VI LYLES HAS been elected as Charlotte’s next mayor, beating GOP candidate Kenny Smith and becoming the sixth consecutive Democrat to hold the office since 2009. Lyles is the city’s first African-American woman to hold the office. She is a city council member and mayor pro tem, a role elected by the council to preside […]
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Two marches aimed at highlighting racial injustices — particularly those facing women of color — will converge Saturday on the National Mall, as reported in the Washington Post. The March for Racial Justice and the March for Black Women will have independent rallies in the nation’s capital, then meet at Lincoln Park in the Capitol
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Is the 45th President of these United States purposely presenting two distinct personalities to mislead, confuse, and antagonize as well to ignite his base? Trump spoke to the United Nations on Tuesday (Sept 19), reverting back to his campaign “tough talk” he called North Korea leader Kim Yung UN “Rocket Man.” Who does that? He
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August 28th is not just another day. At least not for black America. It’s a day to honor, remember and to reflect on the significant historical events that happened on this date. On this day in 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Money, Mississippi. Exactly eight years later in 1963, over 250,000 thousand marched on Washington to demand
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As Trump reverses himself on Afghanistan and the USA sends more troops to this financially and ethically decrepit “hole”, the true facts of the “problem” stand out in the statistics. Seventy percent of the population is rural with an annual income of just $410—repeat–annually. Averaged, the annual income of its citizens is just $1880 per
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I am a strong advocate of the concept of free speech. However, allowing Nazis and neo-Nazis the freedom spew their racist language and create discord (and death) in our country is beyond the pale of “expressing oneself”. The world fought WWII because of Nazi hate speech that claimed the lives of 60 million people (some
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Starting in 2018, the state of Chicago will annually observe “Barack Obama Day.” That’s right, on Friday Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed “Barack Obama Day” into law giving former President Barack Obama, his own state holiday, NBC Chicago reports. The holiday will be observed throughout the State as a day set apart to honor
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Pennsylvania native Kaye Oyegun, is the latest addition to the Angela Davis biopic, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. Graduating from the University of Pittsburg and the University of Southern California MFA program, Kay Oyegun is known for her writing on the powerful and unapologetic hit television series, QUEEN SUGAR, and the beloved
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By D. L. White Trump knew Russia was involved…… “Truth crushed to the earth will rise again,” stated the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in a speech before a standing room audience in Michigan on March 14, 1968. Continued Dr. King, “No lie can live forever.” Dr. King was not addressing those statements to a
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Gregory Allen Howard (“Remember the Titans”) has been hired to pen a biopic of Fannie Lou Hamer – a sharecropper who became an important voting-rights advocate and founded the first integrated political party in 1960s Mississippi. Hamer helped organize the 1964 Freedom Summer African-American voter registration drive in her native Mississippi. At the Democratic National
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