Margie didn’t want to talk about the fancy stuff I was doing, and never tried to compete with me. She didn’t care about that stuff, wasn’t impressed. Margaret: I think that is an advantage of being old. I finished my first manuscript, which wasn’t published yet, on my 40th birthday. …
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New Black Voter Outreach Initiative Will Target 12 States, Run digital PSAs and Ads. Sept. 17, 2020 A new major outreach initiative to get African American and other marginalized communities to the polls has been launched as the 2020 presidential election approaches. The Black Voters Matter Fund says on its …
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Jake Gardner, an Omaha bar owner, has been indicted by a grand jury for the fatal shooting of James Scurlock, a 22-year-old Black man. According to CNN, Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine had previously decided not to bring charges against Gardner, who claimed he was acting in self-defense. Days later …
Read More »Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Criticizes Trump For Early Shutdown of Census Count
The COVID-19, or novel coronavirus pandemic, has made collecting data for the 2020 Census difficult, especially under the guidance of the Trump administration. On Wednesday, during an online conference, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms called out the administration’s plan to slow down in-person data collection for the Census Bureau, calling …
Read More »Another Day, Another Dolezal: UW-Madison Student Admits They Been Pulling a Krug and Apologizes for Faking Blackness
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