What You Need To Know: United States Army Specialist Henry Mayfield, Jr. was killed over the weekend. His army base in Kenya came under attack by terrorists associated with Al-Qaeda. The family of the 23-year-old soldier was notified by the Army Sunday afternoon at their home, south of Chicago. Specialist Mayfield was killed with two […]
What You Need To Know: This weekend, funeral processions for the Iranian military leader and other Iraqi officials moved through the country to the Iranian capital of Tehran. As one might imagine, emotions are high among citizens and eulogists alike. Reports indicate that at one of the stops, during a live broadcast on state TV, […]
What You Need To Know: The United Postal Service previously announced that the honor of the 43rd stamp in its Black Heritage Series will be bestowed upon trailblazing journalist, Gwen Ifill. She really blazed a trail for so many. Sadly, her 2016 death left a hole in the hearts of so many and in our […]
What You Need To Know: Tonee Turner is a young African American woman, missing for the last week from the Pittsburgh area. The Pittsburgh artist was last seen at a local tea shop around 6 PM Monday, December 30. Her personal belongings, including her phone, wallet, and keys were discovered later that night, but not […]
What You Need To Know: Days before 17-year-old Bryce Gowdy was preparing to make the biggest move of his life, he committed suicide. The highly sought after football star completed studies early at his Florida high school and was scheduled to begin his college career on a full athletic scholarship at Georgia Tech today. Instead, […]
What You Need To Know: Focus groups of 1,200 African Americans conducted by Third Way and the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies indicate that most are more inclined to vote in 2020 than they were in the 2016 Presidential election. Why You Need To Know: Most of the black voters identifying as strong […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Demonstrators in dozens of cities around the U.S. gathered Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s killing of an Iranian general and decision to send thousands of additional soldiers to the Middle East. More than 70 planned protests were organized by CODEPINK and Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, a U.S.-based […]
BAGHDAD (AP) — The United States killed Iran’s top general and the architect of Tehran’s proxy wars in the Middle East in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport early on Friday, an attack that threatens to dramatically ratchet up tensions in the region. The targeted killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite […]
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Bestselling author and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson has laid off her entire 2020 campaign staff but is pushing ahead with her Democratic presidential bid, two former staffers said Thursday. Paul Hodes, a former congressman who had served as Williamson’s New Hampshire state director and senior campaign adviser, confirmed that he had […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former Obama housing secretary Julián Castro, the only Latino in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race, ended his campaign Thursday after a yearlong run in which he pushed his rivals on immigration and took big swings in debates but struggled to break through with voters. “I’m so proud of the campaign […]
BAGHDAD (AP) — Angered by deadly airstrikes targeting an Iran-backed militia, dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and their supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday, smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area in one of the worst attacks on the embassy in recent memory. American guards fired […]
Have you determined your theme for 2020? Perhaps prosperity? Good health? Finding a mate or a better job…or both? Here at What You Need to Know (WYNTK), each one of us may have our individual themes, but collectively, the 2020 theme is VISION. 2020 VISION, get it? Seriously, it’s more than a goal of the […]