Who is Congress (Collectively Speaking) “Beholding to?” By DL White First, let me define the word “Beholding” in the context it is being used in. Beholding is an “idiom,” meaning it is a phrase/word not found in the dictionary or encyclopedia, however, it is word used often and commonly by individuals of past generations and […]
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Uvalde Massacre Proof!!By D. L. White “When in God’s name will we (the US) do what we all know in our gut needs to be done?” President Joseph Biden A national conversation on the right and need of American citizens to possess “certain types” of firearms is long overdue.The latest evidence of a needed ban
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Congratulations Stacey Abrams on winning the Democratic primary, officially making her the Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia! Abrams will face a rematch in November’s general election with incumbent Brian Kemp, who was Secretary of State when he narrowly defeated her in 2018. She has been widely credited for her efforts to register hundreds of
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President Joe Biden is naming actor Taraji P. Henson and the NBA’s Chris Paul to a presidential advisory board on historically Black colleges and universities. They are among nine men and nine women Biden is appointing to the President’s Board of Advisors on HBCU’s, the White House announced Thursday. The board is tasked with advancing the goal of the of
President Joe Biden has selected Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to the Supreme Court, setting in motion a historic confirmation process for the first Black woman to sit on the highest court in the nation. Prior to taking office, President Joe Biden pledged to reshape the federal judiciary. In a December 2020 letter, during
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As the nation pauses to pay homage to one of our greatest civil rights icon, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., take a look at some little-known facts highlighting the incredible leader, orator, pastor and humanitarian: Today over 700 streets in the Unites States are named after Martin Luther King Jr., with one such street in
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Colin Powell, a former secretary of state and retired four-star general, has died of COVID-19 related complications, his family said in a statement on Facebook. Powell, 84, was born in New York City on April 5, 1937, in Harlem, a borough of Manhattan, to Jamaican immigrants, Maud Arial (née McKoy) and Luther Theophilus Powell. Hejoined
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By Rick Eastes I am increasingly perplexed by the pervasive false illusion of “American innocence” on the world stage; that, “we see ourselves as the good guys”. In too many instances, the US is the cause of immigrant strife wherever we stick our noses, especially in countries far from our borders where we have no
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From co-creators Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick comes Colin in Black & White, a bold new limited series that chronicles Kaepernick’s coming of age story, tackling the obstacles of race, class and culture as the Black adopted child of a white family. Colin in Black & White stars Jaden Michael as Young Colin before reaching
Rick Callender | On September 14 a special election will be held to determine whether Governor Gavin Newsom should be recalled. This is only the fourth time in American history – that a state has held a gubernatorial recall election. The last gubernatorial recall election in California took place nearly 20 years ago. This recall
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