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Screenshot: @tomselliott (Twitter)/CBS news Gayle King interviewed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for CBS’s This Morning on Friday, just a day before Trump announced his nominee for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s recently vacated seat on the Supreme Court with the full confidence that he would be supported by Republicans—though Ginsburg hasn’t …
Read More »Keke Palmer Blasts Tory Lanez In Lengthy Instagram Post
Tory Lanez’s surprise Friday night drop of his “response” to allegations he shot Megan Thee Stallion in the foot, in the form of a diss track, didn’t go over too well on the internet. And the latest to hold him to task is Keke Palmer. The actress and activist posted …
Read More »Black Physicians Group Will Independently Vet Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines
The rush by President Trump to get a vaccine for the coronavirus to the general public before the election is leaving many people feeling uneasy. Some Black and brown people feel that the rush is motivated by Trump’s political agenda while others feel that the first round of recipients will …
Read More »Witness Who Backed Louisville Police's Testimony First Had a Different Story, and More Troubling Aspects of the Breonna Taylor Investigation Daniel Cameron Didn't Mention
Photo: Jon Cherry (Getty Images) The defensive posturing and show of force that the Louisville Metro Police Department came out with this week in anticipation of the grand jury verdict regarding the culpability of its police in the killing of Breonna Taylor, may have indicated a recognition in them that …
Read More »<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: Three Stories We’re Following
Our staff writer Amanda Mull, who recently wrote about the role of the gym in America life, weighs in: Going to the gym right now is, on balance, a bad idea. Breathing heavily indoors with strangers is one of the key ways that the coronavirus spreads, and gyms have …
Read More »Kyle Rittenhouse’s Mother Gets Standing Ovation At GOP Event
The mother of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old Kenosha gunman who killed two Black Lives Matter protesters and seriously wounded a third, reportedly received a standing ovation for being at a GOP event in Wisconsin. Wendy Rittenhouse received a warm welcome at a meeting hosted by The Republican Women of Waukesha …
Read More »Founder of Black-Owned Bakery in Chicago Buys Historic Candy Factory For $500K
0 image: BlackBusiness.com Stephanie Hart, the owner and founder of Brown Sugar Bakery in Chicago, is buying out a historic 84-year old candy factory called Cupid Candies. To finalize the acquisition, she is using the funds from a $500,000 small business grant that she recently received from the state of …
Read More »Trump Nominates Amy Coney Barrett to Fill RBG's Supreme Court Seat, Senate Republicans Plan to Confirm Her Before November
Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images) President Trump announced on Saturday that he is nominating Amy Coney Barrett, a decidedly faith-based and conservative judge, to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death a little over a week ago. Barrett, who clerked for former Justice Antonin …
Read More »Supporting Protesters Without Undermining Them
The question then becomes: How can foreign powers support the Belarusian prodemocracy movement without undermining it? Read: What Belarus learned from the rest of the world Framing dissent as a product of foreign interference is a well-tested tactic in the autocratic playbook. It’s how Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed protests …
Read More »This Day in Black History: Sept. 26, 1981
Reigning tennis superstar Serena Williams was born in Saginaw, Michigan, on Sept. 26, 1981. She is the youngest of five girls. Williams began practicing with her father two hours a day when she was 3-years-old with her sister Venus Williams at tennis courts in Compton, California. Her father taught them …
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