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Gubernatorial candidates Andrew Gillum (Florida) and Stacey Abrams (Georgia) have given the November mid-term elections just the spark it needed. It’s not easy to get voters fired up for non-presidential elections so the national attention these two candidates are getting is inspiring voters in those states. But what about the rest of the country […]
Detroit’s public school students are experiencing a health predicament and here’s the solution: They can’t drink the water. The water fountains are dry because drinking water has been shut off at all of Detroit’s 106 schools serving more than 40,000 students since officials discovered the water in 16 schools contained high levels of lead or […]
White supremacists are unabashedly engaging in the politics of fear by targeting Andrew Gillum, the first African American nominee for Florida governor, with a series of racist robocalls intended for white voters. In one automated phone call heard by two media organizations, a man pretends to be Gillum speaking in stereotypical Black dialect while […]
President Donald Trump is openly using “violent” Black people as a political tool to scare his conservative base leading up to the November mid-term elections. It’s a new low for Trump — who always takes the low road. CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin is correctly criticizing Trump for what he said is a racist […]
Black boys are afraid to travel through white neighborhoods in America. This isn’t necessarily a startling revelation for Black folks in our republic, but the new study by The Ohio State University may be illuminating for some in mainstream America. Here’s how the study worked: Researchers gave 506 black youths in Columbus, Ohio smartphones that […]
Dana White, the Pentagon’s top spokeswoman, could be in trouble. White, one of the few high-ranking African-Americans in the Trump administration, works directly for Defense Secretary James Mattis. White is being investigated by the Defense Department Office of Inspector General for allegedly retaliating against staff members after she ordered them to run personal errands for […]
“Aretha helped define the American experience. In her voice, we could feel our history, all of it and in every shade—our power and our pain, our darkness and our light.” — Former President Barack Obama I grew up in Detroit in the 1960s where Aretha Franklin, the undisputed “Queen of Soul,” was affectionately known as […]
The New York City Fire Department is dealing with racists within its ranks. A white firefighter is under investigation this month after he shouted a racist and sexist insult at a Black female emergency medical technician while she was assisting residents in need, according to The New York Daily News. The woman filed a formal […]
The Queen and I go way back. I have been a fan of hers from the beginning. How could I not be? She literally took R&B music to another stratosphere and since I play the hits, you know the Queen was in heavy rotation. I met her face to face for the first time when […]
For some heartless people in this republic, the life of a Black man is worthless. This assertion was played out in real life last week in Long Beach, California when a white man on a commuter train dragged an unconscious Black man off the train, left him on the concrete platform, and quickly stepped back […]
President Donald Trump is threatening to shut down the federal government – again – if Congress does not fund his foolhardy border wall notion. Since the 2016 presidential election, Trump has promised his loyal base that he will build a wall to keep illegal immigrants from crossing over into the United States. Trump has repeatedly […]
Craig Kirby is changing the faces of golf one swing at a time. Kirby, founder of “Golf. My Future. My Game,” is on a mission to introduce more Black teens to the game of golf. Kirby started the nonprofit golf foundation in Washington, D.C., in 2014 to expose the predominantly white sport to Black kids […]
