By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Tom Gralish/The Philadelphia Inquirer In a long-overdue act of accepting responsibility, the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania chose to own up to massacring a Black neighborhood 35 years ago. Any Black American person who is old enough traumatically remembers the May 13, […]
Eighty-four percent of Indigenous women have experienced violence in their lifetime and Native Americans are four times more likely to go missing in the state of Montana, according to data from Blackfeet Community College (BCC), which recently launched the website MMIP Montana to track missing and murdered Indigenous persons (MMIP) in their state. As […]
State Rep. Attica Scott helped enact “Breonna’s Law,” which will ban no-knock warrants in Kentucky. Charges brought against protestors seeking justice for Breonna Taylor in Kentucky have been dropped. State Rep. Attica Scott took to Twitter on Monday to announce that the felony and misdemeanor charges against her […]
(CNN)In the deadly fall wave of the 1918 flu pandemic, millions of people were doomed because they didn’t know what we know now about how viruses and respiratory illnesses spread. We might face a similar fate if some people continue to ignore what a century of […]
The Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect,” starring Jennifer Hudson, has been pushed back to summer 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the second time the film has been delayed. “Respect” is now moving from Jan. 15, 2021 to Aug. 13, 2021. What we can learn […]
NBA star Chris Paul led a march on Tuesday to an early voting site at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina. According to the Winston-Salem Journal, Paul led almost 2,500 to the polling location as part of the “March to the Polls Part 2” […]
By Viviane Faver The superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, retired Army Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III, stepped down days after the Washington Post documented “relentless racism” suffered by the Black cadets at the state-sponsored school. The retired four-star general wrote in a public resignation […]
(CNN)Today is Election Day. So is tomorrow. Yesterday too. So, why do we insist on counting down to November 3? The Covid-19 pandemic has vastly accelerated a trend that has been building for years: voting early. Americans are casting their ballots by mail, drop […]
Vietnam is preparing to evacuate nearly 1.3 million people ahead of Typhoon Molave, which is expected to make landfall on Wednesday. Typhoon Molave, with wind speeds of 125 kilometers (77 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 150 kph (93.2 mph), left the […]
By Joséphine Li On October 27, Amazon announced plans to hire an additional 100,000 employees across its operations in North America in preparation for holiday shopping. According to the company’s press release, the e-commerce giant is looking for full-time and part-time jobs that span across […]
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