11/16/16- Rev. Al Sharpton talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about moving past Trump’s election and the plan to protest January 14th 2017, a few days before number 45 is sworn in. “We’ve got to stand up that there will be no movement on the voting act and police reform. We need to […]
“Don’t be afraid. We are going to bring our country back. But certainly, don’t be afraid.” – President-elect Donald Trump Too late. Americans are already afraid. African-Americans are afraid that Stop and Frisk – and racial profiling — will be revived and that African-Americans and other people of color will be stopped and detained by […]
Understandably many Americans are still highly emotional over the presidential election of Donald Trump and that means that statements from public figures regarding the election are even more highly scrutinized than usual. Oprah Winfrey found this out the hard way when she recently gave her thoughts on President Obama and Trump sitting down together for […]
Donald Trump‘s Presidential election victory is being called one of the most controversial campaigns and elections in history. Judging by the low hotel booking numbers in D.C. for his inauguration, the country’s next Commander in Chief may not be as well liked as he hoped. As they do every four years, the St. Regis hotel spent […]
https://twitter.com/JaredHuffman/status/797217832568115200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The Petaluma Veteran’s Day parade took place on Friday in California and the appearance of Confederate flags along the parade route sparked major outrage. San Rafael Rep. Jared Huffman was one of many people disturbed by the controversial flags. He told reporters, “It was just so out of place that I had to do a double-take.” Huffman appeared in […]
Donald Trump‘s Presidential election victory is being called one of the most controversial campaigns and elections in history. Judging by the low hotel booking numbers in D.C. for his inauguration, the country’s next Commander in Chief may not be as well liked as he hoped. As they do every four years, the St. Regis hotel spent […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani emerged as the favorite to serve as secretary of state in Donald Trump’s incoming administration, a senior Trump official said as the president-elect narrowed down his Cabinet picks. The official said there was no real competition for the job and that it was Giuliani’s if he […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday abandoned his dire warnings and dark predictions about his newly elected successor and urged Americans to give President-elect Donald Trump time to rise to the daunting responsibilities of the office, breaking sharply from his Democratic allies who have quickly condemned Trump’s first major decisions. In his first […]
Since POTUS-Elect Donald Trump has been elected there has been nothing but major media press after media press of his next decisions & choices as president. But his choice of who he is keeping with him in office may have more people scared then others.
Omarosa Manigault, who was the Donald Trump campaign’s director of African-American outreach, said she caught “a lot of flak” and received death threats from black folks for supporting the president-elect. “I was called every single racial slur in the book that you could direct towards an African-American by African-Americans,” she told ABC News’ “20/20.” The […]
11/14/16- Roland Martin talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about how the country must move forward in a post-Donald Trump election win. Click the link above to hear why he says we need a black woman on the Supreme Court and why we should abolish the death penalty.
President-elect Donald Trump says he’s a “very sober” person and says he’ll conduct himself “in a very good manner” as the nation’s president. But the combative billionaire adds in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” that his manner “depends on what the situation is.” The president-elect was asked in the interview conducted Friday if he’s […]
