the event …

President Donald Trump is convinced that he is the better candidate for Black voters in his quest to remain president of the United States. According to The New York Post, the president states that Black voters don’t like Former Vice President Joe Biden and “they don’t dig him” while having …

Photo: Rich Fury (Getty Images), JC Olivera (Getty Images), Gregg DeGuire (Getty Images), Leon Bennett (Getty Images) The next episode of “Zoom Where it Happens,” the online live table reading series launched by Black women to entertain viewers and encourage them to vote this year, will feature Black entertainers from …

City trees lead difficult lives. A lot of things are trying to kill them, particularly the trees planted on sidewalks: Tightly compacted soil with high alkaline content makes it harder for them to absorb nutrients. Tiny plots of land admit very little rainwater. They’ve got dogs peeing on them, people …

Mariah Carey is having to teach her children about racism probably before she wants too, because one of her 9-year-old twins has already experienced it. On Thursday’s Watch What Happens Live’s After Show, the iconic singer said that her son Moroccan was recently bullied by a “white supremacist.” “Rocky just …

Black content has become highly sought after by numerous Hollywood studios and now a viral comic series is the latest to get the greenlight to be adapted for the big screen. This week, Studio 8 and Warner Brothers announced it has acquired the right to adapt the comic series ‘Black’ …

Photo: Monica Schipper (Getty Images) Philanthropist and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, Mellody Hobson, has gifted her alma mater Princeton University with a major donation to construct a new residential college on the site of one previously named after Woodrow Wilson. This summer, the school’s Board of Trustees voted to remove …